ANSTIQUITIE,S. 869 
For that I am now tpon the thinck on some especiall matters, 
point to sett downe officers and or- that I would have precisely lookt 
ders, for the settling of my hous- unto, and duly observed, as well 
hold, I have myselfe taken care to for the advancement of my service, 
as 
he found superfluous, and encreasing what was wanting and too short in any of 
them, as hee reduced them to a certainty, and such as his revenues would well 
defray, besides a yearly spare of some thousands of pounds which hee reserved 
for a store or treasure, to be ready for all events and occasions accidentall. 
“ By giving of which so good and solid foundation and order unto his state, hee 
delivered himself from all necessity of becoming rigid or strait to his tenants, 
either by any unmeasureable improving their farmes, or thejr tines, or seeking or 
taking advantage of any their forfeitures, and became also unnecessited to take 
the benefit that both law and right afforded unto him, of such as had in time 
of former princes purchased lands appertaining to his dutchy of Cornwall, which 
could not, by law, be alienated from the same, to whom out of his princely bounty 
and gracious compassion upon resuming of them, hee gave some reasonable sa 
tisfaction. 
“ The banquets and feasts that any time he made, his desire was, should be 
magnificient and agreeing with his princely dignity, yet not without an especiall 
€ye and care had, that nothing should bee spent in disorder, or the charge made 
greater through the want of providence, or wel! manageing by his officers; in 
those hee ever affected the demonstration of a princely greatnesse, and that all 
things should pass with decency and decorum, and without all rudeness, noise or 
disorder, : 
- © In any thing either committed or permitted unto him by the king his father, 
concerning the state and defence of the kingdome, exceeding willing, sedulous and 
carefull hee ever shewed himselfe, to perform all offices and duties-undertandingly, 
and with much circumspection. 
“ He was oncesent. by his majesty to take a view of the navy at Chatham, 
wither myselfe waited upon him, and observed how great his desire was, not onely 
to see with his owne eyes eyery particular ship, but to inable himselfe, by con- 
ference and consultation with the best experienced of his majesty’s officers of the 
navy, in the fashion and fabricature of the ships, to understand their strengths and 
the forme of their sailing, to take knowledge of such as were then perfitted and 
fitted for the present service, and which defective, and in what several parte, 
to the end there might instantly be order given for the repairing of them; he also 
very particularly enformed himselfe of their several equipages and furnitures, went 
in person to take an exact view of them, and of .his majesiies store for that pur- 
pose, and would not bee satisfied without understanding the special uses of ever 
of those things, and of all other that tended to make them serviceable and usefull ; 
what further in yeares more ripe was in naval affaires, wherein consisted the prin- 
cipall strength, honour, and advantage of this kingdome, to be expected of him, 
may easily be discerned by his will, his diligence, his understanding and princely 
courage, shewed upon occasion of discourse, delivered unto him by a servant of his 
own, concerning a navall warre with Spaine, whensoever that king shall give cause 
of a publicke hostility. ’ 
_“ To publish particulars agrees not with the rules of state, but two especiall 
thinges being propounded, which were the preparation of a navy, consisting of 
a certaine number of sbips to bee sent into the West Indies, and another to 
attend the coasts of Spaine, to prohibit all entry or issue of ships either into or 
out of the same. 
-“ Admirable“it was in one of yeares so young, to“theare what interrogations he 
used of every particularity of that designe, of the feisiblenesse, and of the diffi- 
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