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CONTENTS

Illustrations page Vll

Preface IX Note on Dates xu

Abbreviations X11l Introduction xv PART ONE

THE BACKGROUND OF NAVAL ADMINISTRATION

Chapter I The Ship and the Line 3 II Material and Supply 38

III Shipyards and Dockyards 70 IV Officers and Men 109

V Victualling 144 VI Estimates and Accounts 158

VII The Lord Admiral's Department at the End of 1688 174

PART TWO

THE WAR IN PROGRESS

VIII The Pepysian Legacy and the Mobilization of 1688 201 IX The Board of Admiralty and the First Year of the War, January 1689-April 1690 245 X Beachy Head and the Disgrace of Torrington 341

XI The Middle Years, 169 1-I 694 367

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VI Contents Chapter XII The Fleet in the Mediterranean, July 1694- October 1695 page 517

XIII The Admiralty Office, 1690-1697 554 XIV The Last Phase and Demobilization, 1695-1698 568

Appendices 623

Bibliography 664

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ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATES

I William III, by Jan Wyk frontispiece (From the portrait in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich) II The dockyard at Chatham III The dockyard at IV The dockyard at Woolwich between pp. 88-9 V The dockyard at VI The dockyard at VII The in Crutched Friars facing p. r84 VIII Edward Russell, Earl of Orford, by Sir Godfrey Kneller 272 (From the portrait in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich) IX Arthur Herbert, Earl of Torrington, by R. White after J. Riley 276 X Daniel Finch, Second Earl of Nottingham. Artist un- known 308 (From the portrait in the National Portrait Gallery) XI The dockyard at Plymouth 424 XII The Admiralty and Whitehall, c. r696, by Leonard Knyff 566 (Westminster Public Library) (Plates II-VII, and XI are from British Museum King's MS 43, and plate IX from the print in the British Museum)

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VI11 Illustrations

FIGURES

I Plans of 1 2 Plans of Deptford dockyard

3 Plans of I between pp. 88-9 4 plans of j 5 plans of Portsmouth dockyard 6 Plans of Plymouth dockyard page 424

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