[270] The Prince Royal.
[271] MS. 'flower.' 'Floor—are those timbers lying transverse to the keel, being bolted through it ... and strictly taken, is so much only of her bottom as she rests upon when lying aground.'—Blanckley, Naval Expositor.
[272] Troublesome, painful.
[273] Lie.
[274] Careless.
[275] The Tuck is 'that part of the ship where the ends of the bottom planks are collected together immediately under the stem ... a square tuck' (as in this case) 'is terminated above by the wing transom and below and on each side by the fashion-pieces' (Falconer, Marine Dictionary). According to Sutherland (Shipbuilder's Assistant), the 'height of the tuck' was taken from the point where the heels of the fashion-pieces were 'let in upon the posts,' i.e. upon the stern post and false stern post.
[276] Bully, swashbuckler.
[277] A coach or chariot of a stately or luxurious kind.—N.E.D.
[278] Sir Robert Cecil had been created Earl of Salisbury in 1605.
[279] Considering.