Citations:Admiral of the Narrow Seas

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English citations of Admiral of the Narrow Seas

    • 1871, William Hepworth Dixon, Her Majesty's Tower, volume 3, page 106:
      Two officers watched the Downs; a Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, an Admiral of the Narrow Seas. For many years Northampton had been Lord Warden, and the kings of Spain had paid him for his treacheries a thousand pounds a-year.
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Citations:Admiral_of_the_Narrow_Seas&oldid=55208365"