376 
JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
appointed to try the case received instructions to view it as favour- 
ably as possible, and it is remarkable that the accounts for the navy 
made up by Hawkins after the Armada actually bring the queen in 
as debtor to Hawkins, over and above the sums yearly allotted to 
him, to which we may add that the fact remains, that Drake with 
all his opportunities for acquiring wealth actually died a much 
poorer man than Hawkins, who was much more at home. 
5th. We come next to the question of the extent of Plymouth 
Haven. This is asserted to have reference only to the town harbour 
of Sutton Pool, and the inference is, that the Plymouth Leat by 
discharging there would be sufficient for cleansing this inner harbour 
from the tinners' refuse. But it is difficult to see how the tin 
refuse could come into Sutton Pool without first making its way 
along the Torey Brook into the Laira and Cattewater, and so by 
the Bode near Oreston into the larger haven of Plymouth. In the 
references made to St. Mcholas Island, we find that island is 
said to be included in the Plymouth Haven, and in the Stonehouse 
Water Act it is expressly stated that the Hamoaze was one of the 
branches of Plymouth Haven. From all which it appears, that so 
far from the harbour of Sutton Pool being identical, and in all 
points conterminous, with Plymouth Haven, it could at best be 
only styled, like the Hamoaze, one of the branches of the larger 
haven of Plymouth. And if this be so it is difficult to see how 
the comparatively small volume of the Plymouth Leat could possi 
bly have effected the purpose of scouring out, we will not say the 
Plymouth Haven, but the smaller areas of the Plymouth Bode at 
Oreston and the connected harbour of Sutton Pool. I have here 
incidentally to dispute the assertion which has been made, that the 
words Plymouth Bode in the Cecil map have ever been mistaken 
by me for the Plymouth Bock. The statement really made was, 
that the " Prince Bock " may have been the Plymouth original of 
the " Plymouth Bock," which the Pilgrim Fathers so named in the 
New World from their last point of departure from the Old World 
for New England. 
Our sixth and last point of divergence from recent revisions of 
Plymouth history relates to the charge of double dealing made 
against Drake for the part he took in Committee in relation to the 
Mills Bemoval Bill of 1592. So much has been said about this in the 
Devonshire Association Transactions for 1883 that little need be said 
in recapitulation. A good deal depends on the dates of proceed- 
