Crosbie in verse 6 should be Kirkby. Captain Richard Kirkby, commander of the Defiance, was sentenced to be shot. In the report it is alleged ‘that during the six days’ engagement he never encouraged his men; but by his own example of dodging behind the mizen-mast, and falling down upon the deck on the noise of shot ... the said men were under great discouragement.’ P. 149. =The Death of Admiral Benbow.= Printed by Halliwell, _Early Naval Ballads_, ‘from a broadside printed at Salisbury by Fowler, a noted ballad printer of the last century.’ A chapbook printed at Edinburgh in 1823 supplies some variants in verses 1-7, and adds verses 8-10. Some of these variants have been adopted in the text, especially in verses 4 and 7, where they supply the rhymes missing in Halliwell’s version. The three verses given in brackets are evidently a later addition. In verse 4 ‘Noah’s Ark’ is perhaps a nickname, but more probably a corruption of the name of Benbow’s flagship, the Breda. In the report of the trial it is called throughout the ‘Bredah,’ and the accentuation of the last syllable would account for the appearance of ‘Ark.’ No doubt the line originally ran ‘’Twas the Ruby and Bredah.’ For the tune see Chappell, _Old English Popular Music_, ii. 94. P. 151. =Sailor’s Account of the Action at Vigo.= From the collection of the Earl of Crawford. A broadside printed by Sam. Farley of Exeter. P. 153. =On the Sea Fight between Sir G. R. and Toulouse.= _Poems on Affairs of State_, ed. 1716, iii. 112. P. 153. =A Song on the Same.= _Ib._, p. 113. P. 154. =The Sailor’s Tragedy.= From the Douce collection in the Bodleian Library (_The Sea-faring Garland_: Douce P. P. 183). P. 156. =The Valiant Admiral.= _Ib._ P. 158. =The Sea-Fight, or the French Prize taken.= From _The Diverting Muse, or the Universal Medley_, part vi., 1707. P. 159. =The Dismal Lamentation, &c.= From the Douce collection in the Bodleian Library (_The New Portsmouth and Spithead Garland_: Douce P. P. 183). On the accident see Clowes ii. 529. P. 162. =The Sailor’s Complaint.= Text from a volume of songs called _The Nightingale_, printed in 1738. A nineteenth-century version from a broadside is given in Ashton’s _Real Sailor Songs_, p. 65*. For the tune see Chappell, _Old English Popular Music_, ed. Wooldridge, ii. 165. P. 163. =Fair Sally.= Text from _A Collection of Diverting Songs_, published about 1740, p. 217. Another version, which substitutes ‘seaman’ for ‘sailor,’ may be found at p. 174 of the collection called _The Lark_, published in 1740, and also in Ashton’s _Real Sailor Songs_, p. 63. P. 164. ‘=How Pleasant a Sailor’s Life Passes.=’ From _A Collection of Diverting Songs_. Also in Ramsay’s _Tea Table Miscellany_, p. 168, where it is entitled _The Sailor’s Rant_.