[185] Sir Thomas Allen is frequently alluded to by Pepys as a brave soldier and sailor in the wars against the Dutch. He was an admiral of high repute during Charles II’s reign. In 1664 he was appointed to command the Mediterranean squadron, and captured the Dutch “Smyrna fleet”.
[186] Calpe and Abyla, anciently known as the Pillars of Hercules.
[187] There are fifteen side-chapels in Malaga Cathedral.
[188] I.e., brother clergyman.
[189] Dragoman.
[190] Codling = a crab- or hedge-apple. “A codling when ’tis almost an apple.” (Twelfth Night, i, 5.)
[191] Galley-man.
[192] A daughter of Cecil, second Lord Baltimore, who founded the colony of Maryland, which his father, the first Lord Baltimore, had projected.
[193] Mad-apples, or Jews’-apples, are fruit of Solanum Melangena.
[194] “Bottled” here means bulging like a bottle. Cf. blue-bottle.