A history of the administration of the Royal Navy and of merchant shipping in relation to the Navy from MDIX to MDCLX, with an introduction treating of the preceding period

by M. Oppenheim

[444] 28 ells: the English ell is five—the French six-fourths of a yard; as the canvas was French, the ells are most likely French.

[445] Probably Vitré (Brittany).

[446] A bale.

[447] A Breton canvas. There was a ‘poll davye baye’ on the Breton coast (State Papers, ed. 1830, xiv, 325), and a small village named Poldavid is situated in Douarnenez Bay. At a later date it is frequently called ‘Dantzic Polldavy’ and then probably means a canvas of Breton type obtained from Dantzic.

[448] Printed in full in Archæologia, vi, 218.

[449] Lansd. MSS. 2, f. 66.

[450] Probably the Moon, Seven Stars, and Swift.

[451] Pipe Office Accounts, 2194.

[452] Harl. MSS., 354, f. 9. Printed in full in Derrick’s Memoirs of the Royal Navy, pp. 16, 17.

[453] Edward was present at the launch of the Primrose and Mary Willoby on the 4th July 1551 (Journal).