Chapter XVI: Part 16

P. 219. =Hearts of Oak.= It is agreed that this was first sung in the winter of 1759. The version printed here is from _The Choice Spirits Chaplet_, Whitehaven, 1771, p. 251, and is also to be found in _The London Songster_, 1773, p. 232. Tune in Chappell’s _Old English Popular Music_, ii. 189. Chappell entitles it ‘Heart of Oak,’ and gives that phrase in the singular in the chorus also. _The Choice Spirits Chaplet_ also gives it in the singular.

P. 220. =Thurot’s Dream.= Printed in T. Crofton Croker’s _Popular Songs Illustrative of the French Invasions of Ireland_, published by the Percy Society, pt. ii. p. 17. Croker obtained it from Mr. Mac Skimin, author of a _History of Carrickfergus_, who got it from oral recitation. In verse 3, l. 2 there is a _varia lectio_ ‘That a spirit came unto him.’ A printed version of the ballad entitled _Thurot’s Defeat_ is in the _Garlands_ in the British Museum (pressmark, 11621. a. 2 [29]). It is excessively corrupt. Croker also prints another ballad called _The Siege of Carrickfergus_, printed in 1801, which barely mentions Thurot’s fight with Elliot.

P. 222. =A New Song on Captain O’Brian.= Original in _Captain O’Brian’s Garland_ in the British Museum (pressmark, 11621, c. 5 [15]). On the action described see Charnock, v. 410.

P. 223. =A New Song on the Taking of Havannah.= Printed in Ashton’s _Real Sailor Songs_, p. 15*. Original in a chapbook in the British Museum called _The Havannah’s Garland_ (pressmark, 11621. c. 5 [14]). The names of the Spanish commanders have been corrected.

P. 225. =Lord Anson and Hawke.= Printed in Ashton’s Real Sailor Songs, p. 94. Original in _Lord Anson’s Garland_ in the British Museum (11621. c. 5 [34]). The original gives the title ‘_Lords Anson and Hawke_.’ As Hawke was not made a peer till 1776, this would lead to the conclusion that the ballad was written about 1779, and, if so, it should have been placed later in the volume. It is also possible that a single ship may have borne the double name. On the other hand, the Anson and Hawke privateers were cruising together about 1757.

P. 226. =A New Song on the Blandford.= From the Madden collection (_Slipsongs_, ii. 316, No. 1373).

P. 227. =The Sailors’ Dialogue.= From a broadside in the possession of the editor, printed by Fowler of Salisbury.

P. 228. =Distressed Men-of-War.= From a broadside in the possession of the editor, printed by J. Davenport, 6 George’s Court, St. John’s Lane, West Smithfield.

P. 230. =The Sailor’s Complaint.= From the Madden collection (_Slipsongs_, iii. 87, No, 1649). In verse 3, ‘to a navy officer’ is possibly a misprint for ‘to the Navy Office.’

P. 231. =The Sailor’s Garland, or the Ticket Buyer’s Lamentation.= From a broadside in the possession of the editor, without date or printer’s name.

P. 233. =The Sailor’s Complaint, or the True Character of the Purser of a Ship.= From the Douce collection (_Douce Ballads_, iii. 85). A broadside ‘printed for W. O., and are to be sold by the Booksellers of Pye-corner and London-bridge.’

P. 234. =The Sailor’s Resolution to Fight the Spaniards.= From the Madden collection (_Slipsongs_, iii. 93, No. 1663).

P. 235. =Jack Tar.= From the Douce collection; a garland entitled _Tibbie Fowler_ (Douce, S. 370).

P. 236. =The Jolly Sailor’s True Description of a Man-of-War.= From the Douce collection (_Douce Ballads_, iii. 47). A broadside printed and sold in Aldermary Churchyard, Bow Lane, London.

P. 239. =New Sea Song.= From the Madden collection (_Country Printers_, i. 258 _verso_). In line 5 the original reads ‘life,’ and in line 30 ‘roar.’

P. 240. =The Humours of the Royal Billy.= Printed by Ashton, _Real Sailor Songs_, p. 93* (British Museum, pressmark 11621, k. 5 [159]). Probably belongs to the early part of the nineteenth century rather than to the beginning of George III.’s reign.

P. 243. =The Dolphin’s Return.= From the Madden collection (_Slipsongs_, i. 230, No. 485). On the voyage, see Clowes iv. 119. Samuel Wallis commanded the Dolphin and Philip Carteret the Swallow. The Dolphin arrived at Plymouth May 20, 1768; the Swallow did not return till March 1769.

P. 244. =The Brags of Washington.= From the Madden collection (_Slipsongs_, i. 82, No. 181).

P. 245. =On the Late Engagement in Charlestown River.= Ashton’s _Real Sailor Songs_, p. 15. From _The Shepherd’s Garland_ in the British Museum (pressmark 11621. c. 1 [7]). In verse 5 the original reads ‘displayed.’ On the attack upon Charleston, June 28, 1776, see Clowes, iii. 372.

P. 246. =Sullivan’s Island.= From Frank Moore’s _Songs and Ballads of the American Revolution_, 1856, p. 135. Sir Peter is Commodore Sir Peter Parker, to whom the American satirist attributed this ‘war-song.’

P. 247. =The Cruisers.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, viii. 323. Said to be ‘written by Frederick Pilon, and sung in _The Liverpool Prize_.’

P. 248. =The Arethusa.= Words by Prince Hoare, music by Shield, in the opera of _The Lock and Key_. In verse 2 some versions substitute ‘old Keppel’ for ‘the spring fleet.’

P. 249. =The Greenlandmen.= From _Portsmouth Jack’s Garland_ in the British Museum (pressmark 11261. c. 2 [58]).

P. 252. =Admiral Keppel Triumphant.= From a slipsong in the possession of the editor.

P. 253. =Keppel and de Chartres.= From the Madden collection (_Slipsongs_, ii. 272, No. 1275). The captain of the Egmont, John Carter Allen, is called Adieu, Allech, or Allen in the original, and in the last line of stanza 7 it reads ‘we gave him a broadside, which put their heart in fear.’

P. 255. =A New Song in Praise of Admiral Keppel’s Fleet.= From a slipsong in the possession of the editor. Jack the Painter was the nickname of an incendiary hanged March 10, 1777, for attempting to set fire to the dockyards at Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Bristol. See Lord Mahon’s _History of England_, ed. 1858, pp. 141-145.

P. 255. =Admiral Keppel Triumphant.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, viii. 326. From Dr. Burney’s collection of English songs in the British Museum, ix. 110. Words and music by J. Timms, of Dartford, published about February 1779 after Keppel’s acquittal.

P. 257. =Keppel for Ever.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, viii. 325. ‘Sir Hugh’ is printed ‘Sir You,’ in the original. ‘Twitcher’ means Lord Sandwich.

P. 258. =A New Song on Admiral Barrington.= From the Madden collection (_Slipsongs_, ii. 311, No. 1364). On the battle, July 6, 1779, see Clowes iv. 434.

P. 259. =Paul Jones.= There are many versions of this ballad. One is printed in _Roxburghe Ballads_, viii. 332 (with four others). A more correct version was printed by Such, Forth, and other country printers. The version given in the text is a composite one put together from these different sources by the editor.

P. 260. =Captain Farmer.= From the Madden collection (_London Printers_, ii. 36). On Tyrrell and Cornwall see Clowes iii. 300, and Charnock iv. 131.

P. 261. =The Bold Blades of Old England.= From the Madden collection (_Slipsongs_, i. 73, No. 164).

P. 262. =The Royal Sailor.= From a song-book called _The Vocal Companion_, published at Preston, in the Bodleian Library (pressmark 2802. e. 1). In verse 6 ‘coral-red’ is an emendation for ‘coral-clad.’ _The Royal Sailor_ is also printed in _The New Vocal Enchantress_, 1789, p. 180.

