.lietry and John of "C,0 tons _4. dead shares
.4n,, of Greenwich ,, 160 ,, _4 .... .]Iary George ,, 300 ,, 204 .... Dragon ,, 100 ,, 004 Barbara ,, 1-t0 ,, 20� .... (leoye, of Fahuouth ,, 140 ,, 204 .... Nicholas of II.ilton ,, 200 ,, '-"2 .... .liartenet ,, 140 ,, oo� Jeanet ,, 70 ,, Crlstophcr Davy ,, 1;0 ,, 22� .... abyan 20 ,, 120 ......
And for the victualling and refreshing the said ships x ith water and other necessaries, the said admiral shall . . . have two crayers, the one being of three score and fifty runs, wherein there shall be the master, twelve mariners, and one boy; and every of the said masters and mariners shall have for his wages five shillings, and for his victual money five shillings, for every month, accounting the month as above; and every of the said two boys shah have for his month's wages two shillings and sixpence, and for his victuals five shillings; and either of the said masters shah have three dead shares; and the other erayet shall have a master, ten mariners, and one boy, being of the burden of 55 tons, with the same alloxvances. Also the said soldiers, mariners, and gunners shall have of our sovereign Lord conduct money, that is to say, every of them, for every day's journey from his house to the place where they shah be shipped, accounting twelve miles for the day's journey, sixpence; of which days they shall give evidence, by their oaths, before him or them that our said sovereign Lord shall appoint and assign to pay them the said wages and conduct money. And forasmuch as our said sovereign Lord, at his costs and charges, victuals the said army and navy, the said admiral shall therefore answer our said Lord the one-half of all manner of gains and winnings of the war, that the same admiral, or his retinue, or any of them, shall fortune to have in the said voyage, by land or water; all prisoners, being chieftains, or having our said sovereign Lord's adver,ry's poxx er; and one ship royal, being of the portage of 200 tons or above, with the ordnance and apparel of every such prize that shah fortune to be taken by them in the said war, rerving to our said sovereign Lord all artillery contained within any other ship or ships by them to be taken."
The document, to 1)ut i briefly, shows tha a the time of the armamen of 151 ) the daily pay of an admiral was 10s.; the daily pay of a captain, ls. 6d.; the lun,r monthly a wage of master,
There are accidentally omitted from this copy of the agreement :-- "John Hopton's Ship"400 tons. Lion 120 ,, Peter, of Fowey 120 ,, These bring the strength of the fleet up to eighteen sail (as mentioned elsewhere in the indenture), or, with the crayers, to twenty sail.
Lunar months, of thirteen to the year, were there, and long afterwards, the ,-,rdinary official divisions of the year. A MS. list of the services of captains from 1688 to 1717 (in the Author's Coll.) contains such entries as one to the eftbet that Captain J,hn N-rris entered on the command ol the Co:tent, prize, on Iarch 24th, 1695, and