[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.