[101] Cal. S.P. Dom., 26 Feb. 1626.

[102] Monson Tracts, ii. 140.

[103] Miscell., vol. x. pp. 257-262: A large and particular complaint against Phineas Pett relating to abuses in the Navy about the end of the Queen's and beginning of King James's Reign. Cf. Dr. Tanner's Introduction in Hollond's Discourses of the Navy (N.R.S., vol. vii.). What is probably the same account is calendared by the Hist. MSS. Commission (Coke MSS, vol. i. p. 36) as '1602 Oct 14} 1603 June 19} allegations by George Colyson of abstraction of sea stores, and other frauds by Phineas Pett.'

[104] Infra, [p. 18].

[105] Infra, [p. 70].

[106] Cott. MSS., Julius F. 111—the depositions of Pett and various witnesses; S.P.D. James I, xxxi. 51—memorandum drawn up from the above; S.P.D. James I, xli.—report of the Commission, drawn up by Sir Robert Cotton, with analytical draft and notes attached.

[107] The capital of Spain from 1601 to 1606.

[108] Pat. Roll, 1771.

[109] The names were as follows: Henry, Earl of Northampton; Charles, Earl of Nottingham; Lord Zouch; Lord Wotton, Comptroller of the Household; Sir Julius Cæsar, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Sir Thomas Parry, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; Sir Edward Phillips and Sir John Doderidge, Serjeants-at-Law; Sir Henry Hobart, Attorney-General; Sir Francis Bacon, Solicitor-General; Sir William Waade, Lieutenant of the Tower; Sir Charles Parkins; Sir Robert Cotton; Sir Thomas Crompton; and John Corbett, a Clerk of the Privy Council. Pat. Roll, 1770.

[110] Cott. MSS., Julius F. 111.