aboard his Highness' ship the Prince, lately new built at Woolwich.
That is to say, in the beakhead for carving the George, 20_l._; the
trailboard, 10_l._; the sideboard, 16_l._; of two boards for the half
rail between the planchers, 9_l._; of 14 brackets for both, 13_l._
6_s._ 8_d._; of two lions for the half rail, 50_s._; of a serpent
for the tacks, 13_s._ 4_d._; of two great mask heads for the two
hawsers, and of two fish heads for steadying the main knee, 30_s._;
for carving the sides without board, viz: of 104 brackets along the
sides without board, 12_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._; of 47 compartments in the
lower strake, 110_s._; of 14 great lion heads for the round ports,
10_l._; of 12 Prince's badges in the middle strake, 12_l._; for
carving 9 compartments in the same strake, 110_s._; of the King's
badges on the sides without board, 22_l._; of one pair of the King's
arms and another of the King's and Queen's together, 15_l._; of four
terms[616] on either side the arms, 75_s._; of four ports, two in
the bow and two in the quarter abaft, with four taffrails, 110_s._;
of 4 scuttles of windows, 4_l._; of 8 trophies in the upper strake,
110_s._; of 14 brackets in the narrow strake and 12 compartments,
55_s._; and of four hansing pieces in the waist, 53_s._ 4_d._; for
carving the two sides in the lower gallery, 20_l._; of 26 brackets,
6_l._; of 12 supporters under the galleries, 6_l._; and of the frieze
round about, 8_l._; for carving of 6 panels with stories on the
middle of the gallery, 18_l._; of 16 arches, 60_s._; of ten great
terms, 10_l._; of 14 little terms, 6_l._ 10_s._; of two great badges
of the Prince's, 8_l._; of four of the Prince's letters, 25_s._; of
ten Dragons for supporters, 100_s._; of two great arches within the
galleries, 13_s._ 4_d._; and of four hansing pieces, 40_s._; for
the carving the two sides on the upper gallery, 15_l._; of the ten
brackets, 40_s._; of eight beasts, 70_s._; of ten taffrails, 25_s._
8_d._; for carving of four great terms in the stern, 6_l._; of three
great arches, 60_s._; of two great lions' heads, 33_s._ 4_d._; of the
rudder head and tiller, 20_s._; of the planks cross the stern, 6_l._
13_s._ 4_d._; of the frieze, 4_l._; of seven brackets, 33_s._ 4_d._;
of two dragons, 40_s._; of seven pendants, 68_s._; of eight terms,
7_l._ 10_s._; of six arches, 25_s._; of the Prince's badges, 4_l._;
of two letters on either side of the badge, 16_s._; of two pieces
of Victory and Fame, 7_l._; of the plank cross the stern in the
upper gallery, 7_l._; of six brackets, 25_s._; of six beasts, 66_s._
8_d._; and of five taffrails, 15_s._; for carving the King's arms
ten foot wide in the upright, 22_l._; and of two pyramids with two
boys sitting on the top showing for Peace or War, 6_l._; for carving
four terms for the doors in the forecastle, 35_s._; of a frieze
round about, 35_s._; of four terms and four cartowes,[617] 55_s._;
and of two hansing pieces, 40_s._; for carving of six terms and
six cantlappers[618] and two arches for the doors in the forecastle
within board, 6_l._; of three orpins,[619] 73_s._ 4_d._; of six
brackets, 15_s._; of four badges of the King's, 60_s._; and of the
bellhouse and knights' heads, 56_s._ 8_d._, for carved work in the
bulkhead abaft, viz. of six terms and six cantlappers, 6_l._; of four
cantlappers and six arches to give light under the half deck, 35_s._;
of seven brackets and six compartments in the narrow frieze, 35_s._;
for carving twelve arches on both the sides of the half deck and of
28 brackets, 7_l._; for carving of six terms for three doors and six
cantlappers with three arches on the quarter deck, 9_l._; of two
terms and two cantlappers, 30_s._; and of two hansing pieces and the
knights' heads, 30_s._; and for carving two orpins and two brackets
on the roundhouse, 20_s._; and of two hansing pieces, 20_s._ In all
441_l._ 4_d._
FOOTNOTES:
[615] Elsewhere spelt 'Planchers' and 'Plansters,' now usually spelt
'Planeshears.' The planks covering the tops of the timbers and
forming a shelf below the gunwale.
