ABSTRACT
The replacement of Lord Clinton is documented from the State Papers Foreign simply because his chosen successor Lord William Howard was then serving as Deputy of Calais. The Queen's marriage to Philip of Spain created an unprecedented constitutional uncertainty, never fully resolved. Lord Admiral required to have the sum of 14,000 by year to be advanced half-yearly to Benjamin Gonson, Treasurer of the Admiralty, to be by him defrayed in such sort as shall be prescribed unto him by the said Lord Treasurer, with the advice of the Lord Admiral, &c. Item, the said Benjamin Gonson and Edward Baeshe, Surveyor of Victuals for the Ships, shall make their several accounts of defrayment of the said money and of their whole doings herein once in the year at the least, and as often besides as shall be thought convenient by Lords of the Council.
