[1561] State Papers, Dom. Eliz., ccviii, 18.
[1563] State Papers, Dom. Eliz., clxxviii, 12.
[1564] Naval Tracts: Churchill’s Voyages, III, 371, ed. 1704.
[1565] Lansd. MSS., 70, f. 231.
[1566] The quintal varied from 101½ to 155 lbs; ordinarily it was the former.
[1567] A traveller to the Spanish colonies had to produce satisfactory evidence that he was a native of the peninsula, a good Catholic, not only in present belief but by descent, and that he was sailing with the knowledge and consent of his wife. There was a flourishing trade, at Seville, in forged certificates to meet these requirements; there was also a trade in smuggled passengers outwards as well as in smuggled goods homewards.
[1568] Lex Mercatoria.
[1569] About the latitude of the Straits of Gibraltar.
[1570] Spanish, Amainar las velas, to lower the sails; the summons to strike.