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

[1371] Add. MSS., 22546, f. 42.

[1372] State Papers, Dom., ccxii, 115.

[1373] Add. MSS., 9302, f. 81.

[1374] State Papers, Dom., xxx, 77. But possibly there were others at sea, although the contracts for hired ships do not show any large tonnage.

[1375] Sir R. Slingsby, Discourse of the Navy.

[1376] Add. MSS., 9306, ff. 130, 160; 1655-7. Until about this period ‘the Straits’ was the general term for the whole of the Mediterranean; ‘the Straits’ mouth,’ and ‘the bottom of the Straits’ respectively describing the western and eastern portions. The increase of commerce now necessitated more specific descriptions of locality.

[1377] State Papers, Dom., 10th July 1652.

[1378] Add. MSS., 11,684, f. 3.

[1379] State Papers, Dom., 9th Dec. 1653.

[1380] Add. MSS., 9299, f. 171.