...ancestors, father, grandfather and great grandfather, for the space of two hundred years and upwards, having continued in the same name, officers and architects in the royal Navy." As this ship, observes Mr. Willett, was built in 1037, the account would carry something like a regular...

...work,whose ancestors — father, grandfather, and great grandfather — for the space of two hundred years, have continued in the same name, officers and architects in the Royal Navy." This, ns Willett points nut, indicates a regular establishment as far back as 1*37, the reign of Uenry...

...centuries, and Heywood the historian, speaking of Phineas Pette (157e-164o), says, "whose ancestors — father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, for the...same name officers and architects in the Royal Navy." In Le Neve's "Pedigrees of Knights" Peter Pett (died 1589) is described as "great-grandson of Thomas...

...Sutherland, Britain's Glory, or Shipbuilding Unvail'd, p. 7o. * Vol. xiv. p. 482. the 7th Nov. 17o4, declares his opinion that it will be much for the...fact that Mansell, writing to Thomas Aylesbury 1 in 162o to propose Peter Pett as builder of the new pinnaces; recommended him on the ground that ' his...

...Medway. 268. Phineas Pett (1570-1647). Thomas Hey wood (England 's Remembrance) says, ' his ancestors ... for the space of two hundred years and upwards have...continued in the same name, officers and architects of the Royal Navy'. In 1637 this was rather a prophecy than a fact. The Royal Navy was not so old,...