P. 263. =Hood’s Conquest over the Count de Grasse.= From the Madden collection (_Slipsongs_, ii. 34, and also _Garlands_, i. 1.)

P. 265. =The Loss of the Centaur.= Ashton, _Real Sailor Songs_, p. 40. See Clowes iv. 88, and Duncan, _The Mariner’s Chronicle_, i. 191.

P. 266. =The Robin Hood.= From the Madden collection (_Slipsongs_, ii. 265). It has proved impossible to identify either the Robin Hood or her captain.

P. 267. =Nymphe and Cleopatra.= From the Madden collection (_Slipsongs_, ii. 315, No. 1371). The statement of the ballad as to the armament of the two frigates is inaccurate, as such statements frequently are in songs. The Nymphe had on her main-deck twenty-six 12-pounders, the Cléopâtre, twenty-eight; the Nymphe had eight carronades, 24-pounders, the Cléopâtre four 36-pounders. Their force was practically equal.

P. 268. =The Downfall of the French Fleet.= From the Madden collection (_Slipsongs_, ii. 319, No. 1379).

P. 271. =A New Sea Song.= Bodleian Library (pressmark 2803. f. 4).

P. 274. =The Blanche Frigate.= A composite text put together from three versions in the editor’s possession, printed by Pitts, Keys, and Ferraby, and from one in the Madden collection (_Country Printers_, i. 48_b_). The latter is the earliest and best, but some readings have been adopted from the others, and there are several conjectural emendations. An alternative title is _The Tars of the Blanche_.

P. 276. =The Amazon Frigate.= From a slipsong in the possession of the editor, printed by J. Pitts. On the action see James’s _Naval History_, ii. 12; on the wreck of the Droits de l’Homme see Duncan, _Mariner’s Chronicle_, ii. 300.

P. 277. =A New Song= (=The Seventeen Bright Stars=). Record Office, Admiralty, Secretary. _In Letters_ cxi. _Correspondence of Bridport and Others_, August 1798.

P. 279. =The Genius of Britain.= From the Madden collection (_Slipsongs_, i. 318).

P. 280. =British Tars Rewarded.= From the Madden collection (_Slipsongs_, i. 96, No. 316).

P. 282. =A New Song on Parker.= Printed by Masefield, _A Sailor’s Garland_, p. 121.

P. 282. =The Death of Parker.= Printed by W. H. Logan, _A Pedlar’s Pack_, p. 62. Other versions with variants are in the possession of the editor.

P. 283. =A New Song in Praise of Admiral Duncan.= From the Madden collection (_Country Printers_, i. 50).

P. 285. =A New Song on the Engagement between the Mars and La Hercule.= From the Madden collection (_Slipsongs_, ii. 318, No. 1378).

P. 286. =Verses Written on Board the Astræa.= Extracted from the _Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux_, 2nd edition, London 1827, p. 57. Stanza 5, l. 5 ‘my poor half-pint.’ Half a pint of rum (or arrack in India) was the ration till about 1825. Officers, and apparently the midshipmen, got it in bottles. To the men, since Vernon’s time, it was served out as grog twice a day.

P. 289. =The Arrow.= Printed in Ashton’s _Real Sailor Songs_, p. 23. Original in the British Museum (pressmark 11621, c. 6 [1]).

P. 290. =Copenhagen.= Printed in Laughton’s _Nelson Memorial_, p. 196, and in Beattie’s _Life of T. Campbell_, ii. 42-6.

P. 295. =Action off Copenhagen.= From the Madden collection (_London Printers_, ii. 7). In the original the first line of the last verse runs, ‘Now, my brave boys, we have beaten the Danes,’ and there is another verse beginning, ‘Now to conclude and to finish my tale.’

P. 296. =A New Song on Lord Nelson’s Victory.= Printed in Ashton’s _Real Sailor Songs_, p. 16. Original in the British Museum (pressmark 1077. g. 47 [18]--a chapbook entitled _Nelson’s Wreath_).

P. 297. =A New Song composed by the Wounded Tars at the Siege of Boulogne.= Versions of this, entitled _The Battle of Boulogne_, were printed by Catnach and Birt, and are reprinted by Ashton, _Real Sailor Songs_, p. 17. The version in the text is from a chapbook in the British Museum (pressmark 1076. l. 2 [45]).

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.

I have been unable to discover the date of the tune mentioned in the title, nor is the date of the song itself certain. It is contended on the American side that this song preceded that on the Shannon and Chesapeake, which was imitated from it, and on the other side that _The Constitution and Guerriere_ is the later of the two. The evidence alleged for the priority of the American song is, briefly: William Dunlap’s _Yankee Chronology_ (a spirited musical drama) was produced at the Park Theatre, in New York, September 9, 1812 (Ireland’s _New York Stage_, i. 288), and Mr. Brander Matthews thinks that may be the origin of these verses. An intelligent veteran of the war of 1812, present at the unveiling of the Perry statue at Cleveland on Lake Erie in 1860, told the historian Lossing that he heard them sung at the Park Theatre, in New York, early in the fall of 1812, and that they were much heard at public meetings, in bar-rooms, in work-shops, and in the streets of the city (extract from the _Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass._, vol. xx.). These arguments are not very conclusive. The discovery of the original song, _The Landlady of France_, which both imitate, would probably settle the matter. In the meantime it seems best to print the song on the victory of the Constitution first, because the incident it celebrates happened first.

P. 311. =Shannon and Chesapeake.= The text is a traditional version supplied by Sir J. K. Laughton. There is a broadside version, reprinted in Logan’s _Pedlar’s Pack_, p. 69, which omits the third verse and gives many different readings. The most important differences are the following:--In verse 4, ‘The engagement scarce begun, Ere they flinched from their guns, Which at first they thought of working, &c. Then brave Broke he drew his sword,’ &c. In verse 5, ‘They no sooner heard the word, Ere they quickly jumped on board, And hauled down the Yankee ensign, &c. Notwithstanding all their brag, Now the glorious British flag At the Yankee’s mizen peak was quite the dandy O.’ The last verse begins, ‘Here’s a health, brave Broke, to you, To your officers and crew, Who on board the Shannon frigate fought so handy O!’ Another version is to be found in the _Harrow School Song-book_.

On the action see James, vi. 50; Clowes, vi. 75; Mahan, _Sea Power in its relations to the War of 1812_, ii. 131.

P. 312. =Battle of the Shannon and Chesapeake.= Text from two broadsides, one printed by Pitts, the other by Such, both in the editor’s collection.

P. 313. =The Endymion’s Triumph.= From the Madden collection (_Garlands_, i. 257). Action on January 15, 1815. See James, vi. 238; Clowes, vi. 167; Mahan, _Sea Power in its relations to the War of 1812_, ii. 398.

P. 316. =The British Tars.= Text from the editor’s collection. Printed by J. Pitts, 6 St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials. Line 15 reads, ‘haughty Gaul,’ clearly erroneous.

P. 316. =The Fancy Frigate.= Text from British Museum _Ballads_, 1871, f. 32. Also printed by Ashton, _Real Sailor Songs_, p. 78*.

Another version supplied by Sir J. K. Laughton begins, ‘There was a fine frigate, the Pique was her name.’ Some corrections of the printed text have been adopted from the traditional version. In line 9 this traditional version gives ‘Mr. McCleverty,’ which was apparently the real name of the officer whose nickname is given in the text. A third and shorter version, called _The Flash Frigate_, is printed in Mr. Masefield’s _Sailor’s Garland_, p. 188.

P. 319. =The Saucy Scylla.= From the Madden collection (_Country Printers_, vii. 267).

P. 320. =The Vanguard.= From the Madden collection (_Country Printers_, vii. 163). In the last line, ‘Jondy’ = Master-at-Arms.

