Volume 7, Holland's Discourses on the Navy, 1638 and 1658,
ed. J.R. Tanner

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John Hollond had a chequered career as a naval administrator, punctuated by his charges of corruption against his colleagues, circulated in these two manuscripts, and their counter-charges against him, but his Discourses are uniquely informative. There is also printed Sir Robert Slyngesbie's Discourse of the Navy, written in 1660 when he had just become Controller for the information of Charles 11, and a number of other documents which amplify or explain Hollond's narrative.