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all the sailes in good state if they had been well employed, as the sailemakerdoeth confesse.

Wee might add the whole sale that was made of cordage, canvas, and otherremaines of the last Tryumph above bridge, for which one man paid£.182 14*. 4 d .

And the havock of deale boards, and of iron worke, and of the old timber ofall shipps, whereof part hath been sold to inferior officers, and others, andmost carryed away by the workemen themselves.

And lastly, of old ketles, potts, pans, shivers of brasse, of good price, andsuch like utensill, sold away likewise to the clerkes, and others.

8th Cause.

Many unnecessary and unfitt charges are cast upon the king: as first, thetransportation of old shipps, which are brought from Chatham to Woolwich, orDeptford, only to bee tome down there, and built new from the keele. Thishath cost the king, in the foure shipps now in dock, not soe little as a thousandmarkes.

Againe, the great building, enlargeing, takeing to rent, and furnishing ofhouses to private uses ; the entertayning of unserviceable men of all trades,boyes and children, and impotent persons ; and above all, the . selling of mostplaces at such rates, that the buyers professe openly they will not pay andworke, and that they cannot live except they must steale.

And lastly, many new (and as we thinke unwarranted) allowance upon thesea bookes : namely, the double or rather treble payment of wages to newerected lieutenants, vice-admirals, and others, who receiveing first 20s. or 10s.per diem in the exchequer, receive againe the same waiges for themselves uponthe shipps charge ; and receiveing 8 or 16 men’s wages in the exchequer fortheir rettinue, receive ljkewise soe many men’s wages from the treaYer of thenavy, and againe, allowance for the victualls of soe many from the surveyors ofvictualls. Wee understand, also, that of late, three principall officers of thenavy have each of them allowance of the wages and victualls for the dead payin every shipp at sea; and that in the Narrow Seas there is an allowancedemanded for a preacher and his man, though no such devotion bee ever usedon board. And wee finde 7 or 8 admiralls, vice-admiralls, and captaines, withextraordinary allowances in one yeare.

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9th Cause.