XXI. NO RECORD TO REMAIN.

I NEVER did read, nor can learn from any, that ever Queen Elizabeth had any ship-royal, which in the name thereof carried the memorial of any particular conquest she got either by land or by water. Yet was she as victorious as any prince in her age, and (which is mainly material) her conquests were mostly achieved against foreign enemies.

The ships of her navy had only honest and wholesome names, the Endeavour, the Bonaventure, the Return, the Unity, &c.

Some of our modern ships carry a very great burden in their names; I mean the memorial of some fatal fights in the civil wars in our own nation, and the conquerors ought not to take much joy, as the conquered must take grief in the remembrance thereof.

I am utterly against the rebaptizing of Christians, but I am for the redipping of ships, that not only some inoffensive, but ingratiating names may be put upon them; the Unity, the Reconciliation, the Agreement, the Concord, and healing titles, (I speak more like a bookman than a seaman,) and others to that purpose.