: The Autobiography of Phineas Pett by Pett Phineas Perrin William Gordon Editor - Great Britain History Sources; Great Britain. Royal Navy History Sources; Shipbuilding Great Britain History; Great Britain History Naval Sources

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INTRODUCTION

The Shipwrights xv

The Family of Pett xlii

Phineas Pett lii

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1

APPENDICES

INDEX 219

INTRODUCTION

It might be supposed that so ancient a craft as that of shipbuilding would have left some trace in contemporary records of its activities, the methods of its technique, and the personalities of those engaged in it. Yet although references to ships and shipping are frequent in the records of this country from the earliest times, and although the shipwright was a distinct class of workman at least as early as the tenth century--probably much earlier--no record of the methods in which he set about the design and construction of ships earlier than the end of the sixteenth century appears to have survived.

With meat Without and drink, meat and drink, a day a day

This Act was repealed in 1496, but the same scale was fixed in 1514 by an Act that was not repealed until 1562.

It will be observed that the highest rate under these Acts is sevenpence a day, although in several instances in the accounts referred to above a Master Shipwright was paid eightpence a day.

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