[[231]] State Papers, Domestic, Charles II, cccxxix. 11.
[[232]] Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1672, p. 668.
[[233]] Ib. 1672, p. 675. An interesting discussion of victualling abuses is contained in a paper of 1673 or 1674, entitled The Expense and Charge of his Majesty's Naval Victuals considered and regulated, by Captain Stephen Pyend or Pine, who had been himself formerly a purser (Pepysian MSS., Miscellanies, iii. 723). The substance of it is printed in Catalogue of Pepysian MSS., i. 160-4.
[[234]] Pepysian MSS., No. 2867, Naval Precedents, p. 416. The contract is fully discussed in Catalogue of Pepysian MSS., i. 165-177.
[[235]] Pepysian MSS., No. 2866, Naval Minutes, p. 146.
[[236]] Discourses, p. 177.
[[237]] Described in Catalogue of Pepysian MSS., i. 177.
[[238]] 'Calentures,' or burning fevers, were supposed to be bred by calms. Sir Walter Ralegh refers to his own sufferings from them (Remains, London, 1664, p. 223).
'Scarbot' is probably from 'scharbock,' the Danish name for one form of scurvy (John Quincey, Lexicon Physico-medicum, London, 1787); the modern Danish term for scurvy is 'skabet.'
[[239]] See Admiralty Letters, vi. 228.