[616] Terminal pieces.
[617] Cartouches; modillions or corbels.
[618] _I.e._ cantilevers, or projecting brackets.
[619] Harpins or ribbands.
VI
Petition to the Admiralty
[=S.P. Dom., Chas. I, cxciv. 47=]
NOBLE SIR,--I have nothing to tender you for many favours received
from you but the return of my thanks, and particularly for this
last courtesy about the petition delivered against me which I have,
herein enclosed, returned together with my answer, desiring you to be
pleased it may be both presented and read to the Lords Commissioners,
whose order herein I shall with all humble submission assent unto,
not doubting of your careful favour herein, which I shall study to
requite with my best acknowledgments, beseeching you to be pleased
so far to mediate for me that the plaintiff may not have power from
their lordships to bring disgrace upon me, whereby his Majesty's
service may suffer as well as myself, by giving leave to have me
intercepted when I am to attend the ordinary meeting of the principal
officers of his Majesty's Navy, within the city, where they wait for
advantage. So leaving myself to your care I take leave and rest
At your service,
PHINEAS PETT.
_Chatham, 22nd June, 1631._
I pray, sir, be pleased to return me word by this bearer when his
Majesty is to go to Portsmouth.
(_Endorsed_) To my honoured friend Edward Nicholas, Esquire,
Secretary to the right honourable Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty of England these
Westminster.
47 I.
To the right honourable the lords and other Commissioners of the
Admiralty of England.
The humble answer of Phineas Pett, his Majesty's servant, to the
petition of Lewes Tayte, smith.
I do acknowledge I become debtor[620] to this petitioner for
ironwork delivered to the building of a new ship called the Destiny,
built by me for Sir Walter Ralegh, from whom I could never receive
satisfaction for the said work by 700_l._, which I was forced to
venture with him in his voyage, wherein he failing, and at his return
the ship seized into his Majesty's hands, I suffered the loss of the
whole debt.
I was contented to give this petitioner my bond for payment of his
debt, notwithstanding my great loss, some part whereof was orderly
paid, and the rest I should have easily satisfied had not a greater
loss presently befallen me, through the occasion of building two
small ships for the expedition of Algiers, wherein I sustained (by
the overworks, and charge of the journey wherein I served as Captain
in one of those ships) the loss of above 900_l._, towards which I
could never hitherto recover one penny satisfaction.
By these two great losses suddenly befalling me, almost together, I
was utterly disabled either to satisfy the debts arising from these
businesses, or to raise means to maintain myself and poor family.
Notwithstanding I have out of the little remnants of my poor fortunes
paid above 500_l._ of these debts within the space of 6 years, which
I never so much as drank for, and I do yearly still contribute the
better half of my small means towards the satisfying the rest as
carefully as I can.
I have often entreated this petitioner's patience, as knowing
his abilities better able to forbear than others, interested as
himself in the same business, he having also made more gain by his
commodities than any other. Always tendering satisfaction to him as
I could take of other debts, to the utmost my fortunes would extend
unto, and am very ready and willing yearly to pay unto him such a sum
as your lordships in your honourable considerations of the premises,
and my present fortunes, shall order me to do. Humbly submitting
myself to your Lordships' favourable construction.
PHINEAS PETT.
FOOTNOTE:
[620] MS. 'detter.'
VII
[=Stowe MS. 743 f. 50=]
RIGHT HONOURABLE,--My most humble services presented.
