[8] A coarse woollen stuff.
[9] Innkeepers.
[10] Threw the enemy's survivors overboard and drowned them.
[11] Called.
[12] At one time the "British Blue" was rather fond of calling himself a "matlow" or "matlo", though it is said the custom is falling into disuse. It has been stated that it dates from the old comradeship of French and English in the Crimean War. The French word matelot, by the way, is derived from matelas, a mattress. Before hammocks, two men used a mattress in turn, one being always on watch.
[13] I say "ordinary" advisedly, as an archer got 3d. a day in 1346 and probably earlier.
[14] "Hereby would I shew you how foolhardy is he who adventures himself in such peril, if he be in debt to any man, or is in deadly sin; for one goes to sleep at night never knowing whether one will awake at the bottom of the sea."
[15] Paul Lacroix.
[16] "Bus", "ships of the largest size, with triple sails".
[17] She was first called the Gret Carrick, then Imperyall Carrick, next Henry Imperiall. The name Henri Grace à Dieu was written with all kinds of variations; sometimes she was merely called the Harry, and finally, after King Harry's death, the Edward.