[364] To inaugurate the use of. (N.E.D.)
[365] Presumably of Deptford Yard, but he may mean Blackwall. She had been undocked at Ratcliff.
[366] The Gore Channel, running between the Kent coast and Margate Hook Sand, west of Birchington.
[367] Thomas; one of the pilots for the river and Downs. The name appears elsewhere as 'Poynett,' 'Punnett,' and 'Poinet.' He signed with a mark 'T.'
[368] On the Essex shore, half-way between London and Gravesend.
[369] Now covered by the extension of Chatham Dockyard northwards.
[370] A Captain of the Navy, commended by Nottingham to Salisbury in 1609 for having taken Harris, the pirate, on the Irish coast and done good service off the West Islands of Scotland (Cal. S.P.D., July 3, 1609).
[371] For the time being.
[372] MS. 'taken.'
[373] It was customary at that period to fire salutes with shotted guns, and accidents from the shot were not infrequent.