[22] Rogers’s original log book was, in 1828, in the possession of Gabriel Goldney, Mayor of Bristol, whose ancestor helped to fit out the expedition.

[23] B.M. Sloane MSS. 4044, fol. 155. See also his “Voyage,” p. 307.

[24] “Polit. State of Gt. Britain,” xiv, 1717, p. 295.

[25] Public Record Office: C.O. 23, 12.

[26] C.O. 23, 2.

[27] C.O. 23, 2.

[28] Addison, “Works,” 1856, vi, 496. Anson in 1740 complained bitterly that his land forces consisted of pensioners from Chelsea.

[29] Ibid., 500.

[30] Aitken, “Life of Steele,” ii, 162.

[31] “Polit. State,” xv, 447.