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Samuel Pepys and the Royal Navy

Note 129 — LECTURE III FINANCE

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Even in 1658 the Navy Commissioners had been obliged to buy at from 30 to 50 per cent. above the market price (M. Oppenheim, The Administration of the Royal Navy, 1509-1660, p. 351).

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