[1272] State Papers, Dom., Interreg., 22nd June 1649; Council to Generals of fleet.
[1273] Captain John Stevens, Royal Treasury of England, 1725. He gives no authorities and his figures are very doubtful, but Mr Dowell (Hist. of Taxes) appears to quote him as trustworthy. In any case the revenues of the republic enormously exceeded those of the monarchy. The anonymous writer of a Restoration pamphlet (The Mystery of the Good Old Cause, 1660) estimates that the Commonwealth raised £3,000,000 a year.
[1274] The value, in 1894, of the English merchant navy was £122,000,000, Admiralty expenditure £18,500,000; of the French merchant navy £10,100,000, Admiralty expenditure £10,500,000.
[1275] Add. MSS., 5500, f. 25.
[1276] De Witt, The True Interest of Holland, p. 227. De Witt notices the preference given to land operations during the thirty years’ war.
[1277] Ibid., p. 218, et seq.
[1278] In the Dutch service each captain contracted to provision his own ship, and the men had meat only once a week.
[1279] Relatively, that is, judged by a standard of comparison with what they had endured under the Stewarts.
[1280] Burton’s Diary, III, 57, 3rd February 1658-9. There are several other references in Burton to the care the Long Parliament bestowed on the Navy.
[1281] Gumble, Life of Monk, p. 75. Eleven hundred according to a Dutch life of Tromp.