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XXIII. Extracts from a MS. intituled “The Life of Mr. Phineas Pette, one of the Master Shipwrights to King James the First, drawn up by himself”. Communicated by the Reverend Samuel Denne, F.A.S.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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I Phineas Pette, being son of Mr. Peter Pette, of Deptsord Strond in in the county of Kent, one of his majesty's shipwrights, was born in my father's dwelling-house in the same town on All Saints day in the morning, being the first day of November, in the year of our Lord 1570.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1796

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References

page 225 note * Sic Orig.

page 228 note * Q. Winderbank.

page 254 note * Sic in MS.

page 255 note * Thomas in the MS.

page 256 note * Thomas in the MS.

page 265 note * Mape in MS.

page 274 note * Graned in MS.

page 282 note * Not The Royal Sovereign, as styled by Mr. Willett in Memoir cf British Naval Architecture, Archæol vol. XI. p. 164. And in the Lifts of the Navy, given at pp. 172, 174, there is, as I suspect, another ship mis-named, viz. More Honour, because in the Life of Pette he mentioned Mer Honeur, i. e. as I imagine, The Sea's Glory.

page 293 note * Dr. Wallis, in his letter, April 7, 1662, to Sir Robert Moray, prefixed to Conocuneus, or the Shipwright's Circular Wedge, mentions, that the solids and lines, made by the fections thereof, were proposed to his consideration by Mr. Pette, one of his majefty's commissioners for the navy, and an excellent shipwright.

page 296 note * European Magazine, July, 1794, p. 35.

page 296 note † Archaeol vol. I. Introduction, p. xiv.