[585] J. Edye, Calculations relating to the displacement of ships of war, Lond. 1832.
[586] State Papers, Dom. ccix, 85.
[587] Rowing seat.
[588] State Papers, Dom., ccxxix, 77.
[589] By 39 Eliz. c. 4. (1597-8) ‘dangerous rogues’ were to be sent to the galleys, but it is the only statute so directing and does not seem to have been acted on (Turner, History of Vagrants and Vagrancy, p. 129). Nor am I aware of any allusion to an English galley service in the literature of the time.
[590] State Papers, Dom., ccxliii, 110.
[591] Works, II, 78, ed. 1751.
[592] Cecil MSS. Cal. ii, 222.
[593] W. Bourne, Inventions or Devises, Lond. 1578. Bourne’s book was possibly the origin of the fireships used at Calais in 1588; it must have been well known to the leading seamen of the fleet.