page 16 note * Sucket, a kind of sweetmeat.

page 20 note * An old nautical term, “To go or put roomer,” to tack about before the wind. Perhaps derived from the French remuer.

^{page 28 note a} The paragraph commencing here with the words “and perceaving” and terminating with “hir own defence” has been specially marked in the original.

^{page 29 note a} The words here included in brackets are struck out.

^{page 35 note a} Query Robert Throckmorton? The families of Gifford and Throckmorton were allied by marriage.

^{page 41 note a} Hannega or rather fanega, a Spanish measure of corn weighing about Icwt. or somewhat more than an English bushel.

^{page 42 note a} Walsingham?

^{page 43 note a} This is a draught or copy with corrections and interlineations added in Burghley's hand.

^{page 47 note a} The words here denoted by italics were originally; written in cipher.

^{page 47 note b} qu, contest.

^{page 51 note a} This must have been the first rough estimate or valuation of this richly-cargoed prize, for we find among the Domestic Correspondence ( S. P. O.), under date of Oct. 8,1587, another and apparently more comprehensive estimate of “all the merchandise discharged out of the St Phillippe in the Ryver of Saltashe.”

Among the articles therein enumerated are starched calico cloth, broad unstarched calico, calicos in papers, calico-lawnes, coarse calico towels, painted pintados, calico diapers, fine white china silk, stitched calicos called “boultelles,” fine calico called “canekens,” coloured buckrams, coloured “sipres,” quilts, turkey carpets, striped coarse carpets, coloured tinsel taffetas, changeable silks, and cruel boratos, white sarcenets, bales of indigo blue, tons of dry and wet pepper, kintals of cinnamon and cloves, mace and benjamin, china packed in barrels, lacquerie, saltpetre, beeswax, nutmegs, ebony, &c.

The grand total, as given therein, is valu ed at £108,049 13 11, a prodigiously-large amount as compared with our present rate of currency.

page 54 note * The Mr. Stallenge mentioned at p. 49.