Note 24 — PART I. MASTER THOMAS DALLAM’S DIARY.
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Dunkirks. The Dunkirkers were at that time the pirates of the Channel, and their privateers did much damage to English trade.
“This was a rail Bred by a zealous brother in Amsterdam, Which being sent unto an English lady, Was ta’en at sea by Dunkirkers.” (The Bird in a Cage, O. Pl., viii, 267.)