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3. The navy, as now it is decayed, may in five yeares bee raised to this per-fect establishment, and in that short time of restoareing, not cost his Ma tr soemuch as was spent in the time of decaying, and afterwards bee maintayned inharbour, and at sea, with a farr lesse charge.

Thus much for the Number.-2. The Place.

The place fittest for building new shipps, as wee thinke, is Deptford, wherethe yards, docks, and workemen [are] neare at hand ; and two good shippsmay bee built at once, and all inconveniencies avoyded that usually grow bydistractions of workes.

3. The Manner of building.

The next consideration is the manner of building, which in shipps of warp isof greatest importance, because therein consists both their sayling and force.The shipps that can saile best can take or leave, (as they say) and use alladvantages the winds and seas does afford ; and their mould, in the judgementof men of best skill, both dead and alive, should have the length treble to thebreadth, and breadth in like proportion answerable to the depth, but not to drawabove 16 foote water, because deeper shipps are seldom goode saylers, and everunsafe for our rivers, and for the shallow harbours, and all coasts of ours, orother seas. Besides, they must bee somewhat snugg built, without doublegallarys, and too lofty upper workes, which overcharge many shipps, and makethem coome faire, but not worke well at sea.

And for the strengthening the shipps, wee subscribe to the manner of buildingapproved by the late worthy prince, the lord adm 11 , and the officers of the navy,(as wee are informed) in those points.

1. In makeing 3 orlopes, whereof the lowest being placed 2 foote underwater, both strengtheneth the shipps, and though her sides bee shott through,keepeth it from bildgeing by shott, and giveth easier meanes to finde and stoppthe leakes.

2. In carrying their orlopes whole floored throughout from end to end,without fall or cutting off by y* wast, which only to make faire cabbins, hathdecayed many shipps.

3. In