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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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21. Map Collection: King's Maritime II. 51.1, 35. ''The Present State of the Maritime Power of Russia" (accompanying maps: Ladoga Sea, Retusari [Cronstadt], St. Petersburg), British Library.
22. Deane to Tilson, 5 July 1725, PRO SP 91 / 9 / 398. In August he wrote of "implacable enemies who seek my ruin" and of his fear that he "would be rendered odious to that government whose cause [he] served" (Deane to Tilson, 24 August 1725, PRO SP 84 / 574).
23. Fritz, English Ministers, pp. 13234, and J. F. Chance, The Alliance of Hanover (London: J. Murray, 1923), p. 348. These are the only works that deal with the fascinating adventures of Deane and O'Conner in Holland.
24. The seven dispatches Deane wrote while on the cruise are filed with those of Sir Charles Wager in PRO SP 42 / 77. When the voyage was over, Wager wrote Tilson from Spithead on 30 December 1726, "I fear [Deane's] money is all out. I wish my Lord would remedy this. I think him a very honest Man." See also, "The Present State of the Danes, Swedes, and Russians in Respect to One Another and to the English Fleet in the Baltic in the Year 1726," PRO SP 43 / 77.
25. A Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Nottingham Galley, &c. Publish'd in 1711, Revis'd, and Re-printed with Additions in 1726 by John Deane, Commander (n. p., 1726), reprinted herein; and Captain John Deane, A Narrative ... with Additions in 1727 (London, 1727). Only minor