all hainous offences
alleadged to have beene by him committed, which he could not do by
reason of other occasions; but having within two or three days
afterwards mett with Mr. Dowdall, was told by him that he had since
their last meeting seene the said Cusack in prison (being the
Marshalsea in Southwark) with bolts on, and that none of Cusack's men
who were alsoe in prison were bolted:"

that on the 11th of November Cusack was still in restraint, and not as yet
come to his trial:

"That there were _bookes written of the said Cusack's offences_, which
he heard cryed about in the streets of London to be sold, and that y^e
generall opinion and talke was that the said Cusack should suffer death
for his crimes."

By a fragment of an affidavit made by a Mr. Morgan O'Bryen, of the Middle
Temple, London, it appears that this man was a Captain George Cusack, who,
I presume, was a pirate. May I take leave to ask, are the above-mentioned
books in existence, and where are they to be found?

JAMES F. FERGUSON.

Dublin.

[In the British Museum is the following pamphlet:--"The Grand Pyrate:
or the Life and Death of Captain George Cusack, the Great Sea-Robber,
with an Accompt of all his notorious Robberies both at Sea and Land;
together with his Tryal, Condemnation, and Execution. Taken by an
Impartial Hand." London, 1676, pp. 24. 4to.]

_Sir Ralph Winwood._--I am particularly desirous of obtaining some
information respecting {273} Sir Ralph Winwood, private secretary to James
I., and should feel much obliged if any of your numerous correspondents
would favour me with anything they may know concerning him, or with the
titles of any works in which his name is mentioned.

H. P. W. R.

[Biographical notices of Sir Ralph Winwood will be found in _Biographia
Britannica_, Supplement; Lloyd's _State Worthies_; Wood's _Athenae_;
Granger and Chalmers' Biographical Dictionaries. Sir F. Drake's Voyage,
by T. Maynarde, is dedicated to him. Letters to him from Sir Thomas
Roe, in 1615, 1616, are in the British Museum, Add. MS. 6115. fol. 71.
75. 146. And a letter to him from Sir Dudley Carlton will be found in
the _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. lvii. p. 143. The Diaries of the time
of James I. may also be consulted; a list of them is given in "N. &
Q.," Vol. vi., p. 363.]

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