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HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE.

To supply all these defects, if his Ma' 7 hath ready in the woods farr greaterproportion of all sortes, and if there hath been duely paid £.500 per annum forthe land carriage thereof, and if the officers have had sufficient moneys in everyone of their hands to defray all other charge, it may bee reasonably demanded ofthem by your Honours, why his Ma 7 * service is brought to these extremittys,and doubted whether it can possibly bee sett forward in due time by theirmeanes. Neverthelesse, wee presume, though they faile in this case, that theoffer made by Mr. Burrell, (to these particulers by the masters provisions tillhis Ma' 7 may bee had) will both prevent mischiefe, and give his Ma' 7 goodsatisfaction in the second thing required for these two shipps.

The third Direction from his Ma' 7 is, that order bee given soe to dispose theneedfull provisions of timber and plancke, that they may bee ready the nextspring, and that noe time bee therein lost to the disadvantage of his Ma 1 ' 1 ser-vice, whereunto noe stock of money is required by those that propound thiscourse of settling the affaires of the navy.

Mem .—Letters to be ivritt to the Last India Company.

For the due performance hereof, wee have informed ourselves, that the twoshipps to bee built the next yeare, one of 650, and the other of 450 tonns,will require as followeth :-

Loades.

Crooked timber to bee moulded in the woods - 600

Streight timber unmoulded - 700

Planck of all sortes - 360

Knees - - - - - -140

Spruce deales to bee seasoned - 300

Tree-nailes of all sortes - - 80,000

To furnish this, and a greater proportion, wee finde that his Ma' 7 hath of hisowne timber ready falne, and a great part squared and neglected :

In Burne wood, in Buckinghamshire

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1400

In East Beare, in Hampshire

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1600

In New Forrest, of White’s bargaine

In Beechen planke, of the same

In East Beare, of Wilkes provision

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Tons

5

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1600

400

400

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