[1144] State Papers, Dom., ccxxvi, 74. By the old rule the Sovereign was of 1367 net and 1823 gross tonnage (ibid., ccclxi, 71).
[1145] From outside to outside.
[1146] ‘Withinside the plank.’
[1147] Leaving out the false post, i.e., a piece bolted to the after edge of the main stern post.
[1148] State Papers, Dom., xvi, and xvii.
[1149] State Papers, Dom., xxxi, 56; xxxii, 29, 71, 72, 1; xxxiii, 3, 1, 70, 1, 120, 129; xxxiv, 31, 98-110; xxxix, 28, 50, 1. North Wales has nothing larger than thirty tons, and ‘not six persons who can take charge of a barque as far as Dublin or the Land’s End.’
[1150] State Papers, Dom., xcii, 45.
[1151] The East India Company possessed this year a fleet of twenty-seven ships, of 12,250 tons (ibid., cxviii, 76).
[1152] Ibid., cxxxvii, Feb. 1629.
[1153] Ibid., cxxxii, 19, 20; cxxxviii, 4; cclxxxii, 135, (1634).