SOURCE: The Saturday Magazine, No. 117. Supplement, April, 1834
In the following reign, a considerable advance seems to have been made in the size of merchant-ships, for according to the inscription on the tomb of that "princely merchant," William Canning of Bristol, in Redcliffe church in that city, (date 1474,) we learn, that in consequence of "his having forfeited the king's peace," he was ordered to pay 3000 marks, in lieu of which, Edward the Fourth took 2470 tons of shipping, amongst which there was a ship of 900 tons, another of 500 tons, and one of 400 tons: but these vessels must clearly have been built by Canning expressly for the Royal service, if we consider the diminutive size of merchant-ships which prevailed during the greater part of the following century.
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