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Pagina ii - SOCIETY desire it to be understood that they are not answerable for any opinions or observations that may appear in the Society's publications; the Editors of the several Works being alone responsible for the same.
Pagina xliv - I doubt not,' he writes to the Navy Board, on 23 February, 1677, ' but ere this you may have heard the issue of this morning's debates in the House of Commons touching the navy, wherein I thank God the account they received from me of the past and present state thereof, compared first with one another and then with the naval force of our neighbours as it now is, different from what it ever 1 Cobbett, Parliamentary History, iv.
Pagina 185 - The King and Lords have commanded me to signify to you the extraordinary content they take in the effects of that action of yours, and what they observe to your utmost advantage in reference to your conduct therein, perfected with all the acceptable circumstances that can attend any attempt of that kind - namely, the being effectual, speedy, and not chargeable to his Majesty in his treasure nor to his subjects in their lives...
Pagina 111 - Majesty and my lords,' as the officers of the navy had already done,' namely, your general deportment in his Majesty's service as conformable as any and more than most of the commanders in the fleet to the lord high admiral's instructions, so was both his Majesty himself and every lord there as much inclined to friendliness towards you as you could with any justice and regard to his Majesty's service expect them to be. But what with the general sense they all have of the infinite prejudice his Majesty's...
Pagina 1 - You shall find me attending the king at his dinner, and a piece of ling at my house afterwards for yours.
Pagina liii - Hospital a Foundation of forty poor boys ' who having attained to competent skill in the grammar and common arithmetic to the rule of three in other schools in the said Hospital, may be fit to be further educated in a Mathematical School, and there taught and instructed in the art of navigation and the whole science of arithmetic,' in order that they may be apprenticed to the sea service (Pepysian MSS.
Pagina 84 - June which he met with at his return home from Portsmouth last night. ' You did very well in attending his Majesty and the duke, and making them the little present of the lamb and fish you mention, the king having need enough of it (I believe) before he got on shore at the Isle of Wight.