[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.