Note 103 — INTRODUCTION
Reading edition
Miscell., vol. x. pp. 257-262: A large and particular complaint against Phineas Pett relating to abuses in the Navy about the end of the Queen's and beginning of King James's Reign. Cf. Dr. Tanner's Introduction in Hollond's Discourses of the Navy (N.R.S., vol. vii.). What is probably the same account is calendared by the Hist. MSS. Commission (Coke MSS, vol. i. p. 36) as '1602 Oct 14} 1603 June 19} allegations by George Colyson of abstraction of sea stores, and other frauds by Phineas Pett.'