[18] Each of the Carews adopted the badge of a ship's "fighting-top", which still appears as the crest of the family.
[19] Purchased about 1544, probably from the Hansa.
[20] Seeling means literally to "roll from side to side", but it is evidently here used for the sides themselves.
[21] As guns of these days were called after animals and birds, the "musket" received its name from "mosquito".
[22] The Elizabethan seamen, and indeed their successors, must have inherited somewhat of the old Viking Berserkers' dislike of defensive armour, or any equipment limiting bodily activity. Sir Richard Hawkins complained in 1593 that though he had with him in his expedition to the South Seas "great preparation of armour, as well of proofe as of light corsletts, yet not a man would use them ".
[23] Law's Memorialls.
[25] Nicholas. History British Navy.
[26] Massinger.
[27] From the Parish Books of Portishead, Somerset: Acct. of Disbursements:—