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

[1411] Second offences of Best and Nixon.

[1412] According to Montagu, who was dissatisfied with the result, undue pressure was brought to bear on members of the crew to induce them to retract.

[1413] Foote refused to allow the customs officers to search his ship, saying ‘it would be a dishonour to the state.’ The commissioners of customs called attention to this as a ‘great and growing evil.’

[1414] State Papers, Dom., cxiv, 82.

[1415] Add. MSS., 9302, ff. 188, 192.

[1416] Ibid., 9306, f. 36.

[1417] State Papers, Dom., cxiv, 116. From 1st Oct. 1655. Five rates carried pursers; the captains of sixth-rates also did pursers’ duties.

[1418] Ibid., lxii, 55, 56; 1653.

[1419] State Papers, Dom., cv, 50, 51.

[1420] Ibid., cix, 69 and cx, 73.