...therefore could not have been written for effect, he writes of Charles with evident sincerity as a king ' who best understands the Business of the Sea of any Prince the World ever had.' I0 The Admiralty Letters " also, while confirming the statement of his biographer that he took a general...

...16Hl[-2] as the date of Haddock's patent ; he was paid from 25 March 1682. • No king,' he wrote, 15 ' ever did so unaccountable a thing to oblige his people...ever had, and things never better done, and put it ¿ito hands which he knew were wholly ignorant thereof, sporting himself with their ignorance.' The...

...admiralty did not find a lenient critic in Pepys. 'No king,' he wrote, 6 'ever did so unaccountable thing to oblige his people by, as to dissolve a commission...which he knew were wholly ignorant thereof, sporting himself with their ignorance.' The last phrase brings before us vividly the king's characteristic way....

...admiralty did not find a lenient critic in Pepys. ' No king,' he wrote, 6 ' ever did so unaccountable thing to oblige his people by, as to dissolve a commission...which he knew were wholly ignorant thereof, sporting himself with their ignorance.' The last phrase brings before us vividly the king's characteristic way....

...inexperienced men. 'No king,' wrote Pepys in his private minute-book 3 , ' ever did so unaccountable thing to oblige his people by, as to dissolve a commission...hand, who best understands the business of the sea 2 Pepysian MSS., No. 1,490, p. 73. 1 Evelyn's Diary (edition of 1875;), iii. 3 ib., No. ^,$66, Naval...

...inexperienced men. ‘No king,' wrote Pepys in his private minute-book 3, ‘ever did so unaccountable thing to oblige his people by, as to dissolve a commission...hand, who best understands the business of the sea Evelyn's Diary (edition of 1879), iii. i6y. 2 Pepysian MSS., No. 1,4.90, p. 73. ¿ ib., No. i,866,...

...Pepys wrote in his Naval Minutes: " No King ever did so unaccountable a thing to oblige his people, as to dissolve a commission of the Admiralty then...which he knew were wholly ignorant thereof, sporting himself with their ignorance." Nothing could be more characteristic of Charles's sardonic humour. He...

...Pepys wrote in his Naval Mi*uitc: “No King ever did so unaccountable a thing to oblige his people, as to dissolve a commission of the Admiralty then...prince the world ever had, and things never better donej and put it into hands which he knew were wholly ignorant thereof, sporting himself with their...

...of energy and honesty for the protection and encouragement of trade, to a king who "best understood the business of the sea of any Prince the world ever had," who in his boyhood had learnt to sail his own boat round the dangerous coasts of the Channel Islands,...

...than whom there was no better judge, could write of him in his most private memoranda, as a king ' who best understands the business of the sea of any Prince the world ever had,' and assures us that ' his Majesty possessed a transcendent mastery of all maritime knowledge.' ' In the...