Lest I should be the last in expressing my duty and humblest service,
being so infinitely obliged to your most noble favours, I rather
choose to incur the censure of presumption, than the just imputation
of ingratitude, being hopeful for the first to procure your
honourable pardon, for the last it is beyond the plea of all excuse.
Please your lordship to understand that since your posting from
Tiballs, receiving direction for making ready the Prince, I brought
her into dry dock at Chatham, there thoroughly searched her, and
strengthened her in all suspected places, new made and repaired all
her masts, and launched her again within fourteen days, and have
in all points been so careful to prepare all rooms for state, ease,
convenience, and ornament, as I hope will give your lordship as much
content as can be in any ship contrived.
The cook room is by a powerful command (against my consent) removed
from the old place in hold into the forecastle, in which I was much
overborne, having had the experience of the conveniency thereof, in
my personal service in former transportation.
The Prince is at present in such forwardness as if there be no other
wants she may be at sea in fourteen days, and is now taking in her
beer and other provisions.
All the fleet are in the same readiness, the George and the Antelope
making all possible haste to get to sea, and this is the account of
the business here under my charge, which in all humbleness I held my
duty to present your lordship.
Were it not that I intend to wait upon your lordship in the great
ship, I would have procured his Majesty's leave to have come with Sir
Francis Steward. I hold myself very unhappy to be from attending your
lordship in any sea service.
Thus humbly craving your lordship's honourable construction of this
my presumption, and pardon for my boldness, which I cannot but do in
zeal of my service, praying God to send your lordship increase of
honour, health, happiness, and a prosperous return, in all humbleness
I kiss your lordship's hand and ever remain,
Your lordship's creature,
PHINEAS PETT.
_Chatham, 10th April 1623._
To the Right Hon. Lord Marquis of Buckingham, Lord High Admiral of
England, give these.
VIII
Protest of Trinity House against the Building of the Sovereign
[=S.P. Dom. Chas I. cclxxiii. 25=]
RIGHT HONOURABLE,--Being informed that his Majesty is minded to build
a great ship of these dimensions (namely) 124 foot by the keel, in
breadth 46 and for draught in water 22 foot, these strange and large
dimensions gave us cause to fall into discourse, and in our discourse
fell on these particulars following, namely:
That a ship of this proportion cannot be of use, nor fit for service
in any part of the King's Dominions; and as unfit for remote service:
our reasons--
First, there is no port within this kingdom (the Isle of Wight only)
that can in safety harbour this ship, then it followeth, if she be
not in port then is she in continual danger, exposed to all tempests,
to all storms, that time shall bring. In a desperate estate she rides
in every storm: in peril she must ride, when all the rest of her
companions (his Majesty's ships) enjoys peace, rides quiet and safe
in port: for example, we have the Prince in her voyage to Spain for
his Majesty in foul weather, when all the fleet harboured in the Port
of Plymouth, the Prince she only might not, for she could not, she
too big, her draught too much, the wild sea must be her port; in the
Sound of Plymouth must she ride, her anchors and cables her safety.
If either of them fail, the ship must perish, 4 or 500 men must die,
and the King must lose his Jewel; and this will be the state of this
ship.
That she cannot harbour is her great draught in water, and less in
draught she will not be, but could she be made to draw less water,
yet anchors and cables must hold proportion, and being made, they
will not be manageable, the strength of man cannot wield nor work
them, but could they do it, yet the ship little bettered in point
of safety, for we are doubtful whether cables and anchors can hold
a ship of this bulk in a great storm, for we have more in our seas
to add stress to cables and anchors than the wind and foaming sea.
We have strong tides which strains both cables and anchors equal to
wind and sea, besides the particulars there are many things which
must concur; for if either fail, the rest hold not, for example if
the cables fail, the anchors are of no use, if the anchors fail, then
neither cable nor anchor is serviceable, nay if the ground be not
good then is all the rest to no purpose, so that if either of these
fail all is lost, the ship lost with all her provisions, the men
lost, and it may be some great and noble Peer in her.
Thus far so much as may concern the safety of this ship being built.
