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10.
A Sad and Deplorable, but True Account of the Terrible Hardships and Suffering of Capt. John Deane & Company on Board the Nottingham Galley
(London: J. Dutton, 1711), pp. 1. 7.
11. Cotton Mather,
Compassions Called for. An Essay of Profitable Reflections on Miserable Spectacles. To which is added, a faithful relation of Some Late, but Strange Occurrences that call'd for an awful and unusual Consideration. Especially the Surprising Distresses and Deliverance of a Company lately Shipwreck'd on a Desolate Rock on the Coast of New England
(Boston, 1711), pp. 5060.
12. According to local legend, Jasper was very distressed by his losses and died after an altercation with the captain, which caused him to rupture a blood vessel. See M. N. Barker,
Walks Around Nottingham by a Wanderer
(London, 1835), pp. 5051; William H. Wylie,
Old and New Nottingham
(London: E. Stock, 1853), pp. 14647; Cornelius Brown,
History of Nottinghamshire
(London: Longmans, 1891), p. 35.
13. For this period of Deane's biography, see my "Deane: Mercenary, Diplomat, Spy," pp. 2335. This is based heavily on material located in the Tsentralnyi gosudarstvennyi arkhiv voenno-morskogo flota (TGAVMF), the Central State Archive of the Navy in St. Petersburg. Deane's record of service is in
Obshchii morskoi spisok
(St. Petersburg: Morskoe ministerstvo, 1885), vol. 1, pp. 13132. There is also much material scattered throughout the magnificent collection
Materialy dlia istorii Russkago flota,
ed. E. L. Elagin, vols. 14 (St. Petersburg: Morskoe ministerstvo, 1887).
14.
A Histoty of the Russian Fleet during the Reign of Peter the Great by a Contemporary Englishman, 1724,
ed. Adm. Cyprian A. G. Bridge, vol. 15 of Navy Records Society Publications (London: Navy Records Society, 1899). The original manuscript copy has disappeared from the collection of the London School of Slavonic Studies.
15. "The Authorship of the 'History of the Russian Fleet under Peter the Great,'"
Mariner's Mirror
20 (July 1934): 37376. Ingram's manuscript was sold at auction in 1966 and has disappeared. It was signed "Your Majesty's Most Dutiful, Most Sincerely Devoted Subject and Servant, John Deane."
16.
A Narrative of the Sufferings, Preservation, and Deliverance of Capt. John Deane and Company; in the Nottingham Galley of London, cast away on Boon Island, Near New England, December 11, 1710, as it was printed in 1711 and now reprinted in 1722
(London, 1722).
17. See my "Deane: Mercenary, Diplomat, Spy," p. 28, and Paul S. Fritz,
The English Ministers and Jacobitism between the Rebellions of 1715 and 1745
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1975)s. pp. 13031.
18. Tilson to Lord Townshend, 17 July 1725, PRO SP 43 / 9 / 23940.
19. Lord Townshend to Robert Points, 7 July 1725, PRO SP 95 / 37 / 21112.
20. Deane's dispatches are located in PRO SP 91 / 9 / 38798.
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