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master of a barge or ballinger, £3 6s. 8d. The James and Swan were attached, probably as tenders, to the Holy Ghost and the Trinity respectively.[1]
It is noteworthy that the revolution which, in 1460, deposed the House of Lancaster, and set up the House of York, was, to a large extent, a naval one. The attitude of the navy was the almost inevitable result of the commercial policy which had been pursued by the Lancastrian kings, and especially by the last two of them. With the exception of a decreasing number of king's ships, all
1 Mr. M. Oppenheim ('History of the Administration of the Royal Navy,' vol. i. p. 12) has compiled from the accounts of William Catton and William Soper, successive keepers of the ships, a list, which he believes to be the fullest so far printed, of the navy of Henry V. This list is given below, but, for the sake of brevity, the affix "of the Tower," which is therein applied to each of the vessels, except the Marie Hampton and Marie Sandwich, and which is simply equivalent to the modern prefix "H.M.S.," is omitted. The list is, of course, of a date a few years later than the one given in the text: —
| Built. | Taken. | Tons. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ships:— | ||||
| Jesus | 1000 | |||
| Holigost | 1414 | 760 | ||
| Trinity Royal | 1416 | 540 | ||
| Grace Dieu | 1418 | 400 | ||
| Thomas[2] | 1420 | 180 | ||
| Grande Marie | [3] 1416 | 420 | ||
| Little Marie | 140 | |||
| Katrine | ||||
| Christopher Spayne | [4]1417 | 600 | ||
| Marie Spayne | [4]1417 | 600 | ||
| Holigost Spayne | [4]1417 | 290 | ||
| Philip | ||||
| Little Trinity | 120 | |||
| Great Gabriel | ||||
| Cog John | ||||
| Red Cog | ||||
| Margaret | ||||
| Carracks:— | ||||
| Marie Hampton. | [3] 1416 | 500 | ||
| Marie Sandwich | [3] 1416 | 550 | ||
| George | [3] 1416 | 600 | ||
| Agase | [5]1416 | |||
| Peter | [4]1417 | |||
| Paul | [4]1417 | |||
| Andrew | [4]1417 | |||
| Barges:— | ||||
| Valentine | 1418 | 100 | ||
| Marie Bretton | ||||
| Ballingers: — | ||||
| Katrine Bretton | [3]1416 | |||
| James | 1417 | |||
| Ann | 1417 | 120 | ||
| Swan | 1417 | 120 | ||
| Nicholas | 1418 | 120 | ||
| George | 120 | |||
| Gabriel | ||||
| Gabriel de Harfleur | ||||
| Little John | ||||
| Fawcon | 80 | |||
| Roos | 30 | |||
| Cracchere | 56 |
The Holigost seems to have carried six, the Thomas four, the George and Grace Dieu each three, and the Katrine and Andrew each two guns. The Grace Dieu was accidentally burnt at Bursledon in 1439. The Georges, both carrack and ballinger, Christopher, Katrine Bretton, Thomas, Grande Marie, Holigost Spayne, Nicholas, Swan, and Cracchere, were all sold in 1423. Only two of the vessels, the Trinity and Holigost, seem to have remained in 1452; when they, rotten and useless, practically constituted the entire Royal Navy of England.