[80] Edited by Professor Sir J. K. Laughton, M.A., R.N., Navy Records Society, 1894.
[81] Given on p. 274 of “State Papers relating to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada,” vide supra.
[82] Ibid. p. 82.
[83] See “The British Mercantile Marine: a Short Historical Review,” by Edward Blackmore, London, 1897.
[84] “Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson,” edited by M. Oppenheim, Navy Records Society, 1902. See vol. ii. p. 328.
[85] “Papers relating to the Navy during the Spanish War, 1585-1587,” edited by J. S. Corbett, LL.M., Navy Records Society, 1898. I wish to express my indebtedness to this volume, and to Mr. Oppenheim’s “Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson,” for much matter in regard to the different types of Elizabethan ships.
[86] The reader who desires fuller information on the subject is referred to an interesting article “The Lost Tapestries of the House of Lords,” in Harper’s Monthly Magazine, April, 1907, from the pen of Mr. Edmund Gosse.
[87] These nettings were at first made of metal chain, but in the time of Elizabeth they were of rope.
[88] The illustration is taken from a print in the British Museum made by an artist who was born in 1620.
[89] It is interesting to note that in the year 1903 some Armada relics, consisting of a bronze breach loader, found fully charged, and a pair of bronze compasses were recovered from the wreck of the Spanish galleon Florencia, in Tobermory Bay, Isle of Mull. She had formed one of the Spanish fleet which fled up the North Sea from the English Channel, round the north of Scotland to the west coast, where in August of 1588 this 900-ton ship was blown up.