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CIVIL HISTORY, 1485—1603.
[1603.
At the death of the great Queen in 1603, the effective Royal Navy, according to a list preserved by Monson in his 'Tracts,' corrected and here supplemented, as to certain details from other contemporary sources,[1] was as follows (see table on following page.)
AN ELIZABETHAN SHIP OF WAR.
(From Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian, iv., 192, folio 20.)
During the reign of Henry VII. the position of officers and men, as regards their pay and "rewards," seems to have remained much as before. The men were given 1s. a week in harbour, and 1s. 3d. Their victuals, early in the reign, cost 1s. 0½d., and later 1s. 2d. a week. Masters received 3s. 4d.; pursers and boatswains, 1s. 8d.; quartermasters, 1s. 6d.; and stewards and cooks, 1s. 3d.
- ↑ Especially from a MS. list of 1599, which is printed in 'Archæologia,' and which, in 1797, belonged to Dr. Leith of Greenwich.
