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

[1551] State Papers, Dom., Eliz., clxx, 57, and clxxviii, 12.

[1552] Add. MSS., 9294 f. 60.

[1553] State Papers, Dom., Eliz., ccvi, 15. Wynter and Borough to Burghley.

[1554] Of 1585, see supra, [p. 162].

[1555] Lansd. MSS., 52 f. 117.

[1556] Hawkyns was more generous to Borough. In 1582 he wrote on his behalf to Walsyngham, ‘Mr Borough is a man of great virtew and judgment.’ (State Papers, clvi, 34). In fact he very seldom indulged in recriminations even in the thick of the attacks on himself, usually contenting himself with defending his procedure.

[1557] State Papers, Dom. Eliz., cciv, 18. Burghley’s usual way of writing Allen—the name only occurs in one other instance in his writing—was Ally, with a contraction mark over the last letter. In this case he omitted the contraction dash but, from internal evidence, there is no doubt of the identity.

[1558] Lansd. MSS., 52 f. 117.

[1559] State Papers, Dom. Eliz., cciv, 17.

[1560] Cott. MSS., Otho E VIII, f. 169.