ABERDEEN ABERDEEN, 440 Accounts. See Public Accounts Adams, John, topographer, 165, 165 w., 188 Addison, Joseph, i n. Admiral, Admirals, 186, 333, 418, 422 ; under the Romans, 285 ; King Edgar’s, 66, 106 ; under Henry III, 94 ; Pepys’s list of, 106, 106 n. ; French list of, 108 ; instructions for, 442 ; orders sent direct to the admirals at sea, and not through the Admiralty, 217, 307 ; imputations upon, 119; public censure of (1693), 337> 338 ; ‘ the three ‘ admirals, 337, 337 n>, 338, 339 ; admirals’ commissions for small ships, 158 ; envious name of ‘ admiral ‘ applied to Pepys, 198; few admirals have raised great estates, 191 ; precedence accorded to English admiral by the French in 1672, 431, 431 n., 439 Admiral of Castile, 91, 223, 369; of Denmark, 389 ; of the Narrow Seas, 387 ; of Scotland, 137, 138, 138 n., 209; of the Galleys in France, 167, 167 n. ; admiral called steerman among the Danes, 98-9; Spanish admiral in 1588, 219, 366; ADMIRAL admiral against Spain unacquainted with sea service (1626), 235 Admiral, Lord High, 45, 55, 59, 66, 67, 74, 119, 138, 138 n., 157, 171, 174 n. t 175, 179, l82, 184, 185, 196, 222, 262, 263, 267, 324, 337, 348, 349, 349 n. t 350, 369, 389, 405, 408 n., 409, 409 n. ; history of the office of, 233 n. ; France had it before England, 385 ; precedence of the, i, i n., 62 ; at the Coronation, 157 ; in France, 82 ; fees of the, n, 431, 439 ; lists of Admirals, 233, 382 ; instructions for (1673), 151, 151 n. ; secretary of, 39, 167; council of, 131 ; books of, 167 ; carved trophies of, 78 ; no staff of office for, 136 ; need of a powerful and vigilant Admiral, 195 ; great men amongst them, 103 ; few seamen, 53 ; ‘men of pleasure, 183; great courtiers without sea experience, 185; none properly qualified but the Duke of York, 338 ; Charles II as Admiral, 197 n. See also Admiral. Admiral, Deputy Lord High, 191, 191 n. ; Vice-Admiral of England, 40, 131, 387; Rear-Admiral, 131 452 NAVAL MINUTES ADMIRALTY Admiralty, 35, 54 n., 57 n., 113, 178, 188, 198, 307, 335, 408, 408 n. ; Black Book of the, 62, 62 nn. t 410 ; papers relating to the affairs of the, 121, 429-46 ; encroachments upon the, 431, 438 ; passports out of the, 191 ; seal of the, 91, 151 ; persons of experience to be employed in the, 292, 292 n., 298 Admiralty, Dutch, in ; of France, 172 ; of Scotland, 441 Admiralty, Commissioners of the, (Board of Admiralty), 57, 57 n., 143, 252, 254, 264, 292 n., 426 ; their ignorance, !33> 2 59 ‘* landmen made Commissioners, 147; experience said to be unnecessary, 292, 293 ; resignations, 259, 295, 298 Admiralty Commission of 1636, 444, 444 n. Admiralty Commission of 1673, 71, 71 n., 197 n., 216 Admiralty Commission of 1679, 2 n., 80, 80 n., 133 n., 151, i6on. t 180, i8on., 181,181 n., 194 n., 216, 251, 258 n., 313 n., 357 ?&•» 358 n. ; their ignorance, 71, 133, 357 ; and debauchery, 133 ; Pepys depended on to keep them right, 72 ; failure of their method of controlling storekeepers, 116 ; brought in by popular constraint, 194; only one member voted for the 30 new ships, 219 ; refused to follow Pepys’s rules, 237» 365 Admiralty Commissions of William III, 216, 260, 293, 311, 389, 395 ; charged with want of experience (1692), 217 ; shameful ignorance of AGRIPPA ( I 693), 321 ; vote in criticism of (1693), 218-19, 218 n., 270; abjectness of their spirits, 320 ; their subjection to the Cabinet, 320 Admiralty, Commissions of Oyer and Terminer in the, 399. 4°8 Admiralty, Court of, 39, 57, 82, I 55> 275, 319, 322 n., 410, 411, 412, 439, 440; Coke on the, 70; proceedings of the, 85 ; Act of Henry VIII for trials in the, 70, 85 ; silver oar the badge of the, 136, 136 n., 177, 313, 313^- Admiralty, Judge of the, 409 Admiralty, Journal of the (1628-1634), 96, 96 n.; (1674- 1679), 31, 31 rc., 59, 59 n., 66 Admiralty, jurisdiction of the, 46 n. t 59n., 66, 249 ; laws of the, 82, 137, 155, 168 ; laws of France, 407, 407 n. Admiralty Office, stationers’ ware and candles for the, 2 ; no settled office for the Admiralty, 232, 380 Admiralty, Officers of the, 194 ; offices in the, how filled, 421 Admiralty, Secretary of the, 39 n., 196, 198 ; no man fit for the office, 232, 338, 381 ; except Sir William Coventry, 338 ; list of secretaries (1660- 1688), 291 ; Pepys’s patent (1684), 272, 272 n. ; Secretary of the Admiralty in Holland, in Admiranda, 123-5 ^Enham, Council of, 330, 340 Agelius Grammaticus, 290, 290 n. Aglionby, William, 392 n. Agricola, 287 Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius, 122, 122 n. INDEX 453 AGUILLAN Aguillan, Richard, custos marinae, 60, 60 n. Albemarle, Duke of, 41 ; his undervaluing the Dutch, 49. See also Monk Albeville, Marquis d’, 399, 399 n. Ale from Gallia, 146 Ale-conner, 172, 172 n. Alexander III of Scotland, 297 n. Alfred (King), 12 Algerines, 18, 173, 232, 380 Algiers, treaty with (1682), 180 Allegiance, transfer of, 295, 296 Alligators, Island of, 4 n. Allin, Sir Thomas, Comptroller of the Navy, 69, 224, 258, 258 n., 288 n., 289, 419 Almanacs, 397, 417 Altum Mare, 156 America, 4, 52, 443 Amsterdam, 50, 123 n., 239, 430 n., 447 ; Bank of, 448 Anchorage, 429, 434 ; fees for, 442 Anchors, sweeping for, 249 Andrews, Sir Mathew, 183, 183 «., 333, 333 **• Angell, Justinian : his lighthouses, 199, 199 n. 202, 202 n. Anglesey, taking of (1282), 158 n. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 336, 336 n. Anthony Anthony’s Declaration of the Royal Navy (1546), 101, loin., 193, 193 n. Antipodes, a bishop martyred for asserting the, 378 Antoninus Pius (Emperor), 285 Antwerp, 54 n., 230, 230 n., 379 Apostles, the, 167 Arcano Del Mar, 423 Archery, 164, 396, 397 ; allowance for archers in the Isle of Wight, 323. See also Bows and arrows. AUBREY Archipelago, 433 Arlington, Earl of, a Secretary of State, 200, 200 n., 371, 371 n., 431, 439 Arms, coats of, 63, 89, 169, 215,274; of maritime towns, 274; of Bristol, 101 ; of the Officers of the Navy, ib. ; of the Fishmongers’ Company, ib. ; a ship borne as, 101, 294. See also Crests Arquebus. See Harquebus Arthur (King), 330 ‘ Artists/ idleness and presumption of, 228, 375 Arville, Nicolas d’, 132 n. Ascension, Island of, 177 Ascension Dinner at the Navy Office, 389 Ashby, [Sir] John, 214, 286 n. ; is questioned in Parliament (1692), 216, 216 n. ; is said to have died of drink, 339, 339?*. Ashley, Sir Anthony, Clerk to the Privy Council, 12 n., 19, 19 n., 42, 46, 47, 58, 229, 305, 305 n. t 377; Pepys’s account of his translation of Waghenaer (1588), 347-50 Ashmole, Elias, the antiquary, 63, 63 n., 66 ‘ Assize herrings/ 444 n. Aston, Sir Walter, Ambassador to Spain, 434, 434 n. Astronomy, 158, 159, 398, 420, 422 ; books on, 422 Athenaeus, 103 Atherall, Robert, 446, 446 n. Atkins, Mr., a Commissioner of the Navy, 293, 293 n. Atlas Italiae, 123, 123 n. Atrius, Quintus, 285 Attorney-General, 399, 436 Attorneys get great estates, 163 Aubrey, John, antiquarian, 306, 306 n. 454 NAVAL MINUTES AUDITORS Auditors of Imprest, 265 Auditors’ offices, 279 Augean stables, 309 Ayscue, Sir George, 143 n. ; in the Swedish service, 304 n. ; a landman, made generalat-sea, 147 ; taken prisoner by the Dutch (1666), 346 n. BACON, Friar, story of his brazen wall, 125, 125 n., 394 Bacon, Lord, 87, 88, 114, 114 n., 166, 179, 416; on sea affairs, 181 Bagford, John, book collector, 305, 305 ^.,^422 Baker, Matthew, master-shipwright, 41 Baker, Mr., 89 Baker, Sir Richard, 63, 63 n. Baldivia, 4 n. Bale, John, Bishop of Ossory, 421, 421 n. Balfour, Sir James, his old sea-law of Scotland, 424, 424 n. Ballads against the Dutch, 49 Ballastage, 125, 125 n., 434 ; at Newcastle, 429 Banians, the, 105 Bankers, 71 Bankers’ Case, 71, 71 n., 72, 73, 79 Bankes, Sir John, AttorneyGeneral, 436 n. Banqueting House, 392 Bantry Bay, battle of (1689), 339 n. Barbados, 292 n. Barbarians, incursions by the, 301 Barbary, 448 Barbot, Monsieur, a French merchant, 286 Barge-maker, 394 BERKELEY Barges, 125; Lord Mayor’s, 170 ; western, 163, 384 Barlow, Robert, East India merchant, 444, 444 n. Barlow, Thomas, formerly Clerk of the Acts, 96, 96 n. Barlow, William, Archdeacon of Salisbury, 42, 42 n., 415, 415 n., 416 n. Barques, 55 n. Barr, Mr. Peter, 407, 407 n. Barton,’ Sir ‘ Andrew, Scottish naval commander, 186, iS6n. Basil the Macedonian (Emperor), 236 Basle, 236, 236 n. Bass-ropes, 104 Bastardy, 215, 295 Batavia, Dutch Governor of, 177 Batten, Sir William, Surveyor of the Navy, 69 ; owned a lighthouse, 202 Bay, definition of a, 163 Baylie, Francis, shipbuilder at Bristol, 200, 200 n. Beachy Head, 225, 344, 372 ; action off (1690), 35 n., 294 n. Beacons, 131, 152 n., 160; due to fear of invasion, 182, 234, 382 ; beacon-chart, 392 Beane, Mr., his towing-engine, 231 n. Beaufort, Due de, French Admiral, 143, 143 n. Becket. See St. Thomas Beckman, [Sir] Martin, engineer, 29, 29 n. Bede, 302 Bedford, Mr. Thomas, Register of the Admiralty, 407, 409, 410, 410 n., 411, 412 Beech, 250 Beer, 331, 331 »., 447 Beggars, 147 n. Belle Isle, 126, 143 Berkeley of Stratton, Charles, second Baron, 145 INDEX 455 BERKELEY Berkeley of Stratton, John, first Baron, a Commissioner of the Navy, 257, 257 n. Berkshire, 283 Berry, Sir John, 251; acquitted of blame for the loss of the Gloucester, 149, 149 n. Bertie, Mr., built a merchantship abroad, 246 Berwick, 138, 138 n., 139 Best, Mr. Phineas, 340 Best bower cable, forfeiture of, 221, 367 Bethel, Slingsby, the republican, 153, 153 n. Betts, Mr., a gunner, 214, 214 n. Betts, Mr., a pilot, 5 n. Beuningen, Conrad van, Dutch Ambassador, 116, 116 n. Beverley, privileges of, 141, 141 n. Bilanders, 345, 345 n. Bilge-stinks, mischief of, 248 Birch, Captain Augustus, 144, 144 n., 150 Biscay, Bay of, 317, 327, 339, 448 Bishops, 300, 397 ; folly of the, 303 ; serving as admirals, 336, 336 n. Bizot, Sieur, 275 n. Black Deeps, ground pilot of the, 60 Black Tail, wreck on the, 145 n. Blackwall, 163 n. Blaeuw, William Jansen, his maps, 123, 123 n. Blake, Admiral Robert, 112 ; his covetousness, 26 Blanc, Fran9ois le, 295 n. Blathwayt, Mr William, Secretary to the Committee of Trade, 20, 20 n., 238, 37i Blockhouses, at Gravesend, 230, 230 n., 232, 379, 380 ; that at Tilbury wrongly placed, 205 BRADY Blois, Treaty of (1572), 208 n. Blount, Thomas, 337, 337 n. Blue Coat boys, to keep journals, 369-70. See also Christ’s Hospital Boat-builder, 163, 394 Boats, 308, 311 ; of the Greenlanders, 85 ; of wicker, 86 Boatswain, 115, 160 Bodleian Library at Oxford, 8, 287 Boldham, William, 75 Boorde, Andrew, traveller and physician, 335, 335 n. Bordeaux, 227, 344; river of, 32 Boreman, Sir William : his naval foundation at Greenwich, 288, 288 n., 416 Borough, Stephen, the navigator, 42, 42 n. Borough, William, navigator and author, 229, 229 n., 378 Boswell, Sir William, Ambassador at the Hague, 434, 434 n., 441 Boteler. See Butler Boulogne, 54, 54 n., 203, 203 n. 314, 314 «., 432, 433 Bourne, William, the mathematician : his Discourse of the Navy, 137, 137 n. Boxhorn, Marcus Zuerius, 90, 90 n., 117 Bow Lane, 322 n. Bow-line, the, 173 n., 193 ; invention of, 231, 297, 379 ; Algerines, sail by, 173 Bowdler, Mr. Thomas, 426, 426 n. Bowling, 169 Bows and arrows, used by the Britons, 287; ignorance of the English in, 310, 310 n. Brady, Dr. Robert, Keeper of the Records in the Tower, 42, 42 n., 99, 99 »., 153 »-, 164, 164 n., 279, 279 »., 327, 328 456 NAVAL MINUTES BRANDON Brandon, Sir Charles, afterwards Duke of Suffolk, 120 n. Brantome, Pierre de Bourdeilles, Seigneur de, 306, 306 n. Brass-mount, 138 Brazil, 162 Breackell, —, 345 Brest, 21, 184 n., 185, 227, 246, 37*> 375 : our fleets frighted from, 120 Bridewell, 413 n. Bridgeman, Mr. William, Secretary of the Admiralty, 118, 147, 147 n., 151, 393, 393 »•, 399 Bridlington (Burlington) Bay, survey of, 135 Brigantine, 55, 122, 122 n., 340 Brisbane, Mr. John, Secretary of the Admiralty, 227, 257, 257**-, 37i, 374 Bristol, 200, 200 n., 409, 410, 411, 412 ; arms of, 101 Bristol, George Digby, second Earl of, 355, 355 n. Bristol, John Digby, third Earl of, 209, 209 n. Britain, 103. See also Great Britain British Seas, 431, 431 n. ; salute due in the, 439 Britons, 284, 285, 287 ; did not know this country to be an island, 122 ; small eaters of fish, 294 ; had no shipping, 308 ; seamanship of, 310, 311 ; used fish-bones as handles for their swords, 310, 385, 385 n. Brittany, 228 n. ; invasion from, 88, 182 n. Brittany, Duke of, 88 Broad arrow, 307, 307 n., 311, 337 Brooke House, Holborn, 152, 212, 263, 263 n. See also Public Accounts BURY Brouncker, Mr. Henry, 152 ; impeachment of, 119, 119^. Brouncker, William, Viscount, P.R.S., 127 Browne, Captain, at the Trinity House, 58 Browne, Mr. John, insolency offered to, by the Dutch (1617), 444, 444 n. Browne, Sir Thomas, 93, 93 n. t 305, 305 n. 9 398, 398 n. Brussels, 435 Buc, Sir George, historian and poet, 423, 423 n. Buccaneers, 148 Buchanan, George, historian, 302, 302 n. Buckingham, George Villiers, first Duke of, n, 78, 174, 175 ; impeachment of, 131, 131 n., 174 n., 175, 175 n. ; advised to lay down his Admiralship, 260 Bugia Bay, battle of, 340 n. Bumpkins, 16 n. ; invented by Charles II, 16 Buoys, 6, 44, 59, 65, 84, 131, 144, 343. See also Sea-marks Burchardus, 287 Burchett, Josiah, Secretary of the Admiralty, 393, 393 n. Burgesses, 99 Burghley, William Cecil, Lord, 31, 85 n., 151, 307, 396; appointed Deputy Lord Admiral, 191, 191 n. ; project dedicated to, 304, 304 n. Burgus, Petrus Baptista, 118 Burlington, Richard Boyle, Earl of, 386, 386 n. Burnet, Dr. Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury, 27, 296, 296 n., 314, 314 n. Burrell, Mr. William, his services on the Commission of 1618, 279, 279 n. Bury, Mr., the globe-maker, 117, 122; maps, 120 INDEX 457 BUSCARLI Buscarli, 185 Busenello, 109 n. Bushnell, Edmund, 240 n. t 35* “• Busses, print of, 306, 306 n. Butler, James, fifth Earl of Salisbury, appointed a guardian of the sea, 172 Butlerage at the Coronation, 190 BuxeySpit, buoy on, 144,144^. Byas, 101 Byland, Edward, shipwright, Cabala of Letters, 151, 151 n., 233, 3<>7» 381 Cabinet, the, sends orders direct to the admirals at sea, 217 ; over the heads of the Admiralty, 320 Cabins, 7, 7 n. : regulation of, 102 Cabot, John, 378, 378 n. Cabot, Sebastian, the cosmographer, 60, 60 n., 229, 229 n., 238, 378, 378 n. Cadiz, 33, 113, 196; expedition to (1596), 173 n. Caesar, 70, 86, 284, 285, 287, 294. 302, 308, 310, 325, 385 ; small size of his ships, 86 ; his account of English navigation, 161 Caesar, Sir Charles, 121, 121 n. Caesar, Sir Julius, 121, 121 n., 191, 191 n. Caesarea, Josephus’s account of the port and mole of, 96 Calais, 54 n., 86, 344, 385 n., 392 : loss of, 154 ; lost for want of mustard, 167, 167 n. ; privateers from, 342; fees paid for the passage at, 432, 433 Callis, Mr., 244 n. Calvinists, 321 CARTERET Cambridge, 417; mathematical professor at, 81 Camden, William, the antiquary, 22, 22 n., 141, 190, 212, 233, 275, 299, 381, 395, 395 n. ; beauty of his original maps of England, 123 Campanella, Thomas, Italian philosopher, 424, 424 n. Camuille, Richard de, 161 n. Canes, 340 Canoes, 207; of Greenland, 274 Canterbury, Archbishop of, 173; liable for guard of the coast, 282-3 Canvas, 75 Capel, Sir Henry, Admiralty Commissioner, iSi n. Caper, 16 Capitanei marinariorum, 282, 283, 327 Captives, relief of, 179 n. Car-men, Fellowship of, 397 Carausius, Caius, 285 ; naval power of, 98, 98 n. Carbery, John Vaughan, Earl of, Admiralty Commissioner, 295, 295 n. Cards, 164 Carew, Mr. George, merchant, 56, 56 n. ; his insult to the Dutch Ambassador (1677), 440, 440 n, Carleton, Sir Dudley, Ambassador, 434, 434 n., 435, 435 n., 437, 437 n-> 444. 444 n- Carlingford, 81, 81 n., 299 Carlton, East, 328, 328 n. Caron, Claude, 396, 396 n. Carpenter, 150, 323 Carr, William, no, no n. Carrack, Spanish, 159 n. Carteret, Sir George, Treasurer of the Navy, 17, 17 n., 223, 224, 361, 361 n., 369, 371 ; in the French Service, 32, 32 n. ; Comptroller of the Navy, 32 458 NAVAL MINUTES CARTHAGINIAN Carthaginian galleys, 292 Cartridges, use of, learned from the French, 354 Castell, Dr. Edmund, Professor of Arabic at Cambridge, 123, 123 n. Castile, Admiral of, 91, 223, 369 Castle, Mr. William, shipbuilder, 241 Castlemaine, Lady, 189 n. Castles, in Domesday Book, 99 ; England’s security in, 335 Castra, 302 | Catholics, 102 j Caution-money for ships, 429, j 433 ! Cavendish (Candish), Thomas, j the explorer, 6, 6 n., 10, 63, j 63 n., 64, 64 n. Caxton, William, 336 n. Cecil, William. See Burghley Cedrinus, George, 236, 236 n. Celts, 285 Certificates, little confidence to be placed in, 251 Chamberlayne, Dr. Edward, 59, 59 n., 355 »• Chamier, Monsieur, French minister, 286, 286 n. Channel, the, 196, 317, 327, 340, 441, 448 Chaplains, naval, 76, 76 n. ; establishment for (1677), 76, 76 n. Charant, Sir Alphonso, a Spanish knight, 185 n. Charles I (‘ the old King ‘), 17, 34 n. t 103, 109, 109 n., 112, 154, 155, 173, 175, 176, 223, 224, 322 n. t 369, 371, 386, 424 (?) Charles II (‘ the King ‘), 3, n, ii n., 12, 17, 23, 28, 32, 44, 44 n. t 51, 53, 56, 57, 89, 107, 114, 115, 120, 127, 149 n. t 150, 162, 165 n., 183, 188, CHARLES 204, 213, 219 n., 221, 223, 224, 225, 237 n., 241, 242 n., 243, 243 n. t 244, 253, 259, 270, 272, 273, 276, 288 n., 304 n., 309, 354, 357, 357 n., 360, 361, 363, 365 n., 367, 369, 372, 376, 387, 387 n. t 400, 401, 401 n., 404, 405, 408, 448 ; Coronation of, 58, 58 n., 190 ; his knowledge of the sea, 62, 71, 73, 84, 194; his interest in shipbuilding, 115, 200, 394; his ! endeavours in reference to j the Navy, 142 ; a mathel matical Admiral, 418 ; his design for a yacht, 116, n6w., 128 ; with two masts, 220, 366 ; disclaims the doublebottomed vessel, 203 ; his views on upright stems, 14 ; invents bumpkins, 16; increases the dimensions of the 30 new ships, 13. 