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In 1919 the writer was appointed by the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, Lees Knowles Lecturer in Military and Naval History for the academical year 1919-20, and the lectures are now printed almost exactly in the form in which they were delivered in November,...
In 1919 the writer was appointed by the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, Lees Knowles Lecturer in Military and Naval History for the academical year 1919-20, an...
2. Part 2My other illustration is from the account given in the _Diary_ of the funeral of Sir Christopher Myngs, who had been mortally wounded in action on the last day of the great batt...
3. Part 3It is evident that the administration of the navy after the Restoration was in the hands of able and experienced men, and that they were acting under instructions which were goo...
4. Part 4As soon as the war came to an end, the higher authorities began to consider schemes of retrenchment in the navy. A committee appointed 29 July, 1667, by Order in Council, to con...
5. Part 5A new and important principle in connexion with the pay of naval officers was established in 1668. Deane had urged in 1653 that seamen should be entered for continuous service a...
6. Part 6The decay of discipline in the Restoration period has been associated by some writers with the practice of appointing 'gentlemen captains' without experience to important comman...
7. Part 7[79] These were founded upon earlier instructions issued in 1640 by the Earl of Northumberland when Lord High Admiral. They were printed in 1717 from an imperfect copy under the...
8. Part 8Navy Board: in 1659, 18; in 1660, 22; in 1673, 30; in 1679, 33; in 1688, 35; a body of experts, 18, 23, 27, 30, 33; its functions, 26, 50