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

[1114] State Papers, Dom., cclxxxvi, 44.

[1115] Ibid., cclxxxvii, 73.

[1116] Aud. Off. Dec. Accounts, 1703-77.

[1117] State Papers, Dom., ccxcviii, 20.

[1118] Ibid., ccclxi, 73.

[1119] In the Leopard and Swallow he had himself ordered that the ports should be eight feet apart (State Papers, Dom., cclx, 86,) although Pennington and other practical seamen urged that nine feet was the minimum space that should be allowed.

[1120] State Papers, Dom., ccclxxiv, 30, and ccclxxxvii, 87.

[1121] Drakes were fired with full, periers with low, charges of powder.

[1122] State Papers, Dom., ccclxxxvii, 87.

[1123] Add. MSS., 9297, f. 345.