An estimate of the comparative strength of Britain during the present and four preceding reigns; and of the losses of her trade from every war since the Revolution ... To which is added an essay on population / by the Lord Chief Justice Hale.
- George Chalmers
- Date:
- 1782
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An estimate of the comparative strength of Britain during the present and four preceding reigns; and of the losses of her trade from every war since the Revolution ... To which is added an essay on population / by the Lord Chief Justice Hale. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[,-3 ] So unfruitful had every branch of taxes proved dur- ing every feafon, that the revenue exifting at the Revolution had fallen in its produce above one- half in five years j that the deficiencies appeared to the Commons to have fwelled, before the feffion of 1696, to The public debt, which had been incurred before the peace of Ryfwick, and which had been bor- rowed at an interefi: of feven and eight per cent. amounted to Of this fum there were paid off during five years of fubfequent tranquillity - ' ~ The national debt due on Lady-day 1702 >(,. 10,006,777 The tonnage of the fhippingof Englifh merchants at the Revolution, that formed the nurfery, whence the royal navy was chiefly manned, amounted only to ——. - i9o»533 • Which mufi: have been navigated, if_we allow to every two hundred tons twelve men, including the mafier, mate, and boy, by -—- — 11,432 failors. The following fiatement will fhew us the progreflive force of the fleet of England during the preceding century: ‘ Tons. In 1588 [the fleet fent againfl: the Armada'] 31,985 — £. 6.000,460 £, 12,964,310 2>897,533 1607 1633 1660 1675 1688 23,600 — ^ 20,941 — 62,594 — ^69,681 — 101,032 — Sailors. 15,272 7,800 7,500 3o>95i 1695 [according to Secretary Pepys] '' 112,400 — 45,000 MSS. Harley. Murden’s State Papers, p. 618. ^ A detail in the Paper-office. e Bibl. Harley, Brit. Muf. N“ 6277. ** An admiralty-lift in the Paper-office exhibits the fubjoined detail of the fleet of England in March 1693. Kates. 5 . - - - • - g - Fire fhips, Hofpital, Number of each. Men. 6 — 4,680 10 6,6co , 28 — 7,840 ■ 6 — 1,680 4 — 640 6 — 270 17 — 765 4 — 180 During 22,655](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28757671_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
