| "1722.—Gave 5 sailors taken by Pierates | ... | 10d. |
| 1723.—Gave 1 man that had been in turkey | ... | 1d. |
| 1726.—Gave 6 poor men tacking by the pirits | ... | 6d. |
| 1726.—Gave 7 poor sailors burnt | ... | 1s." |
Mr. Henry Caer of Portishead, who has been good enough to send me these extracts, thinks that "burnt" in the last entry means that their ship had been burnt.
[28] i.e. "yield".
[29] This, the old Grecian signal to engage, in 1292 "signified certain death and mortal strife to all sailors everywhere". In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was constantly used as an emblem of "Defiance" and "No Quarter". The mutineers at the Nore hoisted it in 1797, as did the Paris Communists in 1871.
[30] A species of grape-shot.
[31] "Bonnet", an extra piece of canvas laced to a sail to enlarge it. "Vail", to lower.
[32] Or Convertine, originally the Destiny.
[33] Guizot, Cromwell, and the English Commonwealth.
[34] Louis XIV of France.
[35] In the Civil War, according to Warburton's Memoirs of Prince Rupert, apothecaries' mortars were sometimes used in emergencies.