Now for the force of this ship; it will not any way hold proportion
with her bulk or burden, for the aim must be for three tier of
ordnance, the lower tier which must carry the greatest ordnance and
be of greatest force must lie of necessity so low that in every gale
of wind the ports must be shut in, or else the ship will be in great
danger, or sink as did the Mary Rose in King Henry the VIII's time at
Portsmouth.
Or if you will lay them at 5 or 5½ foot, then must the third tier lie
at that height as not to be serviceable, nay this third tier will
rather endanger the quality of the ship (as the too high building
hath in some of the king's ships lately built, made them unfit for
any good service). Therefore three tier of ordnance must not be,
neither can the art or wit of man build a ship well conditioned and
fit for service with three tier of ordnance.
But if it be force that his Majesty desireth, then shall he do well
to forbear the building of this ship, and with the same cost or
charge to build two ships of 5 or 600 ton a piece, either ship to
have 40 pieces of good ordnance, and these two ships will be of more
force and for better service and will beat the great ship back and
side.
These particulars, Right Honourable, falling within the compass
of our discourse we held it our duty to his Majesty to impart the
particulars unto you, and with your wisdom to leave them either to
impart them unto the king, or otherwise as it shall seem best unto
your wisdom. And so we rest,
Your honour's ever at command,
T. BEST.
WALTER COKE.
RO. SALMON.
_From Ratcliff,
9th of August 1634._
To the Right Honourable Sir John Coke, principal Secretary to His
Majesty.
[_Note._--This protest should be compared with the memorandum,
attributed to Ralegh, in which Prince Henry is advised against
the building of the Prince Royal. See E. Edwards, _Life of Sir
Walter Ralegh_, Vol. II, p. 330.]
IX
Ships Built or Rebuilt by Phineas Pett.
[TABLE: PART 1 of 2]
+-------------------------+---------+------+-------+---------+---------+
| | | | Length| | |
| Ship. | Year. | Tons.| of | Breadth.| Depth. |
| | | | Keel. | | |
+-------------------------+---------+------+-------+---------+---------+
| | | | Ft. | Ft. Ins.| Ft. Ins.|
| | | | | | |
|R _Moon_ | 1602 | 74 | 50 | 17 0 | 7 0 |
|R _Answer_ | 1603-4 | 274 | 65 | 26 0 | 13 0 |
| _Disdain_ | 1604 | .. | 25 | 12 0 | .. |
| _Resistance_ | 1604 | 140 | .. | .. | .. |
|R _Ark (Anne) Royal_ | 1607-8 | 828 | 107 | 37 10 | 15 4 |
| _Prince Royal_ | 1608-10 | 1187 | 115 | 43 0 | 18 0 |
| _Phœnix_ | 1612-13 | 250 | 72 | 24 0 | 11 0 |
|R _Merhonour_ | 1613-14 | 946 | 112 | 38 7 | 16 5 |
|R _Defiance_ | 1613-14 | 700 | 97 | 37 0 | 15 0 |
| _Pinnace_ | 1616 | .. | 40 | .. | .. |
| _Destiny (Convertive)_ | 1616 | 621 | 96 | 32 4 | 15 0 |
| _Mercury_ | 1620 | 300 | .. | .. | .. |
| _Spy_ | 1620 | 200 | .. | .. | .. |
| _Henrietta_ | 1627 | 68 | 52 | 15 0 | 6 6 |
| _Maria_ | 1627 | 68 | 52 | 15 0 | 6 6 |
| _Charles_ | 1632-3 | 810 | 105 | 33 7 | 16 3 |
| _Greyhound_ | 1636 | 126 | 60 | 20 3 | 7 8 |
