Raleigh advises never to build a ship of war above six hundred tons.

James was not negligent of the navy.

In five years preceding 1623, he built ten new ships, and expended fifty thousand pounds a year on the fleet.
* Sir William Petty.
** Sir Edward Walker's Political Discourses, p.

270 *** Coke's Inst.

book iv.chap.1.Consultation in parliament for the navy.
Of the Invention of Shipping.