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in height, from the bottome of her keele to the top of her lanthornfe, 76 foote.She beareth five lanthornes, the biggest of which will hold ten persons to standupright, and without shouldring or pressing one the other.

She hath three flush deckes and a forecastle, an halfe decke, a quarter decke,and a round house. Her lower tyre hath thirty ports, which are to be furnishedwith demi-cannon and whole cannon throughout, being able to beare them.Her middle tyre hath also thirty ports for demi-culverin, and whole culverin.Her third tyre hath twentie-sixe ports for other ordnance. Her forecastle hathtwelve ports, and her halfe decke hath fourteene ports. She hath thirteene orfoureteene ports more within board for murdering-peeces, besides a great manyloope-holes out of the cabins for musket-shot. She carrieth moreover tenpeices of chase ordnance in her right forward, and ten right afF, that is, accordingto land service, in the front and the reare. She carrieth eleaven anchors, oneof them weighing foure thousand foure hundred, &c. and according to theseare her cables, mastes, sayles, cordage, which, considered together, seein°-Majesty is at this infinite charge, both for the honour of this nation, and thesecurity of his kingdome, it should bee a great spur and encouragement to allhis faithful and loving subjects to bee liberall and willing contributaries towardsthe ship money.

I come now to give you a particular denomination of the prime workemenimployed in this inimitable fabricke: as first, captayne Phineas Pett, overseer ofthe worke, and one of the principal officers of his^ Majesties navy, whose an-cestors, as father, grandfather, and great grandfather, for the space of two hun-dred yeares and upwards, have continued in the same name officers and archi-tectures in the royall navy, of whose knowledge, experience, and judgement, Icannot render a merited character.

The maister builder is young Mr. Peter Pett, the most ingenious sonne of somuch improved a father, who, before he was full five and twenty yeares of age,made the model, and since hath perfected the worke which hath won not onlythe approbation but admiration of all men, of whom I may truely say as Horacedid of Argus, that famous ship-master, who built the great Argo, in which theGrecian princesse rowed through the Hellespont, to fetch the golden fleece fromColchos :

-Ad charum tritonia devolat Argum

Moliri hanc puppim iubet.'

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