exists in (reenwich HospitM, where it ws pl,ced by the Athninlty

in 1S41i. The fund, which, before the utilistion of bmks, ,nd the wlue of investments became properly ,ppreci,ted, the chest con- tained, continued, under wrytrig regultions, to exist, until in it was transferred to the supervisors and directors of the chest at Greenwich, ,nd practic,lly became part of the relief funds t (reenwich HospitM. Not until 1829 did the stoppage on behalf of it of sixpence a month from the wges of every seaman of the loyal N,vy cease.

Henry VIII. contributed greatly to the creation and development of the bses md ,'rsenals of the navy, ,d built numerous import;ut works of defence Mong the cost. He founded Voolwich Dockyrd, and much improved the yrds t lortsmouth t md IOeptford, erecting t the ltter 1,rge magazines nd storehouses.

The firtifiction of Gravesend ,nd Tilbury was his work, ,s Mso the building of the cstles at Valmer, Del, Sandgte, S,ndown, Portl,nd, I-[urst, Cowes, C,mber, Southsea, Queenborough, l'en- dennis, md St. ,Mwes. At severl of these pkces there were e,rlier

"The land here, ou thc east side of Portsmouth L[aven, rmmeth firther by a great way straight into the sea, by south-east froin tl haven m.nth, than it. doth at the west point. There is, at. this point of the haven, l',,rtsmonth town, and a great round tower, almost douhle in quantity anti strength to that which is on the xvest side of the haven, right against it.; and here is a mighty chain of iron to draw from tower to tower. About a quarter of a ndle above this tower is a great dock lbr ships, and in this dock lieth part of the rihs of the It, ari fir,to h Dbu, one of the biggest ships titat have been made in, lominum aemorht. There he above this dock creeks in this part o the haven. The town of Portsmonth is lbnded from the eas; tower . . . with a mud wall armed with timber, whereon are great pieces hoth of iron and brass onlnance; and this piece of the wall, having a ditch witlout it, ,'unneth so far fiat south-south-east, and is the most apt to delbnd the town the,'e open on the haven. q'here rmmcth a ditch almost flat east lYr a space, and within it is a wall of lOUd like to the other, an,l so thence [it] goeth ronnd about the town to the circuit of a mile. There is a gate of tilnher at the n,rth-east end of the tonn; and h it is cast up a hill of earth ditched, wherein are guns to detn,l entry into the town hy land. There is nnlch vacant ground within the town wall. There is one lhir street in the town, from west to north- east. I learut in the town that the towers in the haven mouth were heun in King Edwanl the Fourth's time, and set forwant in building hy llichard the Third. King Henry the $eveuth ended them at the procuration of Fox, Bishop of Winchester. King Ilcnry the Eighth, at. his first wars into F,;ance, e,'ected in the south l'rt of the town three great brewing-houses, with the implements, to serve his ships at such time as they houhl go to the sea in time of war. One Carpenter, a rich man, made of late time, in the middle of the 11igh Street of the town, a Town Honse. The town is hare, anti little occupied in time of peace."--Leland, 'Itinerary,' iii., pp. 81, 82. Iclaud was on his journey between 1536 and 1542; so that this description of Portsmouth applies

to the town as it then was. The allusion t.o the ribs of the Itenri (Jracc & Dh'u is obscure, seeing that the ship was in existence ttntil a later date.