Excerpt from A History of the Four Georges, Vol. 2 of 4 While this volume was passing through the press, The English Historical Review published an inter esting article by Professor J. K. Laughton on the subject of J enkins's Ear. Professor Laughton, while lately making some researches in the Admiralty records, came on certain correspondence which ap pears to have escaped notice up to that time, and he regards it as incidentally confirming the story of Jenkins's Ear, 'which for certainly more than a hun dred years has generally been believed to be a fable.' The correspondence, in my opinion, leaves the story exactly as it found it. We only learn from it that Jenkins made a complaint about his ear to the English naval commander at Port Royal, who re ceived the tale with a certain incredulity, but never theless sent formal report of it to the Admiralty and addressed a remonstrance to the Spanish authorities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.