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

[974] Proc., April, 1626.

[975] State Papers, Dom., xxxv, 19, and Add. MSS., 9339, f. 24. Six rates of vessels are classified. All carry trumpeters, and the first four drummers and fifers. Both lieutenants and corporals were employed in 1588, but afterwards discontinued; the Lion had a lieutenant in 1587, and perhaps it was not uncommon for a large ship on war service to carry an officer of that rank.

[976] According to rate of ship.

[977] Only to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd rates—‘a place not formerly allowed.’

[978] ‘Not formerly allowed’; his duties were akin to those of a musketry instructor of to-day.

[979] Egerton MSS., 2541, f. 13.

[980] State Papers, Dom., xxx, 48.

[981] Ibid., 75.

[982] Ibid., xxxiii, 27; July 1626.

[983] Ibid., xxxv, 44.