ABSTRACT
Great was our consumption of English iron in the Dutch war, for the making of shot, and it seems it was made most into bars, and the whole world is said never to have known such good shot as the readers shot against the Dutch, as they themselves will confess. And Blake used to brag of it — for it is also reported, that being once at the Admiralty chamber when the shot-maker’s bills were examined, he would not suffer any abatement to be made in it. Little pressing all the first Dutch war, at least with very little confusion or noise or oppression complained of, to be imputed not only to the rise of seamen’s wages in the State’s service from 19s. to 24,4 and its good payment, and a larger supply of soldiers and those better chosen, exercised, led by their commanders.
