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[178] MS. 'Phinees' (the form also adopted in his signature), the Greek form of the Hebrew name Mouth of Brass, given as 'Phinehas' by the translators of the Bible.
[179] MS. 'Deepforde Stronde.' The etymology of this well-known name does not appear to have been satisfactorily determined. Antiquaries have been content to explain it as the 'Strand' or shore of the deep ford over the Ravensbourne River, which enters the Thames at Deptford Creek. As a matter of fact, Deptford Strond lay on the shore of the Thames some distance to the west of the Ravensbourne. It seems more probable that Deptford Town, at the head of the creek near the bridge by which the Dover Road crosses, was the original settlement, and took its name from the deep creek (fiord), which was navigable for ships of 500 tons up to that bridge, and that Deptford Stronde was settled later from the 'Town' and took the addition 'Stronde' in contradistinction. The dockyard was on the site now occupied by the Foreign Cattle Market.
[180] Probably Thomas Howell, Rector of Paglesham.
[181] Throughout the MS. the name of the Deity is spelt without a capital letter: the use of capitals in this connection appears to be comparatively modern.
[182] 'Num' in MS., in which it occurs twice.
[183] I.e. apprentice.
[184] Benjamin Gonson, junior, and Buck were appointed jointly Clerk of the Ships, with reversion to the longer liver, by letters patent of 10 July 1596. Gonson died in 1600 and Buck succeeded him. Buck was knighted in 1604 and died in 1625.
[185] A private man-of-war, called later in the 17th century a 'privateer.'
[186] Or Glemham. This was the second voyage. Neither appears to have been a financial success. An account of this voyage under the title, News from the Levane Seas ... was published in 1594.
[187] Prize.
[188] MS. 'Divelinge,' apparently a phonetic attempt at the old name of Dublin, 'Duibhlinn,' pronounced Divlin. Pepys in his marginal note writes 'travelled to Dublin.'
[189] This was destined to be the last voyage of Drake and Hawkyns. The Defiance was Drake's ship.
[190] Or Due (Dieu) Repulse.
[191] Built in 1561, this was a rebuilding.
[192] Advance.
[193] Howard of Effingham.
[194] On the north side of Deptford Green, overlooking the Thames, afterwards the Gun Tavern. See Dew's History of Deptford, p. 185.
[195] I.e. the Cadiz Expedition of 1596, under the joint command of Howard and Essex.
[196] William Cecil, Lord Burghley.
[197] Pronounced 'Tibalds,' whence the form 'Tiballs' in which it appears in the MS. Theobalds Park (near Waltham Cross) was afterwards exchanged between Burghley's son, the first Earl of Salisbury, and James I for Hatfield.
[198] MS. 'Pakellsum.'
[199] MS. 'estate.'
[200] MS. 'Hye Woodehill'; near Mill Hill.
[201] St. James's Day, 25th July.
[202] St. Bartholomew's Day, 24th August.
[203] Hugh Lydiard, senior, Clerk of the Check.
[204] The navigator, brother of Stephen Borough.
[205] Possibly the entrance to the dock.
[206] The 'income' was the fee or fine paid on entering upon the lease.
[207] Thomas Wiggs, a subordinate of Lord Buckhurst, Commissioner of State Trials. He is mentioned in a letter of Buckhurst to Cecil of 7th December 1600. Salisbury MSS. (Hist. MSS.), x. p. 411, and in Pepys' Miscell., x. p. 349.
[208] Southwold.
[209] Or 'Vugle.'
[210] I.e. districts.
[211] See Introduction.
[212] Afterwards Lord Brooke.
[213] Like, favour.
[214] See Introduction.
[215] An allusion to the game of bowls.
[216] Stepfather.
[217] MS. 'syses.'
[218] S.P. Dom. 28th May 1599; the name is given as 'Nun.'
[219] Probably John Hone, Advocate of Doctors' Commons, 1589; Master in Chancery 1596-1602.
[220] The ecclesiastical 'Court of Arches' held at St. Mary-le-Bow.
[221] A Newcastle carvel-built ship.
[222] MS. 'Bulley'; the high ground south of Rochester Castle.
[223] 'All Hallows, Barking,' founded by the nuns of Barking Abbey, whence the name.
[224] MS. 'raynam.'
[225] Thievish Dunkirker.
[226] Swatchway; the channel south of the Nore Sand.
[227] Christmas.
[228] Originally half a mark, or 6s. 8d., afterwards 10s.
[229] 1602, according to the Old Style, as it is before the 25th March.
[230] Or Avale, see p. 86; for many years the pilot for the river and Downs. The Commission of 1618 proposed to pension him as 'aged and blind.'
[231] MS. 'Dagnam.'
[232] MS. 'Grenehyve.'
[233] See Introduction.
[234] Band.
