HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE.

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as pitch, tar, rosin, tallow, ropes ; with other divers necessaries for the same^as wages and victuals of carpenters, calkers, and sawyers ; with other diversartificers upon the same ships working; and wages of ship-keepers; as itappeareth by the parcels following :-

The Christ of Greenwich, into Levant.

Hereafter ensueth the costs done and made on the King’s ship called theChrist, which is delivered to Hugh Clopton and John Alen, mercers of London,the 28 th. day of September, in the sixth year of the reign of our Sovereign LordKing Henry the VUIth. for one voyage to be made by them with her intoLevant, as it appeareth by parcels following *.-

First, Paid by the hands of John Hopton, for 3c. of tallow,at 7s. 8d. the hundred, 23s. Paid for 8 stone of okam,at 4d. the stone, 2s. 8d. for 10 stone of okam, at 6d. thestone, 5s. for a dozen and half of shovels, 6s. and to twolabourers, that laboured in casting of ballast into the birthbv two days, finding themselves, 2s. and to Philip Cosyns,in Lime-street, for 6c. foot of quarter boards, at 2s. 8d,thee. 16s. for six pounds of ------ 3s. for one c.

of rozin, 4s. and for three sheep-skins, and six pounds ofthrums, to make mops, 2s. and for 8c. of sixpenny nails,

4s. for oil to the calkers, 4d. and for 4c. of fivepennynails, is. 8d. for 6c. of threepenny nails, i8d. for 4c. oftwopenny nails, 8d. for the purser, by cost in setting ofthe same stuff, at divers times, 4s. and for making of thehearth in the kitchen, 6s. 8d. so to them paid amountethin the whole to - - - - - 4 zr. 6 d.

Paid also to Robert Smith, of Ratcliff, for 3 qrs. of spikes,at 2s. the hundred, is. 6d. for 12c. of fourpenny nails, toan ironmonger in Fish-street, 4s. for 8c. of twopennynails, is. 4d. which nails and spikes were occupied inmaking of the well and deling of the biscuit-room,amounting to - ... £.6 ior.

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