[1351] There is a model of the Bristol in the museum of the Royal Naval College of Greenwich. No confirmatory evidence is added to the bare statements of names and dates on the labels attached to these models, and the dates assigned to some of them do not inspire a heedless confidence. However, from the character of the decoration, etc., the model ticketed Bristol is probably, at any rate, of this period.
[1352] Rebuilt.
[1353] Rebuilt.
[1354] Most of the Commonwealth ships were named after some event of the civil war. This is probably a derivative of St Fagans, near Llandaff, where there was a fight in 1647.
[1355] The Royal James, a Stewart privateer, commanded by captain Beach, afterwards admiral Sir Richard Beach, of the Royal Navy, who during the exile gave the state’s ships much trouble. Renamed from the French Les Sorlinges, near which she was taken.
[1356] The Blackmoor and Chestnut were especially designed for service on the coast of Virginia (State Papers, Dom., cxli, 127).
[1357] A Spanish prize; the earlier Elias was Dutch, and remained in the effective as a cruiser.
[1358] For use in the Medway, and carrying one bow gun.
[1359] Add. MSS., 11,602, f, 49.
[1360] State Papers, Dom., ccxiii, 81.