318 ; thinks English ships the best, 220, 366 ; his accessibility, 194 ; his facility and good nature, 253 n., 271 ; his institution of Greenwich Observatory, 388, 388 n. ; on surveying, 133 ; on engineers, 29 ; on the ignorance of seamen, 133 ; table of tides compiled for, 305 n. ; becomes his own general of the land forces (1670), 41 ; his wide powers as Lord High Admiral (1673-9), 197 n. ; dissolves the Commission of 1673-9, 71, 71 n.; criticises the Commission of 1679, 116 ; admits the Crown’s debt to Pepys, 272 n. ; Pepys in defence of, 318,326; wager on his lif e (?), 376-7 ; his last illness, 261, 265. See also Christ’s Hospital, Mathematical Foundation in INDEX 459 CHARLES Charles the Great (Emperor), 287 Charles V (Emperor), 54 n., 55 n., 60 n., 229 n., 231 n. Charles IX of France, 306 Charles X of Sweden, 304 n. Charles XI of Sweden, 304 n. Charta de Foresta, 161 Charterhouse, the, 159, 159 n. Charts, draughts, maps, 12 n. t 19, 95 n., 105, 105 n., 106, 117, 117 n., 120, 123, 123 n. t 135, 136, 145, 238, 239, 304, 388, 392, 403, 404; excellence of the Dutch, 19, 21 ; their superiority to the English, 12, 106, 113 ; our mistaken dependence on them, 221, 367; our charts all borrowed from Waghenaer, 224, 370 ; and engraved in Holland, 305 ; few printed in England, 238 ; sea-maps made in France, 122 ; their excellence, 316; Spanish and Portuguese charts, 107, 229, 378; defects of charts, 229 n. ; Collins’s maps, 324, 324 n., 325, 421 ; Mercator’s, 159 ; Seller’s, 12, 42, 345 ; Speed’s, 201, 201 n. ; Captain Wood’s polar map, 133 ; maps of the Bible, 113, 113 n. the oldest sea-chart, 95, 417; chart of beacons, 392 Chatham, 21, 27, 51, 126 n. t 160 nn., 181, 218, 231 n., 251, 252, 342, 395^-; the Dutch at, 152, 217, 345 ; securing of ships at, 205 n., 439 ; severity on seamen at, 268 ; storehouses allotted to the French at, 361 Chatham Chest, 65, 74, 74 n., 171, 232, 232 n., 233, 380, 381, 414 ; arrears of, 187 ; Pepys’s scheme for a general chest, 6 CHRIST’S Chatham, Hill House at, 101, 101 n. Chatham River, 47, 217, 345 Chaucer’s shipman, 227, 374, 374 «., 420 Cheapside, 322 n. Chelsea Royal Hospital, 171, 171 n. Cherbourg, 344 Chicheley, Sir John, a Commissioner of the Navy and afterwards of the Admiralty, 20, 20 n., 258, 258 n. Chicheley, Sir Thomas, Master of the Ordnance, 225, 225%., 372 Chichester, 174, 174 n. : Mayor of, 174 n. Child, Sir Josiah, 319, 319 n. Chilmead, Edmund, 424 n. Cholmley, Captain, 106 Cholmley, Sir Hugh, engineer of the mole at Tangier, 104, 104 n. Christ’s Hospital, 47, 47 n., 192, 413, 413 n., 423 n. ; services of Pepys and Deane to, 374; ship-model given to, 186, 374 ; Lady Ramsey’s charity at, 124; boys to keep journals, 369-70 Christ’s Hospital, Governors of, their ignorance and supineness, 102, 182 ; Court of, 401 ; School Committee, 182, 401 ; Treasurer of, 417 Christ’s Hospital, Charles II’s Mathematical Foundation in, 50, 50 n., 102, 250, 250 n., 288 n., 315, 315 n., 360, 391, 401, 401 n., 413 n., 416, 416^., 417; borrowed from the French, 360 ; charter of, 416, 416 n. ; mathematical master in, 148 n., 182, 182 n.; no experienced seaman for, 136, 136 «.,; little choice of fit persons for, 148, 149; a well-paid post, 149 460 NAVAL MINUTES CHRISTCHURCH Christchurch, Faringdon (Grey Friars), reopening of (1547), 423, 423 n. ; used as a storehouse, 124 Christmas, 164 Church, the, 123 ; innovation in, 173 ; makes no provision for the navy, 301 Church, nave of the, 161 ; churchmen fain to go to sea, 186 Churchill, Captain George, Admiralty Commissioner, 294, 294^- Ciaconius, Alphonsus, 261 n. Cicero, 325, 325 n., 385 Cinque Ports, the, 12, 52, 109, 136, 154, 155, 185, 197, 248 n., 256, 299, 303, 327, 335, 337, 388, 418, 430, 437 : history of, 85 ; their privileges, 141, 161, 161 n. ; exemption from the press, 430, 436 ; charter of, 158 ; duty of, 157, 158 n. ; representation in Parliament, 164 ; ships of, 67 ; too poor to set out ships, 155 ; victory off Sandwich (1217), 178, ijSn. Cinque Ports, Barons of, 99, 248, 262, 299; at the Coronation, 157, 190 Cinque Ports, Lord Warden of, 41, 175, 190, 197, 429, 433, 433 n., 437, 446 n. ; his jurisdiction, 249; his flag, ib. ; his privileges, 85 City Companies, lists of, 321, 321 n. Civil Law, 195, 252, 294, 334, 408 n. Clarendon, first Earl of, Lord Chancellor, 89 Clarendon, Henry Hyde, second Earl of, 212, 212 n., 386, 386 n. ; commends the services of Lord Sandwich, 387 COKE Clay ton, Sir John, 5, 5 n. t 30 ; his lighthouses, 199, 199 n. Clergy, their ignorance of the sea, 321 Clergy-reading in schools, 261 Clerk of the Acts, no man fit to be, 232, 381 Clerk of the check, 226, 373 Clerks of the passage, 430 Clifford of Chudleigh, Thomas Clifford, first Baron, Lord Treasurer, 71, 71 n. Clinton, Edward, Lord, Lord High Admiral, 54, 54 n. Close Rolls, 398, 402 Clothworkers’ Hall, 122 Clutterbuck, Sir Thomas, victualler, 224 Cluverius, Philip, 287, 287 n. Cnear, 178 Coaches, 65 Coal-trade, 448 Coasts, 67 : guard of the, 45, 59, 60, 83, 94, 160, 282, 283, 297, 434 ; fortifications on the, 182, 182 n., 299, 303 ; Roman forts on the, 301, 302 ; depredations on the, 175 ; people living near the, to repair home, 176 ; miscarriages upon the, 346; posts set up round the, 44, 305, 419; coasts known to strangers, 343-5, 358 ; sounding of the, 188 ; securing of a house upon the, 140 ; former surveys of the, 135 ; laid down by Speed, 136 ; new survey of the, 125, 125 n., 133, 221, 299, 3°i, 3^7, 4°5 Cobham, Henry Brooke, eleventh Baron, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, 433 n. Cock, the, in Bow Lane, 322 n. Cockle-shells. See Scallop-shells Coinage, debasing of the, 55 Coke, Sir Edward, Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, INDEX 461 COLBERT 119, 163, 182, 237, 323, 324 n. ; on the Court of Admiralty, 70, 82 ; on the Cinque Ports, 85 ; his aversion to the sea and trade, 167 Colbert, Jean Baptiste, Louis XIV’s Minister of Finance and of Marine, 33, 39 Colliers of Newcastle : reprehended by the Admiralty, 3ii, 335 Colliery, 91 Collins, Captain Greenvile, 128, 136; his survey of the English coasts (1681), 125, 125 n. t 133, 135, 145. *49, 188, 299, 301, 319, 324, 324 n., 325, 405, 421 ; his ill performance, 388; discouraged by want of payment, 188; allowed the use of a vessel, ib. ; made a Younger Brother of the Trinity House, 188, 324 ; and their hydrographer, 189 Collins, Mr. the ‘ accomptant,’ 134, 134 «., 151 Colston, Mr., examiner at Christ’s Hospital, 311, 315, 401, 401 n., 402 Commanders. See Sea-commanders Common Law, 117, 155, 296, 334, 388 n., 399, 4°8 nCommons, House of, 43, 43 n., !94> 198 n., 216 n., 217, 217 n., 253, 254, 262, 296, 338, 339 n., 377 n. : unreasonableness of, 3 ; refuses the creation of new boroughs, 165, 165 n. ; vote in criticism of the Admiralty Commission (1692-3), 218-19, 218 n., 292, 292 n., 293, 298 ; vote on the miscarriage of the Turkey fleet (1693), 332, 332 n. ; ignorance of the CORT£S gentry sitting in the, 357. See also Parliament. Compass, 131 ; should be taught in schools, 261 Compass-timber, 193 Complete Gamester, 164 Compton, Lady, 8 n. ; her list of ships, 8, 103 Conseil des Constructions, 277, 363 Constables, duties of, 164, 164 n. ; their oath, 396 ; Constable and Marshal, 287 Consulado del Mar, 92, 92 n. Consuls, 422 Contratacion House at Seville, 415, 415 n. Convocation, 397 Convoy, in; want of, 311, 335 ; convoy-money, 431 Con way, Edward, Baron and afterwards Viscount, a Secretary of State and Captain of the Isle of Wight, 434, 434**- Cooke, —, a boatswain; case of, 214 Cooke (Coke), Mr., 63, 86, 88 Copenhagen, 387, 389 n. Copland, Robert, 39 n., 228 n. Cordage, 75 ; foreign supplies of, 276 ; stoveing of, learned from the Dutch, 359 ; abuses of making, 446 Cordall, Mr., 39 Cornwall, fortifications in, 182 Cornwallis of Eye, Charles, Baron, Admiralty Commissioner, 295, 295 n. Coronation, the, 157, 178, 262, 335 ; of Henry V, 288 ; of Charles II, 248 ; disputes at, I 57, 19° >’ triumphal arches at, 58, 58 n. Corsica, 287 Cortes, Hernando, his letters to Charles V, 231, 231 n., 379 462 NAVAL MINUTES CORTON Corton light, 142, 199 n. Cotterel, Clem., 386, 387 Cotton, Sir Robert, 75 n., 190, 190 n., 288, 288 n., 410, 419 Cowes, 433 Cowley, Abraham, the poet, 376 n. Council, the, 53, 95, 176, 209, 268, 307, 322 n., 347, 348, 349, 350, 399, 422, 439, 440 : Council-books, 337 ; Establishment made in Council about the measuring of ships (1665), 211, 211 n. ; disputes at the (1693), 337 » the Great Council, 99 ; council of war, 196 Counterfeit colours, 430, 438 Country, Captain Richard, 214 n. Court, the, 53, 62, 99, 132 n., 147, 199, 253, 260, 264, 267, 328, 333, 384, 4°°, 4°6, 445 ,* now in a condition to obtain what supplies they ask, 334 Court Merchant, 319 Courten, Sir William, the merchant ; case of, 56, 56 n. Courts-martial, 131, 196, 389; unnatural that they should be wholly made up of commanders, 147 ; whom they always favour, 323 ; their presumption, 146 ; and despotic power, 400; courtmartial on the loss of the Gloucester, 146, 147, 150 ; on the burning of the Henry, 160 Coventry, Sir Thomas, SolicitorGeneral, 437, 437 n. Coventry, Sir William, 29, 34, 43, 109 n., 162, 400; Pepys in praise of, 338 Cox, Mr., 320 Cramer, Mr., 301 Crates of Mallus, 419 n. Crests, 169. See also Arms DANBY Crew of Stene, John, first Baron, 89, 89 n. Criminals sent to sea, 214 Cromer light, 199 n. ; never lighted, 142 Crompton, Sir Thomas, Judge of the Admiralty, 409 n. Cromwell, Oliver, 32 n., 52, 104, 246, 247, 252, 350, 387, 443; chose good ministers abroad, 152; his Parliaments, 165, 165 n. ; purchased the first standing office for the Navy, 274 Cromwell, Richard, 400 n. Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 427 Crose, J. de la, 309, 309 n. Crowe, Sir Sackville, Treasurer of the Chatham Chest, 74, 74 n. Crown of the double rose, 411 Crutched Friars, 274 n., 389 Cumberland, omitted in Domesday Book, 96 Cumberland, George Clifford, third Earl of, n, n n. Cuningham (or Keningham), William, physician, astrologer and engraver, 398, 398 n., 422 Custis, Mr. Edmund, 26, 26 n., 27 Customs, 235, 383, 411, 412, 43°, 437 > increase in, 117; illegally levied, 179 n. ; allotted to the navy, 233, 381 ; customs, tonnage, and poundage, 87; custom-house, 155, 165, 307 Cutts of Gowran, John, Baron, Governor of the Isle of Wight, 323, 323 n. DAILLON, Monsieur, a French minister, 286, 286 n. Danby, Earl of. See Osborne INDEX 463 DANEGELD Danegeld, 267 Danes, 12, 91, 91 n., 99, 100, 345 : piracies of, 100 ; oppositions of, 178. See also Denmark Danish Ambassador, 432, 442 Dannet, Mr., M.P. for Yarmouth, 262 Darcy, Captain, 39 Dartmouth, burned by the French, 72 Dartmouth, Lord. See Legge Davenant, Charles, the political economist, 405, 405 n. D’Aveti, Pierre, 105, 105 n. Davies, Captain William, 332, 332 n. Davys, John, the navigator, 423, 423 n. Day, Thomas, shipwright, 46 ; master-builder in Denmark, 223, 246, 369 Deal, 86, 86 n., 135 Dean, Forest of, preservation of timber in, 170 n., 182 ; visit of the Officers of the Navy to (1671), 75, 75 n., 276, 276 n. Deane, Sir Anthony, the shipbuilder, 9, 21, 43 n., 46, 48, 50, 75, 75 n., no, 121, 140, 193, 203, 204, 207, 210, 220, 222, 223, 224, 235, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 250, 274, 284, 288, 289, 354, 355, 366, 368, 3^9, 370, 383 : his report on the fleet (1674), 30, 30 n. ; his journey to France (1675), 44, 44 n., 195, 195«. ; impossibility of his carrying over models of ships, 239, 239 n. ; charges against him (1679), 181 n., 198 n. ; Deane in Parliament, 229, 377 ; his services on the Special Commission of 1686, 273, 273 n. t 278; before William Ill’s DEPTFORD Commission of Public Accounts, 264, 264 n., 266, 269, 271, 291, 333, 335 J at the launch of the Neptune, 192, 201 ; his opinion on the shape of a ship, 9, 204 ; on the Dutch frigates, 10; on the considerations required for building a good ship, 15 ; on the improvement of the English Navy from foreigners, 241-5 ; his ship-model for Christ’s Hospital, 186, 374; praise of, 227, 374 ; Petty’s high opinion of, 211 Deane, Lady, 121 Deane (the younger), 244 Deane, Admiral Richard, 146 n.; picture of, 146; a landsman made general-at-sea, 147 Debauchery, 133 ; in the fleet, 88, 339 Dee, Dr. John, mathematician and astrologer, 292, • 292 n., 329, 401, 401 n., 420 Defender of the Faith, title of, 446 D6gal6niere, Monsieur P. P., French minister, 306, 306 n. Delavall, Admiral Sir Ralph, 140 ; in joint command of the fleet (1693), 29°> 337 n. Delft, 94 n. Demosthenes, Plutarch’s Life of, 192 Denise, Monsieur, 51, 246, 361 Denmark, 209, 222, 368, 389, 389 n., 407 ; Englishmen in, 26,46, 223, 246, 369; strength of, at sea, 202 n., 203 ; Admiral of, 389 ; King of, 445. See also Danes Deptford, 46, 46 n., 56 n., 61, 200, 200 n., 244 n., 351 n. ; deficiency of stores at, 192 ; timber at, ib. ; launch of the Neptune at, 192, 201 464 NAVAL MINUTES BERING Dering, Lieutenant Daniel, 92, 92 n. Desgorez, Monsieur, visits England (1671), 361 Deval, Philippe, 344 Devil, story of a tame, 141 Devonshire, Lord, famous case of, 139 Dice, 164 Dieppe (Diep), 55, 155; shifting sands before, 152 ; fees for the passage at, 432, 433 ; Governor of, 433 Digby, —, visits the French dockyards, 361 Digges, Thomas, 225 n. Diodorus Siculus, 308 Discipline, 300, 389 ; want of, in the Navy, 196; nonobservance of instructions forgiven (1692), 265 ; Naval Discipline Act (1693), 388, 388 n. ; discipline in the French navy, 34, 38, 356, 362, 363 Diving for a wreck, privateer interferes with, 311 Docks, 213 Dockyards, strangers in, 226, 233 ; laziness of the officers of, 260 ; French, 361 Dogger Bank, 447 Domesday Book, 177, 183, 299; castles in, 96, 99 ; steerman in, 98 ; omissions in, 96 ; no true general survey, 97 Dominion of the sea. See Sea, Dominion of Donne, Dr. John, Dean of St. Paul’s, 172, 173 n. Doria,Andrea, Genoese admiral, 98, 134, 306 ; Pepys’s mistake about him, 98 n. Dort, 180 Douglas, Lord George, his regiment plunders in the dockyards, 20, 20 n. Dover, 141, 141 n., 143, 197 > DUMMER Road, 441 ; pier, neglect of, 12, 12 n. ; harbour, repair of, 85, 85 n. ; castle at, 99 ; mill at, 183 ; one of the Cinque Ports, 248 n. ; fees for passage at, 432, 433 ; head-money at, 432, 442 Dover, Burgesses of, their duties owed to the Crown, 184 Dover, Governor of, 249 Downs, the, 249, 427, 434 ; groundage in, 93, 221, 367 Drake, Sir Francis, 4, 6, 6 n., 10, 41, 46, 46 n., 85, 349, 349 n. ; his Journal, 95, 95 n. ; appointed vice-admiral in 1588, 119 ; his offer towards a lecture in navigation, 229, 378, 415, 415 n. ; his fireships, 360 ; imperfect knowledge of, 415 Drapery, 447 Draudius, George, 76, 76 n. Draughts. See Charts Drawing, usefulness of, 391, 391 n. Drinking in the fleet, 339 Droit de Brieuf, 228, 228 n. t 376 Dryden, John, 295 n. Dublin, 288 n. Dudley, Henry, 67, 67 n. Dudley, Lord Robert, afterwards Earl of Leicester, 398, 398 n., 422 Dudley, Sir Robert (‘ Duke Dudley ‘), 224, 224 n., 239, 240, 351, 354, 419 Dugdale, Sir William, Garter King-of-Arms, 108, 125, 157, 157 n., 172, 185, 197, 222, 236 rc., 323, 323 nn., 368, 368 n. Dummer, Mr. Edmund, Surveyor of the Navy, 395 n. ; his draughts of ships, 151, I5 1 n» 395 INDEX 465 DUNBLANE Dunblane, Viscount Osborne of. See Osborne Duncombe, Sir John, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 29 Dunkirk, Dunkirkers, 17, 154, 223, 224, 240, 308, 308 n., 3^9, 37 1 * 43°, 43°«-, 435, 440 ; Dunkirk frigates, 241, 351 ; privateers, 342 ; their swift sailing, 175 Dunwich, 60 n., 340; swallowed up by the sea, 143 Dutch, the, 9, 10, 21, 24, 27, 36, 37, 47, 48, 49, 50, 61, 79, 82, 83, 84, 86, 94, 103, 105, in, 119, 140, 145, 145 n., 203, 238, 239, 240, 241, 243, 245, 247, 254, 301, 312, 327, 329, 342, 345, 350, 352, 353, 363* 368, 388, 418, 430 n., 432, 436 n., 439 n., 444; Dutch Governor of Batavia, 177 ; English shipwright in Dutch service, 46; Dutch in the English service, 356; sea-fights of the, 56; Dutch insolency at Scarborough (1635), 430, 435 ; Dutch at Belle Isle, 126 ; Dutch books of navigation, 124; their maps, 113 ; Seller’s maps but copies of theirs, 135, 345 ; things learned from them, 359 ; words relating to the sea borrowed from them, ib. ; Dutch schools of shipbuilding, 183; their shipwrightry, 127,183,183 n.; shoalness of their ports, 352 ; they build floatier than the English, 351, 352 ; they despise our ships, 353 ; building of yachts learned from them, 116, 241 ; they build ships for France, 234, 242, 383 ; they make shipping a trade rather than a secret, 242; Dutch commanders EASTER keep the sea upon trade during peace, 166; the Dutch erect monuments to their sea-commanders, 275 ; print of Dutch busses, 306, 306 n. ; why the Dutch are beaten by the English at sea, 447-9. See also Holland, StatesGeneral Dutch Ambassador, 108, 347, 348, 438, 440, 440 n. Dutch flag, trade in Turkey under the, 443 Dutch fleet, 143, 227, 227 n., 317, 374; foreigners employed in, 251 Dutch War (1652-54), 2 n. Dutch War (1665-67), 2, 2^., 4, 154, 205, 211; gentlemen in, 26; landmen in, ib. ; Dutchadventurousness, no; Evelyn’s History of the War, 95, 95 n., 108, loSn. See also Chatham, Medway, Thames Dutch War (1672-74), in, in n., 118, 140, 154; narratives of, 8; union of English and French fleets in, 40 ; Dutch fleet at Southwold Bay, 145 Duteil, John Baptiste, 35, 35 n. EAST Country, 210; plank, 207, 207 n., 208, 384 East India Company, 8, 97 n., 105, 279 n., 333 n., 444 n. ; victuals well, 135 ; ships built by, 235, 383 ; ill-conduct of their ships, 79; French Company, 93, 93 n. East India Fleet, 289 n., 448 East Indies, 70, 97 n., 447 ; trade with the, 91 ; Dutch claims in the, 444 Easter, 330; tables for, are imperfect, 397 2 H 466 NAVAL MINUTES EASTERLINGS Easterlings, English trade once in the hands of, 343 Eddystone light, 269 n. Edgar (King), 66, 69, 290, 330 ; his Great Seal, 40 ; his claims to sea dominion, 58, 58 n., 302, 302 n. ; his Admiral, 66, 106 Edinburgh, 314^.; Mons Meg ati 138, 138 n. Edward I, 158, 236 n., 282, 297, 327 ; protections against invasion granted by, 296 Edward III, 48, 63, 63 n., 65, 66, 126, 126 n., 141, 173, 174, 174 nn. ; dominion of the sea under, 3 ; sea-marks under, 44, 410 ; roll of the fleet of, 385, 385 n. ; navy most flourishing under, 410 Edward IV, 336, 392 Edward V, 238 Edward VI, 54, 55, 61, 65, 195, 195 n., 229 n., 238, 314; his journal, 52, 52 n., 53, 54, 67-8; visits Portsmouth, 68; his hospitals, 124, 153 Egypt, 93 Elizabeth (Queen), 23, 40, 59, 60, 63, 85, 87, 107, 119, 132, 133, 151, 152, 155, 171, 191, 202 n., 203, 205, 208, 208 n., 212, 226, 227, 230, 233, 234, 304, 342, 347, 348, 349, 350, 373. 375. 379. 381, 382, 391, 408, 409, 410, 411 ; her statutes for Cambridge (i 570), 81 ; her (tapestry) hangings, 94 ; naval actions of, 128, 128 n. ; state of the .navy under, 187, 199; better morals of her age, 215 ; false traditions concerning her, 230, 379 ; she did riot challenge the sea sovereignty, 275 ; story of her forbidding France the building of ships, 208, 230, 307, 309, 315, 363-4> 379 EVERTSEN Elsinore, strait passage at, 203 n. Embargo, 44, 427 Encyclopaedia, 76 Enemy ports, trading to, 43^, 440 Engineers, 28 ; Charles II on, 29; strangers, 229, 377; few English, 231, 379 England, strategic position of, 38, 447-8; folly of, 72 ; natural plenty of, 82 ; sea and land measures of, 391 English, the, are over-valuers of their ships, 2 ; no public spirit among, 154, 154^.; their laziness, 195 n. ; the last and least discoverers, 223. 