A history of the administration of the Royal Navy and of merchant shipping in relation to the Navy from MDIX to MDCLX, with an introduction treating of the preceding period

by M. Oppenheim

[904] Or Convertive. This was the Destiny built for Sir Walter Ralegh before his last voyage, and afterwards bought or confiscated into the Navy.

[905] The Rainbow and Antelope were in dry dock some three years (Pipe Office Accounts).

[906] State Papers, Dom., clxxiv, 56.

[907] Cott, MSS. Julius F. III, f. 293.

[908] Ibid., Otho E., VII, f. 155. Letter, Pett to Baker, 10th April 1603.

[909] Coke MSS., Cal. I, 114.

[910] In the literal but not later sense of ‘three decker.’ She had two full batteries besides an upper deck armed. In 1634 the authorities of the Trinity House, who, through a long series of years appear to have always chosen the wrong view, wrote, ‘The art or wit of man cannot build a ship fit for service, with three tier of ordnance.’ Three years later the first ‘three-decker’ was afloat.

[911] Add MSS., 9294, Nov. 1610.

[912] Pipe Office Accounts, 2249.

[913] State Papers, Dom., ci, 4.