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£G "ROCHESTER*
©[ very necessity to press their bell and greatefl
part of their men out of the West countries;
which is no small charge in bringing them so far
as between that and Rochester ; and then, when
they are embarked at Rochester, their charge is
again doubled, in their pay and expence of vic-
tuals, before the fhips can recover so far as Ply-
mouth : which manv times is Ions; a doine, for
they do usually ever touch at Plymouth in all
Southern voyages, for the furni#hng of many fea
necelTaries which that country doth afford ; and
therefore for so many Imps as should be there
sestdent the charges os condudl-money for mari-
ners, of wages, and os victuals, would be well
laved, sor all that time which is spent between
Rochester and Plymouth. Besides, it were to be
prefumed that the enemies would not be so trou-
blesome to the Western coasts, nor that country
itself would be so often dismayed with alarms as
they have of late years been, if son:e of his
Majesty's good ships were resident in those parts."
Sir Arthur proceeds with many other particu-
lars in which the Navy might be improved ; but,
as they do not immediately belong to the subject
before me, it will not be necesfary to repeat them.
His ideas on the inconvenient sttuation of Roches-
ter for a fpeedy communication with the sea have
received full sanclion srom (ubsequent Lords of
the
©[ very necessity to press their bell and greatefl
part of their men out of the West countries;
which is no small charge in bringing them so far
as between that and Rochester ; and then, when
they are embarked at Rochester, their charge is
again doubled, in their pay and expence of vic-
tuals, before the fhips can recover so far as Ply-
mouth : which manv times is Ions; a doine, for
they do usually ever touch at Plymouth in all
Southern voyages, for the furni#hng of many fea
necelTaries which that country doth afford ; and
therefore for so many Imps as should be there
sestdent the charges os condudl-money for mari-
ners, of wages, and os victuals, would be well
laved, sor all that time which is spent between
Rochester and Plymouth. Besides, it were to be
prefumed that the enemies would not be so trou-
blesome to the Western coasts, nor that country
itself would be so often dismayed with alarms as
they have of late years been, if son:e of his
Majesty's good ships were resident in those parts."
Sir Arthur proceeds with many other particu-
lars in which the Navy might be improved ; but,
as they do not immediately belong to the subject
before me, it will not be necesfary to repeat them.
His ideas on the inconvenient sttuation of Roches-
ter for a fpeedy communication with the sea have
received full sanclion srom (ubsequent Lords of
the