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Any little boxes, or as it were, Cubbords which are made by the Ships-sides, to put in shot by the Peeces, or in any other places, are (by a common name) called Lockers: we have them to every Peece, to have the shot lie ready, if on the suddaine we should have oc∣casion; but in fight the shot lies not there, but in a roape made like a ring, which lies flat upon the Deck; so that the shot cannot doe so much hurt, if that an other shot should light amongst it.