P. 298. =France Covered with Glory.= From Haslewood’s collection of songs in the Bodleian. P. 300. =La Loire Frigate.= From Fairburn’s _Naval Songster_ for 1806, p. 34. The action was June 2, 1805 (Clowes v. 362). P. 301. =Nelson’s Glorious Victory at Trafalgar.= From Logan’s _Pedlar’s Pack_, 1869, p. 67. P. 302. =Death of Nelson.= Versions of this, differing slightly in the words, were printed by Pitts, Such, Forth of Pocklington, and other town and country printers during the first half of the nineteenth century. In _The Scouring of the White Horse_, by T. Hughes, p. 153, it is described as sung in a Berkshire public-house about 1859. ‘The Doctor walked over to a lower table and spoke to a grisly-headed old man in a velveteen coat and waistcoat and a blue birdseye neckerchief, who seemed pleased, and drew his sleeve across his mouth, and cleared his throat. Then there was a rapping on the table, and the old bargee began in a rumbling bass voice: “Come all you gallant seamen as unites a meeting.”’ Four verses only are given, the third in our version being omitted. The last verse ends: ‘And now to conclude, and to finish these verses: “My time it is come; kiss me, Hardy!” he cried. Now thousands go with you, and ten thousand blessings For gallant Lord Nelson, in battle who died.’ The text adopted on p. 302 is a composite version from Such’s and Forth’s: the first four lines are from Such’s version, the last four from Forth’s, and readings are taken from both. The order of the second and third verses has been changed, and the two halves of stanza 3 transposed. Some verbal emendations have been made--_e.g._ ‘rest on,’ for ‘resting,’ in the last line. P. 304. =Admiral Strachan’s Victory.= From Fairburn’s _Naval Songster_ for 1806, p. 32. The action was fought November 4, 1805 (Clowes, v. 171). P. 305. =The Amethyst and Thetis.= From the Madden collection (_London Printers_, ii. 227, No. 451). See Clowes, v. 427; James, iv. 376. The action took place November 10-11, 1808. P. 306. =The Successful Attempt ... in the Basque Roads.= From the Madden collection (_London Printers_, i. 174). See Clowes, v. 252-270; James, iv. 395-430. P. 307. =Jefferys the Seaman.= From the Madden collection (_London Printers_, ii. 2). A full account of the case is given by James, _Naval History_, iv. 273, ed. 1886. Captain Warwick Lake was dismissed from the Navy, February 1810, for marooning Robert Jeffery on the desert island of Sombrero, in the West Indies. P. 308. ‘=Ye Parliament of England.=’ Text from G. C. Eggleston’s _American War Ballads and Lyrics_. New York (1889), i. 131. ‘It was still a favourite song in many parts of the country as late as 1859,’ writes the editor. P. 309. =The Constitution and Guerriere.= Text from Eggleston’s _American War Ballads and Lyrics_, i. 115. Action August 19, 1812. See James, v. 372; Clowes, vi. 34; Mahan, _Sea Power: its Relation to the War of 1812_, i. 330.