a week in haft)our, and higher pay at sea. But early in the rei

of Hen W YIII. tm alteration was effected. The natm'e of this is shown in an agreement made in 1512 between the king and

5Jr ]dxwrd Howard, captain-general of the _ .,*_,..._ armed force at sea (or Lord High Admiral). (.. ta rt of this am'ee meat had better be given at length. It rims thus :-- 'x"'.... -;%'/ "The said adnfiral shall have under him in the said service three thousand men, harnessed and arrayed for the "warfare, himself accounted in the same munber, over and above seven htndred soldiers, mariners and gunners that

SIX AXGEL PIECE OF shall be in the King's ship, the Rege, t. A thousand seven EWAnO Vl. hundred and fifty shall be soldiers; twelve hundred anti (FromRudinonmlsqf thirty-three shall be mariners and gunners .... And the tbe Coinage of Great Britain:) said admiral shall have for maintaining himself, and his diets and rewards, daily during the voyage, ten shillings. And for every of the said captains, for their diets, wages, and reward.-, daily during the said cruise, eighteen-pence .... And for every soldier, mariner, and gunner, he shall have, every month, during the said voyage, accounting txenty-eight days for the month, five shillings for his wages, and five shillings for his victuals, without anything else demanded for wages or victuals, saving that they shall have certain dead shares, as hereafter doth ensue; all which wages, rewards and victual money the said admiral shall be paid in manner and form following :--He shall, before he and his retinue enter into the ship, make their musters before such commissioner.- as it shall please our said sovereign Lord to depute and appoint; and immediately after such musters shall have been made, he shall receive of our overeign L.rd, by the hands of such as his Grace shall al,point, for himself, the said captains, soldiers, mariners, and gunners, xx-ages, rewards, and victual money, after the rate before rehearsed, for three months then next ensuing, accounting the month as above. And, at the same time, he shall receive for the cost of every ca)tain and soldier four shillings, and for the cost of every mariner and gunner twenty pence; and at the end of the said three months, when the said admiral all with his navy and retinue resort to the port of Southampton and then and there xSctual himself and the said navy and army and retinue, he shall make his musters before such commissioners as it shall please his Grace, the King, thereft;re to appoint. within board; and after the said musters so made, he shall, for himself, the said captains, soldiers, mariners, gunners, receive of our said sovereign Lord, by the hands of such as his Grace shall appoint, new wages and victual money, after the rate before rehearsed, for the three months next ensuing; and so, from three months to three months continually during the said tiue .... The said admiral shall have for his dead shares of the ships as hereafter ensueth, that is to say, for the Rtent, being of the portage of 1000 tons, 50 dead shares and four pilots; and for the--

llary ose of 500 tons, 30 dead shares. let r t>omegranate ,, 400 ,, 23 .... Nicholas 1%ede ,, 400 ,, _3 .... Augmi. Off., bk. 316, f. 72.

Printed in Charhock, ii. 36.