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

[1024] Add. MSS., 9301, f. 54.

[1025] State Papers, Dom., cccxxvi, 10.

[1026] Ibid., cccxxxvii, 15.

[1027] Ibid., cccxxxviii, 39.

[1028] Aud. Off. Dec. Accounts, s.v. ‘Navy.’

[1029] State Papers, Dom., cccliii, f. 95.

[1030] Ibid., ccclxv, 28.

[1031] The sale of gunpowder was at this time a crown monopoly (Fœdera, xx, 107). Charles’s sad and picturesque dignity of appearance did not imply such a delicate sense of honour as to prevent him turning a penny by forcing contraband of war through the fleet of a friendly power and supplying the privateers who were the scourge of English commerce.

[1032] In the eighteenth century he would have had a hole-and-corner trial, undefended and ignorant of the law, before the associates, and perhaps friends, of the man whom he had assaulted.

[1033] State Papers, Dom., lvi, 101, (1627), and ccccvii, 32, (1638).