| _Roebuck_ | 1636 | 90 | 57 | 18 1 | 6 8 |
| _Sovereign of the Seas_| 1635-7 | 1522 | 127 | 46 6 | 19 4 |
+-------------------------+---------+------+-------+---------+---------+
[TABLE: PART 2 of 2]
+-------------------------+---------+-----+----------------------------+
| | | No. | |
| Ship. | Year. | of | Remarks. |
| | |Guns.| |
+-------------------------+---------+-----+----------------------------+
| | | | |
| | | | |
|R _Moon_ | 1602 | 13 | |
|R _Answer_ | 1603-4 | 19 | |
| _Disdain_ | 1604 | .. | |
| _Resistance_ | 1604 | .. | Merchant. |
|R _Ark (Anne) Royal_ | 1607-8 | 44 | |
| _Prince Royal_ | 1608-10 | 55 | Rebuilt by Peter Pett |
| | | | in 1641. |
| _Phœnix_ | 1612-13 | 20 | |
|R _Merhonour_ | 1613-14 | 40 | |
|R _Defiance_ | 1613-14 | 40 | |
| _Pinnace_ | 1616 | .. | For Lord Zouch. |
| _Destiny (Convertive)_ | 1616 | 34 | |
| _Mercury_ | 1620 | ..}| For the Merchant Committee |
| _Spy_ | 1620 | ..}| of the Algiers Expedition.|
| _Henrietta_ | 1627 | 6 | |
| _Maria_ | 1627 | 6 | |
| _Charles_ | 1632-3 | 44 | With Peter Pett. |
| _Greyhound_ | 1636 | 12 | " " |
| _Roebuck_ | 1636 | 10 | " " |
| _Sovereign of the Seas_| 1635-7 | 102 | " " |
+-------------------------+---------+-----+----------------------------+
R = Rebuilt.
X
The Arms of Pett
The arms granted to Peter Pett in 1583 were:--
Or, on a fesse gules between three roundels sable, a lion passant of
the field.
[Illustration: (coat of arms)]
And for a crest: Out of a ducal coronet, or, a demi-pelican wings
expanded argent.
Several impressions of Phineas Pett's seal displaying these arms,
without the crest, are preserved on his letters in the State Papers.
INDEX
Abington, Mr., 23
Adams, Mr., 2
Adams, William, 56 _n._, 57 _n._
Addey, John, master shipwright, xxiii, 11, 173, 174, 178
Admiral, Lord High, xxvii, xxxv-xxxvii, 205
Admiralty, Committee of, xxxvii, xxxix
-- Court of, xxxvi
-- judge of, xxxv, xxxix, lxxxix, 205
-- Lords Commissioners, xxxv, lxxxvi, xcix, 155, 211
-- officers of, 205
Adye. _See_ Addey
Alabaster, Mr., lix
Alexander, Mr., 23, 97, 98
Algiers, expedition against, lxxxiii, 122, 124, 139, 211
Alice Holt, 30
Allison, Sir William, 161
Andrews, Lawrence, 57
Anne of Denmark (Queen), visit to ships at Chatham, 29;
launch of _Prince Royal_, 80-81;
mentioned, 76
Antwerp, 72
Apsley, Sir Allen, victualler of the navy, 104
Apslyn, John, 178, 183
Apslyn, Nathaniel, assistant master shipwright, 150
Arches, Court of, 14
Arundel, Earl of, 89
Austen, Thomas, master attendant, 166
a Vale, John, boatswain, lvii, 19, 86
Aylesbury, Thomas, xlii, xc;
secretary to Nottingham, 104;
surveyor of navy, 150 _n._
Bacon, Sir Francis, lxi _n._, 103
Bagwell, Mr., 159
Baker, James, xx, xxi, xxii
Baker, Mathew, master shipwright, grants to, xxii, xxiii, xxiv;
emoluments, xxviii;
master of Shipwrights Company, xxx;
instruction given to Phineas, liii;
letter of Phineas to, liii;
Phineas' opinion of, lv;
his opinion of Phineas, lxvii;
report on _Prince Royal_, lxxv;
MS. on shipbuilding, lxxix, lxxxi;
Phineas attempts to serve him, 3;
