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

[1451] ‘New making’ may have only meant repairs.

[1452] State Papers, Dom., xlvi, 36.

[1453] State Papers, Dom., l, 101, April 1653. The reading is doubtful whether the land and water fronts, or the land front alone, were meant to be walled in. The nature of the foreshore renders the latter view the most likely; if the former, the enclosed area must have been very small.

[1454] Ibid., lxii, 24 and lxxix, 57.

[1455] Add. MSS., 9305, f. 119.

[1456] Ibid., f. 155.

[1457] Ibid., 9306, f. 153. I am informed that there is no trace in the corporation records or in the narratives of local historians of this agreement. Whether Poirson ever obtained this £500 may be uncertain, but it is quite certain that the town volunteered the money and that the government carefully guarded itself from being called upon to pay it.

[1458] State Papers, Dom., 9th Aug. 1652.

[1459] Add. MSS., 9302, f. 99.

[1460] State Papers, Dom., 9th Oct. 1658.