[[260]] Ib. iv. 178.
[[261]] Ib. vi. 480.
[[262]] Pepysian MSS., Admiralty Letters, vii. 296.
[[263]] Pepys, in a letter of 3 February, 1674, addressed to Captain Rooth, refers to 'the universal loss of discipline amongst the seamen of England,' 'a vice which I pray God grant I may see rectified before it prove too fatal, not only to his Majesty's service, but to the whole navigation of the country.' (Admiralty Letters, iii. 78).
[[264]] History of England, i. 147-9.
[[265]] Diary, 27 July, 1666.
[[266]] Diary, 2 June, 1663. Cf. also 10 January, 20 October, 1666; 29 June, 1667.
[[267]] Vol. i. pp. lxxiv-xcv.
[[268]] Cf. Diary, 28 October, 1666.
[[269]] Letter to Sir John Holmes, 15 April, 1679 (Pepysian MSS., Admiralty Letters, ix. 206).