...pork brought by the seamen to the office and viewed and weighed by the commissioners, 1 ' Englishmen, and more especially seamen, love their Bellies above...than any one other hardship that can be put upon them ' (Pepysian MSS., Naval Minutes, p. 274). 1 This is the older form of what is now ' scrag-end.' 3 '...

...the quantity or agree1 Pepysian MSS. No. 2867, pp. 195-6. 3 SP Dom. Car. II, ccxcix. 121. ableness of the victuals, is to discourage and provoke them...comparative failure to provide victuals of good quality, sufficient quantity, and promptly delivered where they were required. Before the Restoration the victualling...

...pp. 195-6. * SP Dom. Car. II, ccxcix. 121. 3 Pepysian MSS. No. 2866, Naval Minutes, p. 274. able-ness of the victuals, is to discourage and provoke them...comparative failure to provide victuals of good quality, sufficient quantity, and promptly delivered where they were required. Before the Restoration the victualling...

...of the victualling of the navy, that to make any abatement from them in the quantity or agreableness of the victuals, is to discourage and provoke them...one other hardship that can be put upon them." But the poor seaman's victuals have never been celebrated for " agreableness," though Pepys did what he...

...same shrewdness which characterised Pepys of the Diary. " Englishmen," he says in his Naval Minutes, " and more especially seamen, love their Bellies above...any one other hardship that can be put upon them." » Pepys made desperate efforts to secure better supervision over quality, but the problem was not...

...be spared on the King's part that may be conduceing to this service1." 1665. The War. " Englishmen, and more especially seamen, love their bellies above...any one other hardship that can be put upon them." Pepys' Naval Minutes. Such might have been either text or moral of the war, so well is its truth borne...

...disorders.' 1 Pepys, in his private Minute Book" 1 , makes the same point. ' Englishmen,' he says, ' and more especially seamen, love their bellies above...fatal effects, and contributed more than any other cause to the comparative failure of the administration to provide victuals of good quality, sufficient...

...tackling the quality of the victuals served out to seamen. "Englishmen," he writes in his Naval Minutes, "and more especially seamen, love their bellies above...any one other hardship that can be put upon them." Even on the technicalities of shipbuilding his opinion was worth having. How deeply and sincerely he...

...tackling the quality of the victuals served out to seamen. "Englishmen," he writes in his Naval Minutes, "and more especially seamen, love their bellies above...any one other hardship that can be put upon them." Even on the technicalities of shipbuilding his opinion was worth having. How deeply and sincerely he...

...great disorders.'1 Pepys, in his private Minute Book'2, makes the same point. ' Englishmen,' he says, ' and more especially seamen, love their bellies above...fatal effects, and contributed more than any other cause to the comparative failure of the administration to provide victuals of good quality, sufficient...