[1361] Dering’s list.
[1362] Ed. Hayward, The Sizes and Lengths of Rigging for all His Majesty’s Ships, 1660. Although not printed till 1660 this was written in 1655.
[1363] The absence of all allusion to davits is stranger from the fact that they are found referred to, evidently as well known and in common use, in navy papers of 1496. They were then used for the anchors. It seems singular that in the intervening century and a half the principle had not been applied to hoisting in the boats. In the Nomenclator Navalis of 1625 (really Manwayring’s Dictionary) he speaks of boat tackles ‘wch stand one on the main mast shrowds the other on the fore mast shrowds to hoise the boat,’ and this plan was identical with that in use in 1514 (see Appendix A).
[1364] Audit Office Accounts, 1707-94.
[1365] Add. MSS., 9306, f. 68.
[1366] State Papers, Dom., lxxxv, 73.
[1367] Ibid., lxxxii, 13. The Admiralty was paying shipwrights 2s 2d a day.
[1368] Add. MSS., 9306, f. 132. When the Prince was rebuilt in 1640-1, £2571 was spent on gilding and £756 on carving (Add. MSS., 9297, f. 351).
[1369] State Papers, Dom., ciii, 94.
[1370] The Sovereign, was however of 100, and the Resolution and Naseby were of 80 guns. The armament of the London, a second-rate of 1656, was: lower tier, 12 demi-cannon and 12 culverins; middle tier, 12 culverins and 12 demi-culverins; forecastle 6, waist 4, and quarter-deck 6 demi-culverins (State Papers, Dom., cl, 170).