rebuilds _Triumph_, 6;
employs Phineas, 6;
builds _Repulse_, 6;
employs Phineas and assists his studies, 7;
malicious envy of, 11;
reversion of post to Phineas, 23;
envious enemy, 24;
_Golden Lion_ and _Swiftsure_ at Deptford, 29;
commission of inquiry, 33;
combines against Phineas, 38, 43;
evidence before inquiry, 44;
inquiry before James at Woolwich, 48, 55, 60;
censured by James, 63;
appointed to survey materials for _Prince Royal_, 68;
rebuilds _Red Lion_, 68;
Waymouth relates intrigue, 74;
rebuilding _Merhonour_, 112;
sickness and death, 112;
mentioned, 173, 174, 178, 183, 207
Barbary, voyage to, 5
Barker, Mr. 15, 20
Barking Creek, 150
Barwick, Mr., cousin, 151
Beake, Robert, 207
Beaulieu, 126
Bend, midship, 59 _n._
Bent, 128
Bertie, Robert. _See_ Lindsey
Best, T., 216
Bingley, Sir Richard, surveyor of the navy, 92;
survey at Chatham, 92-3
Birchington, 85
Bishop Ness, 152
Blackheath, 83
Blacktail Sand, 158
Blackwall, 21, 34, 93, 163
Blankenberghe Sconce, 109
Bludder, Sir Thomas, victualler to the navy, before Commission of
Inquiry, 34;
inquiry at Greenwich into abuses, 69
Blyth, Prior of, xvi
Boate, Edward, master shipwright, lxxx, 154
Bodman, Thomas, asst. master shipwright, 17
Bonanza, 26
Bond, William, xvii
Borough, William, comptroller of navy, xxiii _n._;
house at Limehouse, 9
Bostock, Mr., 153
Boulogne, 135
Bourne, Robert, 124, 183
Bowles, Charles, 151, 161
Bradshaw, Captain Robert, 106
Brakes, The, 133
Brancepeth Park, xcviii, 160
Bridlington, 159
Briggs, Henry, inquiry at Woolwich, lxxxii, 59 and _n._
Bright, --, senr., shipwright, lxx
Bright, Wm., master shipwright, succeeds to Chapman, xxiv;
emoluments, xxviii;
his opinion of Phineas, lxix;
report on _Prince Royal_, lxxv;
envy of, 11, 24;
the Commission of Inquiry, 33;
combines against Phineas, 38, 43;
evidence before inquiry, 45;
inquiry before James at Woolwich, 48, 55, 60;
censured by James, 63;
Waymouth relates intrigue, 74;
mentioned, liv _n._, 178, 183
Bristol, 178, 205
Bromadge, Robert, 57
Brooke, Francis, clerk of stores at Portsmouth, 144
Brooke, John, clerk of check at Portsmouth, 144
Brooke, Lord. _See_ Greville, Sir Fulke
Brooke, Wm., 78
Brunning, Thomas, 124
Brunswick, Duke of, visits Chatham, 134
Brygandin, Robert, xvii
Buck, Sir Peter, clerk of the check at Chatham, 3;
clerk of the ships, 3 _n._, 55 _n._;
knighted, 3 _n._;
mentioned, 15;
the commission of inquiry, 33
Buck, Thomas, the Commission of Inquiry, 33;
inquiry before James at Woolwich, 55
Buckingham, Duke of, Lord High Admiral, visit to Chatham, 120;
obtains blank patent of baronetcy for Phineas, 121;
journey to Spain, lxxxviii, 125;
lands in Scilly Islands, 131;
release of Phineas from prison, 139;
mentioned, 133, 138, 139;
murder, 140;
letter to, 212
Buckwell, 151
Bull, Richard, shipwright, xxi, xxii, xxiii
Bull, Wm., master gunner of England, fires salute at Woolwich, 35, 36
Burgess, Mr., master of _Resistance_, 26
Burghley, Lord, lord treasurer, model for, 7;
house at Theobalds, 8
Burrell, Andrewes, 124, 145
Burrell, Wm., master shipwright, emoluments, xxviii;
