[1084] Ibid., xxi, 72, and Aud. Off. Dec. Accounts, 1699, 64.
[1085] Ibid., xxxvii, 95.
[1086] Called the 1st, 2nd-10th whelps. Two differed slightly in size from the others.
[1087] Aud. Off. Dec. Accounts, 1699, 66.
[1088] A Dutch-built ship bought for Richelieu’s newly created fleet, but taken in the Texel (State Papers, Dom., lxxxiii, 20 and lxxxvi, 64).
[1089] Captured Dunkirkers. The measurements of the Nicodemus, Nonsuch, Phœnix, and Elizabeth, are from a paper in the Pepys MSS., quoted in Derrick’s Memoirs of the Royal Navy. The Swan was lost off Guernsey in October 1638.
[1090] Bought in 1642 (Aud. Off. Dec. Accounts, 1706, 89).
[1091] Built in 1646 as a privateer, and employed as such by Warwick (half share), Pett, Swanley, and others; bought by the Parliament from 20th Jan. 1649, when she was appraised at £2081 (State Papers, Dom., Interreg., xxiii, 119). The dimensions are from Harl. MSS., 4161. She is popularly said to have been the first frigate built in an English yard, but it will be seen from the above list that four others, of a still more pronounced frigate type, were launched in the same year.
[1092] The first seven vessels were prizes captured during the civil war and taken into the Navy, in which they remained long enough to be included in the Commonwealth lists; the Globe, and Hector were merchantmen bought into the service. For the names of others see Aud. Off. Dec. Accounts, 1812, 443 A.
[1093] State Papers, Dom., xxi, 72.