P. 322. =The Port Admiral.= By Captain Marryat, printed in _Snarleyow, or the Dog-Fiend_.

P. 324. =Oh, Cruel.= Text from a broadside printed by Evans, Long Lane, London, in the editor’s collection. Another version is headed, ‘written and sung by a gentleman in the character of a female ballad-singer at Liverpool Theatre.’

P. 325. =The Answer to Oh, Cruel.= Text from a broadside in the possession of the editor, printed by J. Pitts, 14 Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials.

P. 326. =The Female Lieutenant.= From a broadside in the possession of the editor, without printer’s name or place. Another version, frequently found, makes the two lovers come from Lichfield, names the lady Sarah Gray or Sarah Dunn, and makes her marry the captain. In Douce’s collection in the Bodleian Library there is a much longer version, in three parts, called _The Female Sailor’s Garland_.

P. 327. =Billy Taylor.= Printed in Fairburn’s _Naval Songster_ for 1805, p. 16.

P. 328. =Cawsand Bay.= Version supplied by Sir J. K. Laughton, who writes: ‘It was brought into vogue about fifty years ago by a dear friend and brother officer of mine, Richard Creagh Saunders, then Naval Instructor of the Marlborough, the flagship in the Mediterranean. He was a man of poetic feeling, with a pretty turn for versifying, and a good knowledge of music, though no voice to speak of. The account he gave me of it is this: He was staying in the country with an old messmate--I don’t think he mentioned the name--who one day gave him some old journals, scrapbooks, &c., to look through; and among them he found this song, which he copied there and then. Of its origin there was no trace. I more than half suspect that he was himself the author of it. The tune to which he always sang it, and which his successors have of course followed, is, he said, an adaptation of an air in _Don Giovanni_.’

Mr. Saunders was born in January 1809, entered the navy in 1839, retired in 1865, and died in March 1886. There was a song called _Cawsand Bay_, popular in the thirties, according to Captain Glascock. See Introduction, p. cxiv.

P. 330. =General Campbell.= Text from British Museum, 1876 (d. 217). On the events mentioned, see Clowes, vi. The names of the ships in verse 9 should be the Liffey and the Larne. The latter was commanded by Marryat.

P. 331. =Captain Ross.= From the Madden collection (_London Printers_, vii. 16). Date 1833. See Clowes, vi. 514-16.

P. 333. =Capture of St. Jean d’Acre.= From the Madden collection (_Country Printers_, iii. 51). Action November 3, 1840. See Clowes, vi. 318. In verse 6, line 3, the original reads ‘Curasford’ for ‘Carysfort.’

P. 334. =The Borneo Heroes.= Text in British Museum (1876, d. [810]). Also in the editor’s collection, printed by Riall & Co., 2 Monmouth Court, Seven Dials. Boat action in Malluda Bay, August 19, 1845. See Clowes, vi. 329.

P. 335. =The Slave Chase.= From a broadside in the possession of the editor, printed by H. Such, 177 Union Street, Borough, S.E.

