page 179 note a [Captain of the Burford, of 70 guns, in the battle of Cape Passaro.]

page 179 note b [? Prebendary of Winchester, Preacher of the Rolls, and Rector of Mitchelmarsh in Hants. Wood's Athen. Oxon., iv. 555.]

page 180 note a [Thomas Jacobs, at this time rated as A.B. on board the Ranelagh. Captain 1709. Died 1748.]

page 180 note b [The name does not appear in the Ranelagh's pay-book.]

page 180 note c [Streynsham Master, brother of Mrs. Byng and of Mrs. Pocock; at this time 22 years old, and a midshipman of the Ranelagh. Captain, 1710; commanded the Superbe in the action off Cape Passaro in 1718; died 1724.]

page 181 note a [The inscription here quoted must have been removed shortly after Mr. Pocock saw it, to make way for the present one (See Worsley's Hist, of the Isle of Wight, 267), which ends : “Honoratissimo patruo infra sepulto hoc monumentum posnit Henricus Hohnes.”]

page 184 note a [There is no mention of leaving Lisbon. See ante, p. 126.]

page 189 note a [Afterwards one of the chaplains of Greenwich Hospital and chaplain of the ordinary at Deptford, in which offices he was succeeded by Mr. Pocock.]

page 194 note a [This was not unusual. Here is another rather curious instance. At a courtmartial held at Port Royal on 2 March 1698–9, of which Admiral Benbow was president, three men found guilty of desertion were condemned “to be hanged by the neck till they are dead, dead, dead. But in regard of the want of men, it's further the opinion of the court-martial that they heave a die, and one only to suffer death; the other two to be whipt from ship to ship with a halter about their neck.”—Minutes of the Court-Martial.]

page 198 note a [30 Oct. 1704. Cf. Parl. Hist., vi. 356–7, and note.]

page 198 note b [Toulon. This passage is a clear proof that the journal is a fair copy. Toulon was not taken (if the term is at all applicable) till 1707.]

page 199 note a [He has never said anything about getting into the Admiral's cabin. See ante, June 12.]