=P. 54=, l. 19. 'The Spanish fleet.' A Spanish fleet entered the mouth of the Gironde some weeks after the surrender of Bordeaux, and made several futile attempts to sail up to that city. It left the river about the end of October, 1653, having accomplished nothing. In Israell Bernhard's (or rather Hane's) letter to Thurloe from Rochelle, dated November 15, 1653, he writes: 'The river of Bourdeaux is wholly cleered of the Spanish fleet, as I did relate unto you in my last, dated the 8 of this month; only we live in jealousies and feares lest they should return again, to the great hindrance of all trading from these parts.' _Thurloe_, i. 578; Chéruel, _Ministère de Mazarin_, ii. 85. =P. 67=, l. 13. 'fistling,' possibly whistling. _P. 70_, l. 22. 'luggish.' This word is explained in Halliwell's glossary as an adjective meaning dull or heavy. The sense here seems to require 'luggishness,' i.e. sluggishness or heaviness. 'Lugge,' meaning slug or sluggard, is applied by Ascham in his _Toxophilus_ to a bow which is 'slow of cast.' =P. 74=, l. 18. 'burick,' compare p. 78, l. 1, 'beverick.' The word usually employed to describe this liquor is 'beverage,' which is defined in the _New English Dictionary_ as: 'The liquor made by pouring water over the pressed grapes after the wine has been drawn off.' =P. 79=, l. 19. 'strick.' This word probably means a flat piece of board. Nares in his glossary (ed. Halliwell and Wright) explains 'strickle' as meaning an instrument for levelling corn, &c. in the measuring, and gives the following examples: 'The _strickler_ is a thing that goes along with the measure, which is a straight board with a staffe fixed in the side, to draw over corn in measuring, that it exceed not the height of the measure.'--_Randle Holme's Acad. of Armory_, p. 337. 'A _stritchill_: a _stricke_: a long and round peece of wood like a rolling pinne (with us it is flat), wherewith measures are made even.'--_Nomenclator._ At a pinch such a bit of wood might serve as a paddle. =P. 79=, l. 22. 'Chartrux.' The Quai des Chartrons? =P. 81=, l. 19. 'progenety,' i.e. progenetrix. =P. 91=, l. 18. 'bouried.' The reading of the MS. is 'bourned,' but the sense seemed to require the alteration made in the text. =P. 92=, l. 5. 'Bullie,' probably Bully, a village in the department of Calvados, about eight or ten miles south of Caen. =P. 98=, l. 13. The MS. reads: 'came into the Downes the 23d of the same, the same day after I came to London againe.' * * * * * The punctuation of the manuscript has been altered wherever the sense seemed to require it, and missing words occasionally supplied by the editor. THE END. Oxford HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY FOOTNOTES: [1] _Cal. State Papers Dom._ 1649-50, pp. 418, 541. [2] _Scotland and the Commonwealth_, pp. 2, 11, 28, 154, 157, 161. [3] Guizot, _Cromwell and the English Commonwealth_, i. 267.