other Dock Yards; Workmen Shipwrights and Caulkers £30 per annum; Blockmakers, House Carpenters, Masons, Sawers, Joyners, and Sailmakers, £24; Labourers, £20; Ocham Boyes, £10; Ropemakers, £30. "Ocham Boyes" were probably boys who worked the oakum from old ropes, and assisted in caulking the planks with it. Lastly, on pages 118 and 119 we have a complete list of the Navy Officers Salaries, &c., and Admiralty Officers, which includes- Samuell Pepys Esq Secretary His clerks, house rent, &c. . £500 £700 As the two pages are reproduced in facsimile to show the style of the writing, it is unnecessary to refer to the other salaries and allowances mentioned in this MS., while those quoted in Battine's other lists are referred to in the Appendix. The last line of this little MS. volume places the annual cost of the Navy at £400,000; Mr. Goschen's estimate for 1898-9 is £25,550,000. 118 Navy Officers Salaries Anthony Lord Vice Count Falkland SE Richard Haddock Comptroller. S& Shin Lett && Richard Beach at Portsmouth. SE John Godwin at Chatham. Thomas Hayter Esq Comptroller's Assistant. Clerks att 400 ex: -20 Fac-simile of page 118 Battine's MS. [c. 1688]. 119 ADMIRALTY OFFICERS His Grace the Duke of Grafton vue Admuall of England C at 20. p Jien and 18 & Mensem for 16. Servants, * Arthur Herbeer Esq Rear Admirall at 16. & Diem and. 10: $ Mensen for 12 Servants. 146 0 1368 261 1148 -2643 1 4 16262179 104062 4 1 ch be add aid houses 24993 400000,0% 0, İn all Four Hundred Thousand Lounds Fac-simile of page 119 Battine's MS. [c. 1688]. APPENDIX. About his colleccon of Tables pre sented to the King & my Ld. Trear. THE BATTINE MSS. OF Edward Battine (or Batten), the compiler of these lists, little can be said; so far as I know, no account of him has appeared in print beyond the statement in the catalogue of the Stowe MSS. in the British Museum, that he was a Clerk of the Survey stationed at Portsmouth who sent out these lists from time to time with a fresh dedication. Perhaps he is not worthy of much attention; certainly that Pepys had, or professed to have, no high opinion of his work may be seen by the following letter, in which Pepys acknowledges the copy which Battine "dedicated" and sent to him. At the same time it must be admitted-even Pepys admits-that the tables are the result of zeal and industry. This industry seems. to have been so great that whatever Battine's motive may have been he was deserving of consideration from those in authority; let us hope he subsequently received some reward, but at the time of his writing he was in a subordinate position, as Pepys refers to "Mr. Surveyr your Master." Possibly, as Mr. J. R. Tanner remarks (Eng. Historical Review, xii., p. 710), Pepys was more anxious to repress self-satisfaction in a subordinate than to give honour where it was due. LETTER FROM PEPYS TO BATTINE, IN PEPYSIAN LIB., MAGDALENE Sr, Adm. Letters, xi., 530. I have received your answer of the 30th December to mine of the 26th and tho' the Contents thereof leave me rather less satisfied than I was before in the points wherein I hoped I should have been more soe, yet I cannot but againe tell you that I am entirely a friend to your Industry, and soe would not say anything in discouragemt. to it, but on the contrary cherish it all I am able. This only in truth of friendship I must take the liberty of saying to you, that by the time you shall have conversed in the World & business as long as I have done, you'l finde it of much more use to you rather to distrust then presume too easily upon the sufficiency and unanswerableness (as you terme it) of your owne Concepcons: the Errors visible in your Colleccon of Tables presented to the King and my Lord Trea'r (and of which I thankefully acknowledge your giveing me a Copie) being such & soe many as (tho' I say againe, I would not in any wise discourage your seeming Zeal and Industry in it) would have required your comitting them to the overlooking of some friend, (and particularly Mr Survey your Master whome I doubt you omitted among those most knowing Officers you speake of) before you had exposed them, especially with soe much selfe satisfaccon as you appeare to raise to yourselfe from them, as I may hereafter have opportunity between ourselves of shewing you. me in my pro Ab't ye In the meantime I observe your Concurrence wth poseing you & your fellow clerkes of the Survey as proper hands for Clerkes of ye the Comitting (wth reasonable addicon of encouragem') the Care of the worke. comp: troll's Clerkes of the Comtrolls Worke to and doubt not in a very little time of my haveing occasion, of writeing to you a Second time on that Subject, & remaine with true respect, Ad 5th. Jan 85 Mr. Batten at Portsm°. Your affect ffriend to serve you, S. P. Though all of about the same size (7 × 4) and general appearance, Battine's lists differ in some points of detail according to the date of issue, but the order of contents and general description already given of the copy exhibited will apply to the whole. Such points as the omission of ships no longer in commission, and the insertion of others built, bought, or captured must be left to Mr. Oppenheim and other naval historians. I simply record here a few points of difference, in dedications and elsewhere, which may be of some general historical interest. For instance, a total change of feeling is shown by comparison of the "dedication" of the edition of 1689 with the fulsome flattery of the Stuarts in 1685. The earliest of Battine's MS. lists which I have examined is the undermentioned copy which he sent to Pepys, provoking the reply just printed in full. PEPYSIAN LIBRARY, MAGDALENE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. No. 977. Title-page and other preliminary matter is nearly identical with that already printed on page 223. The dedication is "To the Right Honourable Samuell Pepys Esq. Secretary to his Roy" Highness." Sr, The Roy" Navy of England and its government is of the greatest importance, & requires the ablest & most experienced Men to manage, & affords such variety of business, that it may be said without reflection, that no single Person was ever yet able wholly to comprehend it. |
