...fleet of my Lord of Sandwich, who is now at Lisbone to bring over the Queen. The business of Algiers hath of late troubled me, because my Lord hath not...what he went for, though he did as much as any man in 1 This fray was the occasion of a good joke at the French Court, thus related in the Menagiana, vol....

...Nothing, however, was done, for a few months later we find the same writer bitterly complaining : " The want of money puts all things, and, above all,...navy, out of order, and yet I do not see that the long takes care to bring in any money, but thinks of new designs to lay out money." Only a few months...

...' we are at our Office quiet, only for lack of money all things go to rack.' 30 September, 1661 : ' the want of money puts all things, and above all the Navy, out of order.' 28 June, 1662 : ' God knows, the King is not able to set out five ships at this present without great...

...Pepys, among all the wise things that he wrote never penned a truer line than when he remarked that "the want of money puts all things, and above all the Navy, out of order." Charles was starved of supplies, he could not support the garrison or even pay the soldiers' wages...

...Lisbone to bring over the Queene who doth now keep a Court as Queen of England. The business of Argier 3 hath of late troubled me, because my Lord hath not...done. The want of money puts all things, and above all things the Navy, out of order; and yet I do not see that the King takes care to bring in any money,...

...: ' we are at our Office quiet, only for lack of money all things go to rack.' 30 September, 1661: 'the want of money puts all things, and above all the Navy, out of order.' 28 June, 1662: ' God knows, the King is not able to set out five ships at this present without great...