The additional ships of war were also of heavier burthen.

In the same year, the Prince, of 1400 tons burthen, was launched; she carried sixty-four cannon, and was superior to any ship of the kind hitherto seen in England.
And now we arrive at the subject of this memoir.

The Petts were the principal ship-builders of the time.

They had long been known upon the Thames, and had held posts in the Royal Dockyards since the reign of Henry VII.

They were gallant sailors, too; one of them, as already mentioned, having made an adventurous voyage to the Arctic Ocean in his little bark, the George, of only 40 tons burthen.