[414] Complete.
[415] I.e. the ship.
[416] The 'furrow' or depression in the ground made by the ship's bottom.
[417] MS. 'to.'
[418] This word, which Pepys transcribes as 'pritly,' is not in the N.E.D., but since it appears to have the same meaning as 'predy' (or 'priddy') which was in use at sea in the seventeenth century for 'make ready' or 'set ... in order,' it is not impossible that it may be a variation of that word.
[419] The ends of the Buxey and Gunfleet sands, where the Spitway leads between them from the East Swin to the Wallet.
[420] Eight and a half miles north of Margate.
[421] The entrance to the Thames, opposite the Queen's Channel; not the English Channel.
[422] Drew ahead or became 'scant.' The use of 'shorten in this sense is rare and unknown to the dictionaries.
[423] MS. 'Blakenborough.' On the Belgian coast.