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HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE.

The Tiger.

The Willoughby.

The Primrose.

The Antelope.

The Hart.

The Greyhound.

The Swallow.

The Jennet.

The New Bark.

The Falcon.

The Sacre *.

The Phenix.

The Jerfalcon.

The Swift.

The Sun.

The Moon.

The Seven Stars.

The Flower de Luce,The'Peter.

The Matthew.

The John -f*.

The Swepestake.

The Mary Hambrough,The Anngallant,

The Hinde.

The Less Bark,

The Lyon.

The Dragon,

The Grand Mrs.

All these ships and pinnaces are ingood case to serve, so that theyare grounded and calked once ayear to keep them tight.

These ships must be docked, and new>> dubbed, to search their trenaillesand iron work.

These ships are already dry docked,to be new made at their I Lord-ships pleasure,dry docked, not thought worthy of a new making.

* This should be Saker.

+ It is curious that this vessel is in some lists called the Jesus, and in others the Theseus.

A curious historical anecdote is established by the term used above. The lord Clinton wasat that time lord high admiral, an officer to whom the civil management, as well as command of thenavy, was at that time totally confided. Nevertheless it appears, that the whole management of publicaffairs, in every department, was confined entirely to the junto of the privy council, consisting of the earlof Warwick, just before created duke of Northum .erland, the lord marquis Dorset, advanced, at the sametime, to be duke of Suffolk, the earl of Wiltshire, then made marquis of Winchester, and Sir ThomasHerbert, earl of Pembroke, characters too well known to render any farther account necessary.

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