[42] C.O., 23, 1.
[43] B.M. Add. MSS. 5145, C. ff. 123-6.
[44] Adam Cardonnel, one of the proprietors of the Bahama Islands.
[45] A reference evidently to the ducking-stool.
[46] John Sansome, a schoolfellow of Steele, and his assistant in the Fish Pool Scheme. Rogers had met him at the Tennis Coffee House in November, 1717.
[47] C.O. 23, 13.
[48] C.O. 23, 1.
[49] I.e. Charles Vane. See ante p. xxix.
[50] Edward Thaitch or Teach, a famous pirate known as “Blackbeard.” Killed in action with Robert Maynard of H.M.S. Pearl eighteen days after this letter. See also page xxix.
[51] C.O. 23, 1.