TRINITY-HOUSE, is a kind of college at Deptford, belonging to a company or corporation of seamen, who have authority by the king's charter to take knowledge of those that destroy sea-marks; also to redress the faults of sailors, and divers other things belonging to navigation. Eliz. c. 13. By a late statute, pilots of ships coming up the Thames, are to be examined and approved by the master and wardens of Trinity-house, &c. 3 Geo. 1. c. 13.