He was to have 3000 men harnessed for the war, over and above 700 soldiers, mariners, and gunners, that should be in the king's ship called the Regent. Of which 18 were to be captains, 1750 soldiers, 1233 mariners and gunners. The admiral, for the maintaining of himself, and his diets, wages, and rewards, daily, during the voyage, 10 shillings. The captains 18d. except they be of the number of the king's spears, which shall be contented with their ordinary wages. Soldiers, mariners, and gunners, 5 shillings per month for wages, and 5s. for vitayles without any thing else demanding for either, saving that they should have certain dead shares. The admiral should receive three months pay for all in advance and at the same time 4s. for the coote of every captain and soldier and 1s. 8d. for the coote of every mariner and gunner. The fleet was to be of 18 ships. The Regent of 1000 tons, for which the admiral was to have 50 dead shares, and four pilots. Sabyen 120 Nicholas of Hampton 200 Christopher Davy 160 And two crayers for revictualling and refreshing them. Every man to have 6d. a day conduyt money for the journey from his house to the port, accounting twelve miles a day's journey. The king, forasmuch as he had victualled the said army and navy at his cost, to have one half of all manner of gains and winnings of the war, all prisoners being chieftains or having the king's adversaries power, and one ship royal being of the portage of 200 tons or above, with the ordinance and apparel 22 22 - 22 22 22 of every such prize, and all artillery that may be taken in any ship.-Rymer, xiii. 326-329. Dudley, p. 226. When the earl of Warwick, in 1549, was made great admiral of England, Ireland, Wales, Calais, Boulogne and the Marches, Normandy, Gascony, and Aquitaine, with all the "jurisdictiones, auctoritates, libertates, officia, feoda, proficua, vadia, emolumenta, wrecca maris, et maris ejectum, regarda, advantagia, commoditates, et præeminentias," belonging to the office, he was to have the goods and chattels of all traitors, pirates, homicides and felons, offending within his jurisdiction, and the goods debts, and chattels of all who aided and abetted them; as also "quorumcumque fugitivorum convictorum, attinctorum, dampnatorum, utlagatorum." Necnon et bona waviata, flotezon, jetson, lagon, shares; Thesaurum inventum seu inveniendum, deodanda, ac bona inimicorum pro derelictis habita sive habenda, seu casu fortuito reperta aut reperienda, vel qualitercumque debita seu debenda, and all "casualia" between high and low water mark, and in all creeks, rivers, and ports. Moreover anchoragia, beaconagia, et lastagia, and all royal fish, viz. sturgiones, balenas, cetas, porpetos, delphinos, regges, graspes, et generaliter cæteros pisces quoscumque magnam sive ingentam crassitudinem sive pinguedinem in se habentes, such by ancient right and customs belonging to the high admiral. Moreover all fines, recognizances, &c. for things within his jurisdiction; a salary of 200 marks, and full power of hearing and deciding all causes, civil or criminal, within his cognizance, and all disputes between merchants and ship-owners; and of proceeding against regraters and forestallers, and of preserving the rivers, and ports, and fish, punishing those who used unlawful nets or other unlawful means in fishing. - Rymer, xv. 194-200. Calais, p. 257. Of what importance this place was deemed, may be seen by the opening of that very curious poem, "The Libel of English The true process of English policie Of our Englond, (that no man may denie Is this; that who seeth South, North, East and West, For Sigismund the great emperour, (Which yet reigneth) when he was in this lond, And to the king thus he said: My brother, For if this sea be kept, in times of werre Hakluyt, i. 187. Spanish Armada. The reader may be amused at seeing in what manner an Italian Jesuit of the eighteenth century has represented the failure of this expedition. P. Nicolo Partenio Giannettasio makes no mention whatever of the English fleet ! Numerosa Tagi spatioso e flumine classis NOTES. Infecti, factique: virûm tot millia tanto Et meritò Batavi, jamque ultima fata timebant : At reliquos supra dira Elizabetha timebat; 379 Monstrum horrendum, eadem vir, fœmina, nobile scortum, Et virgo, et conjux : divina, humana sacerdos, Et regina, suis vertique regique volebat Sub manibus: Stygiis merito damnata Chymæra. Ne contrà obstiterint. Neque enim tunc Anglia digna Ceu plebem ignavam, nullo certamine, et armis Depositis, ventis prædam et turgentibus undis. Glaucusque, Phorcusque, et nudus membra Palemon Naumachica, 1. ii. p. 34. END OF THE SECOND VOLUME. LONDON: Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE, |