[31]. Elder brother of Sir Francis Samuel Drake, Bart., but himself neither baronet nor knight; and a vice-admiral at his death in 1788.
[32]. When in command of the Countess of Scarborough, hired ship.
[33]. Esteemed a good antiscorbutic. Our ships continued to brew it, up to 1840.
[34]. Possibly a pun on ‘turn-ing up Channel’ (cf. ante, p. [37]); or a variation on the familiar ‘playing hell and turn up Jack’ = ‘making things lively’ (cf. post, p. [65]).
[35]. The list is interesting, as showing that, in 1785, a ‘smock frock’ was in the slop-list.
[36]. This would seem to have been a mere short-lived association, with its head quarters at St. John’s, and may, perhaps, be compared—with a difference—to the nearly contemporary ‘Order of Marlborough,’ described in N.R.S. vi. 387. There are obvious geographical reasons why it cannot have been connected with any foul club of the name (there was a long succession of such) in London.
[37]. See Charnock, vi. 284.
[38]. Died, in command of the Grampus, 1786. See D.N.B.
[39]. The purser ‘was allowed one-eighth for waste on all provisions embarked.’ Provisions were thus issued at the ‘purser’s pound’ of 14 oz.—Smyth. In the mutiny at Spithead in 1797, the seamen demanded and obtained an order that the pound should in future be of 16 oz.