37° > backward in encouraging new inventions, 23 J » 379 > English fleet against Spain (1626), 235 ; English force at sea, 3 English Ambassador, 433 Equinoctial, the, 114 Equites Cochleares, 90, 90 n. Erasmus, 146 , Ernie, Sir John, Admiralty Commissioner, 257, 257 n. Essex, 376, 395 ; a large water discovered in, 5 ; fortifications in, 68 Estre”es, Due d’, 317, 317 n., 362 Euclid, 401, 401 n. European, 425 Eustace the Monk, 178 n. Evelyn, John, the diarist, 8, 74, 108, 122, 123, 123 n., 149, 224, 234, 290, 316, 316^., 322, 322 n., 370 n., 376 n., 382, 391, 427 n. ; his history of the Dutch War (1665-67), 95. 95 n., 108, lo&n.; his Fumifugiitm, no, no n. Evelyn, John (the younger), 108 Evertsen, Admiral, 371 INDEX 467 EWBANK Ewbank, Colonel, his invention of fire-hearths, 231′ n. Exchequer, 61 ; Auditors of the, 42 ; Chamberlain of the, 411, 412 ; Treasurer of the, 411, 412 ; Court of, 322 n. ; stop of the (1672), 71, 71 n. Exton, Dr. John, Admiralty lawyer, 59, 59 n., 61, 66, 67 FAIRBORNE, [Sir] Stafford, 249, 249 n. Fairfax, Mr., candidate for the mathematical mastership at Christ’s Hospital, 148 Falkland, Anthony Carey, fifth Viscount, Treasurer of the Navy, 264, 278 n., 337 ; his speech (1693), 292 » 292 n-> 293 ; his little knowledge, 2 93 Falmouth, 52 n. Fame. See Feme Faro, Portuguese port of, 340, 340 n. Farthings, motto on, 213, 213 n., 294 Fasby, Captain William, 152, 239, 2 39>*. Fast, Book of Prayers for the, *73 Fees for passage, 432, 433 Fenton, Lady, 156 n. Fenwick’s Plot, 427 n. Ferdinand II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 354 n. Feme (Fame) Island, iggn. ; light built on, but never lighted, 142 Ferriage in Ireland, 431, 439 Festus, Pompeius, grammarian, • 290, 290 n. Fiddlers, paid more than seamen, 65 Field, Theophilus, Bishop of Llandaff, and afterwards of Hereford, 235, 235 n. FISHING Figs, 340 Finch, Daniel, afterwards Earl of Nottingham, 80, 80 n., 217, 217 n., 313, 313 n. ; supported by the Lords (1692), 217 n., 289, 290 Finch, Heneage, afterwards Earl of Nottingham, 409, 409 n. Finch, Sir John, Ambassador to Constantinople, 78, 78 n. Finisterre (North Cape), 319, 319 n. Fire of London, 123, 206 Fire-hearths, new invention of, 231, 231 n., 379 Fireships, 48, 120 ; derived from the French, 360 ; proposition to forbear the use of, ib. ; fireships at Antwerp, 230, 230 »., 379 Fish, 101, 294, 385 ; cheapness of, in Spain, 197 ; law concerning royal fish, 82 Fishbones, Selden’s argument from, 294 ; used for decorating swords, 310, 3-11, 385, 385^- Fisher, Mr., 370 Fishermen, 164 ; French, 344 Fishery, the, 155 ; unsuccessful, 232, 381 ; foreign, 91 ; herring, 82 ; Newfoundland, 49, 197 ; Royal, 92 Fishing, 227, 306, 311, 329, 373, 441, 444-6; English sovereignty as to, 439 ; regulation of fishing, 186, i86n. ; evils of neglect of, 186 ; law for the liberty of, 300; proclamations concerning fishing, 445, 445 n. ; Secretary Windebank’s letter about (1635), 438; fishing not allowed to strangers ‘ within kenning of the land,’ 444, 444 n. ; acknowledgment-money for, 445, 445 n. ; 468 NAVAL MINUTES FISHMONGERS decay of, 197 ; the sport of, 169 ; fishing at Londonderry, 122 ; in the Northern Seas, 441 ; whale-fishing, 443 Fishmongers’ Company, arms of the, 101 Fitz-Alan of Richmond Castle, 97 Flag, the, 2, 53, 57, 62, 108, 307, 408, 431, 438, 442 ; King John’s decree concerning the, 67 ; striking to the, 53. 53**-> 55. 56, 66, 77; affront to the, 409 n. ; history of the, 57 n. ; first use of the cross on the, 91 ; proclamation for distinguishing the King’s ships from the merchants’, 77 ; the flag in case of ambassadors, 77, 78 n. ; allowed to commanders of squadrons, 78 ; worn by the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, 249; flag made for the Prince of Orange, 108, 108 n. See also Salutes Flag-book, 307 Flag-brooms, 340 Flag-officers, imputations upon, 119 Flamborough Head, light upon, 199 n. ; never lighted, 142 Flamsteed, John, first Astronomer Royal, 126, 150, 183, 305. 305 n. Flanders, 327, 327 n. ; despatch of English troops to (1678), 23, 23 n. ; buying of fish from, prohibited, 186 n. ; Banks of, 343 ; coast of, 220, 366 Flatman, Thomas, the poet, 144, 14411. Flats,, the, 345 Fleet, fleets, 2 ; chief officers of the, 57 : division of the FOURNIER (1666), 143, 143 n. ; the fleet loses itself, 346 Fleet Prison, 235 n., 236 n. Fleet-water, the, 209 Flemings, 53, 53^., 55, 67, 67 n., 68 ; Flemish ships, 68, 346 Fleta, 236, 236 n., 237 Flogging, 36 Florence, Duke of, 242, 351. See also Tuscany Florence of Worcester, 178 Flushing, 435 Fly, the, 22, 22 n. See also Vlie Foley, Mr. Paul, a Commissioner of Public Accounts, 333, 333 *., 3 84> 3 84 n. t 389, 400 Folkestone, wrecks at, 429, 433 Folsom, George, 231 n. Fords, due to want of boats, 308 Foreign trade, plantations, discoveries, etc., papers on, 442-4 Forelands, lights upon the, ill-kept, 5 ; battle off the North Foreland (1666), 143^., 346 n. ; South Foreland, 344 Forest, Justices of the, 237 ; laws of the, ib. Fortifications, 138, 205 ; in Cornwall, 182, 182 n. ; in Essex, 68 ; on the coasts, 299, 303 ; sea-forts, 39 ; Roman, 301, 302 ; French book of fortified towns, 317 Foster, Captain, his discourse with a Dutch skipper, 447-9 Foster, William, 413 n. 1 Four Seas,’ the, 215, 215 n.9 295 ; legitimacy of children in, 121 Fournier, Georges, the Jesuit, 50, 50 n. t 69, 132, 228, 240, 363. 375. 376, 398, 422 INDEX 469 FOWLER Fowler, Captain Thomas, 209, 209 n. Fox on board ship, 390 Frampton, John, 424 n. France, 22, 35, 36, 37, 38, 44, 48, 49, 51, 54 n., 55, 82, 86, 122, 146, 152, 154, 158, 162, 167, 171, 184, 195, 224, 226, 269, 270, 296, 315, 318, 321, 326, 338, 343, 370, 373, 374, 448 »’ great shiPs built in, 235, 357, 383 ; ships built by the Dutch for, 50, 242, 383 ; Dutch shipwright in, 246 ; privateers built in, 351 ; points in which the methods of, exceed ours, 361-3; navy of, 30 ; excellency of the naval instructions of, 247, 356; naval strength of, in 1688, 399 ; in 1693, 3 l8 »’ regulations for seamen in, in ; care for timber in, 396 ; receipts and issues of, for 1673, 212 ; sealaws of, 85 ; capitaineries in, 283 ; fears of the growth of, 22 ; effects of a war with, 37 ; fleet against, 44 ; preparations against (1678), 365, 365 n. ; left open to invasion (1693), 327; invasion expected from (1696), 427, 427 n. ; practice of selling offices. in, 363 ; selling of guns to, 96; English possessions in, 191 ; treaties with, 208, 208 n., 325, 326 n., 335, 385, 43*» 439; civil wars in, 32 ; sea and land measures of, 391 ; description of the ports of, 200 ; Petty’s false prediction concerning, 316,316 n. ; privileges of the Scots in, 432, 443. See also French France, Court of, 432, 442 ; Marshals of, 38 FRENCH France, King of, 31, 50, 54, 68, 81, 93,124, 209, 219, 233, 299, 307, 309, 327. 342 , 35°, 355. 361, 363, 366, 407, 446 n. ; his ordinances for shipbuilding, 353; his Conseils des Constructions, 277, 363; his nursery for navigation, 415 ; his sea-charts, 421 ; his geographer, 172. See also Louis XIV France, La Politique de, i Franks, 154 Fraser, Mr. James, 302, 302 n. Frasier, Dr., 93 French, Frenchmen, 9, 47, 48, 55, 5^, 61, 67 n., 68, 69, 73, 88, 94, 104, 109, 120, 132, 140, 149, 178, 234, 238, 239, 240, 241, 245, 254, 306, 314, 331, 344, 346, 351, 383, 390, 398, 408, 415, 417, 422, 424, 426, 431, 433, 435, 437, 439 ; the French build sharper than the English, 351, 352 ; good qualities of their ships, 352 ; they get the wind of our fleet, 235, 383 ; things learned from them, 360 ; a Frenchman of St. Malo invented frigates, 223, 224, 369, 370; galley-frigates learned from them, 354 ; also galleries, ib. ; and cartridges, ib. ; French galleys, 184 n., 306 ; French scout, 145 ; good sailing of their frigates, 352; their going into St. Malo in 1692, 218; no want of skill and courage among them, 352; their good husbandry, 33 ; their industry and cheapness, 197 ; they the first discoverers of the Indies, 222, 369; now the best engineers, 29; French Navy, 32, 32 n., 227, 227 n., 271, 299, 306; its mean 470 NAVAL MINUTES FRENCH estate, 1658-59, 214; charge of the, 233, 381; Pepys’s report on the French fleet (J 675). 374. 377. 377 *• > its good discipline, 34, 356, 362, 363; the French navy abroad (l693), 317; French commanders keep with their ships during peace, 166; enrolling of French seamen, 362 ; their good payment, 361 ; our conjunction with the French fleet (1672), 22, 229, 361, 361 n., 376 ; mischief done by the French at sea, 66; burning of seatowns, 178 ; of Gravesend, 346 ; French invasion, 52 n., 209, 405 ; defence against them, 186 ; invasion under Edward III, 173; invasion under Richard II, 72 ; invasion of Ireland, 81, Sin., 299; Frenchmen in the English service, 35, 81, 356 ; French charts arid maps, 95, 120, 122 ; their excellence, 316 ; French books of navigation, 124 ; French Ordonnances, 355 ; wisdom of their Admiralty laws, 407 ; English jurisdiction upon the French coast, 249; French money stamped with a ship, 295 ; French list of Admirals, 108 ; French prize goods, 125 ; trade in Turkey under the French flag, 443 ; French fishing upon the Zowe, 446, 446 n. ; they pay for lights, 60 ; French ship of three decks broken up, 235, 383 ; French ships foundered at sea, 363 ; French squadron at Spithead, 243 ; words relating to the sea borrowed f romtheFrench, 56, 359. See also France ] GALLEYS French Ambassador, 55, 171, 429, 433. 435. 436, 441 French Secretary Marine, 167, 232, 362, 380 Frigates, 167, 291 ; invention of, 17, 223, 224, 241, 369, 370 ; borrowed from Dunkirkers, 240, 351 ; the first English frigate, 18, iSn.. 241 ; her characteristics, 15; good sailing of the French frigates, 352 ; Dutch, 10 Froissart, 336 Fuller, Dr. Thomas, 59, 59 n., 63, 64, 82, 89, 91, 91 n., 117, 266, 266 n., 275, 419, 421; his lists of seamen, 281 Fumifugium, John Evelyn’s, no, no n. G——, Pepys’s old servant, 339 Gabarit, 353, 353 n. Gabbard, battle of the, 146 n. Gale, Dr. Thomas, High Master of St. Paul’s School, and afterwards Dean of York, 12, 12 n., 68, 75, 75 n., 76, 98, 98 n., 103, 109, 177, 177 n., 178, 183, 190, 192, 197, 208, 252, 284, 301 n., 302, 303, 308, 402 n. ; on Domesday Book, 96-7 ; his note on the Greek fleet, etc., 236-7 Galleries, 351 ; learned from the French, 354 Galley-frigates, 35, 363 ; learned from the French, 240, 354 ; sketch of, ib. Galleys, 167, 243, 354, 402 ; Carthaginian, 292; French, 184 n. 306; Henry VIII’s, 101, 101 n. ; Venetian, 433; presented to Charles II, 242, 242 n., 354 ; draughts of, INDEX 471 GALLIASSES 351 ; French Admiral of the Galleys, 167, i6jn. Galliasses, 101 n., 219, 220, 220 n., 366 Gallicism, 406 Galliot, 247 n. Galloper, the, 143, 143 n., 346, 346 n. Game, laws for preserving, 300 Garcie, Pierre, 228 n. Gard, Baron de la, 56 n. Garter, Knights of the, 63, 63 n. Garwaye, Mr., 51 Gascony, vines in, no Gascoyne, Mr., the plat-maker, 19, 42, 237 Gatehouse, the, 426 n., 440 n. Gauls, 285 Gaunt, John of, 160 n. See also Lancaster, Duke of Gazette, the, n, 50, 190, 215, 343> 3^3 ; invention of gazettes (1665), 336, 336 n. Genebelli, Frederick, an Italian engineer, 230, 230 n., 379 Generals-at-sea, under the Romans, 285 ; landmen become, 147 Genoa, 113, 431, 439; galley built at, 242 n., 354 Gentleman’s Journal, 308, 308 n.’ Gentlemen-commanders, 181, 194, 448, 449 Geography, little attention paid to, 237 George of Denmark, Prince, Lord High Admiral, 294 n. Geraudeau, Peter, case of, 409 n. Gerbier, Mr., English agent at Brussels, 441 Germans, long esteemed the best engineers, 29 ; Germans in English service, 356 Ghent, Willem Josef van, Dutch admiral, 21 Gibraltar, project for making it an island (1656), 104, 104 n. GRAFTON Gibson, Dr. Edmund, Bishop of London, 59 n. Gibson, Mr. Richard, a clerk in the Navy Office, 23, 23 n., 24, 247?., 25, 27, 44, 51, 134, 153, 154, 176, 228, 268, 297, 310, 323, 343, 345, 375, 447 ; his notes, 342, 350-52 GifTord, Mr., the parson, 122 Gilbert, Dr. William, 420, 420 n. Gilkicker Fort, 213, 213 n. Gillingham, 21, 55 Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio, 290, 290 n. Giraldus Cambrensis, 105, 105 n. Girdling, 244, 244 n. Glanvill, Mr., a lawyer, sent secretary to the fleet to be out of the way, 175 Glascock, Sir William, a master in Chancery, 322, 322 n. Globes, 304, 423, 425; when first invented, 419, 419 n. Gloucestershire, 184 Godolphin, Sir William, Ambassador at Madrid, 114, 114 n., 202, 202 n. Gold, Mr. John, a London merchant, 331, 331 n. Gold, Sir Thomas, Sheriff of London, n, u n., 235, 383, 383^. Golden, Captain, 133 Goldesbrough, Mr. William, Clerk to the House of Commons, 42 Gomme, Sir Bernard de, engineer, 29 Goodwin Sands, 145 n., 437 n. Gorong, 190 Gosport, 213, 213 n.’ Gothic architecture, prevails in England, 102 Grafton, Duke of, Vice-Admiral of England, 210, 210 n. t 388, 404; Master of the Trinity House, 189 472 NAVAL MINUTES GRANVILLE Granville, Captain John, after- | wards Baron Granville of Potheridge, 294, 294 n. Grass Street, 159 n. Gravesend, burned by the French, 72, 238; blockhouses at, 230, 230 n., 232, 379, 380 Graydon, Captain John, 323 n. ; acquitted by a court-martial, 323 Great Britain, 343 Greek, 236 ; Greek fleet, ib. Greenland, Greenlanders, 310, 444; boats of, 85 ; excellence of their vessels, 207 ; canoes, 274 Greenwich, 128, 186, 288^., 419; Observatory, 388, 388^.; Mathematical School, 288 n. Grege, John, a pilot, 4 n. Gregory, Mr Edward, clerk of the check at Chatham, 20, 20 n., 21 Grenades, 128 Gresham, Sir Thomas, 41, 41 n., 124, 229, 377, 414 Gresham College, 23, 42, 177, 177 n. t 210, 210 n. t 249, 275, 423; lectures at, 124; Professors at, 124 n., 134, 421. See also Royal Society Grey, Mr. Anchitell, takes shorthand notes, 122 Grey of Warke, Ford, third Baron, 376, 376 n., 377 Grimstone, Edward, 108, 108 n. Grimstone, Sir Harbottle, Master of the Rolls, 283, 283 n. : his argument against building more ships, 296 Grocery, 447 Groundage, fees for, 93, 221, 367, 437> 437 n. Gruterus, Janus, Professor at Heidelberg, 157, 157 n. Guards, the King’s, 142 Guardships, 160, 160 n. HAKLUYT Guernsey, 135 n. ; survey of (1680), 135, 144; close relations with France, 140 ; pilots of, 218 Guglios, 93. See also Obelisks Guiana, 6 Guicciardini, Francis, 108, io8n. Guildford, Sir Henry, 120 n. Guildford, Sir Richard, 141, 141 n. Gumble, Thomas, 9 n. Gunfleet, the, 144 n., 314 n. Gunman, Captain Christopher, 135, 135^-, 144. 145. 15°. 150 n., 314 ».. 344> 345, 352, 356; dismissed the service by a court-martial, 146, 147 Gunner, printed account of the Spanish Armada by a, 118 Gunners, reputation of the English as, 191, 203-4, 315, 421 ; masters made gunners, 214 Guns, 35, 132, 132 n., 234, 382 ; establishment of (1677), 57, 57 n., 182, 182 n. ; guns sold to France, 96; guns under Henry VIII, 203 ; leather guns, 231, 380 ; invention of great guns, 425 ; method of traversing, 232, 380, 380 n. ; partners in the profits of the newly invented guns, 225, 225 n., 372. See also Rupert HADDOCK, Sir Richard, Comptroller of the Navy, 26, 52, 52 n., 70, jon., 104, no, 115, 150, 182, 209, 235, 258, 258 n., 264, 383 Hagemeirus, Joachim, 118, nSn. Hague, the, 435 Hakewill, Dr. George, 86, 86 n, Hakluyt, Richard, 64, 64 n., 219, 229 n., 266, 266 n., 279. ” INDEX 473 HALE 416 n. ; voyages, 239; his letter to Sir Philip Sidney, 230, 230 n., 378,415, 417 Hale, Sir Matthew, 107, 107 n., 337, 337 »• Hales, Mr. Edward, Admiralty Commissioner, 92, 92 n. Half-pay masters, 250, 251 Halley, Edmund, the astronomer, 292, 311, 420, 420 n. Halstead, Mr. Robert, of the Tower, 153, 153 n. t 158 Hamburgers, 154 Hampshire, 283 : Vice-Admiralty of, 438 Hampton Court, 53 Hanse Towns, 85; mariners from the, 63 n. ; papers touching the, 443 Harbord, Sir Charles, 386, 386^,387 Harbord, Mr. William, 22, 22 n., 43, 43 n. ; his illmanagement, 120 Harley, Sir Edward, 47, 47 n. Harold (King), 100 Harquebuses, harquebusiers, 109,110; English ignorance in the use of, 108 Harrington, James: his Oceana, 69, 69 n. Harvey, Sir Thomas, a Commissioner of the Navy, 257, 257 n. Harwich, 213, 290 n. ; great importance of, 144; light at, 5, 202 Harwich, Mayor of, an oar said to be carried before him, 178, 178 n. Hastings, burned by the French, 48 n.t 72; Ordinance of (1201), 77, 77 n. t 435 n. ; one of the Cinque Ports, 248 n. Hatton, Charles, 315, 315 n. Hatton, Sir Christopher, Lord Chancellor, 225, 347, 348, 350, 372 HENRY Havens, 90 Havre, shifting sands before, 152 Hawking, 169 Hawkyns, Sir John, 10, 232 n., 375 n. ; appointed rearadmiral (1588), 119; his hospital, 255, 414 Hawse, thwart the, 346, 346 n. Hawton, Mr., the apothecary, 151 Hayes, Mr., 47 Hayter, Thomas, Secretary of the Admiralty, 257 n. Head-money, 432, 442 Headlands, rectifying of, 225 Hearne, Thomas, the antiquary, 288 n. Heath, Act against the burning of, no, no n. Hedges, Sir Charles, Judge of the Admiralty, 280, 280 n. Heemskirke, Sir Laurence van, 361 ; his foolish proposition, 140, 203, 203 n. Hengest, 190 Henley, Mr. George, merchant of London, case of, 436, 436 n., 438 Henry I, 158 Henry II, 237 Henry III, 73, 99, 161 n., 178, 237, 282, 288, 297, 387 ; Admirals under, 94 Henry V, Coronation of, 288 Henry VI, 172; smallness of his revenue, 309 Henry VII, 52, 87, 141, 141 n., 142, 229, 238, 321, 378 ; his chapel at Westminster, 114 ; his commercial treaty with France (1497), 325, 326 n. Henry VIII, 27, 64, 70, 79, 85, 86, 125, 125 n., 153 n., 155, 182, 185, 186, 194, 194 n., 249, 335, 343, 346, 399, 408, 411 n., 427, 427 n. ; his establishment of the Royal 474 NAVAL MINUTES HENRY Navy, 60, 101, 226, 234, 382, 383 ; Holbein’s picture of his ships, 77; his galleys, 101 ; our naval force at the strongest under, 120, 120 n. ; great guns not much in use under, 203 ; his leather guns, 231, 380 ; his charter to Trinity House, 58, 58 n. ; hydrographical draughts presented to, 96 Henry, Prince of Wales, 137, 137 n., 396 n. Henry IV of France, 226, 373 Henshaw, Thomas, F.R.S., 109, 126, 126 n. Heralds, the, 42, 62, 71, 91, 215, 274 ; questions for the, 45 Herbert, Admiral Arthur, afterwards Earl of Torrington, 36, 78, 78 n., 113, 113 n., 180 ; thanked by the House of Commons (1689), 216, 216^. Herdson, Mr., 433 Herne, John, mathematician, 126, 126 n. Herodotus, 114 Heron, Mr., 438 Herrings, herring-fishery, 82, 446 ; the herring called the king of fishes, 294 ; is not liked by seamen, 312 ; herring pies for the King, 325-8 ; ‘ assize herrings/ 444 n. Hertfordshire, 121 Hewer, Mr. William, 121, 192, 218, 247, 252, 310, 310 n. y 384, 426 n. ; his collection out of the Journal of the Admiralty, 95, g6n. ; services on the Special Commission of 1686, 273, 273 n., 278; appears before William Ill’s Commission of Public Accounts, 264, 264 n., 266, 269, 271, 291, 333, 335 ; his list of Secretaries of the Admiralty, 1660-1688, 291 HOLLAND Heylyn, Dr. Peter, 157, 157 n.t 185, 195 Hiero of Syracuse, ship built by, 103 Higgons, Sir Thomas, diplomatist, 109, 109 n. Hill, Mr. Abraham, Treasurer of the Royal Society, 97, 97 n., 98, 134, 249 Hill, Mr. Joseph, of Rotterdam, 48 n., 424, 424 n. Hill House, Chatham, 101, loin. History a subject for a gentleman, 169 Hobler, 286 Holbein, Hans, 77 n.: his pictures of ships, 77, 193 Holder, Dr. William, 398, 398 n. Holinshed, Raphael, chronicler, 109, 120, 158, 160, 161, 178, 184 Holland, Hollanders, 9, 27, 34, 36, 37, 47, 48, 86, 86 n., no, lion., 112, 146, 224, 237, 318, 334, 343, 370, 392, 431, 433, 434, 439, 44°, 44*, 448 ; engine in, for towing n ; English shipwright in, 26, 246; navy of, 30; naval strength of, in 1688, 399; merchants and seacommanders esteemed in, 94; regulations for seamen in, in ; seamen better encouraged in, 134 ; nurseries for navigation in, 420 ; notes on shipping from, 429; superior ships building in, 357,’ voyages by, 114; yacht of, 116 ; prizes in :the wars with, 270 ; fishermen of, 444, 445, 445 n. ; maps engraved in, 305 ; sea and land measures of, 391 ; Pepys’s visit to, 371 ; ruin of, falsely predicted, 316. See also Dutch, States-General INDEX 475 HOLLAND Holland, States of, 35, 50, 296; favour English seamen against the masters, 111 Holland, Henry, 267 n. Holland, Captain Philip, a spy, 19, 19 n., 20, 27, 342, 345 Hollond, John, his Discourses of the Navy, 137, 137 n. Holmes, Sir John, 14 Holmes, Sir Robert, 13, 343, 343^- Holy Land, the, 91, 161, 288, 305 Holy War, sea-service in the, 90, 90 n., 91 Honey, 184 Hood, Thomas, 50 n. Hooke, Robert, Secretary of the Royal Society, 127, 134 Hope, the, 210 Hopton, Sir Arthur, Ambassador to Spain, 439 Horn, Count, in the English service, 32, 32 n. Horses, exportation of, forbidden, 98, 192 ; passage of, to France, 184 Hoskins, —, a gunner, 214 Hoskins, Sir John, P.R.S., 126, 126 n., 127 Hospitals, 162 ; Edward VI’s, 124, 153, 413, 413 n. Savoy, 412; Sir John Hawkyns’s, 255, 414; Sutton’s, 178, 179 Houblon, [Sir] James, merchant, 22, 22 n., 23, 42, 79, 79 n., 105, 105 n., 113, 183, 183 n., 196, 196 n., 210, 214, 214 n., 270, 297,319, 33i>355> 355^, 340; knighted, 270 n. ; his scheme for marine intelligence .