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

[1421] State Papers, Dom., 27th August 1653, Navy Commissioners to Admiralty Committee.

[1422] Ibid., 9th Jan. 1655. Thirty-one persons were implicated, including four colonels.

[1423] Add. MSS., 9305, f. 208; 1657.

[1424] Commons Journals, 21st March 1652-3.

[1425] ‘The captain the master.’ The captain’s pay remained the same as in 1647.

[1426] Trumpeters were no unimportant members of a ship’s company. In 1650 Popham and Blake desired the Navy Commissioners to press trumpeters, and ‘particularly a complete noise’ for their own vessel. It is to be hoped they got it.

[1427] Thos. Foley is mentioned with Browne, but he seems to have been either a partner or subordinate (see Commons Journals, 30th Dec. 1645). A Rich. Pitt is once named as a founder of brass ordnance.

[1428] Commons Journals, 16th April 1652; ‘if of brass £67,200, if of iron £13,520.’

[1429] State Papers, Dom., 25th March 1652.

[1430] State Papers, Dom., xxx, 12, 102.