[22]. Ibid.

[23]. Chamberlayne’s State of Great Britain in the seventeenth century.

[24]. State Papers, edited, 1626.

[25]. State Papers, edited, 1626.

[26]. Brodie (vol. ii., p. 147) says that only ten sail of the hundred ships that formed Buckingham’s fleet were the king’s ships; but it seems from these letters that the number was much greater.

[27]. State Papers, vol. lxvi., No. 19.

[28]. Ibid., Domestic, vol. lxviii., No. 3; see also Preface to Calendar, by Mr. Bruce, p. 11.

[29]. Own.

[30]. Action.

[31]. Sir Sackville Crowe, who had been keeper of the Duke’s privy purse, and was now treasurer of the Navy.