[694] Ibid., clxxxvi, 43.
[695] Ibid., cclxxxvi, 36.
[696] Quoted by Duro, Disq. Nauticas, II, 189. Professor Laughton considers that the losses of the Armada, in the flight round the west coasts of Scotland and Ireland, were as much due to bad seamanship as to the summer gales with which they had to contend.
[697] State Papers, Dom., iii, 44.
[698] Slings do not again occur in ordnance papers; these were probably relics of the reign of Henry VIII.
[699] The ‘pace’ was 5 feet (Cott. MSS. Julius F. IV, f. 1, Arte of Gunnery).
[700] Lansd. MSS. 113, f. 177.
[701] State Papers, Dom., xcvi, p. 275 (1577).
[702] Ibid., p. 317.
[703] Ibid., clxxxvi, 34.