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APPENDIX.

I. LIST OF THE ROYAL NAVY IN 1578,

WITH

THE BURTHEN OF THE SHIPs, and their Number of Men.

[At the death of Elizabeth, the Royal Navy numbered forty-two ships, of seventeen thousand and fifty-five tons, and carrying eight thousand two hundred and fortysix men.]

II. GROWTH OF THE NAVY FROM 1641 TO 1658.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, in 1641, the Royal Navy consisted of forty-two ships, of twenty-two thousand four hundred and eleven tons, namely:—

In the year 1651, the list stood as under :

No.

Guns.

VI. ABSTRACT OF THE ROYAL NAVY IN 1727.