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The StruseThe Unicorn.

These are thought meet to be sold.

The Christopher. C °

The George. J

The Maidenhead.

The Jelliver Flower.

The Portcull is. I . i , •

,, > I hese are not worth the keeping.

I he Rose Slip. r °

The Double Rose.

The Rose in the Sun.

The Barke of Bulleyn in Ireland, whose state we know not. Item, thetwo gallies and the brigandyne must be yearly repaired, if it is yourLordships pleasures to have them kept.

The alterations which appear to have taken place during the six years which

intervened between the time when the report just given was made, and the pre-ceding account, dated in the first year of the same reign, (inserted page 49,) are

extremely trivial. Nevertheless trivial as they are, they prove the English

navy, in conformity to what has been before observed, and owing to causesalready stated, to have been somewhat in the wain, in respect both to numbersand force. The Murryan, the Blacke Pynnes, the Spanishe Shallope, the Hare,the Cloud in the Sonne, the Harpe, the Ostredge Fether, the Marlyon, theI Ioybarke, and the Hawthorne, appear to have perished through decay ; while,on the other hand, the only additions that can be traced are the Primrose, theSwift, the Moon, and the Seven Stars.

A very evident proof appears in the last return, of a custom then prevalent,which has been already pointed out: it was that of assigning the name of thereigning monarch to the principal ship in the fleet. Thus the Henry Grace a Dieubecame officially converted, almost immediately after the decease of Henry theEighth, into the Edward. This circumstance, were it to pass unnoticed, mightprove, trivial as it is, sufficient to be the parent of a controversy ; or, mightpersuade many, not only that the Henry Grace a Dieu was no longer in exist-

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