Anthony Roll

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The Anthony Roll is a visual record of ships of the Tudor Royal Navy, named after its creator Anthony Anthony.

Anthony Anthony, a clerk in the Ordnance Office who was the son of a Flemish brewer who supplied beer to Henry VIII's armies, compiled an illustrated survey of Henry VIII's Navy. Paintings of fifty-eight ships on three rolls of vellum were presented to the king in 1546. Later, Charles II gave two of the rolls to Samuel Pepys, who had them cut, and made into a book, which is now in the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. The third roll remained in its original form and was sold to the British Museum by Lady Mary Fox, thus passing into the British Library.

[edit] Images from the Anthony Roll

The Great Harry	The Trego Renneger(alias Spanish Shallop), 20 tons - 24 sailors, 1 gunner - 12 swivel guns	The Peter (Alias Peter Pomegranate), 600 tons - 185 soldiers, 185 sailors, 30 gunners - 36 cannons, 66 swivel guns	The Salamander (Scotch Prize from French), 300 tons - 200 sailors, 20 gunners - 21 cannons, 17 swivel guns
The Swallowe - 300 tons - 130 sailors, 30 gunners - 16 cannons, 20 swivel guns