human
and refers to Howell's _Letters_, sect. 5 p. 9, I beg leave to suggest more precision in his future references. The passage is in one (viz. the viii.) of the 42 letters of the 5th section; but in the last and best edition (Lond. 1754) it is p. 204. I note this to inculcate the necessity of accurate references and mention of the edition quoted. As to the query itself, I can answer that the
gpt
were a class, perhaps I might say a _litter_, of light men-of-war of the fifth rate, which were so called, perhaps, after one named the
human
in Queen Elizabeth's navy, and distinguished by numbers, as
gpt
human
and so on to at least