(1677), 28 n. Houblon, Sir John, Governor of the Bank of England, 214, 214 n., 331 Houblon, Mr. Wynne, 47, 47 n., 292, 292 n., 293 HUTCHINSON Household, papers concerning the, 432 Hoveden, Roger, chronicler, 236, 288, 288 n., 304 Howard of Effingham, Lord. See Nottingham, Earl of Howard, Sir Edward, Lord High Admiral, 184, 1847*., 185 Howard, Henry, Earl of Northampton, Lord garden of the Cinque Ports, 197, 197 n. Howard, Sir Thomas, Lord High Admiral, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, 184, 184 n., 185, 185 n. Howard, Thomas, second Duke of Norfolk, Lord Treasurer, 184 n., 185 Howell, James, 235, 235 n. Howell, Dr. William, historian, 7.1 Howes, John, author, 413, 413 n. Hubback, —, master-builder at Brest, 246 Hubert de Burgh, 178 n. Hull, 139, 165, 165 n. ; Trinity House at, 139, 140, 140 n., 141, 165, 171, 418 Humber, the, 131 n., 199 n. Humbleyard Hundred, Norfolk, 328 Humfrey, James, a clerk in the Navy Office, 385 ; his naval collections (1568), 276, 276 nn. Hundreds of Norfolk, 327 Hunsdon, Lord, 64, 64 n. Hunter, Mr. Samuel, of the Trinity House, 289, 388 Hunting, 169; the Lord Mayor’s hunt, 170 Huntingdon, Mayor of, his sturgeon, 237 Hutchinson, Mr. Richard, Treasurer of the Navy, 252, 252 n. 476 NAVAL MINUTES HUZZAH Huzzah, the only word taken from the sea into common use, 166, 166 n. Hydrography, 401 ; hydrographical draughts presented to Henry VIII, 96 Hythe, one of the Cinque Ports, 248 n. ICELAND, fishing in, 445 Independents, 47 India, 105 ; excellence of vessels in, 207; Indian shipping, 105-6 ; canoes, 207 Indies, the, 31, 79, 133, 222, 229 n., 369. See also East Indies, West Indies Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia, Regent of the Spanish Netherlands, 441, 441 n. Ingulf, Abbot of Crowland, 236, 236 n., 395, 395 n. Inscriptions, 157 Instructions : for admirals, etc., 442; non-performance of, a bar to wages, 253, 253 n. Instrument of Government (1653), 165 n. Instruments presented to Christ’s Hospital, 374 Intelligence, want of, 143, 309 ; imperfect in 1588, 232, 380. See also Houblon Invalides, 171 Invasion, fears of, 160, 176, 182, 300, 304 ; guard against, 396 ; naval force in case of, 177; Speed’s account of invasions, 201, 201 n. Inventions, English backward in encouraging, 231, 379 Ipswich, buoying-out of the river at, 59 Ireland, 54 n., 55, 81, 122, 288 n., 299, 448 ; pharoses in, 97 ; to be furnished with six ships of war, 180 ; sea JAMES and land measures of, 391 ; ferriage in, 431, 439; unwholesomeness of Irish meat, 134 Ireton, Mr., 376 n., 377 Isaacson, Henry, his chronology, 103, 103 n. Island, advantages of being an, 300, 303, 321 ; danger or security of an, 327 Islands, kings of the, 330 Isle of Wight, 48 n., 221, 283, 323, 323 n., 344, 367, 433, 434 n. ; taken by the French, 72 ; plundering of the, 342 ; survey of the, 135 ; hoblers in the, 286 ; allowance for archers in the, 323 Istria, 430, 434 Italy, Italian, 103, 219, 220, 354. 366, 392 ; Italian trade, JACK, 77. See also Flag Jackson, John, Pepys’s nephew, 394 n., 413 n. t 425 n., 426 n., 447 n. James I, 40, 61, 137, 179, 190 n. t 227, 375, 392, 392 nn., 432, 440, 444, 445 n. ; his voyage to Denmark (1589) 209; defines the limits of the King’s Chambers, 46 n. ; sets forth his good management of his revenue, 174 James, Duke of York (‘ his Royal Highness ‘), 9, 31, 32, 33, 34> 35, 89, 105, 107, in, 118, 145, 149, 150, 159, 181, 188, 225, 243, 247, 257»., 290 n., 376, 390, 390 n., 404, 405, 416, 431, 431 »., 439; seamanship of, 62, 84, 233, 382, 382 n. ; Pepys in praise of, 338; a mathematical Admiral, 418 ; much of the strength of the navy due to, INDEX 477 JAMES 159 ; his opinion of English seamen as compared with French, 36-7 ; his defeat of the Dutch (1665), 242 ; Parliament’s gift to, for his services at sea (1665), 320, 320 n. ; his resignation of his offices (1673), 41 ; his voyage to Scotland (1682), 131 n., 314, 314«.; MSS. of, 101. See also James II James II (‘ the King ‘) 35 n., 249, 274, 278, 280, 309, 399, 443 ; his interest in ships, 394 ; his general proclamation about offices, 273, 273 n. ; admits the Crown’s debt to Pepys, 272, 272 n. ; visits Portsmouth (1686), 251 ; Pepys in defence of; 318, 326. See also James, Duke of York James IV of Scotland, great ships built by, 302 James V of Scotland, 69; journal of his voyage, 132, 132 n. James, Lieutenant, no Jansonius, 105 n. Jaqueau, Captain, can translate French maritime books, 286 Jarrow Slake, proposed erection of a ballast-shore at, 199, 199 n. Jenifer, Captain James, his journal (1672-73), 49, 49 n., 51, 51 n., 56 Jenkins, Sir Leoline, Judge of the Admiralty, 114, 114 n., 407, 407 n., 409, 409 n., 431, 439 Jennens, Sir William, 35, 35 n., 96, 96 n. Jersey, 32, 32 n., 344 ; survey of (1680), 135 ; pilots, 218 ; officers of, 437 Jessop, Mr., Secretary to KING the Commission of Public Accounts, 16, 16 n. Jetsam, 82, 82 n. Jews, 322 John (King), 66, 67, 161, 161 n., 178, 282, 435 ; his claims to sea-dominion, 58, 91 ; his Ordinance at Hastings (1201), 58 w., 77, 77 KJohnson, [Sir] Henry, of Blackwall, shipbuilder, 163, 163 n., 241 Johnson, Samuel, i n. Jordan, Sir Joseph, 70, 70 n., 258, 258 n. Josephus, 96 Journals, 279, 369, 403, 413, 438; no provision for collecting, 153 ; journals formerly well kept, 176 ; journals of voyages, 133 Jousts, 61 Judge Advocates, meanness of the, 167 Jury-masts, 16 Justices of the Peace formerly had charge of the coasts, 94 Jutland, Laws of, 109 KAYLL, —, 424 Kempthorne, Admiral Sir John, 35> 35 n-, I04> I04 nKemys, Lawrence, 7, 7 n. Kent, n, 135, 190, 190 n., 249 ; Kentish Flats, 345 Ketch, 116, 200 n. Killigrew, Admiral Henry, in joint command of the fleet (1693), 290, 337 n. Killigrew, Sir Robert, the courtier, 166 n. Killigrew, Thomas, the dramatist, 166 n. ; sent to sea for his viciousness, 166 King, Gregory, Lancaster Herald, 215 478 NAVAL MINUTES KING King, Sir John, AttorneyGeneral to the Duke of York, his papers relating to the sea, 121 King, Dr. William, Bishop of Deny, 280, 280 n. King’s Bench, 388 n. King’s Chambers, 46, 46 n. ; limits of, 392, 392 n. King’s Seas, 444 Kinsale, in, in n. ; Old Head of, 112, 112 n. Knave-line, 162 Knight, Serjeant, 77 Knightley, Sir Robert, a London merchant, 117 Knighton, Henry, 161, 161 n., 186 Kniveton, Mr., 197 Knox, John, 122 n. Kynvin, Mr., 322, 322 n. LA CIOTAT, 351, 351 n. La Hogue, battle of, 216 n., 217 n., 286 n:t 317 nn., 339 n., 352 > 39° ; great ships little damaged at, 289 ; resolutions in Parliament concerning, ib. Lambarde, William, historian, 141, 157, 158 n. t 164 n., 248, 248 n., 392, 409 Lambeth, 397 Lampedusa (Lampadocia), Island of, 105, 105 n. Lancashire, omitted in Domesday Book, 96 Lancaster, Duke of, 48. See also Gaunt Lancaster, Sir James, 97 n. ; portrait of, in Skinners’ Hall, 97 Land-militia, project for, 104, 107 n. ; land-soldiers, 54. See also Militia Land-service, shipwrights to be exempted from, 436 Landguard Fort, 144, 144 n. LEGGE Lands, seisin of ; objects used for, 395, 395 n. Lane, Sir Richard, Lord Keeper, 297 Larrey, Mr., of Christ’s Hospital, 192 Lashly the Scotchman, built the Folly, 149, 149 n. Latin, 102, 148, 149, 156, 347, 349, 424 Laud, Archbishop, 76 Lauderdale, Duke of, 424 n. Law, the, 62 Lawrence, Mr. Joseph, mastershipwright, 419 Laws Martial, 2, 53, 70, 70 n. Lea, —, 218 Lea, Mr., the globemaker, 324, 324 n., 325, 327, 419, 419 n., 422 Lea, Mrs., a north-country lady, 3ii Lead-sheathing, 176, 176 n., 2 3 X » 379» ill consequences of, 115, 115 n. Leadenhall, lecture on navigation at, 134, 159, 159^-, 414 ; used for storing Spanish goods, 159 n. Leadsman, 301 Leake, Captain Richard,Master~ gunner of England, 140, 140 n., 144, 150, 315, 315 n. Leake, Mr. William, mathematical master at Christ’s Hospital, 417, 417^. Leclerc, Jean, 309 n. Lee, —, 435 Lee, Sir Thomas, Admiralty Commissioner, 259, 259 n., 358, 358 n. Legatt, Mr., consul at Genoa, 431, 431 n. t 439 Legge, Colonel George, after wards Lord Dartmouth, 28, 33, 34, 131, 139, 140, 140 n. t 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 149, 187, 187 n., 188, 199, 203, INDEX 479 LEGHORN 205, 225, 315, 338 n. t 372, 372 n. ; his MSS., 137 ; his collection of navy estimates, T 39 > appointed Master of the Ordnance (1682), 131 n. ; his voyage to Tangier (1683), 314, 314 n. t 399 n. ; his want of practical seamanship, 273, 273 n. ; his misfortune with the fleet (1688), 391 Leghorn (Livorne), 35 n., 78 n., 242 ; galley built at, 242 n. Leicester, Robert Sidney, Earl of, Ambassador to France, 431, 431 n., 438 Leigh, Mr. William, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, 436, 436 n. Leith, taking of (1544), 109, 109 n. Lempriere, C., 392 n. Lennox, Duke of, Admiral of Scotland, 138 n., 444 n. Lent, flesh permitted on board ship in, 164 ; loose observation of, in Spain, 197 Leo, John, of Granada, 416, 416 n., 421 Leonard, Monsieur, his collection of treaties, 326, 326 n., 335 Leonard, Mr. William, Jurat of Dover, 437, 437 n. Lepanto, battle of, 98, 98 n., 223, 370, 370 n. Leslie, Charles, the nonjuror, 280 n. L’Estrange, Roger, 280 n. Levant Seas, bounds of the, 432, 442 Lewis, —, 237, 365 Libel of English Policy, 228, 228 »., 375 Library, Royal, at St. James’s, 101 n. Lieutenants, 360 Lighters, 125, 384 Lighthouses, lights, 5, $n., 6, 30, 65, 69, 84, 103, 162, 189, LONDON 190 n., 199, 199 nn., 262, 222, 233, 343, 368, 370, 381 ; Act about lighthouses, 152,152^.; lighthouses in Ireland, 97, 97 n. ; evils of private proprietorship of lights, 202 ; lights formerly burning but now extinguished or never lighted, 142 Linage, Jos6 de Veitia, 107 n. Lincoln’s Inn, 107, 107 n. Lincolnshire, 222, 368 Lindsay, Alexander, pilot to James V of Scotland, 132 n. Lindsey, Earl of, Lord High Admiral, 431 n. Linen, 447 Linseed, prize of, 249 Lisbon, 56, 112 Literati, 281 Littleton, Sir Thomas, Treasurer of the Navy and afterwards Admiralty Commissioner, 257, 257 n. Liturgy, Book of, 76 Liveries allowed to mastersattendant, 78, 78 n.f 234, 382 Lloyd (or Floyd), Sir Charles, engineer, 29, 29 n. Lloyd (or Floyd), Sir Godfrey, engineer, 29, 29 n. Lloyd, Dr. William, Bishop of St. Asaph, on prophecy, 316, 316 n. Loadstone, 398, 398 n., 415 n., 422 Log, West Country seamen’s substitute for, 159 London, 12, 173, 309 n., 415, 430, 436 : charters of, 122 ; trade of, 161, 317; a great emporium, 31 ; names of streets and lanes in, derived from shipping, 209 ; controversy of, with Winchester, 190 ; Charles I expects to borrow money from, 480 NAVAL MINUTES LONDON 176 ; is to set out ships, ib. ; petition of London merchants about their losses at sea (1692), 216 n, 270; ships at London Bridge, 209 London, Bishop of, 76 London, City of, 43, 53, 125, 134, 170, 277; omitted in Domesday Book, 96; City gates to be closed, 173 ; City Companies, 101, 102, 134, 153, 321, 321 n. London, Fire of, 123, 206 London, Lord Mayor of, 164, I 7°» I 73» 32I » 432 »* Lord Mayor’s Day, 125 ; ridiculous pageants of ships and trade upon, 103 ; Common Council, 122 London, Tower of. See Tower Londonderry, affairs of London at, 122 Long Robe, order of the, 280, 326 Lord Chamberlain, 189 Lord Chancellor, 185, 185 n., 408 n., 409 Lord Keeper, 185 n., 409, 442 Lord Mayor. See London Lord Privy Seal, 121, 197 Lord Treasurer, 49, 57, 184 n. t 185, 264, 409, 411, 412 Lords, House of, 10, 217, 217 n., 253 ; fire of 1834 at, 392 n. Lords, the, 72 Lorrain, Paul, Pepys’s copyist, 408 n. Louis, King of France, his offering at the shrine of St. Thomas Becket, 141, 141 n. Louis XI, treaty with, 392 Louis XIII, 67 n. Louis XIV, 9, 39, 52, 249, 327 n., 361 n. ; fleets of, 306 n. ; yachts for, 44 n., 195 n., 239 n. ; ordinances of, 162, 162 n., 240, 240 n., 355, 371, MARINE 371 n. See also France, King of Louvois, Francois-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de, Louis XIV’s Minister of War, 33 Lowestoft, action off (1665), 346 rc. Lowther, Sir John, afterwards Viscount Lonsdale, 21, 21 n., So, 80 n. t 210 n., 219 Lowther, Sir John, of Whitehaven, Admiralty Commissioner, 210, 210 n., 319, 320 Lubeck, Senate of, 443 Lucan, 404 Lyme, burned by the French, 72 Lynn, 60 n. ; survey of Lynnwater, 135 MAAS, river, 448 Mackenzie, Sir George, 137, 137 ^., 424 n. Maddox, Mr. Robert, a clerk in the Navy Office, 356, 356 n. Madeira, 2&gn. Madras, 105 n. Magazines, 72, 359 Magellan Straits, 391 Magna Charta, 161, 161 n., 237 Magnus VI of Norway, 297 n. Mainwaring, Sir Henry, 446, 446 n. Malta, Knights of, their great doings at sea, 83 Malynes, Gerard, 407 n. Man, King of, grant to, for guard of the coasts, 297 Man, Mr., 289, 334, 390, 391 Maps. See Charts Mare Gallicum, 301 Maria of Hungary, Regent of the Netherlands, 67 Marine intelligence, 28, 28 n. INDEX 481 MARINE Marine, Secretary of the, in France, 167, 232, 362, 380 Marine Treaty, 440 Marisarcus, 186 Marque, letters of, 179, 179 n., 438 Marseilles, 36, 351, 433, 435 Marshal, the, 287, 288, 288 n. Marshalsea, the, 148 Marten, Sir Henry, Judge of the Admiralty, 430, 430 n. t 43*, 435, 436, 438, 439, 444, 445 Marthusius (Martutius), King Edgar’s ‘ Admiral,’ 66, 106 Martin, Mr. Joseph, of Rood Lane, 426, 426 n. Marvell, Andrew, 165 n. Mary of Guise (Queen of Scots), 54, 54 n. Mary of Orange (Queen), 217. See also Orange, Princess of Mary Tudor (Queen), 54, 54 n., 55 n., 104,107 n., 108, 109 n., 154, 186, 335, 398, 398 n., 422 Masters, 360; certified according to the rate of the ship, 256 ; should riot be named by the commanders, ib. Masters-attendant, liveries allowed to, 78, 78 n., 234, 234 n-> 382 ; their place in the King’s procession, 178, 234, 382 Masts, placing of, 115 ; foreign supplies of, 276 Mathematical Foundation. See Christ’s Hospital Mathematical Professor at Cambridge, authors to be read by, 81, 81 n. Mathematicians, catalogue of, 418, 418 n., 421 ; sorry issue of their labour, 419 Mathematics, 102, 148, 159, 169; little found among shipwrights, 226, 373; apMERCHANT plication of, to navigation, 417, 418, 420 Mathews, Sir John, a London merchant, 107, 107 n. Maunsell, Andrew, bibliographer, 304, 304 n., 422, 422 n. Maximian (Emperor), 98, 98 n. t 285 May, Baptist, 123, 123 n. May, Captain Richard, 103, 103 n. Mayerne, Sir Theodore, physician, 445, 445 n. Mazarin, Cardinal, 39, 52 Meadows, Sir Philip, 3, 3 n., 227, 275, 373 Medals of ships, 68 Medina, Pedro de, 172 n., 424, 424?