| Auctions - 1920 - 502 pages
...time, the navy of the realm was so noble and so plentiful in all ports, maritime towns, and those on rivers, that the whole country deemed and called our...navy. And now it was so decreased and weakened from diverse causes that there was hardly sufficient to defend the country in case of need against royal... | |
| Edward Shepherd Creasy - Great Britain - 1870 - 620 pages
...called our Lord ' King of the Sea,' 1372- and he and all his country were then more dreaded outlines e both by sea and land on account of the said navy ; and now ifc was so decreased and weakened from divers England causes that there was hardly sufficient to defend... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - England - 1885 - 264 pages
...after voting a subsidy for its support, they addressed the king to the effect that ' twenty years ago, and always before that time, the navy of the realm...said navy. And now it was so decreased and weakened through various causes, that there was hardly sufficient to defend the country in case of need against... | |
| Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1920 - 446 pages
...time, the navy of the realm was so noble and so plentiful in all ports, manitime towns, and those on rivers, that the whole country deemed and called our...navy. And now it was so decreased and weakened from diverse causes that there was hardly sufficient to defend the country in case of need against royal... | |
| Harold Wheeler - 1922 - 422 pages
...rapidly declined. Without begrudging the money voted for the Navy, the Commons sorrowfully recorded that " twenty years since, and always before that...great danger to the realm, the causes of which were too long to write ; but the principal reason was that in time of war ships were often arrested a quarter... | |
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