HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE.

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To the master attendants

shipwrightsstorekeepers -clerks of the checque

Deptford, Woolwich,

Chatham, Sheerness,

Portsmouth, Plymouth,

survey

Two hundred I One hundred and fiftyPounds per ann. j Pounds per ann.

Master assistants ^ One hundred pounds^ Eighty pounds

J ditto.

caulkers $

ditto.

Boatswain of the yards A Eighty pounds do.Clk. of the rope yards f One hundred pounds

Twenty-five pounds

Master rope makerPorters

Do.

Thirty pounds, v. Twenty-five pounds

£. s. d030030030026026

To the Mast-maker

Boat-builder

Sail-makers

Joiners

House-carpenters -Bricklayers or masonsForemen of the shipwrightsQuartermenForemen riggersLabourers

per diem in each yard.

o 2

03°

026

020

016

o 1 6j

Purveyor at Chatham, Portsmouth, and Plymouth, 50I. per annum,beside travelling charges. Surgeon at each yard 40I. per ann.Do. extra at Chatham 30I. per ann. Do. ordinary 2d. perann.

1695. Lords of the^To make an allowance of 20s. a day table money to

Jan. 22. Admiralty. 3 admiral Russel, lord Berkeley, and Sir Cloudesly

Shovel, over and above the establishment for double

pay.

Directed by his Majesty in council the ls)th of December last: it firstarose from a petition of the respective officers, setting forth their encrease ofbusiness, and the smallness of the salary, as also that the perquisites, for-merly enjoyed by them, were taken away in the year 167 -t, but promisedto be restored ; and the navy board, taking this into consideration, by ourorder, reported, that it being of importance to the nation to encourage men-