[1104] State Papers, Dom., cclxvii, 55. Pennington said nothing about the crew; he was used to such crews. But Sir Hen. Manwayring remarked that he had never seen a ship so wretchedly manned; that, except the officers, there was scarcely a seaman on board, and that they were ‘men of poor and wretched person, without clothes or ability of body, tradesmen, some that never were at sea, a fletcher, glover, or the like,’ (Add. MSS., 9294, f. 489).
[1105] Ibid., cclxviii, 47.
[1106] Ibid., cclxxiii, 49, 1 and 50.
[1107] State Papers, Dom., ccxli, 16; 1633.
[1108] Ibid., ccxxviii, f. 63a.
[1109] Ibid., cclxxviii, 41, I.
[1110] A True Description of His Majesty’s Most Royal and Stately Ship, etc., 2nd edit., London, 1638.
[1111] State Papers, Dom., cclxxiii, 25.
[1112] Ibid., cclxiv, ff. 67 a and 87 a.
[1113] Storekeeper at Deptford; one would suppose a most unlikely person to be consulted on such a point.