References
- See below, p. 244–5
- In the second—the ‘Discharge’—part of his accounts: dated January 1593
- La Armada Invencible Vol. 1 , 76 Duro, vol., p. Duro himself actually says ‘cannons’ (‘cañones de bronce’), but is presumably using the word in its wide sense of ‘guns’. He can hardly have meant to claim forty-three whole cannons for the captured ship
- The quintal was always 100 lb
- The difficult question of relative weights in Spain and England I shall have to discuss later, at some length
- Mariner's Mirror 73 In vol. XXVIII
- Spanish , S. P. 1587–1603 . no. 261
- Ibid. no. 250
- Elizabeth Bonaventure The figures are: (in Indies), 600 tons, 502 lb.; Revenge, 500 tons, 4341b.; that is, on shot-thrown-per-ton basis, the Revenge was the more heavily armed of the two
- Saving, of course, those pinnaces which were too small to carry even sakers
- Launched 12 Tune 1587: not ready for sea in October, but with the fleet by the New Year
- Excluding the ‘cannon’
- Powell , John . 18 March 1586 . 18 March , Surveyor of the Ordnance, upon whose work the Ordnance Report of is based
- 404 Duro, Doc. 185 (bis), vol. II
- Dom , S. P. CCXIV, 28
- Dom , S. P. CCXV, 49 I, II and III
- 18 March 1586 . 18 March , 112 M.M. vol. XXVIII, no. 2, p., under D (Ordnance Report of. Another possibility is that this piece, and the other cannon ‘wanting’ in March 1586, were the two light 8 in. cannons of 1595 (see Table 2). The ‘wanting’ cannon may also have been afloat in July 1588, but, more likely, it was one of the six ‘army’ pieces
- 1588 . The only one I have found—the new-cast piece which came into the Ordnance Office in April—May—was ‘shod with wheels’ for the land service. This figure of fifty-three is not, of course, a really ‘irreducible minimum’, for it is clearly possible that the bulk of the cast-iron pieces were being used with the ‘Armies’; but this is only a supposition. It is also just conceivable that the thirty-six pieces ‘At the ships’ on 18 March 1586 include the Bonaventure's four. The strict ‘irreducible minnimum’ is therefore only thirty-six. But there is quite insufficient evidence to warrant us depriving the Navy of the rest
- M.M. 120 The proposals, however, did not materialize. See vol. XXVIII, no. 2
- Rainbow Roughly: the assignation of four denii-cannons each to theVanguard is in the nature of guesswork, arising out of the fact that, although I cannot say what their heavy armament was, I am sure it was not that shown in the ‘Proposals’ of March 1586