ABSTRACT
This chapter gathers a few papers which supplement the formal accounts, and illustrates aspects of the financial administration from different angles. For this purpose the Navy Treasurer sent the Privy Council monthly estimates for sea wages, of which two examples from the time of the Le Havre campaign are here printed. These papers have been included because the copies in Pepys's collection enable part of the fire-damaged Cotton originals to be reconstructed. The wages for the officers of the Queen's ships at sea determined by the Officers of the Navy, which are not to be exceeded. This forms part of a quarto booklet in the State Papers which also contains calculations for victualling, tonnage, manning levels and cordage. The first part corresponds fairly closely with, but it then goes on to outline some of the abuses which have followed, and recommends a return to what might be called a 'flexible' ordinary.
