[1124] State Papers, Dom., cclxxix, 27.

[1125] State Papers, Dom., cccxix, 4, 15. When ships were in commission captains were in the habit of cutting windows and scuttles in a vessel’s side if it suited their convenience.

[1126] Ibid., cclxxxiii, 1.

[1127] Aud. Off. Dec. Accounts, 1703, 78.

[1128] State Papers, Dom., ccccxcviii, 48 and 51.

[1129] Ibid., xxxiii, 108; 1626.

[1130] Ibid., 78.

[1131] State Papers, Dom., Elizabeth, ccxxxvii, f. 60 (list of French and Spanish ships before Rochelle). There were thirty-six Spaniards, and eleven of them were of 1000 tons apiece, the others being nearly as large.

[1132] State Papers, Dom., Charles I, clxiv; 9th April 1630.

[1133] Ibid., cxcviii, 84.