*. Medina Sidonia, Duke of, 204 Mediterranean, 240 n. t 340 n. t 393 n. ; French fleet in the (1693), 317 Medium of the navy, i8iw.,266; extravagance of the, 181, 333, 334 Medway, 20, 20 n. ; Dutch in the, 20, 145 n., 343 ; removal of buoys, 59 ; Dutchmen buy oysters in the, 20 ; French in the, 20 ; insecurity of ships in the, 204 ; want of able pilots in the, 23 Meg-Mount, 139 Mellesh, —, a pilot, 63, 63 n. Melville, Sir James, 202, 202 n. t 209 Men and guns, establishment of (1677), 57, 57 n., 182, 182 n. Mennes, Sir John, Comptroller of the Navy, 69, 258, 258 n. Mercator, Gerardus, his projection, 159, 159 n. t 396 n. Mercers’ Company, the, 134 Merchant Companies, 153 Merchant service, 72, 163 ; diet, 25 ; bad victualling of, 135 ; pay.. 25 2 I 482 NAVAL MINUTES MERCHANT Merchant ships, 331 ; French seamen borne on, in time of peace, 360, 362 Merchants, 433 ; undone by piracy, 178 ; impositions on, 443 ; their complaints of Venetian duties, 433 ; of the navy and commerce, 331 ; of their losses at sea, 216 n. ; they are held in esteem in Holland, 94 ; merchandise a pursuit not to be contemned, 168 ; abuse of commanders carrying merchants’ goods, 196, 196 n. ; English merchants employ strangers, 19 ; ships for the defence of, 67, 67 n. Meres, Sir Thomas, Admiralty Commissioner, 122,160,160^., 181 n. t 252, 333 Micthis, island of, 284, 284 n. Middelburg, Scottish church at, 48 n. Middle Ground, the, 314, 314 n. Middleton, Mr. Richard, his notes on shipping, 434 Midshipman, 138 Mildmay, Mr., 376, 376 n. Militia, no, 299, 304. See also Land-militia Milton, near Sittingbourne, 402, 402 n., 445, 445 n. Mines at Newcastle, 446 Ministers, want of knowledge and experience in, 142-3 ; unskilfulness of, 263 ; their ignorance of the sea, 40; ill choice of ministers abroad, 152 ; no proper record of their instructions, ib. Mtsselden, Edward, merchant and writer on economics, 444, 444 n. Mizen-masts, 193 Models of ships, 246; of the Royal James, 186 ; of the Royal Charles, 222, 368 r MORLAND model presented to Christ’s Hospital, 186, 374, 374 n. ; draughts of ships and models, 239 Modius, Franciscus, 336 n. Moles, 58 ; the mole of Caesarea, 96. See also Tangier Molesworth, Robert, first Viscount, 389 n. Molloy, Mr. Charles, 407, 407 n. Monasteries, suppression of the, 124 Money, par of, 297; money raised for militia, 299 Monk, General George, 143, 143 n. ; life of, 9 ; a landman made general-at-sea, 147 ; his contempt of the Dutch, 4, 4 n. See also Albemarle Mons Meg, 138, 138 n. Monson, Sir William, 44, 314, 315, 419, 419 n., 420, 420 n. ; on the security of Chatham, 205, 205 n. ; on a navigation lecture, 416, 416 n. ; his account of the naval actions of Queen Elizabeth, 128, 128 n. Montagu. See Mountagu Montaigne’s .Essays, 170, ijon. Monuments to Dutch sea-commanders, 275 Moon, 403 ; theory of the, 406 Moore, Sir Jonas, mathematician, 388 n. : his surveying work, 135, 135 n. Moors, the, 287, 340 Moralis, n Moray, Sir Robert, P.R.S., 288, 289 n. Morden, Robert, map and globe-maker, 422 More, Sir Thomas, 146, 416 Morisot, Claude Barthelemy, 67, 67 n., 363 Morland, Sir Samuel, 387, 387 n. ; his inventions, 231, 231 n. t 232, 380, 380 n. INDEX 483 MOROCCO Morocco Ambassador, 180 Mortlake, 401, 401 n. Moses, 205, 207 Motteux, Peter Anthony, the translator of Rabelais, 308 n. Mould, Major, 397 Moulds in shipbuilding, 350, 351, 353 n: Mount, —, a bookseller, 325 Mount H., 39 Mountagu, Mr. Edward, of Boughton, 387, 387 n. Mountgomery’s Book of the Navy, 106, iojn., 220, 220 n. t 366, 419 Moxon, Joseph, hydrographer, 113, 113 «., 304, 304 n. Munden, [Sir] Richard, his capture of St. Helena, 8, 8 n. ; his journal, 51, 51 n. Munster, 98 Musgrave, Sir Christopher, Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance, 138, 138 n. Music, Gresham lectures on, 124, 124 n. Music-room, trophies in the Duke of Buckingham’s, 78 Mussel Bank, 20, 20 n. Mustard, 167, 167 n. Myngs, Sir Christopher, 390 n. NAILS for the King’s ships, tenure by supplying, 171,184 Nalson, Dr. John, the historian, 174, 174 n., 175 Narbrough, Sir John, 78 n., 104,105,113,113 n., 115, 209, 222, 250, 251, 252, 314, 354 368, 390, 390 n. ; his journal, 105 n., 118, 118 n., 391 Narrow Seas, the, 55, 158 n., 430, 430 n., 441 ; admiral of, 387, 404, 405 ; limits of, 404 ; ships fighting in, 438 Naturalisation, 295 NAVIGATION Naval architecture, little room for improvement in, 217; limitation of the science of, 312 Naval business, neglect of, in Parliament, 143 Naval collections, 121 ; extracts, 389 ; books, 134, 224; 37i Naval commodities, reliance upon foreign supplies of, 276 Naval discipline, imperfection of laws for, 300 Naval force : ancient, 58; of our ancestors, 384; England, Holland, and France in 1688 to be compared, 399 Naval laws, 330 Naval philosophy, Sir William Petty’s scheme of, 149, 149 n. Naval relation, Dr. Wilkins’s chapter on, 177, 177 n. Naval trophies at Charles II’s coronation, 58 Navigation, n, 83, 86, 99, 117, 133, 134, 148, 149, 169, 172, 194, 198, 359, 398, 4°2, 4°3> 404, 414, 425, 426, 443; Caesar’s account of, 161 ; Pericles on the science of, 292 ; references to, in London charters, 122 ; improvements in, 193 ; science of, 315, 402, 420 ; its little improvement, 413 ; navigation improvable by art, 416; application of mathematics to, 417, 418, 420 ; benefit to the Crown by, 166; ignorance concerning, 85, 98, 390; not great until Edward VI, 195, 195 n. ; no provision in our laws for, 396, 397 ; neglect of the study of, 179; not reckoned a noble employment, 168, 169 ; mistakes in, 314, 396, 420, 420 n., 421 ; lights erected to the wrong 484 NAVAL MINUTES NAVIGATION of, 199; the navigation of England undone, 313 Navigation, books on, 224, 232, 239, 37°» 38o, 403, 419, 421, 422 ; translated from the French, 415 ; French and Dutch books of, 124 ; over- ‘ looked at Gresham College, ib. Navigation, lectures on, 41, 134, 159, I59»., 229, 230, 377-8, 414-25 ; nurseries for, 414-25 ; Spanish schools of, 4 Navigation Act (of 1651), 165, 165 n. ; (of 1660), 22, 31, 87, 319 Navy, the, 248; repair of, 175 ; improvement of, 241 ; provident methods in, 291 ; reform of, 309 ; no set history of, 215 ; or settled office for, 232, 380 ; this word the Englishman’s Tetragrammaton, 322 ; the navy not understood, 262 ; national ignorance concerning it, 280; its importance little understood by Parliament, 365 ; ‘ a lame arm to beg by/ 365 ; state of, 49, 5°, 57 ; nourishing under Edward III, 410 ; condition under Queen Elizabeth, 107, 187, 199, 409, 409 n. ; its deplorable state at the Restoration, 84; scandalous assertion of its bad state under Charles II and James II, 309, 326; its strength due to James, Duke of York, 159 ; paper on the ill state of (1693), 331 ; greatness of, in 1693, 297 ; Pepys’s account of it in 1694, 395 ; atheists in, 52 ; corruptness in, 49; charges of mismanagement in, 181, 198, 331 i business NAVY of, managed with indifference, 393 ; debauchery in, 339 ; no degree of inexperience or unusefulness turns a man out of office in, 256 ; discipline in, 196, 388, 388 n., 389; need of an appeal in, 261 ; expensefulness of, 40, 359 ; debts at the death of Queen Elizabeth, 191 ; James 1’s economies in, 174, 175 ; money for the use of, 80; supplies for, opposed, 253 ; expenses of, not understood by landmen, 191 ; need of a fund specially appropriated to the service of, 195 ; customs assigned to, 233, 381 ; charge of, in ordinary (1640-2), 254; extravagance in (1693), 266, 269; Colonel Legge’s collection of navy estimates, 139 ; papers and books relating to, 121, 429-46 ; Discourses of, 137, 137 n., 187 ; maritime antiquities relating to, 42 ; offices in, how filled, 421 ; strangers employed in, 81, 356, 360 ; fire in, 108 ; clergy for, 301 ; prayer for, omitted (1636), 173. See also Ships Navy Royal of Henry VIII, 60, 101, 101 n., 234, 382 ; Dr. Dee’s proposal for a petty navy royal, 329 Navy, Principal Officers and Commissioners of the, (Navy Board), 17, 25, 43, 57, 115, 131, 143, 151, 176, 187, 188, 194, 195, 198, 211, 218, 224, 227, 231 n. t 241, 242, 242 n., 252, 253, 264, 265, 266, 267, 269, 275, 297, 375, 384, 385* 389, 395 ; first establishment of, 153, 153 n. ; their ignorance, 133 ; their INDEX 485 NAVY known slothfulness, 208 ; abuses by, 432 ; defects in their orders, 256; landmen made, 147 ; officers brought in for want of other ways of gratification, 257 ; arms of, 101 ; they visit the Forest of Dean (1671), 276, 276 n. Navy Commission of 1584, 375 n. Navy Commission of 1608, 375 «• Navy Commission of 1618, 60, 60 n., 271, 271 n. t 375 n-‘>- Journal of the, 109, 109 n. ; good effects of the, 278 Navy, Special Commission of 1686, 264 n., 271, 273, 273 n., 278 ; said not to have repaired the King’s ships, 280 n. Navy, Comptroller of the, 32 Navy, Surveyor of the, 359, 395, 395 n. See also Batten, Tippetts Navy, Treasurer of the, i, 57, 265, 278, 293 ; is no seaman, 25 Navy Office, in Seething Lane, 153, 423 ; purchase of the, 274, 274 n. ; burned down (1673), 274, 274 n.; rebuilt (1682), 274, 274 n. ; stationers’ ware and candles for the, 2 ; Ascension dinner at, 389 n. Neale, Mr. Thomas, Master of the Mint, 199, 297 Nectaridius, 285 Neerwinden, battle of (1693), 327 n. Nennius, 301, 301 n. Neptune Francois, 316, 319, 324, 325, 388 Nero, 317 Neville, Richard, Earl of WarNORRIS wick, Lord High Admiral, 185, 185 n. New Brunswick, 443 n. New England, growth of French trade in, 51 Newcastle, 138 n., 434, 442, 443 ; river of, 199 ; ballastage at, 429 ; colliers of, 311 ; mines at, 446 ; Trinity House at, 139, 199 n. ; letter of thanks to Pepys from, 199, 199 n. Newfoundland fishery, 49, 197 Newgate prison, 408 n. Newmarket, 132, 132 n. ; proceedings at, 32-5 Newton, [Sir] Isaac, 397 n., 413 n. Newton, Samuel, mathematical master at Christ’s Hospital, 413, 413 n. Nicetas Oryphas, 236 Nicholas, [Sir] Edward, Secretary to the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, 174, 437, 437 n-> 438, 438 n., 442 Nichols, Captain, 210, 221, 367 Nicolson, William, Archdeacon of Carlisle, 424 n. Nile, marks to judge of the rise and fall of the, 80 Noah’s Ark, Pepys’s views on, 205-7, 208 ; notes on, 153 Noblesse, 108 ; privilege of the, 93 Nonnius, Marcellus, grammarian, 290, 290 n. Nore, buoy of the, 210 Norfolk, 284, 328; Hundreds of, 327 Normandy, Normans, 12, 99, i°°> 395 n. ; Norman Conquest due to English ignorance of archery, 310, 310 n. ; lands distributed at the, 96-7 Norris, Sir Henry, afterwards Baron Norris of Ryecote, 486 NAVAL MINUTES NORRIS Ambassador in France, 307, 307 n. Norris, Richard, mariner, 124, 124 n. Norris, Mr. Richard, candidate for the mathematical mastership in Christ’s Hospital, 148 n., 149 Nort, Oliver van, navigator, 63, 63 n. North, Dudley, fourth Baron, 166, i66n., 167, 168, 169, 170 North, Sir Dudley, financier and economist, 168, 168 n. North, Francis, Lord Keeper, afterwards Baron Guilford, 169, 169 n. North-East Passage, 133 n. Northern Seas, right of fishing in the, 441 Northumberland, Algernon Percy, tenth Earl of, Lord High Admiral, 444, 444 n. ; his journals, 431, 431 n., 438, 445 «. Norway, Norwegians, 12, 91, 91 n, ; office of steerman in, 402 n. Norwich, 325, 328 Notitia Imperii, 285, 285 n. Nott, Mr., the bookbinder, 104, 105, 105 n. Nottingham, Earl of, Lord High Admiral, 10, 10 n. t 60, 60 n., 88, 95, 262, 348, 348 n., 349, 350, 392, 409 n. ; his great service in 1588, 171 Nottingham, Earl of. See Finch Noy, William, Attorney-General, 446, 446 n. OAK, resists the worm better than beech, 250; foreign supplies of, 276. See also Timber OSBORNE Oar, the symbol of the jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty, 136, 136 n. t 177, 313, 313 n. ; said to be borne before the Mayor of Harwich, 178, 178 n. Oatmeal, 312 Obelisks, transporting of, 123. See also Guglios Observator, 280, 280 n. Observatory at Greenwich, 388, 388 n. Offices, sale of, 363 Ogbourne, Wilts, Priory of, 282 Ogilby, John, his account of the Coronation, 58, 58 n. t 157, 157 nn. t 248 Old Bailey, 214, 279 Oleron, Laws of, 62, 62 n. t 276 n. Onslow, Sir Richard, Admiralty Commissioner, 269, 269 n., 295. 2957*. Opdam, Admiral, monument to, 2 Orange, Prince of, 35 ; flag for, 108. See also William III Orange, Princess of, flag for, 108. See also Mary of Orange Orange-vessels, 345 Ordinary, the, 254 Ordnance, Master of the, 131, 131 n. ; his precedence, 131 Ordnance, Office of the, 432 ; estimates of, no Ordnance, Officers of the, 57 Orford, 60 n. Orford, Earl of. See Russell Orkneys, 448 Orwell, 60 n. See also Ipswich Osborne, Peregrine, Earl of Danby, 286, 286 n, 307 Osborne, Sir Thomas, afterwards Earl of Danby and Duke of Leeds, 30, 30 n., 77, 77 n., 198, 257, 257 n., INDEX 487 OSTENDERS Ostenders, 345, 434 Oughtred, William, mathematician, 413, 413 n. Ovid, his description of a storm, 162, 162 n. Oxford, 283, 413, 417 Oyer and Terminer, Commission of, 388 n., 389, 399, 408 Oysters, 445 ; Dutchmen buy them in the Medway, 20 Pacata Hibernia, 112, 112 n. Page, Mr., shipbuilder at Wivenhoe, 200, 200 n. Pageants, 103 Paget, William, Lord, 8, 8 n. Pagett, Mr. Edward, mathematical master at Christ’s Hospital, 136 n., 148, 148 n., 182 n., 417 Pall Mall, 286 Pancirolus, Guy, Italian lawyer, 157, 157 nPapachine, the rover, 104 n. Paper Office, 109 n., 429, 435 Papists, 35, 181, 230, 379; none in the navy, 52 Par of money, the, 297 Parfait Negotiant, Le, 47, 222, 369 Paris, n, 149, 431, 438 Paris, Matthew, 88, 236, 388 Parliament, 3, 13, 47, 49, 51, 53> 73, 80, in, 171, 179^-, X 95, 199, 208, 216, 230, 233, 2 5 2 > 262, 266, 267, 268, 270, 280, 283, 296, 298, 315, 3i8, 327, 334, 371, 379, 381, 384, 385, 389, 397> 4°°, 4°6> 422, 427, 448 ; constitution of, 99; no taxes without, 72 ; use for a permanent council of the navy in the intervals of, 276-7, 317 ; PARLIAMENT representation of seaports in, 68, 229, 377; of the Cinque Ports in, 164, 299 ; of the navy in, 293; of seamen in, 136 ; proportions of members of, 164-5 ; petition to be excused sending members to, 165 ; Parliament and sea-dominion, 226, 373, 384, 384 n. ; is ignorant of the sea, 34, 332, 357 ; and little understands the importance of the navy, 365 ; Pepys’s report to (1675), 227, 227 n., 374 ; disquiet in, upon the business of tickets, 148, 148 n. ; is earnest for a war with France (1678), 365, 365 n. ; yet refuses supplies, 365; is ignorant how to control money, 333 ; a particular of Parliament’s injurious censuring of the management of the navy (1678-79), 181 ; Pepys’s trouble in, 142-3 ; charges against him in, 377, 377 n. ; futility of Parliamentary enquiries into the management of the navy, 277 ; enquiries unskilfully managed, 119; Parliament complains of want of accounts, 365 ; complaints of the navy in, 187-8, 331 ; neglect of the seamen by, 187-8 ; heat in, 198 ; secrecy in, 162 ; laws made in hurries in, 99 ; is jealous of the liberties of the subject, 267; Parliament-men that take shorthand notes, 122 ; projects in Parliament for remedying the want of seamen (1692), 268 ; excess of supplies for the navy granted by (1692), 269 ; resolutions in, concerning La Hogue, 289; vote in, concerning the 488 NAVAL MINUTES PARLIAMENT Admiralty (1693), 270 ; collection for seamen in, 232, 380 ; ordains posts round the coast, 305. See also Commons, Lords Parliament, Acts of, 165 Parliament Chamber, 392 Parliament, Journals of, 234, 382 ; collection of orders of, under Queen Elizabeth, 132 Parliament, Long, 165 ; Rump, 165, 165 n. t 252, 270 Parliament Rolls, 306, 306 n. t 398, 4 J 9 Parliament tapestry, 232, 380 Parma, Duke of, 219, 366 Parry, Mr., 47 Parson, 303 Passage, clerks of the, 430, 437 Passes, 180, 180 n., 181 Patent Rolls, 398 Patriot, 284 Pauw, Adrian, Grand Pensionary of Holland, 435 Pay, pays, 25,86; badness of, 38, 268; unreasonable hardships in connexion with, 66 ; delays in, 132, 187, 268 ; difficulty of merchant seamen in obtaining, 25; grievous practice in the King’s ships, ib. ; pay of seamen under Edward III, 65 ; pay of soldiers and seamen to be compared, 64 ; non-performance of instructions a bar to, 253, 253 n. Peake, Mr., M.P. for Sandwich, 262 Pearse, Mr. James (the younger), 160, 187, 187 n. Pechora Bay, 42 n. Peckius, Peter, 212, 212 n. Peers, 336, 337 Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, Earl of, Admiralty Commissioner, 295, 295 n., 331, 331*. PEPYS Penington, [Sir] John, 430, 430 n., 437, 438 Penn, William, gives Charles II a book relating to the navy, 3, 3 n. Penn, Sir William, admiral, 60, 76, 112 Pepys, Jane, 89 n. Pepys, Roger, of Impington, 89, 89 n. PEPYS, SAMUEL, his visit to Holland (1669), 371 ; his memorial on behalf of the creditors of the navy (1672), 71; prepares instructions for the office of Lord High Admiral (1673), 151, 151 n. ; his membership of Parliament, 229, 377; provokes Parliament to look into the business of the navy, 51 ; Pepys improves occasions in Parliament, 187; proposes proclamation about commissions, 30 ; refuses a pass, 35 ; his report to the House of Commons on the state of the navy (1675), 43, 43 n. t 227, 227 n., 374 ; presents to Parliament the states of foreign fleets (1675 and 1677), 371,371 *., 377, 377 ».; his establishment for chaplains (1677), 76, 76 n. ; his pains over the victualling contract (1677), 57; and the establishment for men and guns (1677), 57, 182, 182 n. ; opposes the Seamen’s and Watermen’s Bill (1677), 10, 10 n. ; his action about the King’s flag, 77, 78 ; the regulation of cabins in his time, 102 ; his speech in Parliament on the 30 new ships (1677), 47, 47^., 283, 283 n., 358, 358 n. ; his undertaking to set out 90 INDEX 489 PEPYS ships (1678), 358, 358 n. ; his reply to Sir Harbottle Grimstone, 296 ; his public troubles, 273 ; is said to be of the French faction, 377, 377 n. ; his trouble and envy in Parliament, 49, 142-3; is called by the envious name of ‘ admiral/ 198 ; refuses to take out a pardon, 197-8*; is depended on to keep the Commission of 1679 right, 72 ; his persecution in the House of Commons (1679), 338; resigns office (1679), 359; charges against him (1679), 181 n., 198, 198 n. ; foretold the ill construction of Deane’s voyage into France, 195 ; his imprisonment in the Tower (1679), 296; his papers appropriated by Scott, 296; conversations with Charles II and the Duke of York at Newmarket (1680), 32-5, 132 n. ; his views on the ignorance of the Admiralty Commissioners, 259; they repudiate his rules, 237, 365 ; his visit to Scotland (1682), 137 n. ; his account of the loss of the Gloucester, 150 ; sought to be present at the court-martial on it, 147; receives the freedom of Newcastle (1682), 138 n. ; is thanked by the town, 199, 199 n. ; is made free of the Trinity House of Hull, 139 ; his activity at the Trinity House in London, 198″; presses them to take into their own hands the sounding of the coasts, 188 ; advises them about Collins’s survey, 188-9; his services to Christ’s Hospital, 374 ; his voyage to PEPYS Tangier (1683), 314; attends the launching of the Neptune, (1683), 192, 201 ; his reasons for taking out a patent for his office (1684), 272, 272 n. ; his opinion of the Special Commission of 1686, 278 ; is imprisoned in the Gatehouse (1690), 426 n. ; his account of the navy in 1694, 395 ; his diploma from Oxford (1702), 394 n. PEPYS, SAMUEL, foregoes his fees on commissions, 41 ; his exactness to have the King’s business well carried on, 57 ; collects journals in the Navy Office, 153, 153 n. ; his aim is. for the good of futurity, 215 ; his application of study to the work of the navy, ib. ; his exposure of abuses, 263, 263 n. ; appears before the Commission of Public Accounts, 263, 263 n.; his known care in obliging captains to keep journals, 369 ; also Blue Coat boys, 370 ; his way of keeping the guardships, 160; his encouragement of pilots, 38; secures provision for decayed seamen, 233, 381; his scheme for a general Chest, 6 ; left the navy twice in good condition, 273 ; thinks no man fit to be Secretary of the Admiralty, 232, 381 ; his ‘ care for Tangier mole, 104 ; his adhesion to the Crown not founded on private advantage, 272; James II’s testimony thereto, 272, 272 n. PEPYS, SAMUEL, scheme for an exchange of knowledge, 282 ; doubts the ancients’ knowledge of navigation, 402-4 ; thinks the English 490 NAVAL MINUTES PEPYS self-lovers, 2 ; his opinion that land-education does not qualify for sea-employment, 260 ; thinks the life of a virtuous Officer of the Navy a continual war defensive, 264 ; his opinion on extravagance in the navy, 266, 269 ; criticises the relations between the Admiralty and the Cabinet, 320 ; desires a permanent Council