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" Commons had granted another subsidy for its support, they represented that "twenty years since, and always before that 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... "
A history of the Royal navy, from the earliest times to the wars of the ... - Page 146
by sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1847
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Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences

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...
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History of England from the Earliest to the Present Time: The history during ...

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...
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England on the Sea; Or, The Story of the British Navy: Its Decisive Battles ...

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...
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Chaucerian Papers-1

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...
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The Story of the British Navy

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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