P. 336. =The Russians Won’t Come Out.= Text in _The War Song Book_, 1855, p. 8.

P. 337. =Don’t Forget Your Old Shipmate.= By R. C. Saunders. Communicated by Sir J. K. Laughton.

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

All thinges we have ready and nothing we want, 17

All ye noble British spirits, 200

All you that will be England’s friends, 126

A mighty great fleet, the like was ne’er seen, 112

An American frigate, called the _Richard_ by name, 259

A prentice I was at Wapping-new-stairs, 210

Arise, arise, brave Britons, 301

As brave Sir Rooke Tholouse did beat, 154

A second part I here indite, 76

As it fell on a holy-day, and upon a holy-tide-a, 16

As itt beffell in midsumer-time, 6

As near Porto Bello lying, 179

As we was sailing on the main, 129

Attend you and give ear awhile, 34

Behold, upon the swelling wave, 247

Billy Taylor was a gay young fellow, 327

Brave Admiral Matthews has been on the main, 186

Brave loyal hearted Englishmen, attend whilst I declare, 54

Bright honor now calls--each true Briton attend, 285

Captain Chilver’s gone to sea, 89

Captain Cobb in Lynn doth dwell, a man of worthy fame, 189

Cease now the talke of wonders nothing rare, 36

Come, all loyal lovers that’s faithful and true, 101

Come, all ye British hearts of gold, 270

Come, all ye jolly sailors bold, 248

Come, all ye jolly sailors with courage stout and bold, 212

Come, all ye seamen bold, lend an ear, lend an ear, 149

Come, all ye valiant seamen of courage stout and bold, 168

Come, all ye valiant seamen that plough the raging main, 253

Come, all ye young fellows, attend to my song, 240

Come, all ye young seamen that plow on the main, 266

Come, all you bold Britons to the seas do belong, 277

Come, all you brave boys, whose courage is bold, 131

Come, all you brave Britons wherever you be, 206

Come, all you brave sailors that plough on the main, 187

Come, all you brave sailors that sail on the main, 47

Come, all you brave seamen and landsmen likewise, 244

Come, all you brave seamen of courage so free, 84

Come, all you brave seamen that plows on the main, 214

Come, all you British heroes listen to what I say, 267

Come, all you British sailors bold, and listen to my song, 287

Come, all you British seamen bold, that plow the raging main, 276

Come, all you gallant seamen that unite a meeting, 302

Come, all you jolly sailors bold, 172

Come, all you jolly sailors bold, the truth you soon shall know, 334

Come, all you jolly sailors of courage stout and bold, 258

Come, all you jolly sailors that to the seas are bent, 190

Come, all you jolly seamen, that’s willing to enter, 194

Come, all you jovial sailors, give ear unto my song, 263

Come, all you old warlike liners, who boast of deeds of war, 333

Come, all you seamen stout and bold, and listen to my song, 320

Come, all you thoughtless young men, a warning take by me, 316

Come, all you valiant British tars, attend unto my theme, 313

Come, all you valiant Britons of every degree, 306

Come, all you valiant heroes that sail upon the sea, 305

Come, all you who delight in a frolicksome song, 319

Come, all you young seamen, wherever you be, 255

Come, and listen to my ditty, all ye jolly hearts of gold, 162

Come, brave honest Jack Tar, once more will you venture? 235

Come, cheer up, my lads, ’tis to glory we steer, 220

Come, join with me, you Britons bold, 203

Come, jolly sailors, join with me, 195

Come, listen awhile with attention, 331

Come, loyal Britons all rejoyce with joyful acclamations, 177

Come pity me, young maidens all, 193

Come, rouse up, my lads, let us haste to the main, 261

Come, you jovial British fellows, 184

Countrie men of England, who live at home with ease, 40

Draw near, ye gallant seamen, 54

Each bold British tar, 252

Fair Sally lov’d a bonny sailor, 163

Gallants, you must understand, 25

Give ear, true Britons, to my song, 223

Give ear, ye sons of glory, 209

God prosper long our noble King, his fleet and sailors all, 231

Good people all, I pray attend a most surprising story, 298

Good people all, pray give attention to this fatal tragedy, 192

Good people, do but lend an ear, 140

Good people, give ear, I’ll tell you a story, 170

Good people of old England, come listen unto me, 245

Great Charles, your English seamen upon our bended knee, 53

Hark! Hark! alas! what fatal news is come? 160

How goes it, brother Jack? 227

How pleasant a sailor’s life passes, 164

I am a jovial marriner, our calling is well known, 42

I am a sailor bold, and press’d to serve the King, 211

I am an undaunted seaman, and for King Charles I will fight, 61

I am in a consternation at my now approaching death, 154

I said unto brave West, ‘Take the van, take the van,’ 210

I sing not the battle (so fam’d) of Lepanto, 110

I sing ye a ballad as round me ye stand, 120

I wald noght spare for to speke, wist I to spede, 3

I will not sing in Parker’s praise, 281

In Cawsand Bay lying, 328

It is of a fine Frigate, dare not mention her name, 316

It oft-times has been told, 309

It was in the month of April, upon the 14th day, 330

Joyful tydings I bring; let us merrily sing, 125

Let England, and Ireland, and Scotland rejoyce, 58

Let every loyal Briton sing, 199

Let every loyal soul rejoyce, 174

Life is chequer’d--toil and pleasure, 165

Listen awhile and I here will unfold, 95

Long the proud Spaniards had vanted to conquer us, 21

Lustely, lustely lustely, let us saile forthe, 17

Men may leve alle gamys, 4

Minot with mowth had menid to make, 1

Mr. Cleveland, I pray, to their Lordships you’ll say, 207

Muse will have her song; hark! she merrily sings, 151

My Lords, with your leave, 246

My love, I come to take my leave, 99

My name is Captain Kid, 134

Not many moones have from their silver bowes, 31

Now, noble brave boys, let the sweet trumpet sound, 106

Now of noble, hardy men of might, 156

O noble England, fall doune upon thy knee, 18

Observe this true relation, and listen unto me, 222

Of all the curst plagues that e’er Fate did decree, 233

Of late near the Strand, we well understand, 104

Of Nelson and the North, 290

Of thee, great State, the god of waves, 36

Off Cape Finisterre lay the king’s ship _La Loire_, 300

Oh! cruel were my parents to tear my love from me, 324

Oh! cruel were thy parents that envied our love, 325

Oh! we sail’d to Virginia, and thence to Fayal, 148

Old Paul’s steeple, fare thee well, 37

On board the noble _Ann_, 249

On board the _Shannon_ frigate, in the merry month of May, 312

On the second day of August, eighteen hundred and one, 297

Once more, brave boys, let us proclaim, 181

One day, as I was sitting still, 82

Our boatswain calls out for his bold British heroes, 239

Our goodly ship was loaded deep, 86

Rejoice, rejoyce, brave English boys, 66

Ring bells for joy, let none be sad, 79

Ring, ring out our bells! and to Calais from Dover, 197

Russel on the ocean, minding Tourville’s motion, 128

Says Jack, ‘There is very good news,’ 228

Set every stitch of canvas to woo the fresh’ning breeze, 335

Sing we seamen, now and then, 27

Smile, smile, Britannia, smile, on Admiral Keppel smile, 257

Stout seamen, come away, never be daunted, 97

Strike up, you lusty gallants, with musick and sound of drum, 30

String up your hearts, and tune your throats, 63

The Chesapeake so bold, 311

The foes of Old England, France, Holland, and Spain, 262

The fourteenth of November, in Torbay as we lay, 217

The genius of Britain went hovering round, 279

The _George-Aloe_ and the _Sweep-stake_ too, 23

The muse and the hero together are fir’d (Captain Death), 205;
(Captain Farmer), 260

The tars of Old England have long toil’d in vain, 280

The 28th of May the French fleet hove in sight, 268

The 21st of February, as I’ve heard people say, 220

The wat’ry god, great Neptune, lay, 218

The weather is clear, which was late overcast, 69

There happen’d of late a terrible fray, 72

Though with tears we lament our great Nelson’s demise, 302

Thursday in the morn, the Ides of May, 119

To all you ladies now at land, 56

To God alone let us all glory give, 114

To tame the Dutch, our treacherous foes, 283

To your quarters, my lads; we are now within shot, 158

’Twas at the landing place that’s just below Mount Wyse, 322

’Twas on the twenty-eighth of May, 271

Valiant Protestant boys, 117

Well may the world against us cry, 133

We’re the boys that fear no noise, 337

What can we luckless sailors do? 336

What means this silence, sirs? 48

What ship, honest brother sailor? 234

When first on board of a man-of-war, 236

When in the cockpit all was dim, 286

When the _Dartmouth_ friggot lay off the town, 92

Who does not extol our conquest marine? 153

Why does the poets abuse us, 145

Will you hear of a bloody battle, 166

William was a youthful lover, 326

With Monmouth cap, and cutlace by my side, 137

Ye bold British tars, who to glory are free, 243

Ye brave British sailors, true sons of the main, 225

Ye brave British tars, come, attend to my muse, 255

Ye gods above, protect a widow! 282

Ye landsmen all, I pray attend, who live at home at ease, 265

Ye Parliament of England, you Lords and Commons too, 308

Ye seamen who’s a mind to go in pursuit of new adventures, 226

You are welcome to London, dear Jack, 230

You brave English sailors that plow the ocean wide, 175

You Britons bold, that never was controul’d, 289

You captains and commanders both by land and sea, 307

You Frenchmen, don’t boast of your fighting, 274

You gentlemen of England fair, 113

You gentlemen of England, that lives at home at ease, 45

You heroes of England, I pray you attend, 216

You pretty maids of Greenwich, of high and low degree, 143

You sailors all of courage bold, 204

You undaunted sons of Britannia, lend an ear, 295

You’re welcome, my Billy, to the English shore, 146

INDEX OF PROPER NAMES

Aboukir Bay, 288

Adelar (Adelaer), Kort, Danish admiral, 77

Aix, Isle of, lxxix, 211, 355

Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, xxviii, xxx, 62-67, 73, 75, 78, 138

-- George Keppel, 3rd Earl of, lxxxii, 223, 225

Alderney, 192

-- Race, 122

Alexandria, 288

Alfred, lxxii

Algeciras Bay, 298

Algiers, xxii, xxiii, xxxviii, xlii, cviii, 29, 31, 32, 88, 344

Allen, Captain John Carter, 357

Allin, Sir Thomas, xxix, xxxi, xli, 55, 68, 73, 77

Almonde, Admiral Philips Van, 123

Amboyna, 60

Amsterdam, lxv

Andros, Sir Edmund, xlvi

Anson, Admiral Lord, lxxv, 195, 196, 203, 353, 356

Ape’s Hill, 266

Armada, xiv, xix, xx, lxxii, 83, 110

Arnold (pirate), xvii

-- Samuel James, ci

Arwell, 2

Ashby, Admiral Sir John, 115, 123

Askew, Jemmy, lxxxviii

Atkins, Captain, _v._ Ekins, Captain Charles

Avery, Captain Henry, l, li, 131-3, 346, 347

Ayscue, Admiral Sir George, xxx

Azores, the, xvi

Babs (or Bobs) Key, 348

Badding, John 3

Baddison, Captain John, xxxviii-xl

Bahamas, xliii, 319, 320

Bajona (_i.e._ Bayona, in Galicia), xxxviii

Balchen, Admiral Sir John, lxxiii, lxxvii, 192, 193

Balthorpe, John, xli, liii, lvii

Baltic, xc, xcvi, cxi, cxii, cxiii, 336, 345

Bantry (Bay), xliii, lxvii, xcviii, 138, 278

Barbadoes, 349

Barbary, xxi, xxi, xlix, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 212-4, 342

