[331]. A careful reading of the available inventories supports the idea that square sails were not at this period carried on the mizen-masts. The sails on fore and main are described as fitted with two sheets, while those on the mizen had but one.

[332]. Letters and Papers, iii, Nos. 2302, 2308, 2320, 2355. &c.

[333]. Ibid., iv, No. 2635.

[334]. Laird Clowes, Royal Navy, i. 421.

[335]. Letters and Papers, ii. 1472.

[336]. Letters and Papers, i, p. 464.

[337]. Ibid., p. 716.

[338]. Venetian Cal. vi, App. No. 171.

[339]. Spont, p. 179.

[340]. Letters and Papers, i, p. 344.