[2] Cape Finisterre.
[3] Cape St. Vincent.
[4] MS. Cape Devert.
[5] MS. 'loofe.'
[6] Corporal of the field meant the equivalent of an A.D.C. or orderly.
[7] This appears to be the first known mention of a court-martial being provided for officially at sea.
[8] This passage is corrupt in the MS. and is restored from Wimbledon's Article 32, post, p. 58.
[9] This was the Spanish practice. There is no known mention of it earlier in the English service.
[10] Gorges's article about 'Musket-arrows' is here omitted by Ralegh.
[11] I.e. 'noisy confusion.' Shakspeare has 'I heard a bustling rumour like a fray.'