for the Navy in the intervals of Parliament, 276; his view of the scandalous ignorance of Parliament, 356-9; his notes on Dr. Dee’s British Monarchy, 329-30 ; criticises Sir William Petty, 312 ; and Captain St. Lo’s book, 270 ; and John Selden, 275, 310- n, 322, 326, 336 ; in defence of Charles II, and James II, 318, 326, 394; in praise of the Duke of York, 338 ; and Sir William Coventry, ib. ; his views on Noah’s Ark, 205-7, 208; on the improvement of ships of war, 79 ; his connexion with improvements in ships, 242 ; his views on the increase in the size of ships, 425-6 ; on the best ship, 163 ; on the 30 new ships, 13, 208; on upright stems, 13 ; discourses with Sir William Petty about the double-bottom (1683), 210 ; his MSS. about shipbuilding, 93 ; his report on the measuring of ships, 211, 211 n. ; his views on memoirs and histories, 69 ; proposes to write a Life of the Earl of Sandwich, 89 ; is to obtain papers from Evelyn, 95, 95 n. ; his Memoires of the Royal Navy (1690), 271 n., PETT 298 n., 313 n., 326 n., 333 n. ; his list of English and French Admirals, 106, 106 n. ; desires a translator of French maritime books, 286; his Sea-Tracts, 41, 220, 220 n., 229, 366, 377, 420, 422 ; his secret paper, 162 ; his print ( I 553) of Dutch busses, 306, 306 n. ; his picture of Lord Sandwich’s’ last misfortune,’ 386; his long sentences, 403 n.; his landlord Wheeler, 58 Pericles, on the science of navigation, 292 Perspective glasses, unknown to the ancients, 92 Perth, James Drummond,fourth Earl of, 132 Peterborough,Lady, 60, 60 n.,6i Peters, Hugh, the regicide, 52 Petronius, 144 Pett, Christopher, master-shipwright at Woolwich and Deptford, 14 n., 15, 46, 244, 244 n. Pett, Peter, master-shipwright at Deptford under Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth, 212 n. Pett, Peter, of Wapping, 212 n., 241 Pett, Peter, of Ratcliffe, mastershipwright at Deptford, 14 n., 15, 15 n., 16, 18, 18 n., 46 n., 212 n., 275, 275 n., 351 n. Pett, Peter, Commissioner of the Navy, 145 n., 247, 247 n., 276, 276 n. Pett, Sir Peter, lawyer and author, 212-13, 212 n., 254, 275» 2 75 n-> 42 4 *’ his family master-builders in the navy, 212, 212 n. Pett, Phineas, Commissioner of the Navy, 235 n. ; Autobiography of, i n., 13, 13 n., 102, 102 n. t 126 INDEX 491 PETT Pett, Phineas, Commissioner Pett’s grandson, 13 n. Pett, Sir Phineas, Commissioner of the Navy, 13, 14, 14 n., 15, 16, 18, 112, 113, 116, 128, 209^., 2i8n., 251, 251 n.; appointed Comptroller of the Stores (1680), n6n. ; his account of the earliest frigate, 18 Pett, family of, 163, 212, 212 n. Petty, Sir William, 42, 142, I 55» I 95» 2O3> 2 8S n. ; on shipbuilding, 127; on the figure of a ship, 204, 207; his double-bottomed vessel, 23, 23 n., 42,106, io6n., 200,205, 210-11, 288 n., 316, 316 n. ; experiment on his pond, 204; on the ignorance of English shipbuilders, 200; his Political Arithmetic, 151, 151 n. t 212, 212 n. ; mistakes in, 312 ; his scheme of naval philosophy, 149, 149 n. ; on Selden, 275; on sea dominion and the flag, 156. See also Ships Pharos, 97 Phellips, Mr. Augustine, merchant of London, case of, 436, 436 n. Philip (King), 107 n., 109,109 n., no Philip, an Indian, 4 n. Philipot, John,Somerset Herald, 297, 2Q7-«., 393 Philipot, Sir John, Lord Mayor of London, 48, 48 n. Philippes, Henry, 135, 135 n., 139, 139 n. Phillips, Thomas, military engineer, 338, 338^. Philosophical Transactions, 92, 92 n. Pickory, the Prast Isle of, 42, 42 n. Picts, 302 PLANTATIONS Pictures, 196. See also Ships Pierrepont, Mr. William, 400, 400 n. Piles, Roger de, 392 n. Pilotage, pilots, 21, 38, 44, 126, 126 n., 131, 146, 150, 152, 218, 342-5, 430; importance of the pilot, 138 ; breeding of pilots, 4 ; want of able pilots, 23 ; courtmartial on the pilot of the Gloucester, 131, 146, 147; miscarriage by ignorance of a pilot not capital, 146, 147 ; foreigners as pilots, 304; pilots of Venice, 221, 367, 434; from Italy, 219, 366; pilots paid for though you use none, 222, 368 ; pilotage in the Tyne, 434, 442, 443 ; pilot of the Black Deeps, 60, 60 n. Pine, John, 392 n. Pinnaces, 55 n. Pipe, 447 Piracy, pirates, 12, 48, 75, 117, 154, 178, 179 n., 186, i86«., 228, 262 n., 330, 350, 375, 408 n., 425, 433, 433 “., 435> 438, 44 1 * 442 ; piracy on our coasts, 100 ; measures against pirates under Richard II, 3 ; fees for commissions of piracy, 442 ; Turkish pirates, 440; Pirates’ War, 92 Pisa, 242 n. Pisan, Christine de, 336 n. Pistols, 447 Pitching, 208 Pitt, Moses, 105, 105 n. Placards, 441, 441 n. Plague, the (1665), 65 Plank, rotten, 160; East Country plank, 207, 207 n., 208, 384. See also Timber Plantations, 417; clergy for the, 301 492 NAVAL MINUTES PLATE Plate fleet, 113 Plats. See Charts Pliny, 123, 284, 406 Plot, Dr. Robert, 281, 281 n., 284, 285, 286, 287, 303, 308, 331, 340, 402 Plots, little history of the three, 220, 366 Plunket, Oliver, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, charge against, 81, 81 n. t 299 Plutarch, 192 Plymouth, 346, 366, 447 ; sunken rock near, 5, 59; burning of, 342, 342 n. Poll tax, 381 n. Polybius, 292 Polyglot Bible, its value, 123, 123 n. Pompey, 385 Pope, the, 156, 316, 387 ; Popish, 76; Popish Plot, 209, 299 Popiniere, Lancelot Voesin, Sieur de la, 406, 406 n. Portland, Jerome Weston, second Earl of, Governor of the Isle of Wight, 437, 437^- Portman, Mr., cashier to the Victuallers of the Navy, 212 Ports, 58, 61, 67, 68 ; ancient, 141 ; list of seaports, 335 ; descriptions of, 101 ; Act for preserving the western ports, 324, 324 n. ; our ports known to strangers, 342-6 ; foreign attacks on English ports, 178, 346; guarding of the, 59, 67 ; diversity and approachableness of, 74 ; plenty and quality of, 38 ; Parliamentary representation of, 165, 229, 377; burgesses representing, 53 ; a stranger seaman to represent a port, PRESSING 68 ; French names for English ports, 385 ; port charges, 442 ; ports of Brittany, 88 ; Port of Caesarea, 96. See also Cinque Ports Portsmouth, 51, 56, 102, 143, 174, 174 n., 213, 218, 239 n. t 243, 243 n., 344, 346, 418,427, 432, 440 ; survey of, 135 ; weakness of, 225 ; burned by the French, 72 ; Edward VI at, 68 ; James II’s visit to (1686), 251 ; tin brought to, 308 ; Captain of, 56 n. ; the Governor’s claim to a toll on foreign ships, 93 Portugal, Portuguese, 64, 340, 448 ; navy of, 56 ; project for a new treaty of commerce with (1672), 443 ; an excellent sailer built by the Portuguese, 355 ; they make men of quality commanders at sea, 64 ; Englishman in the Portuguese service, 56 ; Portuguese maps, 229, 378 ; words relating to the sea borrowed from the Portuguese, 359 Pory, John, 416 n. Poshill, —, case of, 434 Pound-arrow, 164 Povey, Thomas, formerly Treasurer for Tangier, 93, 93 n. Powder, stealing of, 430, 438 Praxis totius orbis, 155 Prayer for the sea, 76; of thanksgiving, 300, 303 Prayers, Book of, for the Fast (1636), 173 Precedence, Act of, i, i n., 45 ; precedence of the Lord High Admiral, I, i n. Predictions unfulfilled, 315-16 Preistman, Captain Henry, 249, 249 n., 322 Pressing, 4, 66 n., 71, 72, 74, 154 ; exemption from, 430, INDEX 493 PRINCE 436 ; irregularities and violences in, 268 ; those of the meaner sort refusing the King’s loan to be pressed, 176 ; press-money, 436, 437, 437 **• Prince, John, 104 n. Prints, of Dutch commanders, 94 ; of busses, 306 Privateers, 18, 37, 342 ; built by Englishmen in France, 351 ; arrangements for convoy made with, 311, 335; story of a privateer threatening William III, 334; Turkish privateers, 15 Prizes, 2, 64, 84, 179, 179 n. t 249, 254, 426, 433, 435 437 ; prize goods, 125 breaking up of prizes, 9 rules for prizes, 439, 439 n. large number taken by the French, 270; prize office, 95, 270, 426; prize officers, 65 Proclamations, 46; of 1605, 31, 31 n. ; of 1673, 30, 31 n., 41 ; about the flag (1674), 77, 77 n. ; relating to sea affairs, 119 ; James II’s general proclamation about offices, 273, 273 n. Prohibitions, 325 Protection, letters of, granted to churches, 282 ; protections against pressing, 66, 66 n. ; against invasion, 296 Protestants, 54 n. Proude, Richard, 39, 39 n. t 4i Provencals, 352 Proverbs relating to the sea, 62, 91, 279, 386; proverb reproaching sailors for illspeaking, 192 ; old saying among the divines, 151 ; the proverb of Tenterden steeple, 145, 148 READING Prowd, Captain John, 370, 3?o n. Prynne, William, 282, 282 n., 296, 297, 297 n., 299, 299 n. Public Accounts,Commissioners of, 51 n., 152 ^.,263 n.; Charles II’s Commission, 277 n. ; William Ill’s, 264 n., 266, 269, 271, 291, 293, 333, 385, 400; Deane and Hewer’s ‘ great report’ to, 335 Pulton, Ferdinando, editor of statutes, 117, 117 n. Pumps, 231, 231 n., 249, 380 Purbeck, Isle of, 209 Purchas, Samuel, 64,266, 266^., 279, 416^.; his book sold as waste paper, 123, 123 n. Puritans, 173 Pyrard, Fran9ois, 64 ; his description of St. Helena, 8, Sn. QUALITY, men of, 64, 83 Queenborough, Inquisition of (1375), 61, 62 n., 408, 408 n. Queenhithe, 209 RABESNI&RES – TREILLEBOIS, Monsieur des, visits England (1671), 361, 361 n. Raleigh, Sir Walter, 6-7, 74, 79, 88, 92, 95, 120, 176, 193, 194, 234, 310, 382; calumny against, 122; his theory of sea-fighting, 80, 421; his lack of nautical knowledge, 420, 420 n. Ramsey, Alexander, a gunner, 214 n. Ramsey, Lady, her charity at Christ’s Hospital, 124 Ransoms for prisoners, 45 Ratclifie, 222, 368 Raven, Samuel, a shipwright, in Holland, 26, 46, 246 Reading, 81 494 NAVAL MINUTES READING Reading, Sir Robert, of Dublin, 97 n. ; his pharoses, 97 Rear-Admiral of England, 131 Re, Isle of, n, 126, 211 Rebellion, the, 62, 81 Recorde, Dr. Robert, mathematician and physician, 398, 398 n., 422 Recusants, forfeitures of, to be devoted to the navy, 175 Reeve, Dr. Edmund, 436, 436 n., 437 Reformado, 124, 124 n. Reformation, the, 321 Regino, Abbot of Prum, 287, 287 n. Renau, D’EH^agaray Bernard, naval architect, 390 n. Renegado, 172 Restoration, the (‘ the King’s coming-in’), 26, 32 n., 34, 46, 74, 123, 214, 336, 351 w., 397, 400 ; improvement in the art of shipbuilding since, H5 Revolution, the, 72, 296, 313, 319, 319 n. Rhenish wine, 247, 247 n. Rhodes, Rhodians, 406 Richard I, 91, 161, 237, 288, 305 ; in the Holy Land, 91 ; limitation of his claim to wrecks (1190), 82, 82 n., 89 Richard II, 45, 48, 87, 160, 161, 178, 306, 346, 402; measures against pirates under, 3 ; French invasion under, 72 Richelieu, Cardinal, 32, 39, 235, 3°6, 383 Richmond Castle, 97 Ridley, Bishop, 124 Rigging, 359 Robert of Gloucester, 337 Roberts (or Robin), John, a shipwright, sent to Denmark, 26, 46, 223, 369 RUPERT Robin Hood’s Bay, 120, 120 n., 163 ; ‘ Roberd’s men,’ 120, 120 n. Robinson, Sir Robert, misdemeanours of, 196 Rochester, Bishop of, liable for guard of the coast, 282-3; Rochester Cathedral, 361 n. ; ford at, 308 Rochester, Laurence Hyde, Earl of, 315, 315 n., 386, 386 n. Romans, the, 292, 302, 317; admirals under the, 285; Roman forts, 301, 302 Rome, 93 Romney one of the Cinque Ports, 248 n. Rood Lane, 426 n. Rooke, Admiral Sir George, 427 n. Rotherhithe (Redrith), 288 n., 436, 438 Rotterdam, 424, 424 n. Rottingdean, 346, 346 n. Rotz, John, 96 Rouen, 443 Round robin, 174, 174 n. Row-barges, 363 Rowlands, Richard. See Verstegen Royal Library at St. James’s, 101 n. Royal Society, 92, 92 n. t 134^ 177 n., 210 n., 275 n., 288 n., 289 n., 295 n. ; enquires of the Governor of Batavia, 177. See also Gresham College Royden, Captain Charles, his brutality to a seaman, 36, 36 n. Rupert, Prince, 4 n., 48, 77, 96, 96 n., in, 143 n., 247, 258 n., 343«., 345; Vice-Admiral of England, 404 ; his invention of great guns, 51, 51 n., 132, 132 n., 225, 372 ; his rashness in INDEX 495 RUSHWORTH adventuring his ship, 112; his galliot, 247 n. Rushworth, John, historian, 173, 174, 174 n-> J 75» 177 Russell, Admiral Edward, afterwards Earl of Orford, 2 n., 113, 113 n., 253, 265, 286, 286 n., 289, 316, 325, 337 n. 338, 390, 393 n., 427, 427 n. is accused for a Papist, 2 is attacked in the Lords, 217, 217 n. ; but thanked by the Commons (1692), 216, 216 n., 289; is laid aside (1693), 290 Russell, Sir William, afterwards BaronRussell of Thornhaugh, 304, 304 n. Russell family, were any famous at sea ? 376, 376 n. Rutter, 8, 8 n., 23, 23 n. t 39, 41, 50, 228, 228 n., 229, 230, 375, 377, 40i, 4 J 7, 4i 8 Ruyter, Admiral de, 21, 26, 96 n., 362 ; Life of, i, i n. ; monument to, 2 Rye, 344, 346, 446 n. ; formerly a good port, 114 ; but lately spoiled, 143 ; burned by the French, 72 Ryley, Mr. William, Norroy King-of-Arms, 435, 435 n. Ryves, Sir Thomas (Rivius), 101, 101 n., 275, 275 n. SABUUILLE, Robert de, 161 n. Sac and soc, 184, 184 n. Sacheverell, Mr. William, 43, 43 n. t 284, 284 n., 295 Safe-conducts, Act of Henry VI about, 94, 94 n. Sail-cloth, foreign supplies of, 276 Sails, 359; theory of the structure and application of, 390; sails of Indian ships, 106 SALISBURY St. Albans, Henry Jermyn, Earl of, 376, 376 n. St. Andrew’s parish, 176 St. Augustine’s, Canterbury, Abbot of, 145 n. St. Elmo, nursery for navigation at, 415 St. George, the guardian saint of England, not related to the sea, 167 St. Helena, 8, 8 n., 51 n., 64, 177 St. James’s, Royal Library at, 96, 101 n. St. Katherine’s-by-the-Tower. sea-devotion at, 423 St. Lo, Captain George, afterwards a Commissioner of the Navy, 269, 269 n. ; Pepys’s criticism of his book, 270 St. Malo, 17, 218, 317, 325, 344; a St. Malo’s man, 224, 370 ; bombing attack on St. Malo (1693), 338, 338 n. St. Michael de Paternoster Royal, church of, 423 n. St. Michel, Balthazar, mustermaster at Deal, 86, 86 n. St. Paul’s shipwreck, 101 n., 321 St. Sepulchre’s, 113 St. Thomas Becket, shrine of, 141 St. Thomas’s Hospital, 412, 413, 413*1. St. Valery’s, fees paid for the passage at, 432, 433 Saints, tutelar, 167 Salisbury, Richard Neville, Earl of, appointed a guardian of the sea, 172, 172 n. Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, a Secretary of State, 441 Salisbury, William Longsword, Earl of, 126 n. Salisbury, William Montacute, Earl of, 126, 126 n. 496 NAVAL MINUTES SALLEE Sallee, oversight in dealing with (1682), 180 Salt-works, 446 Salutes, 142, 432, 439, 442 ; to the English admiral, 431 ; stooping the flag, 438 ; striking of sail, 156, 435, 435 n., 438, 439, 440; records of, 430. See also Flag Sand-draught, 58; sands, 152, 273 Sand-plat, survey of-the, 135 Sandford, Francis, Lancaster Herald, 215 Sandwich, 178 n. ; is one of the Cinque Ports, 248 n. Sandwich, Admiral Edward Mountagu, first Earl of, 22, 39, 39^-, 4°» 65, 65 w., 135, 145, 346, 346 n., 360, 386, 386 n., 404, 405 ; his voyage to the Sound (1659), 89, 246, 387, 387 n., was a mathematician, 418, 418 n. ; foretold his own death, 387 ; his death (1672), 118, nSn. ; commendation of, 387; materials for his Life, 89 Sandwich, Lady, 89 nn. Sandys, George, the poet, his travels, 80, 80 n. Sanson, Nicholas, French geographer, 117, iij n. ; his maps, 120 Saturnius, Caius, 285 Saumarez, 437, 437 n. Saunderson (Sanders,Saunders), Captain Ralph, 150, 150 n., 344, 344 n., 352, 356 Sausigny, Monsieur, Commissioner at Toulon, 355 Savary, James, 222 n. Savile, Henry, the diplomatist, Admiralty Commissioner, 146, 257, 257 n. Savoy, the, 176 ; Hospital, 412 Saxons, 178, 185, 302; seamanship of the, 305; the SCYLLA Saxon Shore, 285, 302, 326 Saxton, Christopher, mapmaker, 305, 305 n., 392 Scallop-shells. See Sea-Knighthood Scarborough, Dutch insolency at (1635), 430, 430 n., 435 Scepper (Scipperus), 55, 55 n. Schools, 261, 362 Schoonveldt, action off the (1673), 343 n. Scilly, 140, 202 n. t 314, 404, 448 ; Scilly light, 22, 30, 69, 103, 202, 221, 367, 368 ; Scilly wrongly charted, 221, 367 ; trade in tin with, 71; Governor of, challenges anchorage and groundage, 221, 367 Scingetorix, 284 Scobell, John, 179 Scotch, Scots, 55, 61, 109, 137, 138, 302, 405, 444, 444 n. privileges of Scottish merchants in France, 432, 443 Scotland, 49, 276, 306, 432, 440, 445 ; Admiral of, 137, 138, 138^., 209, 444 n.; Admiralty of, 441 ; sea-laws of, 424, 424 n. ; treaty with, 208, 208 n. ; voyage round, 50, 50 n., 69, 132, 132 n. ; Duke of York’s visit to (1682), 131 n. ; accompanied by Pepys, 137^.; sea and land measures of, 391 Scott, Colonel John, the adventurer, 237, 237 n., 247 ; his map of England, 238; was the King’s geographer, 237 n., 238 ; appropriates Pepys’s papers, 296 Scott, Robert, of Little Britain, the famous bookseller, 117, 117 n. Scout, 145 Scripture concordance, 70 and Charybdis, 80 INDEX 497 SEA Sea, the: references to, in London charters, 122 ; customs of, 410 ; our strength at sea under Queen Elizabeth, 171, 171 n. ; spirit towards the sea in her time, 215 ; the English weaker at sea now than heretofore, 108 ; victories at sea the result of accident, 298; motions in Parliament concerning neglect of the sea (1601), 262 ; the business of the sea hard to be comprehended, 313; the English imperfect judges of anything relating to the sea, 289; our dealings at sea not as great as we pretend, 192; the sea little understood, 406; the care of it little esteemed, 317; English experience at sea, 228, 375 ; and ignorance, 52 ; lawyers ignorant of the sea, 334 ; the King’s interest in it, 442; safeguard of the seas, 73, 75, 179^. ; neglect of, 175; guardians of the sea appointed, 172, 172 n. ; invasions by sea, 71, 73, 74 ; privileges to places maintaining force at sea, 109; few tenures by services relating to the sea, 52 ; instruments for passing grants of land have no relation to it, 299 ; tenure by holding up the King’s head in his passage over the sea, 332; papers relating to the sea, 78 ; no book of instruction provides anything for the sea, 166; no provision for translating foreign books concerning the sea, 153; education for, 170; landeducation does not qualify for, 260; parents refuse SEA-COMMANDERS children for the sea, 162; or the children desert, 163 ; learned men’s aversion to the sea, 168; books of mythology and poetry relating to it, 88 ; sea-language unintelligible to a landman, 260 ; few names beginning or ending in sea, 89 ; criminals and malefactors sent to sea, 279, 417 ; rake-hells at, 308 ; the Great Captain of the Sea, 185 Sea-accounts, the surest information from, 279 Sea-administrations, deplorable ignorance of our, 219 Sea-affairs, English historians on, 81 ; book of ordinances concerning (1568), 132 ; our remissness in, 50 ; and ignorance, 229, 267, 377; they are foreign to the gentlemen of England, 267 ; proclamations relating to, 119 Sea-causes, 70 Sea-coal, tar from, 75 Sea-collections, 57 Sea-commanders, 186, 268 ; ignorance of, 247 ; vanity of, 271; youth and inexperience °f» 339 >’ disorders of, 400; they idle on shore during peace, 166; imputations upon, 119 ; general want of literature in, 102 ; untimely payment of, 132 ; are rendered more wanton by greater pay, 252 ; salaries for, 362 ; offices on shore for, 69 ; illused on the score of prizes, 64; prints of, 94; precedence of, 362 ; are held in esteem in Holland, 94; Englishmen not sought after as, 304 ; foreigners as, 161, 304; instructions to, not clear, 3, 253, 253 n. ; com- NAVAL MINUTES SEA-CORPORATIONS manders double in time of war, 360 Sea-corporations, arms of, 61 Sea-creditors, 71 Sea-devotion,at St.Katherine’sby-the-Tower, 422 Sea-dictionaries, 359 Sea-draught, 58 Sea-fights, 95; Sir Walter Raleigh’s theory of, 80, 421 Sea-intelligence, want of, due to the ignorance of Secretaries of State, 309 Sea-Knighthood, proposal for, 52 > 53 >’ scallop-shells the badge of an Order of SeaKnights, 90, 90 n.