thedral of Lisbon, the two ravens accompanied the ship which
contained them, one at its stem and the other at its stern. The relics
were deposited in the Chapel of St. Vincent, within the Cathedral, and
there the two ravens have ever since remained. The monks continued to
support two such birds in the cloisters, and till very lately the
officials gravely informed the visitor to the Cathedral that they were
the identical ravens which accompanied the Saint's relics to their
city. The birds figure in the arms of Lisbon.

[24] The evidence taken by the Commissioners is embodied in a
voluminous report. State Paper Office, Dom. James I., vol. xli. 1608.

[25] The Earl of Northampton, Privy Seal, was Lord Warden of the Cinque
Ports; hence his moving in the matter. Pett says he was his "most
implacable enemy." It is probable that the earl was jealous of Pett,
because he had received his commission to build the great ship directly
from the sovereign, without the intervention of his lordship.

[26] This Royal investigation took place at Woolwich on the 8th May,
1609. The State Paper Office contains a report of the same date, most
probably the one presented to the King, signed by six ship-builders and
Captain Waymouth, and counter signed by Northampton and four others.
The Report is headed "The Prince Royal: imperfections found upon view
of the new work begun at Woolwich." It would occupy too much space to
give the results here.

[27] Alas! for the uncertainties of life! This noble young prince--the
hope of England and the joy of his parents, from whom such great things
were anticipated--for he was graceful, frank, brave, active, and a
lover of the sea,--was seized with a serious illness, and died in his
eighteenth year, on the 16th November, 1612.

[28] Pett says she was to be 500 tons, but when he turned her out her
burthen was rated at 700 tons.

[29] This conduct of Raleigh's was the more inexcusable, as there is in
the State Paper Office a warrant dated 16th Nov., 1617, for the payment
to Pett of 700 crowns "for building the new ship, the Destiny of
London, of 700 tons burthen." The least he could have done was to have
handed over to the builder his royal and usual reward. In the above
warrant, by the way, the title "our well-beloved subject," the ordinary
prefix to such grants, has either been left blank or erased (it is
difficult to say which), but was very significant of the slippery
footing of Raleigh at