Excerpt from Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain, From 1727 to 1783, Vol. 4 of 6 In the courfe of this feflion, the Parliament voted for thirty thoufand feamen, including a corps of marines, and for ordnance for the fea fervice during the current year: they alfo voted for building, rebuilding, and repairing his Majefty's fhips, and for paying off the debt of the navy, The fum total of the fupplies granted this year, was 14s. 4;d. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.