principal master workman of East India Co., 39;
the inquiry at Woolwich, lxxxi, 56 _n._, 57;
ships built for East India Co., 75;
proposal to build ship in Ireland, 95;
Commissioner of Inquiry (1618), lxxxiii, cii, 119;
enemy of Phineas, 119, 120;
builds _Happy Entrance_ and _Reformation_, 121;
Algiers committee, 122;
malice of, 124, 137;
made assistant to the principal officers, 143;
repair of ships, 144;
Portsmouth Harbour, 145;
mentioned, 55 _n._, 136, 183;
death, 145
Bursledon, xlvi
Bury, 12, 161
Button, Captain Sir Thomas, cii;
the Commission of Inquiry, 34, 67;
inquiry into abuses at Greenwich, 69;
ship for N.W. Passage, 95;
return to England, 112;
captain of _Antelope_, 133;
mentioned, 37, 97, 135
Button, Mrs., 37, 67
Bygatt, Wm., 55
Byland, Mildred, married to Phineas, 168 _n._;
presented to Charles, 168;
death, 171
Cadzand, 111
Cæsar, Sir Julius, lxi _n._
Cales (Cadiz), lxi, 26
Calshot Castle, 127
Cambridge, Emmanuel College, 2, 161;
The Falcon, 161;
Trinity College, 161;
mentioned, lii, 59
Camphire, 110
Campion, Sir William, 151
Canewdon, 2
Cant, The, 94
Canterbury, 170
-- Archbishop of, 101;
visits _Prince_, 115
Carlisle, Earl of, 127
Carpenter, master, xvi, xix
Carr, Leonard, 159
Carr, Sir Robert, 132
Cassant Point, 111
Cateroll, Thomas, 57
Caulker, xix
Cecil, Sir Robert. _See_ Salisbury
Cecil, William. _See_ Burghley
Chadwick, Charles, 2
Chaloner, Sir Thomas, lxxxii, 59, 89
Chamber, 35
Chandler, Edward, 124
Channel (English), 109
Channel (Queen's), 108
Chapman, Richard, master shipwright at Deptford, grant to, xxiv;
Phineas bound apprentice to him, liii, 3;
death, xxiv, 3
Charing Cross, 114, 138
Charles I, Duke of York, 76, 81;
Prince of Wales, visits Woolwich, 114;
journey to Spain, lxxxviii, 125;
at Santander, 128-30;
rescue by _Defiance_, 129;
endeavours to make peace between Dunkirk and Holland men-of-war, 130;
lands in Scilly Islands, 131;
lands at Portsmouth, 132;
gives Phineas gold chain, 132;
attends Parliament, 133;
proclaimed King at Chatham, 134;
visits Rochester, 134;
visits _Prince Royal_ at Dover, 135;
plans of ships, 136;
release of Phineas from prison, 139, 141;
gives Phineas blank patent for baronetcy, civ, 139;
creates Phineas an assistant principal officer, 143 and _n._;
principal officer, 145;
launch of _Vanguard_, 146;
visit to ships at Portsmouth, 148;
visit to _Charles_, 150;
brown paper stuff, 153;
launch of _Unicorn_ and _James_, 154;
suspends Phineas and others, xc, 155;
favour to Phineas, 155;
visit to _Leopard_, acquaints Phineas of intention to build
_Sovereign of the Seas_, xci, 156-7;
renews privy seal for Phineas, 157;
visits to Woolwich, 162-63;
salvage of _Anne Royal_, 163;
attempted launch of _Sovereign_, 165;
directs Mansell to name her _Sovereign of the Seas_, 166;
visits ship, 167;
orders ship from Chatham to Woolwich, 168;
visits her at Gravesend and expresses satisfaction, 168;
Phineas and Peter visit, 171
Charles Lewis (afterwards Elector Palatine), 162, 163
Charles, Prince (afterwards Charles II), model for, 156