> 118 Sea-laws, 70 ; imperfection of, 214, 233, 381 ; sea-laws of France, 85 ; of Scotland, 424, 424 n. Sea-marks, 5-6, 44, 58, 59, 61, 370, 403 ; Act concerning (1566), 84, 84 n. t 182 ; they are under the control of the Trinity House, 30, 30 n. ; set up for strangers as well as natives, 346 ; destruction of, 213. See also Buoys, Lights Sea-masters, illiterateness of, 50 Sea-matters, few in coats of arms, 63 Sea-officers, characters and duties of, 419, 419 n. ; ignorance of, 247; their impatience and vanity, 260; little respect paid to their services, 230, 378 Sea-position of England, 293 Sea-rights, queries about, 437 Sea-seminaries, 425. See also Navigation Sea-service, 70 ; hardships of, 83 ; sea-service and landservice compared, 83, 90, 90 n., 128-31; sea-service SEAMEN in the Holy War, 90, 90 n. ; rewards for, 61 ; tenures by, 71 ; French terms in, 56; malicious proverb concerning, 62 Sea-sickness, 81, 81 n., 248 Sea-Tracts, Pepys’s collection of, 41. See Pepys Sea-voyages, should be made a principal step towards advancement, 406 Sea-watches and wards, 393 Sea, Dominion of the, 2, 3, 3 n., 44> 53, 55. 67, 92, 120 n., 142, 156, 222, 228, 254, 292, 292 n., 301, 302, 305, 306, 311, 318, 334, 369, 410, 440, 441 ; claim to, 296; its origin, 290 ; extent of, 330 ; the Danegeld a bad proof of, 267 ; King John’s pretence to, 58, 91 ; no dominion until Henry VIII, 194, 194 n., Queen Elizabeth said to have renounced it, 213, 275 ; not claimed by Parliament, 384, 384 n. ; does not occur in ancient Acts, 331 ; presumptuous claims to, 58; due to ignorance, 226, 373 ; cost of, 226, 373 ; Mr. Secretary Windebank’s letter concerning (1638), 438 ; Sir William Petty on, 156; our pretended seas, 82 ; the British Seas, 431, 431 n. Seals, 137; seal of the Admiralty, 91, 151 Seaman, a mutinous, 214 Seamen, 2, 37; adventurousness of, 148; valour of, 37; English seamen great ramblers, 24 ; used to danger, 250; love their bellies, ib. their diet, 25 ; its effect on courage, 25, 27, 27 n. ; better fed than the Dutch or French, 37 ; the Dutch better clad INDEX 499 SEAMEN and soberer than the English, 86; characters of seamen, 59 ; their drudgery and constant toil, 83 ; their services not seen, 191 ; their dangers compared with landmen, 128- 131, 138; their self-conceitedness and obstinacy, 413 ; their unruliness, no; seamen not good speakers, 192 ; their health improved by cleanliness, 36; school for volunteers, 124 ; method and extent of a seaman’s learning, 417 ; English not as great seamen as is pretended, 69; pay for, 24, 24 n., 64; formerly better contented though with less wages, 134 ; ill usage of, 268; more encouraged in Holland than in England, 134; honour done to seamen, 94 ; their trade should be made honourable and profitable, 405 ; seamen under Edward III, 63, 63 n. ; seamen formerly of the Cinque Ports only, 418 ; incorporation of seamen, 64; defectiveness of regulations for them, no, in ; their representation in Parliament, 136 ; their discouragements, 268 ; projects for the encouragement of ,267; laws in favour of, 161, 166; seamen among State-favourites, 321 ; no pictures of persons of quality in the habit of, 196 ; few celebrated among historians, 266 ; few worthies among, 419, 421 ; Fuller’s lists of, 281 ; want of seamen (1692), 268 ; they contribute to chaplains, 76, 76 n. ; journals of, 279 ; wills of, 319 ; monuments to, 60 ; statutes concerning, 69 ; SELDEN first provision of charity for, 254 ; houses of charity for, 170 ; small provision for, in charities, 124, 192, 391; provision for, by Trinity House, 170, 233, 381, 381 n. ; at Hull, 140 ; no provision for disabled, 164 ; or for old and maimed, 179; in Edward VI’s design for hospitals, 153, 413 ; or in 1588, 262 ; Acts for the relief of, 85, 171, 171 n. ; no provision for, in the Charterhouse, 159,159 n., 179; they are fain to beg, 232, 380; felony to beg, 147, 147 n. ; reckoned among sturdy beggars, 164; as rogues, 300; styled miserabiles personae by the Civil Law, 196 ; styled improbum genus hominum, 212 ; may not play cards out of Christmas time, 164 Seamen, good discipline of the French, 38; are borne in French merchant-ships during peace, 360; small number of Dutch, 37; English seamen in French and Dutch service, 36 Search, right of, 439, 439 n. Secretaries of State, 198, 308, 3*3, 313 nn- ; their ignorance of the sea, 309, 310 Seething Lane. See Navy Office Seignelay, Jean Baptiste Colbert (the younger), Marquis de; his visit to England (1671-2), 51, 361, 361^. Seigneur of Saumarez, 437, 437 **• Seignory of Venice, 434 Seisin of lands, objects used for the, 395, 395 n. Selden, John, 9, 31, 53, 53 n., 94, 285, 294, 305, 310, 384, 385> 398, 441 ; his Mare 2 K 2 NAVAL’MINUTES SELLER Clausum preserved in the public records, 95, 95 n., 322, 322 n. ; criticism of, 326, 336; his strained arguments, 275 Seller, John, hydrographer,nn., 12 n., 21, 23, 42, 188, 224, 238, 239, 348, 370 ; his maps of the coasts, 28 ; his survey of counties, ib. ; of the coast of Kent, ii ; his new undertaking (1679), 223, 223 n., 370 ; his books, 28 n., 106 ; his maps and charts, 12, 19 ; they are but copies of the Dutch, 135, 345 Sergeant, Mr., 434 Seville, 415 Sewers, Commission of, 297 Seymour, [Sir] Edward,Speaker of the House of Commons, 257; his various appointments, 257 n. Shaftesbury, Earl of, 71, 71 n., 225, 225 n., 347, 347 n., 350, 372; takes out a pardon, 197 Shallops, 17 Sheathing, 359. See also Leadsheathing Sheen, 237 n., 238 Sheerness, 160 n. ; fortifications at, 29 Sheldon, Francis, shipwright, 46, 304 n. ; master-shipwright in Sweden, 245, 245 n., 246, 247, 353 Shepheard, John, a spy, in, in n. Sheppey, 402 Sherburne, Sir Edward, Clerk of the Ordnance, 418, 418 n., 421, 422 Shere, [Sir] Henry, military engineer, 104, 104 n. t 153, 172, 203, 204, 206, 210, 224, 247, 354, 418, 418 n. ; his notes on Noah’s Ark, 153 SHIP-MONEY Sheriffs of counties, formerly had charge of the coasts, 94 Shibboleth, 9 Shipbuilding, 76, 240 ; science °f> 395 » the world yet defective in, 126; improvement in the art of, 115, 193, 241-5 ; no great mystery in, 158 ; no secrets in, 245, 246, 358 ; each nation keeps to its own method of, 245; multitudes of considerations in, 201 ; differences in types of ships not accidental, 206; building varies with the uses of the ships, 351 ; the English pre-eminent in strength, beauty, and accommodation, rather than in sailing, 352 ; no certain rule concerning masts and yards, 16 ; ignorance of shipbuilders, 200; interest of Charles II and James II in shipbuilding, 115, 394 ; timber for, 21 ; Dutch book on, 127 ; Pepys’s MSS. concerning, 93; Heemskirke’s foolish proposition, 140, 203, 203 n. ; Sir Christopher Wren’s interest in shipbuilding, 127, 127 n., 150 ; Sir William Petty on, 127 ; Dutch schools of, 183 ; great ships built by the Dutch on the advice of an Englishman, 46; Mr. Gibson’s notes on the French knowledge of, 350-2 ; English shipbuilding inferior to the French, 426; Louis XIV’s ordinances for, 240, 240 n., 353; English builders in foreign service, 246, 247. See also Ships, Shipwrights Ship-money, 73, 173, 177; papers about, 436, 436 n. ; writs of, 173, 173 n. INDEX 501 SHIPS Ships, 49, 75. 83, 87, 87 »., 91 * 2 34> 33*» 382 ; ancient reports of the ships of England, i ; ancient names of ships, 290 ; ships royal, 410 ; ancient prices of a ship royal, 328-9 ; ship built by Hiero, 103; small size of Caesar’s ships, 86 ; the Saxon cnear, 178; Henry VIII’s list of ships, 226, 383 ; Anthony Anthony’s Roll of Ships (1546), 101,193; pictures of ships at Whitehall, 231, 379 ; Holbein’s pictures of, 77» *93 » painters of ships, 365; tenure anciently to find nails for the King’s ships, 171, 184; land given in exchange for a ship, 177 ; ridiculous pageants of ships, 103 ; a ship on wheels at a banquet, 137; a ship in coats of arms, 294 ; medals of ships, 68; a ship as a badge, 70; ships called ‘ floating castles/ 303 ; England’s ‘ wooden walls,’ 394 ; ‘ tall’ ships, 120, 329 ; ships to guard the coasts, 175; to be set forth by maritime counties and ports, 176 ; to be found by Dover, 184; smallness of those of our first discoverers, 107 ; two captains allowed to a ship, 120 ; havens for, 90 ; power to press ships, 71, 74 ; essays on, 120; notes on, 429, 434 ; draughts of, 239, 351; leather case for draughts of, 115; Mr. Dummer’s draughts of, 151 ; model of a ship sold for 55 guineas, 246; shewn at a publichouse, 222, 368 Ships : what is the best ship ? 163; what figure of a SHIPS ship moves best through the water ? 204 ; ships may be built wholly of straight timber, 193; their sailing may be affected by accidental changes, 226, 312, 373; a small thing mars or mends a ship’s quality of sailing, 217 ; excellent sailing of the Harwich, 243, 243 n. ; a ship that sailed ‘ like a haystack/ 113 ; good sailing affected by the position of the masts, 14, 16 ; it is not determined which end of a ship it is that comes about upon staying, 204; war-ships and merchants’ no longer the same, 177 ; improvement in ships, 79; but little till of late years, 191 ; imperfections in build and equipment, 421 ; to be built to match the Dunkirkers, 175; no ships of English invention, 363 ; ships pestered with hencoops, 26 ; enlarging of ships due to the invention of great guns, 425 ; the English overvaluers of their ships, 2; report on the decay of shipping, 121, 121 n. ; ships stopped for want of timber, 385 ; ships rendered plentiful by the Special Commission of 1686, 271 ; disadvantages of this, 271-2 ; miscarriages of ships upon our coasts, 346; ships run aground, 145; sunk to block a channel, 145, 145 n. ; ships destroyed by the French, 68; small vessels employed in foreign trade, 340; foreign ships, 68, 91 ; two Englishmen allowed to each foreign ship, 66 ; reward given for building a ship, 408, 409, 410, 502 NAVAL MINUTES SHIPS 411-12; hired ships, 119, 154 ; ships girdled, 13, 244 ; repair of, 218; steerages formerly schools, now eatingrooms, 251 ; the London wherry, 274; engine for towing ships, 231, 231 «., 379; victualling-ships, 55 n.. 174^; visiting ships, 429; ships fighting in our seas, 430; ships built since 1688, 331 ; Pepys’s report on the measuring of ships (1665), 211. See also Frigates, Galley-frigates, Galleys, Shipbuilding, Shipwrights Ships, information concerning ing Dutch, in, in n. ; their size limited by their ports, 37 ; ships built by the Dutch for France, 234, 240, 242, 383 ; ships building in France and Holland superior to the English, 357 ; good qualities ol French ships, 352 ; English ships better sailers than French, 37; the English in sailing are equalled by the Dutch and French, and outdone by the Turks, 240 ; French ships, 361 ; ships built in France, 235, 383 ; French ships foundered at sea, 363 ; a ship on French coins, 295; ships from Guinea, in ; of Greenland, 207; of India, ib. ; East India Company’s, 79, 105, 105 n., in, 235, 383 ; Indian ships built in imitation of ours, 105-6 ; West Indiamen, in; Spanish, 104 n. ; for Ireland, 180; ships built by James IV of Scotland, 302 Ships, double-bottomed, 106, 231, 379; advantages of, 205 ; disclaimed by Charles II, 203. See also Petty SHIPS Ships, undertaking to set out (1678), 358, 358 n. Ships, the 30 new (1677), 13, 1372., 21, 21 n., So, 80 n., 93, 187, 187 n., 192, 219; debate on, 283 ; Pepys’s speech, 283 n., 358 n.; Act for, 243 ; dimensions enlarged by Charles II, 13, 318, 318 n. ; time set for the building of, 207-8, 208 n. ; are the best ships in the world, 227, 374 ; infinite illhusbandry in the building of, 195; pitching of, neglected, 208 ; rotten in less than five years, 205 ; their deplorable state, 207 n. ; repairs of, 187 Ships, names of, [the ships marked with an asterisk are entered in Pepys’s Register of Ships’] * Ad venture (4th-rate), 340 Alexandria, 103 *Algier (5th-rate), 145, 145^. *Anne(old), (3rd-rate), 160 n. t 351^. *Anne (new), (3rd-rate), 160, 160 n. * Assistance (4th-rate), 447 *Bonadventure (4th-rate), 249 nn., 250 * Britannia (ist-rate), 218, 218 n., 339 * Cambridge (3rd-rate), 241 * Cap tain (3rd-rate), 14 * Charles (ist-rate), 21, 143, 343» 343 n-> 353 *Charles, galley-frigate (4thrate), 240 n., 244 *Charlotte yacht, 150 n. * Cleveland yacht, 239 n. Conqu6rant, 363 *Constant Warwick (4thrate), 15, 15^., 18, iSn. t 200, 223, 223 n. t 351, 369 ^Defiance (3rd-rate), 241 INDEX 503 SHIPS Ships—continued *Defiance (3rd-rate), 339 n. *Dover (4th-rate), 92 n. Eastland Merchant, 104 n. *Edgar (3rd-rate), 14, 200 n. *Essex (3rd-rate), 351 n., 353, 353 n. Exchange, 409, 410, 411 Exchange, 246 n. Experiment, 288, 288 n., 419 *Fairfax (3rd-rate), 46, 46 n., 105 rc., 351, 351 n., 391 n. Falcon, 67, 67 n. Folly, 149, 149 n. * Francis (6th-rate), 440 *French Ruby (3rd-rate), 240, 35i *Fubbs yacht, n6w., 128 n., 160 *Gloucester (3rd-rate), 131 n., 138, 146, 147, 149, 149 n., 150, 206, 314 n. *Grafton (3rd-rate), 214 *Greyhound (6th-rate),239 n. Guardland 235, 235 n., 383 *Hampshire (4th-rate), 14, 14 n. *Happy Return (4th-rate), 15° *Harwich (3rd-rate), 243, 243**- Hector, 351 *Henrietta yacht, 28, 28 n., 152 n. *Henry (2nd-rate), 160, 160 n., 28, 244, 258 n. * Isabella yacht, 116 n., 128 n. *James galley-frigate (4thrate), 240 n. t 244, 244 n. Jesus of Liibeck, 67 *Katherine yacht, 116,150 n. *Lennox (3rd-rate), 294 n. *Leopard (4th-rate), 56, 56 n. *Margaret galley (4th-rate), 242 n. *Mary Rose (4th-rate), 214 *Mary yacht, 9, 241 SHIPS Ships—continued *Mary yacht, 135 n., 150 n. *Merlin yacht, 128 n. *Milford (5th-rate), 200 n. *Monmouth (3rd-rate), 24612. *Monmouth yacht, 128 n. *Naseby (ist-rate), 13. See also Royal Charles *Neptune (2nd-rate), 192, 193, 201 *Newcastle (4th-rate), 2 n., 113 n., 35 1 ^- *Nonsuch (4th-rate), 203, 203 n. *Northumberland (3rd-rate), 200 n. Old Warwick, 223, 223 n., 35i, 369 *Pearl (5th-rate), 16 Pearl, 435 Pelican, 436 n. Phoenix, 447 * Portsmouth (4th-rate), 269 n. * Portsmouth yacht, 344, 344 n. Post, of Amsterdam, 430 n. *Prince (ist-rate), 118, n8w., 390, 390 n. Prince Henry, 430 n. Prince Royal, 13, 126, 126 n. * Prince Royal (ist-rate), 143, 143 n., 346, 346 n., *Reserve (4th-rate), 113 n. *Resolution (3rd-rate), 241 Rose, 114, 114 n. *Royal Charles, (ist-rate), 214, 214 n., 218, 218 n. * Royal Escape, 144 *Royal Katherine (2nd-rate), 244, 244 «. *Royal James (ist-rate), i86n. *Royal James (ist – rate) 386 nn. *Royal Sovereign (ist-rate), 27, 112, 235, 235 n., 252, 383. See also Sovereign Royal William, 286 n. 504 NAVAL MINUTES SHIPS Ships—continued * Rupert (3rd-rate), 35«., 241 Rupert, 247, 247 n. *St. Andrew (2nd-rate), 14, 14 n. *St. David ^th-rate), 323 *St. Michael (ist-rate), 391 n. *St. Patrick (4th-rate), 27, 27*-. 353, 353^- Salamander, 109 *Sandwich (2nd-rate), 252 * Sapphire (4th-rate), 14, i^n. Soderina, 433, 442 Sovereign, 120, 120 n. *Sovereign (ist-rate), 13, 235, 235 n. See also Royal Sovereign Sovereign of the Seas (Spanish), 383 Spanish Eagle, 9, 9 n. ‘ Spiritu Sancto,’ 355 Superbe, 243 *Tiger (4th-rate), 145 n. *Triumph (2nd-rate), 340 n. Unicorn, 109 * Victory (2nd-rate), 96 n. Vineyard, 433 *Warspite (3rd-rate), 241 * Woolwich (4th-rate), 209, 209 n. Shipwreck, 114, 164 Shipwrights, 115; poor payment of, 247 ; they raise no great estates, 163 ; little mathematics among, 226, 373 ; nothing secret in the business of shipwrightry,240; shipwright’s art printed, 351, 351 n. ; shipwrights sent abroad, 46; English shipwrights in foreign service, 304 ; shipwrights from Italy, 219, 366; no provision in our laws for shipwrightry, 396. See also Swedes. Shipwrights, Companies of, 10, 73, 93, 94, 94**-, !53, 321, SMYTH 397, 436, 436 n. t 438 ; the charter of 1605, i, in. ; case of (1663), 320; by-law of, 225, 372, 372 n. ; anciently consulted about the building of ships, 13; Shipwright’s Hall, their erroneous method of measuring ships, 211 Shish, Mr. Jonas, master-shipwright at Deptford, 56 n. t 200, 200 n., 241 ; built for Sir William Petty, 106 Shish, Mr. John, master-shipwright at Deptford, 192 n. t 200 n., 251 Shish, Mr. Thomas, shipbuilder at Woolwich, 200 n. Short allowance, 25, 135 Shorthand, 122 Shovell, Admiral Sir Clowdisley, 390, 390 n. ; grant of arms to, 274, 274 n. ; in joint command of the fleet (1693), 290, 337 n. Sick and wounded, 155, 362 ; provision for, 2, 6 Sidney, Sir Philip, Hakluyt’s letter to, 230, 230 n., 415, 41? Sidon, capture of (1112), 91 Sieubladh, Eric, a Swede in the English service, 32, 32 n. Sieubladh, George, 32, 32 n. Skinners’ Hall, 97, 97 n. Sleidane, John, 167 n. Slyngesbie, Sir Robert, Comptroller of the Navy, his proposal about a Sea-Knighthood, 53 ; his Discourse of the Navy, 137, 137 n. Smith, Captain James, 351, 351 n. Smith, Master Thomas, 159 n. Smith, Sir Thomas, 416, 416 n. Smyrna fleet, loss of the, 72 n., 327 n. Smyth, Sir Jeremy, Comptroller of Victualling, 69, 258, 258 n. INDEX 505 SNACA Snaca, 185, 185 n. Soldiers, great deeds of, 169, 169 n. Solebay. See Southwold Solicitor-General, 399 Solinus, Caius Julius, a grammarian, 294, 294 n. Somner, William, Anglo-Saxon scholar, 301, 301 n., 303 Sorbiere, Samuel de, i n., 172 Sotherne, Mr. James, Clerk of the Acts, and afterwards Secretary of the Admiralty, 118, n8n., 258, 258 n., 264, 322 ; is little qualified, 393 ; resigns (1694), 393, 393^- Sound, the, 89, 246 n., 387, 387 n. Soundings, 188,213 ,’ soundinglead not used by the ancients, 403 South Shields, 199 n. Southampton, 344 ; Italians in, 220, 366 ; Venetian trade at, 313 Southwell, Mr. Edward, Clerk to the Council, 337, 337 n. Southwell, Robert, of Kinsale, in n. Southwell, Sir Robert, the diplomatist, in, in n., 156, 156 n. t 203, 204, 210, 292; communicates to the Royal Society Sir William Petty’s lecture upon water, 275 Southwold Bay, Dutch fleet at, 145 ; action off (1672), 361 n., 386 n., 390 n. Spades, 104 Spain, 196, 212, 320, 418, 448 ; fleet against (1626), 