[122] Cal. S. P., Dom. (1581-1590), p. 255.
[123] One bitter critic avers that the expression was due to the number of low-born captains, who, having no arms to bear on their ensigns, were obliged to trust to distinctions of colour only.
[124] Collins.
[125] Tercio Viejo.
[126] The press-gangs were not very scrupulous. On one occasion they took advantage of Easter Sunday to close all the church doors in London and take a thousand men from the various congregations.—Stow.
[127] The grandson of the victor of Pavia.
[128] Stow says that they fired two volleys only, which I hope is incorrect. The passage, however, shows that the reason for the three volleys was already unknown to many.
[129] That is to say a fort or intrenchment. German schanze. It seems a pity that we should have allowed so useful a term to become obsolete.
[130] Stow.
[131] Cal. S. P., Dom. (1588), p. 513.