Barbenoire, 4, 340

Barber, Captain, lxxxvii

Barcelona, 156, 157

Barker, George, 174

Barney, Captain, xciii

Barrington, Admiral Samuel, xci, 258, 259, 358

Barton, Sir Andrew, xiii, 6-15, 340, 341

-- Captain Matthew, lxxxix, 214, 355

Basque Roads, ci, 306, 307, 361

Bastimentos, the, 180

Bathurst, Captain Walter, cix

Beachy Head, xlv, lii, lxvii

Beard, John, lxxx

Beaufort, Duc de, 76, 77

Beaumont, Rear-admiral Basil, lxv

Becket, 66

Bedford, Francis Russell, 5th Duke of, 278

-- John of Lancaster, Duke of, xii

Bedford Street, 139

Belleisle, lxxxi

‘Ben,’ lxii

Benbow, Vice-admiral John, lxiii, lxiv, 148-51, 348-50

Bengal, 347

Bergen-op-Zoom, 197

Bermuda, 315

Biddle, Captain Nicholas, xciii

Birkenhead, Sir John, 72-79

Biscay, Bay of, lxxvii, 168, 169, 226

Blake, Admiral Robert, xxvii, xxviii, liii, 48-52, 83, 110, 343

Blakeney, General William, lxxviii, 206, 207, 209, 354

Blankebergh (_i.e._ Blanckenberghe), 2, 339

Blass, Don (_i.e._ Admiral Don Blas de Leso), 182, 183

Bocachica (Cartagena), 182, 353

Bohide, 16

Bomarsund, cxi

Bompart, Commodore Jean Baptiste, xcviii

Bordeaux, xxxi, 7, 9

Borneo, cxiii, 334, 335, 363

Boron Head, 251

Boscawen, Admiral Edward, lxxvii, lxxix, lxxx, lxxxi, lxxv, 219, 228

Boston, U.S.A,, li, 312

Boulogne, xcvi, 297, 360

Bourne, Rear-admiral Nehemiah, liii

Bover, Captain, civ

‘Bowling, Lieutenant Thomas,’ lxix, lxx

Bowyer, Captain George, 270

Boyce, Dr. William, 220

Boys, Commodore William, lxxx

Braham, John, c

Brandaris, 79

Brest, 108, 125, 227, 253, 285, 307

Bretayne (Brittany), 4

Bridport, Alexander Hood, Viscount, xcviii, 277, 279, 280

Bristol, xxiii, lx, lxxxvii, 4, 34, 35, 87, 226, 227, 343, 358

Broke, Captain Philip Bowes Vere, 311-13, 362

Brown, Commodore Charles, 177, 178

Bruges, 1

Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st Duke of, xxiii, xxiv

-- -- -- 2nd Duke of, 348

Bugia, xlii

Burgess, Capt. Richard Rundle, 285

Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury, xlix, lii

Byng, Admiral John, x, lxxvii, lxxviii, lxxxvi, 206-11, 257, 354, 355

Byron, Vice-admiral John, xci

Cabot, Sebastian, xv

Cadiz, viii, xxiii, xxviii, lxii, c, 21-23, 35, 55, 83, 84, 126, 298,
299, 300, 301

Cagent (_i.e._ Cadzant), 3, 339

Calais, xlix, 19, 197

Calcutta, 330

Cales, _v._ Cadiz

Campbell, Thomas, xcvi

Campbell, General Sir Archibald, cxiii, 330, 331, 363

Camperdown, xciv

Canaries, 51, 195

Candia, 26

Cape Boner (_i.e._ Bon, in Tunis), 126

-- Sables, xlv

-- St. Mary, c

-- St. Vincent, xci, xciv

Carew, Richard, 342

Carlton, 244

Carolina, 167, 173

Carr, Capt. (_i.e._ Capt. Carr Scrope), 207, 354

‘-- Richard,’ 326

‘-- William,’ 327

Carrickfergus, lxxxi, xc, 220, 221, 356

Cartagena, xv, lxxiv, lxxv, 181-4, 353

Carter, Rear-admiral Richard, xlvii, 115, 123

Carteret, Captain Philip, 357

Carthagena, _v._ Cartagena

Caskets, the, lxxvii, 192

Cat-Down, 132

Catnach, James, cviii

Cator Bay, 175

Cavendish, Admiral Philip, lxxvi, 168, 169, 351

-- Thomas, xviii

Cawsand Bay, cv, cxiv, 328, 363

Cayenne, xxxvii

Cecil, Sir Edward, xxiii

Chamier, Captain Frederick, cvii

Champness, 220

Channel, the English, xxv, xlvi, xlix, xc, 202, 248, 253, 259, 279

Charleston, lxxxix, 245, 357

Chartres, Philippe-Joseph, Duc de, 254, 357

Château-Renault, Vice-admiral Louis-François de Rousselet, Comte de,
xlv, 152

Chatham, xxxiv

Chaucer, Geoffrey, xxi

Cherbourg Bay, 122

Cherry, Andrew, lxxvi

Chien, _v._ Cayenne

Chilver, Captain, 89

Churchill, Captain, liii

Churchyard, Thomas, xv

Clarence, William, Duke of, 278;
_v. also_ William, Prince

Clark, Captain Ben, xlvi

Clarke, Tom, xvii

Cleveland, 207

Clinton (pirate), xvii

-- Sir Henry, 244, 247

-- Sir William, 2

Cobb, Captain, lxxvi, 189

Cochrane, _v._ Dundonald

Codrington, Sir Edward, cx

Collingwood, Cuthbert, Lord, c, 302, 304

Colpoys, Admiral Sir John, xcviii, 278

Condon, David, xlvi

Conflans, Vice-admiral the Marquis de, lxxix, 219

Congreve, William, lxii

Cook, Captain James, 332

-- George, x, 266

Cooke, T. P., cvii

Cooper, Fenimore, cvii

Copenhagen, xcvi, 290, 295-7, 359, 360

Corjack, _v._ Croisic

Corona, _v._ Corunna

Cornwall, Captain James, 261

Cornwallis, Admiral Sir William, xcviii

Corunna, l, 131, 132, 347

Covel, Dr. John, lvii, lviii

Covent Garden, lxxx

Craft, James, 184

Croisic Bay, 218

Cronstadt, 336

Crosbie, Captain, _v._ Kirby, Captain

Crosfield, Robert, liii

Cross, Jondy, 321

Croycraft, Mr., 320

Cuba, 335

Cullifoord, Captain, 136, 348

Cumberland, George Clifford, 3rd Earl of, xx, 31

Daborne, Robert, xii

Dacres, Captain James Richard, 309-11

Dana, R. H., cxv

Danby, Peregrine Osborne, Earl of, lxiv, 123

Dansekar, xxi, xxii, 27-29, 342

Darby, Rear-admiral George, 244

Dardanelles, the, cxii

Dartmouth, lxxvi

Davenant, Sir William, lxi

Dawson, Joseph, 347

Deane, Admiral Richard, xxvii, xxviii, liii

Death, Captain, lix, lxxxvi, lxxxvii, 205, 206, 354

Decatur, Commodore Stephen, 308, 314, 315

Defoe, Daniel, l

Delavall, Vice-admiral Sir Ralph, 115, 118, 123

Deloney, Thomas, viii, xix, 18-23, 342

Denbigh, _v._ Danby

Denham, Sir John, xxxiii, xxxiv

Dennis, John, 307

Deptford, lx

De Ruyter, Michael, xxix, xxxiv, 61, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 76, 77, 82

De Winter, Vice-admiral J. W., 284

De Witt, John, 75

-- -- Captain Pasqual, 83-86

Dibdin, Charles, xi, lxix, cii, cvi, 300

Dickson, 226

Digby, Captain Francis, xxxv

-- Rear-admiral Robert, xcii, 262, 263

Dominica, lxxxi, 263

Donne, Dr. John, xvi

Dorrel, Captain Robert, 110

Dorset, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of, xxx, 56, 58, 343

Dory, John, 16, 342

Douglas, Captain Andrew, xxxiv

Dover, 53, 162, 197

Downs, the, xxv, xxviii, lvi, 38, 139, 191, 195

Drake, Sir Francis, xiv, xv, xvi, 51, 110

Drayton, Michael, xvi

Dryden, John, xxxii, xxxv, xlii

Dublin Bay, xlv, 106

Ducasse, M. J., lxiii

Duchy Lane, 105

Du Guay, lxxvii

Duncan, Admiral, xciv, xcv, xcvi, 283-5, 359

Dundas, Henry, 278, 279

Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of, ci, 306, 334, 335

Dungeness, 191

Dunkirk, xx, xlvii, xlix, 125

Dunlap, William, 361

‘Dunn, Sarah,’ 359

Dunton, John, xxiii

Dunwich, 82

Durell, Captain Thomas, 175, 176

D’Urfey, Tom, lviii, lxii, 346

Dursley, James Berkeley, Viscount, lxiv

Easton Ness, 82

Edgcumbe, Captain, 354

Edinburgh, xc, 251

Ekins, Captain Charles, cviii, cix

Elbe, lvi

Elliot, Captain John, lxxxi, 221, 356

Ellis, Thomas, xv

Elsinore, 294, 295

Emery, Mr., 327

English, Rev. Robert, lxxx

Essex, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of, xvi, xix, 21-23, 31, 343

-- Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of, xix

Estaing, Vice-admiral Comte d’, xci, 358

Etenduère, Admiral des Herbiers de l’, lxxv

Evertson (Evertsen), Cornelis, 83

Execution Dock, li, 133, 137, 155, 347, 355

Exmouth, Edward Pellew, Lord, cviii, cix

Fair Isle, 249

Falmouth, 276

Fanshaw, Mr., 315

Fanshawe, Sir Richard, 343

Farmer, Captain George, xcii, 260, 358

Faulkner (Faulknor), Captain Robert, 275

Faversham, 25

Fayal, 148

Finistère Cape, 276, 277, 300, 304

Fishes’ Nose, 113

Fitzball, Edward, cvii

Fitzgeffrey, Charles, xv

Fitzherbert, Captain Thomas, 258, 259

Flanders, 1, 2, 7

Fletcher, John, lix, 342

Florida, xviii

Folkestone, 191

‘Ford, Helena,’ 329

Fort Chagre, 352

-- Moro, 223, 224

-- St. Philip, lxxviii, 207

-- San José, lxxiv

-- San Lazar, lxxv, 353

-- San Luis, lxxiv

Fowey, 341

Fowlis, Thomas, 122

Franklin, Sir John, cxiii, cxiv

-- Lady, cxiv

‘Freeman,’ lxi

Freneau, Philip, xciii

Frobisher, Martin, xv

Froissart, Jean, xi

Gambier, James, Lord, ci

Gardiner (_i.e._ Gardner), Rear-admiral Alan, 268

Garrick, David, lxxx, 220

Garson, Mr., 315

Gaskets, _v._ Caskets

Gay, Thomas, xi, lxix, lxxi

George, Captain John, xlv, xlvi

Georgia, 173

Gibraltar, xlvii, xci, 168, 173, 209, 215, 266, 351

-- Straits of, xx, 32, 256, 299

Gibson, Captain Charles, l

Gilchrist, Captain James, lxxxi, 216, 217, 355

Gilray, James, lxxxv

Glascock, Captain William, cvii, cxiv, cxv, 363

Glasgow, 251

Gloucester, Hugh de Audley, Earl of, 2, 339

Glover, Richard, x, lxxii, 179, 352

Goodman’s Fields, 200

Goodwin Sands, x, lxxvii, 190, 191

Goree, lxxix, 57, 212-14, 257, 355

Gosport, 201

-- Hospital, 160

Gourden, 12

‘Grady, Henry,’ 329

Grafton, Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of, 110

Graham, Sir James, cxi

Grantham, 38

Granville, xlix

Grasse, Comte de, xcii, 263, 264, 358

Graves, Rear-admiral Sir Thos., 295, 296

Gravesend, lx

Gray, James, _v._ Snell, Hannah

-- ‘Sarah,’ 359

Greene, Maurice, lxix, lxx

Greenland, 232, 249, 252

Greenway, Thomas, 1, 2

Greenwich, xviii, xxxviii, 143, 144

-- Hospital, lxxi

Greepe, Thomas, xv

Grenada, lxxiii, xci

Grenville, Grenfillde, Greynvile, Grinvile, Sir Richard, xv

Groyne, the, _v._ Corunna

Guadeloupe, lxxxi, 223

Guernsey, 262

Guinea, xxix, 55, 347

Gulf Stream, 315

Gunfleet, the, 190, 191

Haddock, Admiral Nicholas, lxviii, lxxiii, 173, 174

Hakluyt, Richard, xii, xiv

Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, lii

Halifax (Nova Scotia), 313

Hallen River, 289

-- Town, 290

Hamilton, James, 12

Hamoaze, the, 113

Hannay, James, cx

Hardy, Sir Thomas, 151

-- Sir Thomas Masterman, 302, 360

Hardyng, John, xii

Harfleur, xii

Harman, Sir John, xxxvi, xli, xlii, liv

-- Captain Thomas, xli, xlii, xliii, 83-86

Harris, Walter, 351

Harrison, George, xxviii, 52

Harvey (_i.e._ Hervey), Captain Augustus John, 224

-- Captain John, 269

Harwich, xxxii, lxviii, 69, 70

Hastings, Captain Anthony, 124

Havana, lxxxii, 223, 257, 356

Hawke, Edward, Lord, lxxv, lxxvii, lxxix, lxxx, lxxxi, lxxxv, 197,
202, 203, 217-19, 227, 228, 353, 356

Hawkins, Captain Richard, 347

-- Sir Richard, xiv, xv

Heath, Thomas, 122

Helsingfors, 336

Herbert, Arthur, _v._ Torrington

Heywood, Thomas, xxv

Hispaniola, lxxv, 199, 353

Hoare, Prince, 357

Hobson (_i.e._ Hopsonn), Sir Thomas, 152

Hodges, William, liii

Hodgson, General Studholme, lxxxi

Holsmes, Captain Charles, lxxv, 185

-- Sir Robert, xxxi, 58, 59, 62, 68, 73, 77, 79, 80, 81

Home, 285

Hood, Alexander, _see_ Bridport

-- Captain Alexander, 286

-- Samuel, Viscount Hood, xciv, xcviii, 263, 264, 358

Hope, Captain Henry, 314, 315

Hornby or Hornsby, Captain Richard, lxxvi, 187-9, 353

Horseley, Captain Gilbert, xvii

Horsley, William, 8, 12, 13, 15

Hosier, Vice-admiral Francis, lxix, lxxii, lxxiv, 179, 180, 352

Hotham, Captain William, lxxxi, 216, 217, 355

Howard, Lord Charles, xiii, 7-15, 340, 341

-- Sir Edward, xiii, 340, 341

-- Sir Philip, 79, 80

Howe, General Sir William, 247

-- Richard, Earl, ix, lxxxv, xciv, xcvi, xcviii, 268-70, 272-4,
278, 279

Hughes, Thomas, 360

Hull, 29

Hull Captain Isaac, 308, 311

Humbert, General, xcviii

Hunt, Henry, 8-10, 12, 14, 15

Hutchinson, 226

Hutt, Captain John, 270

Indies, the, lx, 42, 46, 265

-- East, l, lxxix, 129, 134

-- West, xxiv, xliii, li, lxxxi, 197, 222, 316, 320, 361

Inglefield, Captain John Nicholson, xcii

Ireland, xcviii, 251, 277, 280

Irish Channel, 251

‘Iron Castle,’ the, 178

Jack the Painter, 255, 357

Jago de Cuba, _v._ Santiago de Cuba

Jamaica, l, lxxi, xcii, 150, 177, 181, 263

James River, lii

Jeffery, Robert, 8, 307, 361

Jenkins, Captain, lxxiii, 172

Jennings, Colonel, 221

-- Sir William, 79, 80

Jermy, Captain Seth, lxviii

Jerrold, Douglas, cvii

Jervis, Admiral, _v._ St. Vincent

John of Aile (_i.e._ Jan van Eyle or Heylle), 3, 339

Johnson, Charles, li

-- Samuel, lxxii

Jones, Paul, xc, xci, xciii, 259-261, 358

Jordan, Vice-admiral Sir Joseph, 73

Jumper, Captain Sir William, lxiv

Kedah, 135, 347

Kempthorne, Captain John, xxxvii, xxxviii, 74, 344

Kent, xxv, 37, 39

Keppel, Augustus, Viscount, lxxix, lxxxi, xc, 212, 223, 248, 255,
256, 257, 357, 358

