[177] Large ships of burden, Spanish caraca.
“They were made like carracks, only strength and stowage.”
(Beaumont and Fletcher, Coxc., Act ii.)
[179] These pages, doubtless, relate the battle, which, as the sequel shows, was a victory for the English.
[180] Most of these ships are alluded to in the State Papers, when they came in to be cleaned, when they brought in a prize, etc., etc. Sir Thomas Allen was once in command of the Greenwich.
[181] Those which went into the Mediterranean.
[182] The Round House was an erection abaft the mainmast for the accommodation of the ship’s officers.
[183] “The waist of a ship is a hollow space of about five feet in depth, contained between the elevations of the quarter-deck and the forecastle, and having an upper-deck for its base or platform.” (Falconer, Shipwreck, ii.)
[184] Purl was the name originally given to beer with an infusion of wormwood. A Purlman was one who sold it to sailors in the Thames. (Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, vol. ii, p. 108.)