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EL 7002 f.11r Annotate
First transcribed 28 February 2018  +
First transcriber Celine Romano  +
Folio 11  +
Language English,  +
Materials Ironwork; Sails and Sail Canvases; Utensils; Cordage  +
Parent volume EL 7002  +
Places Chatham; Woolwich; Debtford  +
Ships Triumph  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uplaoded image; transcribed 28/02/2018  +
Transcription And that somuch is sould for unserviceableAnd that somuch is sould for unserviceable stuffe may not seem<br /> strange whilst the shipps are surveyed only by a Clerke, a<br /> Master or his deputy and the Boateswaine of the shipp, whereof<br /> the Boateswaine and deputy are contractors for that whereof<br /> they are disposers and the Clerk is neither sworne nor accom<br /> ptable to the king, for as sometimes they sticke not to passe<br /> away for unserviceable, that w[hi]ch is noted to be serviceable<br /> upon their owne Books. Like waste hath been made of sailes and saile canvas for<br /> though upon survey we finde wanting at leaste 182 sailes<br /> of all sorts in these few shipps that are serviceable w[hi]ch can<br /> hardly be supplied (if all be made new ) w[i]th £2000 charge; yet<br /> in the time of their decay there have bene boughte at least<br /> 2000 boultes of canvas w[hi]ch have cost his Majesty neare<br /> £3000,and might have maintained all the sailes in good <br /> state if they had bene well imployed as the sailemaker<br /> doth confesse. We might add the whole sale that was made of cordage<br /> canvas and other remaines of the last Triumph above<br /> Bridge for which one man paid £182.14s.11d. And the havock of deale boardes and of Ironworke and of the <br /> old Timber of all shipps whereof parte hath beene sould<br /> to inferiour officers and others, and moste carryed away by the<br /> workmen themselves. And lastly of old kettles, potts panns<br /> shivers of brasse of good price and such like utensils sold away<br /> likewise to the clerks or others. 8 CAUSE <br /> Manye unnecessarye and unfitt charges are caste upon the<br /> King; as firste the transportacon of old ships w[hi]ch are brought<br /> from Chatham to Woolwich or Debtford onely to be torne<br /> downe there and built new from the keele this hath cost the <br /> kinge in the 4 shipps now in dock not soe little as 1000 markes. Againe the greate Building, enlarging, taking to Kent,<br /> and furnishing of houses to private uses, thenterteyning<br /> of unservicieable men of all trades, boyes and children<br /> and impotent persons, and above all these, sellinge of persons, and above all these, sellinge of  +
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