[312]. Robert Thorne’s drawing, 1527, shows a bonnet on main-topsail.
[313]. For information on this subject see Laird Clowes, History of the Navy, i, chap. xiii.
[314]. For detailed description of method of making and using an astrolabe, see Cortes, Breve Compendio de la Sphera y de la Arte de Navegar, chap. viii.
[315]. Naval Accounts and Inventories, Introductions, p. xxi.
[316]. Letters and Papers, i, No. 3591.
[317]. In Laird Clowes’s History of the Navy, i. 413, there is an illustration of a Genoese carrack from a drawing said to have been made in 1452; but it has every appearance of being at least a century later in date.
[318]. Cal. of Le Fleming MSS., p. 8.
[319]. See Oppenheim’s Naval Accounts and Inventories of Henry VII; inventory of the Henry Grace à Dieu in the same author’s Administration of the Navy; drawings of warships in Add. MSS., 22047; Archaeologia, vi. 208; Volpe’s picture at Hampton Court, &c.
[320]. Naval Accounts and Inventories, pp. 216–17. The armament here given is that mounted in 1497 when the ship was chartered for a voyage to the Levant by some merchants of London.
[321]. Administration of the Royal Navy, p. 35.