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Gloria Britannica: or, The boast of the Brittish seas. : Containing a true and full account of the Royal Navy of England. Shewing where each ship was built, by whom, and when; its tuns, and number of men and guns, both in peace and war, at home and abroad. Together, with every man's pay, from a captain to a cabbin-boy; truly calculated and cast up, for a day, a week, a month, and a kalendar year, or 13 months and 1 day. Carefully collected and digested by a true lover of the seamen, and of long experience in the practices of the Navy and Admiralty; to this present year of 1696. Licensed