Kid, or Kidd, Captain William, li, 134-7, 347-8

Killala, xcviii

Killigrew, Admiral Henry, xlv, 108, 109

-- Captain James, xlviii, 126, 127, 346

Kilroot, 220

Kingston (Jamaica), 149

Kinsale, 195, 196

Kirkby, Captain Richard, 149, 349

Kirkham, John, xv

Knowles, Rear-admiral Sir Charles, lxxv, 199, 353

Kyret, Sir Hugh, _v._ Quiéret

La Clue, Admiral de, lxxix

La Galissonière, Admiral de la, lxxvii, lxxviii, lxxxvi, 207

La Hogue, xlvii, xlviii, lxiii, 120, 122

La Jonquière, Admiral the Marquis de, lxxv, 353

Lake, Captain Warwick, 361

Lake Erie, 308

Lancaster, Henry of Derby, Duke of, 2, 339

Langara, Admiral Don Juan de, xci

Laughton, Lieutenant, 186

Lawrence, Captain James, 308, 312

Lawson, Vice-admiral Sir John, xxx, xliii, liii, 61

Leake, Admiral Sir John, lxiv, 156, 157

Lee, Captain, 190

-- Nathaniel, xlii

Leghorn, xxxviii

Leith, xc, 252

-- Roads, 249

Lepanto, 110, 122

Lesley, John, Bishop of Ross, xiv

Lestock, Vice-admiral Richard, lxxv, 181, 182, 184, 187

Levant, the, 127

Lichfield, 359

Lindsey, Robert Bertie, Earl of, xxiv, xxv

Linois, Vice-admiral C. A. L. Durand, Comte de, xcvii, xcviii, 298

Lisbon, 156, 185, 192-4, 254

‘Little John,’ 266, 267

Liverpool, lxxxvi, lxxxvii, lxxxviii, cviii, 357, 359

Lockhart, _v._ Ross, Captain Sir John Lockhart

London, viii, xx, xxv, xlvi, 9, 28, 29, 95, 124, 145, 262, 342

Londonderry, xliv, lxxxi

Lorient, xc, 259

Lothbury, 231

Louisbourg, lxxix

Luttrell, Narcissus, 348

Lyme Regis, 49

Lynn, lxxvi, 189

Lyons, Hankyn, xiii

McCleverty, Mr., 362

Maclome, _v._ Port-Mahon

MacSkimin, Mr., 356

Madagascar, 1, 348

Madeira, 243

Madison, James, President of the United States, ci, 315

Madras, 330

Magellan, Straits of, 243, 244

Maidstone, Lord (William Finch, son of Heneage, 2nd Earl of
Winchilsea), xxxv

Mainwaring, Sir Henry, xxi

Maitland, Captain Frederick Lewis, 300

Malabar, 136

Malaga, xxvii, lxiv, lxvii, 47, 48, 343

Mallet, David, lxxii

Malluda Bay, cxiii, 364

Malta, 25, 288

‘Manley,’ lxi

Manning, Captain (? Captain Covill Mayne), 175

Manny, Sir Walter, 2, 339

Mansell, Sir Robert, xxii, 32

Mansfield Captain (? Michael), xxxviii, 86, 87, 344

Markham, Gervase, xv

Marlow, Captain Benjamin, 354

Marryat, Captain Frederick, cvi, cvii, 322, 345, 362

Marseilles (_i.e._ Messina), 127, 346

Marshalsea, the, 348

Marteilhe, Jacques de, lxviii

‘Marten, Henry,’ xiv

Martinico, xxxvii, lxxxii, 222, 306

Marvell, Andrew, xxviii, xxxiv

Marza, 224

Mathews, Admiral Thomas, ix, lxxv, 186, 187, 353

Mawnay, _v._ Manny

Maynard, Lieutenant Robert, lii, 166-8

Mediterranean, xxxvii, xli, xlii, xlv, xlviii, liv, lvi, lxxiii, 173;
_v. also_ Straits

Medway, River, xxxiv

Menschikoff, 337

Mercant, 127

Mexico, 138

Mines, John, 34

Minns (_i.e._ Myngs), Sir Christopher, xliii, liii, 61, 62

Minorca, lxxxi, 211, 354

Minot, Lawrence, xi, 1-4, 339, 340

Mocca (Mocha?), 348

Moncalda, Don Hugo de, 19

Monck, George, _v._ Albemarle

Montague, Captain James, 271

Monument, the, 139

Moore, John Hamilton, cii

Morard de Galles, Admiral, xcviii

Mordaunt, Sir John, lxxix

More, J., xcv

-- William, 135, 347

Morecock, Captain, lxxxvi

Moreno, Vice-admiral Don J. J. de, 298

Morgan, Sir Henry, xlix

-- Lieutenant William Thomas, 315

Morley (Morlay), Sir Robert, 2, 339

Morocco, lxxix, 215

Mostyn, Vice-admiral Savage, 203

Mountjoy, Charles Blount, 8th Lord, 31

Mount Wyse, 322

Mullon, Jean, 267

Mundy (_i.e._ Munden), Rear-admiral Sir John, lxiv

Murray, Captain George, 292

Napier, Admiral Sir Charles, cx, cxi, cxii, 333

Naples, 287, 288

Napoleon, 302

Narbrough, Admiral Sir John, xli

Nassau (Bahamas), 320

Navarino, cix, cx

Nelson, Horatio, Viscount, lxxxv, xcvi, ci, civ, cxi, 287, 290,
295-8, 301-4, 359, 360

Neper, Captain, 251, 252

Netheway, 34

Newcastle-on-Tyne, lxxxvii, ciii, 8, 251

Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, lxxviii

New England, xlvi

Newfoundland, lxxvii, 348

Newgate, 137

New York, 247, 313, 347

Nicholl or Nicholas, 16, 341

Nile, the, xcv, xcvi, 287

Nore, the, xcix, 190, 201

Norris, Admiral Sir John, xvi, 191

North, Frederick, Lord, xci

Northampton, William de Bohun, Earl of, 2, 339

Northumberland, Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of, xxiv, xxv

-- Rock, 114

O’Brian, Captain Lucius, lxxxi, 222, 356

Odessa, 336

Ogle, Rear-admiral Sir Chaloner, 181-3

Old Bailey, the, l, lxviii

Omoa, xci, 262

Opdam (_i.e._ Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer, Lord of Obdam), 57-59, 62

Oporto, xxxviii, lxxvi, 189

Orford, Edward Russell, Earl of, xliv, xlvi, xlix, 112, 113, 115,
119, 120, 121, 123, 125, 126, 128, 129, 345

Ormon, Mr., 315

Ormonde, James Butler, 2nd Duke of, lxiii, 151-3

Orvilliers, Vice-admiral Comte d’, xc

Otranto, 110

Oxford, 137, 348

Pacific, 331

-- fleet, 170, 171

Palliser, Vice-admiral Sir Hugh, xc, 255-8, 358

Panama, l, 178

Pantelaria, Gulf of, xlviii

Paris, 16

Parker, Rear-admiral Sir Hyde, 295-6

-- Martin, ix, xxvi, 40-2, 343

-- Richard, xcix, 281, 282, 359

-- Admiral Sir Peter, lxxxix, 246, 357

Parry, Sir William Edward, 332

Pasley, Rear-admiral Sir Thomas, 270, 271, 273

Pearson, Captain Sir Richard, 259

Peele, George, xv

Pellew, Sir Edward, Viscount Exmouth, xcviii, xcix, 267, 268, 277

Penn, Sir William, xxx, xxxiii, 70

Pepys, Samuel, xxx, xxxii, xxxiii, xliii, liii, lvi, lxii, lxxxiii,
cxvi, 92

Percy, Bishop, xiv, 340

Perry, Captain Oliver H., 308

Persia, 132

Peru, 195, 226

Petre, Father Edward, 124, 346

Pett, Peter, xxxiv

Philadelphia, xciii

Phipps, Sir William, xliii

Pickard, Captain Peter, xlviii

‘Pickle, Peregrine,’ lxxi

Pilon, Frederick, 357

Piper, Diggory, 342

Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 227

-- William, lxxxi, 278, 279

Playford, John, 343

Plymouth (town, harbour, bay, sound), xlvii, li, 18, 21, 25, 89, 91,
113, 132, 203, 204, 243, 303, 308, 315, 337, 346, 354, 357, 358

