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 1920 SIXTEENTH CENTURY 503 an addition to the royal navy since July 1548, and Mr. Oppen- heim says that it was a French prize captured in 1549.^ This is almost certainly true, but when he adds that the ship for whose capture the crew of the Minion received £100 prize money was probably the Black Galley,^ he is in error, for the Pipe Office Declared Accounts for this year definitely say that the prize for which this reward was given was the Mary of Fecamp laden with sugar, ^ and this is confirmed by an order from the privy council for the sale of 210 chests of sugar which Winter, captain of the Minion, had taken in the Mary of Fecamp in December 1549.* As galleys were not cargo ships, the Mary of Fecamp could not have become the Black Galley. There is, however, little doubt that the late French galley of May 1549 is really the Black Galley, of which Mr. Tyrrell is said to be in command in November of the same year, ^ and as Richard Broke is called by the privy council the captain of the Red Galley on 17 May 1549,® and is spoken of throughout the Pipe Office Declared Accounts from September 1548 to October 1551 as captain of the Galley Subtile,'' this satisfactorily identifies the ' Inglesshe Gallay ' with the Galley Subtile and the Red Galley. Also in the same series of accounts ^ there are payments for the victualling of the Galley Mermaid under the command of William Tyrrell ; as she appears for the first time about 1549, there need be no hesitation in assuming that Galley Mermaid is merely another name for the Black Galley, the late French prize. ' From 1549 to 1559, therefore, there were only two galleys in the royal navy and not three as Mr. Oppenheim states,^ though each passed under different names at different times. But official opinion was turning steadily against them. They were certainly employed in 1550 when the two galleys and a pinnace went to sea under Sir William Woodhouse,^" but on 7 February 1551 the privy council issued an order that the Lord Admyrall shall cause a declaracion to be brought in by Mondaie next of the debtes owing to the Gallie men, and tooching the Gallies, that enough, misreads Broke as Drake, but fortunately refrains from identifying him with any member of the Drake family. William Terrell had commanded the Grand Mistress in 1545 {State Papers of Henry VIII, i. 812). • p. 101. * i.e. the FrencB prize. Oppenheim, pp. 10(5-7. ' Pipe Office Declared Accounts 2194. • Acts of the Privy Council, ji. 398, February 1550. ' Ihid. ii. 354, 5 November 1549. * Ibid. p. 284. ' Pipe Office Declared Accounts 2194. • Pipe Office Declared Accounts 2194 and 2365 (28 June 1550 to 29 September 1552). • ' p. 101 ; see also ' a lettre to the Lorde Admyrall to disarme the twoo gallies ', in Acts of the Privy Council, iii. 214, 15 February 1551. This conclusion is also in accord with the navy list for 1552, printed in Derrick, pp. 16-17.
 * ' Acts of the Privy Council, iii. 77, 113.