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Notes

1 B. Lavery, The Ship of the Line, vol. II (1984), 106.

2 J. Smith, A Sea Grammar (1627), 8; H. Mainwaring, The Seaman's Dictionary (1667), 172; L. Perrin, Boteler's Dialogues [1634] (1929 reprint), 95.

3 R. C. Anderson, Rigging of Ships in Days of Spritsail Topmast (1927), 79; J. Lees, Masting and Rigging of English Ships of War 1625–1860 (1979), 176.

4 C. N. Longridge, The Anatomy of Nelson's Ships (1955), 98,128.

5 Admiralty Manual of Seamanship, vol. 1 (1908), 108.

6 Andrew Baines, curator of HMS Victory, pers. comm.

7 I am particularly indebted to Prof. Arnold and Dr Henry Kriegstein and Major Grant Walker for confirming this.