[[161]] Ib. 1667-8, p. 443.

[[162]] Ib. 1664-5, p. 475.

[[163]] Ib. 1665-6, p. 32.

[[164]] Ib. 1665-6, p. 53.

[[165]] Historical MSS. Commission, Fifteenth Report, Appendix, pt. ii., p. 167.

[[166]] State Papers, Domestic, Charles II, ccxcvii. 19. Other instances are given in Catalogue of Pepysian MSS., i. 120.

[[167]] Diary, 1 and 2 July, 1666.

[[168]] Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1665-6, p. 323.

[[169]] Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1667-8, p. xv. As late as 1742 Captain John Hamilton reports the pressing of a lime-burner who was nearly blind, and 'a little old cobbler of 56, taken out of his stall rather it should seem for a pastime than service'; and letters of 1747 shew that the pressing of mere lads, or of persons not able-bodied, was a subject of 'general and constant complaint' (Public Record Office, Captains' Letters, H 12; Secretary's Letters, 3). In 1864 or 1865 a 'man' who weighed 70 lbs. was sent on board the Prince Consort at Spithead.

[[170]] 13 April, 1673: State Papers, Domestic, Charles II, cccxliii. 141. See also Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1673, p. 228.