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Rh Cumberland; and in the following year the seventh cup given by the Duke of Cumberland was sailed for. This year's one was valued at 50 guineas and only yachts of the Cumberland Fleet that had won former prizes were permitted to sail. But the following resolution was passed subsequently: "Members of the Society, with the permission of His Royal Highness, challenge and invite all gentlemen, proprietors of pleasure-sailing boats, within the British dominions, to join with them in the contention." This match, accordingly, was sailed on July 9, 1781, and was won also by the

Cumberland, Commodore Taylor, and " caused much excitement, and many thousand persons were assembled on the banks of the river."

In 1781 Naval Architecture, by Marmaduke Stalkartt, was published in London,—the most important work on shipbuilding that had appeared in Great Britain up to that date. Some twenty-eight pages of it are devoted to the construction of the yacht (pp. 28-57), also eighteen pages (pp. 177–195), to the construction of the cutter, but no reference is made to the schooner.