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 Rh period. Captains received £7. 0. 0 per month; mates and pilots, £2. 2. 0; surgeons, £2. 10. 0; midshipmen, £1. 1. 0; captain's clerks, £1. 10. 0; stewards, £.1 0. 0; cooks,£1. 4. 0; gunners, £2. 0. 0; boatswains, £2. 2. 0; carpenters, £2. 0. 0; quartermasters, £1. 6. 0; able seamen, £.1. 4. 0; ordinary seamen, 19s; and boys, 9s. 6d. These wages were based upon the navy scale, and were the same as paid on board the sixth rates. They were the same on board the smaller yachts, but these did not usually carry a surgeon, nor any midshipmen nor quartermasters.

This scale of remuneration will probably not be regarded as excessive by yachtsmen of the present day, yet, nevertheless. King Charles had difficulty in inducing his frugal Naval Board of Commissioners to pay even these amounts; for Pepys informs us, under date of February, 1677, that the wages then due to the Queenborough yacht, were thirty-five or thirty-six months overdue; whereas, on the other hand, we are unable to discover any record that the comfortable salaries and emoluments collected by these commissioners were ever in arrear.

The English appear to have followed the custom of the Dutch regarding the various employments to which yachts were put; and, as we have seen, the Henrietta was sunk, and the Katherine was captured in action. This naval war was caused partly by a yacht. In 1671, it appears, the yacht Merlin was sent to bring Lady Temple to England, and her commander instructed "on his return to sail