HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE.

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laid ropes, and 20 tons more, and whatsoever further quantity of moareings, oroid cordage, is brought into the storehouse, or from the shipps, paying for thesame to his Ma'” use, (as is said) after the rate of j [.8 ioj. y c ton, for moare-ings, and £.y for sea junckes. By the second contract, some of the sameboateswaines receive all old cordage whatsoever that is judged to bee hrownepaper stuff, (as they call it) paying for the same after the rate of £.3 ioj. perton. By the third, the ma' caulker receiveth vearely 28 tons of moareings, toserve all y e shipps with okam, and paid the first yeare £.70, the second .£.75,and the third £. 100. Besides these contracts, wee finde particuler sale madeto others, as at Chatham, of the whole rigging of the Merhonour to y* boates-waine of her, and at Deptford, of 12 cables in launching tackles into the clerke ;soe by all these meanes y e storehouses are emptyed, and whole shipps riggingare swept away. The accompt of all these doe not ballance the issues, for theboateswaines acknowledge y* receipt of no more in three yeares of their con-tract than 174'. 3'. 3’. 6 lb . for which they have paid in money but £.676,and the master caulker but 85*. 2 C . 13C 26 lb .

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And that soe much is sold for unserviceable stuffe may not seeme strainge,whilst the shipps are surveyed only by a clerke, a master, or his deputy, andthe boateswaine of the shipp, whereof y c boateswaine and deputy are contractorsfor that whereof they are disposers, and the clerke is neither sworne nor ac-comptable to the king, soe as sometimes stick not to passe away for unservice-able that which is noated to bee serviceable upon their owne bookes.

Like waste hath been made of sailes and saile canvas, for though upon surveywee finde wanting 182 sailes of all sortes in these few shipps that are service-able, which can hardly be supplyed (if all bee made new) with £.2000 charge.Yet in the time of their decay, there hath been bought at least 2000 bolts ofcanvas, which have cost his Ma ,y neare £.3000, and might have mayntained

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