ABSTRACT
The Tudor Navy featured prominently in the Society's early publishing programme. This chapter includes all the extant Treasurer's and Victualler's accounts for the two reigns, printed for the first time from the original rolls in the Public Records. Entries taken verbatim from the State Papers augment the calendar summaries previously published, and correct a good many errors. Material in the Public Records is Crown Copyright, and reproduced by authority of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. The chapter discusses the navy which Edward VI inherited was essentially his father's creation. When Henry VIII went to war in 1512, he had about ten ships of his own, and was in the middle of a significant build-up which saw the number increase from seven or eight in 1510 to more than twenty by 1513. Instead of disposing of his fighting ships, which his predecessors had generally done in similar circumstances, he had thirteen of them inventoried and decommissioned.