Pocock, Admiral Sir George, lxxix, lxxxii, 223

Point Petre (_i.e._ Point à Pitre, Guadeloupe), 275

Pondicherry, 199

‘Porpuss, Captain,’ lviii, lxii

Port _and_ Port à Port, _v._ Oporto

Port Cornwallis, 330

-- Famine, 224

Portland, U.S.A., 308

Portlock, Captain Nathaniel, 289, 260

Port Louis, lxxv, 199, 353

-- Mahon, xlvii, lxxvii, lxxviii, 193, 209, 211, 214, 354

-- Rhode, 184

-- Royal, 149, 263, 320, 349

Porto Bello, ix, lxxiv, lxxv, 177-180, 352

-- Rico, 92-5, 344

Portsmouth, lvii, lxxi, 171, 194, 197, 201, 230, 268, 278, 336, 354,
358

Prado, Juan de, 225

Prat, J., xcv, 283

Price, Lawrence, xxiii, xxvi, 34, 35

Providence (Bahamas), 319

Purcell, Henry, lviii

Purser (pirate), xvii

Pynson, Pety, xiii

Quebec, 260

Quedagh, _v._ Kedah

Quiberon Bay, lxxix, 217

Quida, _v._ Kedah

Quiéret, Hugues de, 1, 339

Rainborow, Captain William, xxiii, 342

Ralegh, Sir Walter, xviii, xix

Raleigh, 127

Ramsey Bay, 222

Ram’s Head, the, 113

‘Random, Roderick,’ lxix, lxx, lxxi, lxxxiv

Rands, Thomas, lxv

Rangoon, 330, 331

Ré, Isle of, xxiii

Red Sea, 348

Reynolds, Captain Robert Carthew, xcix, 276

Rhodes, Isle of, lxi

Richmond, Frances Stuart, Duchess of, xxxv

Rigny, Rear-admiral Henri de, cx

Riou, Captain Edward, 294

Ritson, Joseph, xi

Roberts, Captain, 194

Robertson, Robert, xl

Robson, John, 251

Rochefort, lxxix

Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 343

Rodney, George Brydges, 1st Baron Rodney, lxxx, lxxxi, xci, xcii,
244, 262

Rogers (_i.e._ Rodgers), Captain John, 308, 309

Rooke, Admiral Sir George, xlviii, lxiv, 116, 118, 123, 151, 153,
154, 350

Ross, Sir James Clark, cxiii, 331, 332, 363

-- Captain Sir John Lockhart, lxxxix, xc, 254, 262

Rotterdam, lxxvi

Round Court, 105

Rupert, Prince, xxx, 51, 60, 63-67, 73, 75

Russell, Edward, _v._ Orford, Earl of

Rye, 138

S--, Sir H--, 137

St. Clement’s, 104

St. Helens, 202, 253, 278

St. Jago, 243

St. James of Compostella, xii, 4

St. James’s Park, 229

St. Jean d’Acre, cx, 333, 334, 363

St. Lo, George, liii

St. Lucar, xxv

St. Lucia, lxxxii, 263

St. Malo, xiii, xlix, lxxvi, 125

St. Paul’s, 37, 124, 208

St. Vincent, lxxxii

-- -- Admiral Sir John Jervis, Earl of, xciv, xcvi

Sallee, xxii, xxiii, 23, 343

Sandwich, 4

-- Edward Montague, 1st Earl of, xxx, xxxiii, xxxiv, liii, 58

-- John Montague, 4th Earl of, xci, 256, 257, 358

Santa Cruz, xxviii, 213

Santiago de Cuba, 199

Saumarez, Sir James, xcvii

Saunders, Admiral Sir Charles, lxxv, 219

-- Richard Creagh, 328, 337, 363, 364

Sawyer (Sayer), Captain James, lxxix, 212-4, 355

Scanderoon, lvi

Schelling, 77, 79, 80, 81

Scilly Islands, lxvii, cxiv

Scott, Sir Walter, xcvi

Sebastopol, 337

Selden, John, xxiv

Seville, 138

Seymour, Captain Michael, 306

Shakespeare, William, lxi

Shaterino, _i.e._ Château-Renault, 152

Sheerness, 281

Shield, 357

Shields, ciii, 249

Shovel, Sir Clowdisley, xlv, lxiv, lxvi, lxvii, 106-7, 115, 123

Sicily, 288

Simon, Peter, 7, 11, 15

Sizewell, Captain, 82

Sluys, xi, 1, 3

Smith, Sir Jeremy, 60, 62, 68, 70, 74

-- Captain John, xx, xxii

-- Captain Thomas, lxviii, 154, 155

Smollett, Tobias, lxix, lxx, lxxi, lxxxiv, 351

Smyrna, xxix, xxxi, 55, 127

Snell, Hannah, alias James Gray, cv, 200, 353, 354

Solebay, xxxv, lviii, 344

Sombrero, I. of, 361

Southampton, cxii

South Seas, the, l, 132, 244

Southwold Bay, xxxv

Spanish Main, the, l, 347

Spencer, George John, 2nd Earl Spencer, 278

Spithead, lxviii, xcix, 161, 168, 170, 174, 192, 201, 202, 212, 277,
289, 351

Spragge, Sir Edward, xxxv, xli, xlii, xliii, 74

Spriggs, Captain, 347

‘Stephano,’ lxi

Stevens, Francis, 129

-- George Alexander, xi, lxxi

Stoakes, Samuel, lxi

Stonehouse, Captain, lxxxvii, 226, 227

Stopford, Sir Robert, cx

Strachan, Admiral Sir Richard, ci, 304, 305, 361

Straits, the, 108, 129, 287; _v. also_ Mediterranean

Strand, the, 104

Stuart, Prince Charles Edward, 204, 354

Stukely, Thomas, xviii

Sullivan’s Island, 246, 247

Surat, 347

Swin, the, 1-4

Syrenham (_i.e._ Surinam), xxxvii

Talbot, Captain, lxxxvi, 69, 70

-- Captain Charles, 334, 335

Tangier, lvi, 84

Taylor, Captain Thomas, lxxxi, 222

‘-- William’ or ‘Billy,’ cv, 326-328, 363

Teach, Captain Edward (Blackbeard), lii, 166-7

Temple Bar, 255

Teneriffe, 213

Teonge, Rev. Henry, xli, lvi, lvii

Terne, Captain Henry, xxxv

Tetuan, xxiii

Texel, the, xcv, 283

Thames, River, xxxiv, 4, 8, 14, 75

Thomson, James, lxxii, lxxiii

Thurot, Commodore François, lxxxi, 220-2, 355, 356

Tiddiman (_i.e._ Teddeman) admiral Sir Thomas, 73

Tilbury, xix

Timms, J., 358

Tobago, xciv

Torbay, 217

Torrington, Arthur Herbert, Earl of, x, xl, li, 110, 111, 112

Toulon, ix, xlviii, xlix, xciv, xcv, 108, 128

Toulouse, Admiral Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de, lxiv, 153,
154, 350

Tourville, Admiral Anne-Hilarion de Cotentin, Comte de, xlv, xlix,
119, 120, 121, 128, 129, 138

Tower, the, 194, 201

-- Hill, lxxiv, 332

Trafalgar, c, ci, 301, 361

Tripoli, xli

‘Trunnion, Commodore,’ lxx

Tunis, xxiii, 27, 29, 51

Turkey, 28

Tyrrell, Captain John, 110

-- Captain Richard, 261