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A03251	A true description of His Majesties royall ship, built this yeare 1637. at Wooll-witch in Kent To the great glory of our English nation, and not paraleld in the whole Christian world. Published by authoritie.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1637 (1637)	STC 13367; ESTC S106217	19,030	56

things in th●● Vessell worthy remarke at least if not admiration namely that one Tree or Oake made foure of the principall beames of this great●Ship which was Forty foure foote of strong and serviceable Timber in length three foote Diameter at the top and Ten foot Diameter at the stubbe or bottome Another as worthy of especiall Observation is that one peece of Timber which made the Kel-son was so great and weighty that 28. Oxen and 4. Horses with much difficulty drew it from the place where it grew and from wh●nce it was cut downe unto the water-side There is one thing above all these for the World to take especiall notice of that shee is besides her Tunnage iust so many Tuns in burden as their have beene Yeeres since our Blessed Saviours Incarnation namely 1637. and not one under or over A most happy Omen which though it was not at the first proiected or intended is now by true computation found so to happen It would bee too tedious to insist upon every Ornament belonging to this incomparable Vessel yet thus much concerning Her outward appearance She hath two Galleries of a side and all of most curious carved Worke and all the sides of the ship are carved also with Trophies of Artillery and Types of honour aswell belonging to Land as Sea with Symboles Emblemes and Impresses appertaining to the Art of Navigation as also their two sacred Majesties Badges of Honour Armes Eschutchions c. with severall Angels holding their Letters in Compartements all which workes are gilded quite over and no other colour but gold and blacke to bee seene about her and thus much in a succinct way I have delivered unto you concerning her inward and outward Decorements I come now to Discribe her in her exact Dimension Her Length by the Keels is 128 foot or there about within some few inches Her mayne breadth or widenesse from side to side 48. foote Her utmost length from the fore-●ore-end of the Beake-head unto the after end of the Sterne a prora ad puppim 232. foote she is in height from the bottome of her Keele to the top of her Lant-horne seaventy sixe foote she beareth five Lant-hornes the biggest of which will hold ten persons to stand upright and without shouldring or pressing one the other She●ath ●ath three flush Deckes and a Fore-Castle an halfe Decke a quarter Decke and a round-house Her lower Tyre hath thirty ports which are to be furnished with Demy-Cannon and whole Cannon through out being able to beare them Her middle Tyre hath also thirty ports for Demi-Culverin and whole Culverin Her third Tyre hath Twentie sixe Ports for other Ordnance ●er fore-Castle hath twelve ports and her halfe Decke hath foureteene ports She hath thirteene or foureteen ports more within Board for murdering peeces besides a great many Loope-holes out of the Cabins for Musket●shot She carrieth moreover ten peeces of chase Ordnance in her right forward and ten right aff that is according to Land-service in the front and the reare She carrieth eleaven Anchors one of them weighing foure thousand foure hundred c. and according to these are her Cables Mastes Sayles Cordage which considered together seeing his Maj●sty is at this infinite charge both for the honour of this Nation and the security of his Kingdome it should bee a great spur and incouragement to all his faithful and loving Subjects to bee liberall and willing Contributaries towards the Ship-money I come now to give you a particular Denomination of the prime Worke-men imployed in this inimitable Fabricke as first Captayne Phines Pett Over-seer of the Worke and one of the principal Officers of his M●j●sties Navy whose Ancestors as Father Grand-father and Great-Grand-father for the space of two hundred yeares and upwa●ds have continued in the same Name Officers and Architectures in the Royall Navy of whose knowledge experience and iudgement I can not render a merite● Character The Maister Builder is young M. Peter Pett the most ingenious sonne of so much improoved a Father who before he was full five and twenty yeares of age made the Model and since hath perfected the worke which hath won not only the approbation but admiration of all men of whom I may truely say as Horace did of Argus that famous Ship-Master Who built the great Argo in which the Greci●● Princesse Rowed through the Hellespont to fetch the golden Fleece from Colch●s Ad Charum I ritonia Devolat Argum Moliri hanc puppim iubet that is Pallas●er ●er selfe flew into his boso●e and not only i●joyn'd him to the u●dertaking but inspired him in the ma●aging of so exquisite and absolute an Architecture Let me not here forget a prime Officer Master Francis Shelton Clerke of the Checke whose industry and care in looking to the Workmen imployd in this Structure hath beene a great furtherance to expedite the businesse The Master Carvers are Iohn and Mathias Christmas the Sonnes of that excellent Workeman Master Gerard Christmas some two yeeres since deceased who as they succeed him in his place so they have striv'd to exceed him in his Art the Worke better commending them than my Pen is any way able which putteth me in minde of Martiall looking upon a Cup most curiously Carved Quis l●bor in phial● Docti Mios I●ne Mironis Mentoris an manus est an Polyclet● tua What Labour 's in this curious Bowle Was 't thine ô Myus tell Myrons Mentors or Polyclets He that can carve so well And I make no question but all true Artists can by the view of the Worke give a present nomination of the Workmen The Master-Painters Master Ioyner Master Calker Master Smith c. all of them in their severall faculties being knowne to bee the prime Workmen of the Kingdome selectedly imployd in this Service Navis vade undae fremitum posuere minaces Et Freta Tindaridae spondent secura gemelli Dessuetamque iubent pelago decurrere Puppim Auster optatas afflabit molliter auras FINIS On Satturday being Iune 17. last Mendaeum mingun● 〈◊〉 regna tenentes M●llibus in ●lratis c. H●rmippus Poeta Craecus cōsule 〈◊〉 lib. de Dypnosop pag. 50. King Edgars Navy Maxentius made the eighth who was ●fter Emperor of Rome His Religion His Iustice. His Temper●nce His Valour