Note 241 — LECTURE IV VICTUALLING; DISCIPLINE; SHIPS; GUNS
Reading edition
A discussion of the relative merits of the two systems occurs in Hollond, Discourses, p. 154. The substance of the patent of 10 December, 1683 (Naval Precedents, p. 48), which established the new department, is given in Catalogue of Pepysian MSS., pp. 180-2.