CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS C. F. CLAY, Manager LONDON: FETTER LANE, E. C. 4 NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS BOMBAY    } CALCUTTA } MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd. MADRAS    } TORONTO: J. M. DENT AND SONS, Ltd. TOKYO: MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA ALL RIGHTS RESERVED SAMUEL PEPYS AND THE ROYAL NAVY LEES KNOWLES LECTURES DELIVERED AT TRINITY COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE, 6, 13, 20 and 27 NOVEMBER, 1919 BY J. R. TANNER , Litt.D. FELLOW OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1920...

In 1919 the writer was appointed by the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, Lees Knowles Lecturer in Military and Naval History for the academical year 1919-20, and the lectures are now printed almost exactly in the form in which they were delivered in November, 1919. The object of the Lecturer was to present in a convenient form the general conclusions about the administration of the Royal Navy from the Restoration to the Revolution arrived at in the introductory volume of his Cat

The materials for the administrative history of the Royal Navy from the Restoration to the Revolution are largely contributed by Cambridge. The section of the Pepysian Library at Magdalene which Samuel Pepys classified as 'Sea Manuscripts' contains 114 volumes, the contents of which cover a wide field of naval history. Pepys's leading motive in collecting these is probably to be found in his projected 'History of the Navy.' Early in his career he thought of writing a 'History of the Dutch War,'

The history of naval administration between the Restoration and the Revolution falls naturally into four periods: (1) 1660-73, from the appointment of the Duke of York to be Lord High Admiral, until his retirement after the passing of the Test Act; (2) 1673-79, the first Secretaryship of Samuel Pepys; (3) 1679-84, the period of administrative disorder which followed his resignation; and (4) 1684-88, from the return of the Duke of York to office until the Revolution—this period being also that of

It is scarcely a matter for surprise that those historians who were the first to appreciate the great Puritan movement, so long under a cloud, should have yielded to the temptation of over-emphasizing the contrast between the vigour and comparative purity of government during the Interregnum and its nervelessness and corruption under the Younger Stuarts. That some such contrast exists it is impossible to deny. The Commonwealth navy was on the whole well managed, and every reader of Pepys's Diary

The arrangements for victualling had always had an important bearing upon the contentment and efficiency of the seamen. 'However the pay of the mariners, both for sea and harbour, may be wanting for some time,' wrote one of the Victuallers, 'yet they must have continual supplies of victuals, otherwise they will be apt to fall into very great disorders.' [207] Pepys, in his private Minute Book [208] , makes the same point. 'Englishmen,' he says, 'and more especially seamen, love their bellies abo