[23] Spanish, ballenere, long low vessels for oars and sails introduced in the fourteenth century by the Biscayan builders (Fernandez Duro, La Marina de Castilla p. 158.)
[24] Rot. Pat.
[25] Roll of Foreign Accounts, No. 8.
[26] Foremast. French, mât de misaine.
[27] Exch. Accts. (Q.R.), Bdle. 49, No. 29. ‘Turris ligni vocat Bulwerk ... super introitu portus de Hamell per salva custodia naves.’
[28] ‘Unius fabrice.’
[29] Binnacle.
[30] Somerhuche is derived from old English Somer, a bedstead, and old French huche; it was originally, therefore, a sleeping place.
[31] Acts of the Privy Council, 3rd Mar. 1423. Nicolas says (Introduction, vol. v, cxxxvi), that the whole of the navy was ordered to be sold, but the wording of the entry does not support this authoritative statement. The later records prove clearly that they were not all sold; but whether because no such wholesale clearance had been intended, or from want of purchasers, there is no conclusive evidence to show.