. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . p. b£> «3 ? sa? OH•a i- II cs a Si 7 a g, t£=-l ?a c 1. 13 14 OLD ENGLAND. | T3ook V however, allowed to subsiie into inaction; fresh ships were built;the dockyards of Deptford, Woolwich, and Portsmouth wereformed; the Admiralty and Navy Boards were organized. By theend of the reign of Elizabeth the royal navy numbered forty-twoships. James I. surpassed all his predecessors in one respect; hebuilt the largest of all ships up to his own time, called the distin
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . p. b£> «3 ? sa? OH•a i- II cs a Si 7 a g, t£=-l ?a c 1. 13 14 OLD ENGLAND. | T3ook V however, allowed to subsiie into inaction; fresh ships were built;the dockyards of Deptford, Woolwich, and Portsmouth wereformed; the Admiralty and Navy Boards were organized. By theend of the reign of Elizabeth the royal navy numbered forty-twoships. James I. surpassed all his predecessors in one respect; hebuilt the largest of all ships up to his own time, called the distinguished ship was that erected in the following reign,the Sovereign of the Seas (Fig. 1431), which was one hundredand twenty-eight feet long and forty-eight feet broad, and carriedone hundred and six guns. Turning from these records of military and naval proceedings,let us follow the victor of Flodden Field into the council-chamber(Fig. 1413), that we may obtain some insight into the civilgovernment of Henry, and make acquaintance with some of themore eminent men there seated in debate, and who, a few years later,were to be the chief actors in one of the most e
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