235 ; expectations of an invasion from, 176 ; cheapness of fish in, 197; sea and land measures of, 391 ; tribunal for English causes in, 443 Spain, King of, 383, 424; Attorney-General of, 446 SPANISH Spaniards, 4, 9, 32, 52, 68, 185, 220, 231, 232, 245, 360, 366, 379, 380, 433, 435, 44*, 448 ‘> treaty touching our intercourse with the, 442 ; looseness of their observation of Lent, 197; words relating to the sea borrowed from, 359 Spanish, 107, 172 ; coast, 327, 327 n. ; Court, 429, 440 ; goods stowed in Leadenhall, 159 n. ; ministers, 434; ports, 433, 434 ; service, 35; charts and maps, 95, 229, 378 ; schools of navigation, 4, 415 n. ; standard, 432, 440 ; fleet, 432, 442 ; plate-fleet, 31; ships, 48 tt.; men-of-war, 441 ; frigate, 430 n. ; galliasses, 219, 220, 366; orangevessels, 345 ; wreck (1622), 429; the Spanish build sharper than the English, 352 Spanish Ambassador, 429, 432, 433, 44° Spanish Armada (‘ ’88 ‘), 74, 95, 108, 119, 171, 171 n., 199, 226, 229, 230, 262, 347, 349, 365, 365^-, 373, 376, 378, 379, 392 ; English supineness, 219-20, 365; English fleet unfurnished with powder, 220, 366; the Armada a surprise, 232, 380 ; its defeat imputed to ignorance of our coasts, 347 ; they not more ignorant than we, 376 ; our victory the result of an accident, 298 ; they ruined by imprudent orders, 231, 379; wanted no pilots, 342; their retreat round Scotland, 49; admiral of, 219, 366; maps of, 107; tapestry of, 94, 232, 380, 392, 392 n. 506 NAVAL MINUTES SPECTACLES Spectacles, invention of, 162 Speed, John, the historian, 108, 141 ; his maps, 136, 136 n., 201, 201 n., 305, 305 n. Spelman, Sir Henry, the historian, 59, 59 n., 66, 106, 185, 323, 323 w., 330, 340, 340 n., 385; quotations from the Concilia, 341, 341 n. Sperte, Sir Thomas, 125, 125 n. Spithead, 243 Spragge, Sir Edward, 34, 34 n. t 340, 340 n. ; visits the French dockyards, 361, 361 n. Sprat, Thomas, Bishop of Rochester, i n., 177 n. Spurn Head, light on, 5, 139, 199, 199 n., 202, 202 n. ; Fellowship of the Spurn, 141 Squadron, 112, 243 n. ; flag allowed to commanders of squadrons, 78 Stafford, Sir Thomas, 112 n. Staines, 336, 336 n. Star Chamber, 173 Start, the, 52 State: Officers of the, 268 ; letters of, belonging to Evelyn, 95 States-General of Holland, 436, 441, 444 n., 447, 448. See also Dutch, Holland Steerages, 251 Steerman, 98, 98 n., 99, 184, 402 n. Stewechius, Godeschalcus, 336, 336 n. Stillingfleet, Edward, Dean of St. Paul’s, and afterwards Bishop of Worcester, 301, 301 n. Stirling, 137, 137 n. Stockholm, 447 Stoke Church, near Gosport, 213 Stone, Mr., 438 Stores, 291, 361 ; deficiency of, 187, 192 ; magazines of, SWEDES 359; stores for particular ships not kept strictly apart, 260, 261 ; store-houses allotted to the French at Chatham, 361 ; store-ship, 447 Stores, Comptroller of the, 57, 57 n., 116, 116 n. Storm at sea, description of a, 144, 162, 162 n. ; raised by witches, 209 Stow, John, the antiquary, 124, 125, 125 n., 159, 161, 161 n. t 321, 321 n., 414 Strabo, 308 Straits, the, 27, 35, 36, 37, 90, 104, 113, 113 n., 317 n., 448 ; admiral in the, 78, 78 n. ; Straits trade, 91 Stream-tinners, 324 n. Street, Mr., a candidate for the mathematical mastership at Christ’s Hospital, 148 Strode, Colonel John, Governor of Dover Castle, 155, 249 Strood, 20 Stukeley, Thomas, adventurer, 52, 52 n., 68 Sturdy beggars, 147 »., 164 Sturgeon, 237 Suffolk, 143 Suffolk, Charles Brandon, Duke of, 203 n. Sunderland, Earl of, a Secretary of State, 28, 319, 319 n. Surat, English factory at, 105 Surgeons, Company of, 107 Surnames of naval etymology, 274 Sutton, Thomas, 178, 179 ; his foundation of the Charterhouse, 159, 159 n. ; source of his fortune, 179, 179 n. ; Sutton’s Hospital, 178, 414 Swan, the, 345, 345 n. Sweden, 32, 407 Sweden, King of, 246, 304 Swedes, Swedish, 9, 345 ; piracies of the, 100; Swedish INDEX 507 SWIN fleet, 32 n. ; Swedes in the English service, 356; English commanders in the Swedish service, 32, 32 n. t 353; and shipwrights, 46, 246, 247, 353 Swin, the, 314 n., 345 n. Swords, 447 TACITUS, 161, 287, 317 Talbot, Sir John, of Lacock, 43 Tallies, 74 Tangier, 93 n., 242, 247 ; the mole at, neglected, 104; Lord Dartmouth’s voyage to (1683), 314, 314 n. t 338»., 399 n. ; demolition of the fortifications of (1683), 140 n.; Pepys’s Tangier Diary (1683), 107 n. ; galley for Tangier, 354 Tapestry of the Armada, 94, 232, 380, 392, 392 n. Tapp, John, writer on navigation, 139, 139^. Tar, extracted from sea-coal, 75 Tarpaulins, 119, 315, 426 Taxes, favour the northern and western counties, 405 ; county books for, 165 Taximagolus, 284 Taylor, Captain Silas, storekeeper at Harwich, 290, 290 n. 1 Teague,’ the fox, 390 Temple, Sir William, 23, 24, 24 n., 27, 237, 237 n., 315, 316 »., 432, 440 Tenterden steeple, ridiculous proverb concerning, 145, 145 »., 148 Tenures by sea service, 71 Terschelling, Island of, 343 n. Tetragrammaton, 322, 322 n. Texel, the, 436 Teynham, Lady, and the fishermen of Milton, 445, 445 n. TIDES Thalassarcha, 290 Thames (‘ the River ‘), 17, 21, 59, no, 112, 114, 135, 149, 209, 210, 231, 231 n., 232, 274, 317, 335, 345, 348, 379, 380, 404; Act for the preservation of the (1536), 125, 125 n. ; navigation of the 59 ; tide of the, 183, 422 new channel in the, 5 want of able pilots in the, 23 pilotage in the, 146, 213, 343 ship runs aground in the, 145 ford over the, 308 ; fishing in the, 445 ; Dutch in the, no, 210, 343 ; French in the, 72, 238; Conservatorship of the, 170 Thanksgiving, Prayer of, 300, 303 ; Archbishop Tillotson’s sermon of, 298 Thorns, William John, antiquary, 125 n. Thornton, Mr., the map-maker, 324, 324 n., 391 n., 422 Three Pigeons public-house at Ratcliffe, 222, 368 Throckmorton, Sir Nicholas, the diplomatist, 151 Thucydides, 292 Thynne, Mr., Librarian at St. James’s, 100, 101 n. Thysius, Antony, Professor of Poetry and Eloquence at Leyden, 56, 56 n. Tickets for wages, 24, 24 n., 152, 300, 300 n. ; disquiet in Parliament upon the business of, 148, 148 n. ; enquiry into (1667), 277 n. Tides, 128, 152, 305, 342; theory of the, 406 ; Herne’s hypothesis concerning the, 126; observations of the, ib. ; ignorance of the, 422 ; marks for judging the time of the, 80, 305; tables of, 305, 305 n., 403. See a/soThames 508 NAVAL MINUTES TILBURY Tilbury, fortifications at, 230 n.; wrongly placed, 205 Tillotson, Dr. John, Archbishop of Canterbury, 298, 298 n. Timaeus of Sicily, Greek historian, 284, 284 n. Timber, 21, 56, 140, 205, 234, 237, 281 n., 382 ; scarcity of, 75^-, 234, 382; ships stopped for want of, 385 ; want of, for repairs (1692), 218 ; fir supplies the want of oak, ib. ; no suitable care of, 75, 215 ; suffered to stand about 100 years too long, 193; Act for the preservation of (1668), 75 n., 170 n., 182 ; saving of, 170, ijon. ; elaborate provision for, in France, 396; oak timber, 276 ; this resists the worm better than beech, 250; timber at Deptford, 192. See also Oak, Plank Tin, trade in, 71 ; brought on horseback, 308 Tippetts, Sir John, Surveyor of the Navy, 15 n., 43, 193, 193 n., 223, 258, 258 n., 264, 369, 369 n. Titles of honour, 89 Tobacco, declared to be victual, 43°, 435 Tobias, an Irishman, 34, 35 Tokens, 269, 269 n. Toilet, Mr. George, a Commissioner of the Navy, 397, 397 n., 405, 417 Tonnage and poundage, 87, 172 n., 254 ; Acts for, 307, 307 n., 384, 385 Torbay, 299 Torrington, Earl of. See Herbert Touchet, Mr., 376, 376 n. Toulon, 36, 244, 351, 355 ; an excellent port, 38 ; English men-of-war careened at, 350 TRINITY Tour, Charles St. Etienne, Lord de la, 443, 443 n. Tourville, Comtede, 317, 317 n. t 319, 327 n. Tower, the, 34, 153, 153 n., 203, 219, 296; vessels chase one another as high as the, 346; Tower records, 75, 279 Tower, Constable of the, 182 ; the Lieutenant’s complaint against the Lord Mayor, 432 Towns, privileges of the, 141 Townsend, Mr., of the Wardrobe, 42 Trade, 70, 99, 100, 117, 300, 319; ancient laws concerning, 98 ; ignorance concerning, 98, 192 ; need of a uniform law in matters of, 156 ; learned men’s aversion to, 168; trade to enemy ports, 440 ; foreign trade, 314, 340; trade of London, 161, 317; in Turkey, 443; papers relating to trade, 446; Council of, 50, 50 n. Trade’s Decrease, 424 Trajan’s Pillar, 261 Travel, value of, 356 n. Treasurer of the Navy. See Navy Treasurer, Lord. See Lord Treasurer Treasury, 268 ; Henry VIII’s, 79 ; Lords of the, 187, 384 ; officers of the, 187 Treaties, collection of, 326, 335 ; Treaty Marine, 440 Tree-nails, 353 ; advantage of, over iron fastenings, 363 Trenchard, Sir John, a Secretary of State, 313, 313 n. Trevor, Sir Sackvill, 436, 436 n. Trinity College, Dublin, 166 n. Trinity House, 5, 5 n., 10, 22, 23, 3<>> 38, 4*> 42, 51* 58, 59, 94, 103, 103 n. t 112, 139, 140, 149, 153, 183, 188, 189, INDEX 5°9 TRINITY 199 nn., 202, 202 n., 209, 213, 221, 233, 239, 279, 301, 320, 324, 343, 346, 367, 381, 381 n., 388, 392 n., 409, 409 n., 414, 418,423; charters to, 73, 73 n.; seal of, 137; surveys by, 135; apply for a new survey of the coasts, 221, 367; by-law of, 225; their lights and buoys, 65; houses of charity of, 170; to examine Christ’s Hospital boys.aor, 401 n.; report on the decay of shipping (1602), 121, 121 n.; their regulations for seamen inferior to the Dutch, III; Brethren of, exempt from land-service, 154 ; grown corrupt or useless, 69; their controversy with the Professors of Mathematics, 211 Trinity House, Master of the, 64 n . TrinityHouse, Younger Brother of the, 188, 324 Trinity House of Hull, 139, 140, 141, 165, 171, 418; of Newcastle, 139, 199 n., 434, 442, 443 Trinquelo’s spies, 230, 378, 378 n. Tristan, John, French historian, 98,98 n. Triumphal arches at the Coronation of Charles II, 58, 58 n, Tromp, Admiral, his monument, 2, 94, 94 n. Trophies of an Admiral, 78 Truman, Mr., Clerk of the Trinity House at Hull, 141 Trumbull, Dr., afterwards Sir William, 107, 107 n., 399, 399 n . Tunbridge Wells, a; health resort, 322, 322 n. Tunis, 433, 433 n., 442 Turkey, trade in, 443 ; Turkey fleet, 307, 327, 332, 332 n. ; VENICE losses of the Turkey Company, 332 n. See alsoSmyrna Turks, 9, 204, 225, 240, 245, 372, 433 n.; we cannot outsail them, 200; Turks’ vessel, 16, 17; Turk prize built of the fragments of other ships, 201 ; Turkish privateers, 15 ; pirates, 179 n., 440 Turner, Mr. Serjeant John, 89, 89 n . Tumor, Thomas, 71 n, Turres, 302 Tuscany, Grand Duke of, 242, 242 n., 354 n. Tweed, fishing of the, 55 Twysden, Sir Roger, 248 n. Tyne, pilotage in the, 430, 434, 442 , 443 Tynemouth light, 202, 202 n. Tyrius, 91~ 91 n. Tyrrell, -, a spy, 111 UNIVERSITY, the, 62 VALE, John a, a pilot, 126, 126n. Valentinian (Emperor), 285 Van de Velde, William (the elder), Dutch marine painter, 365, 365 n., 4°7; (the younger), 365, 365 n. Vane, Sir Henry (the elder), Secretary of State, 154, 154 n. Varenius, Bernard, a Dutch physician, 114, 114 n, Vauvre, Monsieur de, 246 Vegetius, Flavius Renatus, 336, 336 n. Vendome, Duke of, 32, 32 n., 361 n. Venice, 429, 430, 442; naval methods at, 109; methods of the pilots of, 221-2,367-8; Venetian ship, 433, 442; galleys, 433; Venetians at NAVAL MINUTES VENUS Southampton, 313; Venetian Ambassador, 154, 154 n.; Seignory of Venice, 434 Venus, 88 Versailles, 198 n. ; yachts for, 9, 239 n. Versoria, gSn., 103, 402, 402 n. Verstegen (Richard Rowlands), 22, 22 n. Vespucci, Amerigo, voyages of, 134, 134*. Vice-Admiral of England, 40, 131, 387 ; Vice-Admiralty of Hants, 438; Dutch viceadmiral, 434 Victualling, 320 ; contract for (1677), 57, 57 n. ; importance of,to seamen,25o; victuallingships, 55 n., 174^.; effects of bad payment of the victuallers, 88 Victualling, Comptroller of the, 57, 116, 116 n. Victuals, better heretofore than now, 134 ; bad in the merchants’ service, 135; only the East Indian Company victuals well, ib. ; shortage of (1665), 65, 65 n. ; victuals staved to clear ships for action, 332 ; seamen dislike herrings, 312 ; unwholesomeness of Irish meat, 134 Villa Franca, a port free for pirates, 154; Governor of, 432, 442 Villiers, Sir Edward, afterwards Earl of Jersey; his lighthouse at Tynemouth, 202, 202 n. Vines, no, no n. Virginia convoy, 292 n. Virtuosi, 282, 288 Visiting ships in Spanish ports, 434 Vlie, Dutch ships burnt in the (1666), 343, 343 n. See also Fly WARWICK Volusenus, 285 Vortigern, 190, 190 n. Vossius, Gerardus Johannes, Dutch classical scholar, 284, 284 n. Vossius, Isaac, Canon of Windsor, 418, 418 n. Voyages, the longest, 7; the longest made by the smallest vessels, 305, 384; books of, 232, 380; most of them written by foreigners, 7 ; Sir JohnNarbrough’s, 391,391 n. Vroom, Hendrick Cornelius; tapestries designed by, 392, 392 n. WAFTAGE, Mr. Secretary Windebank’s letter concerning (1635), 438 Wager, on Charles II’s life (?), 377 Waghenaer, Lucas Janssen, the founder of nautical mapcollections, 12 n., 42, 49, 224, 305, 305^., 324, 370, 377, 418 ; Latin edition of, 40, 40 n. ; Pepys’s account of Ashley’s translation of, 347- 50 ; English translation engraved in Holland, 392 ‘ Waggoners/ 12, 12 n., 19, 136, 238, 239, 319, 342, 345 Wakefield, annals of, 178 Walbank, Mr., 113 Walsingham, Sir Francis, 208 Walsingham, Thomas, a monk of St. Albans, 236, 236 n. Walton, Bryan, 123 n. Wapping, 212, 233, 241, 381 Ward, John, the pirate, 172, 433, 433 n. t 442 Wardrobe, the Great, 78, 234, 382 Wards, Court of, 445 Warwick the Kingmaker, 185 Warwick, Robert Rich, Earl INDEX WATERMEN of, Parliamentary Lord High Admiral, 15, 15 n., 16, 18, 144, 144 n., 223 n. ; draughts of his ship, 220, 366; his leather case, 115 Watermen, 233, 381 ; Company of, 10, 107, 170; their charter, n Watts, Lieutenant James, 340, 34° n. Wear and tear, 218, 218 n., 266 Weever, John, the antiquary, 141, 427, 427 n. Weirs, 164, 164 n. Well-close, 120 Wellwood, Dr. James, physician, 309, 309 n. Welsh, 284, 405; service of the Cinque Ports against the (1282), 158, 158 n. Welwood, William, Professor of Mathematics and Law at St. Andrews, 118, n8n., 137, 138 n. Wentworth, Captain Samuel, 246, 246 n. Werden, Sir John, Secretary to the Duke of York, and afterwards a Commissioner of the Navy, 257, 257 n. West Country, no, non., 159 ; decay of the fishing trade in the, 197 West Indies, 4, 34 n., 47, 70, 213 ; first discoveries in the, 229, 378; trade with the, 91 ; West Indian buccaneers, 148 Westminster, Abbey, 60; Henry VII’s Chapel at, 114; Hall, 388 n., 389 ; Coronation feast in, 157 ; church and school at Westminster, 391 Weymouth, 429, 433 Whale’s new pump, 210 Whale-fishing, papers concerning, 443 Wheelbarrows, 104 Wheeler, Pepys’s landlord, 58 WILLIAMS Wherry, 163 ; peculiar figure of the London wherry, 274 Whetstone, Captain, Cromwell’s nephew, 387, 387 n. Whetstone, Captain, slain by a Frenchman, 435 White Horse, the, against St. Sepulchre’s, 113 White staves as marks of office, 136 Whitehall, 147, 231, 379 Whitesand Bay (near Brest), 141, 141 n., 184 n. Whittington, Richard, Lord Mayor of London, his College, 423, 423 n. Wicker boats, 86 Widows, provision for, 2, 6, 362 Wiggins, —, carpenter of the Sandwich, 252 Wilder, De, Secretary of the Admiralty in Holland, in Wilkins, Dr. John, Bishop of Chester, 177, 177 n. William I (the Conqueror), 12, 96, 100, 177, 299, 337 ; portraiture of, with a full beard, 97 William III, zijn., 253, 259, 260, 327, 448, 448 n. ; his genius bent to land-action only, 394 ; story of his being threatened by a privateer, 334. See also Orange, Prince of William, son of Henry I, drowned on his voyage from France (1120), 158 William II, Prince of Orange, 448, 448 n. William de Wrotham, Archdeacon of Taunton, 233 n., 329 (?) Williams, John, Bishop of Lincoln, and afterwards Archbishop of York, 260, 260 n. 512 NAVAL MINUTES WILLIAMS Williams, Mr., a candidate for the mathematical mastership at Christ’s Hospital, 149 Williamson, Sir Joseph, a Secretary of State, 78, 109, 109 n., 208, 224, 227, 230, 244, 335, 370, 371, 371 n. t 375. 379, 44° Wills of seamen, 319 Willshaw, Captain Francis, 64, 64 n., 244 n. Willshaw, Captain Thomas, 64 «., 244, 244 n. t 354 Wiltshire, 282, 283 Winchelsea, besieged by the French,72,346; lately spoiled as a port, 143 Winchester, dispute of, with London at the Coronation, 190 Winchester, Bishop of, 213 Windebank, Sir Francis, a Secretary of State, 438, 438 n., 439, 441 Winds, Pliny’s account of the, 406 ; card of the, 403 Windsor, 3 Wine, 437; importation of wines and woads, 87, 87 n. Wings of a ship, 332, 332 n. Winter, Mr. Edward, rewarded for building a ship (1592), 409, 410 ; copy of the grant, 411-12 Winterton light, 189, 190 n. Witches raise a storm at sea, 209 Witsen, Nicholas, of Amsterdam, 127, 127 n., 183, 183 n., 3^3, 370 Witt, Cornelius de, inscription to, 180 Witt, John de, 20, 24, 2^nn., 108 Wivenhoe, 200 Wolley, Richard, 399 n. Wolsey, Cardinal, 86 Wolstenholme, Sir John, his WYNTER house purchased for the Navy Office, 274 n. Woman, strange case of a, 309 Wood, Anthony, 275, 275 n. Wood, Captain John, 133 n. ; his polar map, 133 Wood, Dr. Robert, mathematical master at Christ’s Hospital, 136 n., 148 n. t 149 n., 150 Wooden guns, 203 ; ‘ wooden walls/ 394, 394 n. Wool-staple, the, 209 Woolwich, 46, 126 n., 145 n. t 209 n. t 218, 244 n., 421; deficiency of stores at, 192 ; gunnery at, 315 Worcester Cathedral, 290; charter to (964), 302 n. Worm, the, 102, 130, 250 Wotton, Sir Henry, the poet, Ambassador at Venice, 434, 434 n. t 442 Wrecks, 84, 202, 311; the King’s claim to, 82, 82 n., 90 ; wrecks at Folkestone, 429, 433 ; in the Thames, 145 ; on the coasts, 146; wreck of money and silver, 437; Spanish wreck, 429 Wren, Sir Christopher, i n. ; his interest in shipbuilding, 127, 127 n., 150 ; designed Chelsea Hospital, 171 n. Wright, Edward, mathematician and hydrographer, 396, 396 n., 413, 421, 423 Wright, Mr. Edward, of Trinity House (?), 414, 414 n. Wright, Sir Harry, 89 n. Wright, Lady, 89, 89 n. Writing, 102 Wyborne, Captain John, 35, 35**., 36, 150, 354, 354 n- Wyche, Sir Peter, Ambassador at Constantinople, 435, 435 n. Wynter, Sir William, 85 n. INDEX 513 YACHTS YACHTS, 9, 12, 28, 126, 128, 150, 150 n.t 249, 334, 344; origin of, 241 ; first learned from the Dutch, 116; Charles II’s design of a, 116, 116 n. ; a two-masted yacht, 220, 366; their excessive number and little service, 250; ignorance of their officers, 251 ; yachts for Louis XIV, 44 n.t 195 n., 239 n. Yarmouth, 60 n., 135 ; families of admirals at, 184; sends ZOWE herring-pies to the King, 325, 328 York, Duke of. See James Yorkshire, 120, 120 n. Young, Captain (the elder), 26 ZEBULUN, a ship the badge of the tribe of, 70, 70 n. Zouche, Baron, of Harringworth, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, 430, 430 n., 437 Zowe, French fishing upon the, 446, 446 n.