[235] Round shot. At that period salutes were fired with shotted guns, not with blank charges.
[236] Immediately.
[237] South of St. Paul's, and on the east side of Baynard's Castle.
[238] I.e. Prince Henry.
[239] I.e. the Lord High Admiral.
[240] M.S. 'Ihon,' mis-transcribed in the Harl. MS. here and elsewhere as 'Thomas.'
[241] M.S. 'Winebancke.'
[242] The words in italics are wanting in the original MS.
[243] The words in italics are wanting in the original MS.
[244] Coruña.
[245] San Lucar, at the mouth of the Guadalquivir.
[246] MS. 'Bonance': opposite San Lucar.
[247] MS. 'Civill.'
[248] C. de Sta. Maria.
[249] Bore away.
[250] Cadiz.
[251] Santander.
[252] In Hampshire, north of Havant.
[253] See Introduction.
[254] This is a mistake. He has already given the date of birth of John as 23rd March 1601-2 and of Henry as 18th March 1602-3; see pp. 17 and 18.
[255] Suites.
[256] Of Hinchinbrook, a gentleman of the Privy Chamber, uncle of the Protector.
[257] In 1608, see Introduction.
[258] MS. 'Alceholte' (Aisholt = Ashwood), near the Surrey border S.W. of Farnham.
[259] At the northern approach to old London Bridge.
[260] The poet, then gentleman of the bedchamber to Prince Henry.
[261] I.e. for this special purpose.
[262] A legend concerning the relics of St. Vincent, who suffered martyrdom at Valencia in A.D. 304. His body on being exposed to wild beasts was said to have been protected by a raven. During the Moorish invasion of Spain these remains were removed from Valencia to Cape St. Vincent, and in the twelfth century were brought by water from that Cape to the cathedral of Lisbon and placed in the Chapel of St. Vincent. Two (not three) ravens, who watched over his tomb, accompanied the ship on its voyage, remaining on watch when the relics were deposited in the cathedral. The ship and the two birds appear in the arms of Lisbon.
[263] I.e. of ample powers.
[266] Rotherhithe; MS. 'Redreife.'
[267] MS. 'Bluther.'
[268] MS. 'Peter.'
[269] A small piece of ordnance without carriage, used for firing salutes. This was not the 'chamber' used with the early breech-loading ordnance.
[270] The Prince Royal.
[271] MS. 'flower.' 'Floor—are those timbers lying transverse to the keel, being bolted through it ... and strictly taken, is so much only of her bottom as she rests upon when lying aground.'—Blanckley, Naval Expositor.
[272] Troublesome, painful.
[273] Lie.
[274] Careless.
[275] The Tuck is 'that part of the ship where the ends of the bottom planks are collected together immediately under the stem ... a square tuck' (as in this case) 'is terminated above by the wing transom and below and on each side by the fashion-pieces' (Falconer, Marine Dictionary). According to Sutherland (Shipbuilder's Assistant), the 'height of the tuck' was taken from the point where the heels of the fashion-pieces were 'let in upon the posts,' i.e. upon the stern post and false stern post.
[276] Bully, swashbuckler.
[277] A coach or chariot of a stately or luxurious kind.—N.E.D.
[278] Sir Robert Cecil had been created Earl of Salisbury in 1605.
[279] Considering.
[280] Previously.
[281] MS. 'brew.'
[282] MS. 'Wrong heads.' The upper ends of the floor timbers.
[283] The inside planking from the kelson to the orlop clamps.
[284] Canopy.
[285] Of the East India Company, merchant and sea-captain.
[286] One of the six Masters Attendant of the Navy.
[287] Probably John Watts, who was captain of Denbigh's flagship in the Cadiz Expedition of 1625 and was knighted; together with Michael Geere and others, at Plymouth on the return. He was captain of Buckingham's flagship in the Ile de Rhé expedition of 1627.
[288] Captain Thomas Norris (or Norreys) referred to at p. 119 as being one of the Commissioners of 1618 and at p. 120 as one of Pett's 'greatest enemies.' From p. 33 it would appear that at one time he had been a purser.
[289] Perhaps the Captain James Chester referred to in Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson, I. xxxiv. and III. 60.
[290] See Introduction.
[291] Captain Christopher Newport, recommended by Mansell and Trevor in 1606 for the reversion of one of the principal masters' places. In 1612 he was captain of the East Indiaman Expedition. He was removed from among the six masters by the Commission of 1618, on account of his employment by the East India Company.
[292] Of Limehouse; master of a merchantman, and a shipbuilder.
[293] Probably the 'Thomas Redwood, mariner, precinct of the Tower of London,' whose will was proved in 1613 (Wills. P.C.C.)
[294] Possibly the William Geere granted 'the office of an Assistant of the Admiralty' in 1604; or Michael Geere granted 'the place of Assistant to the King's chief officers of the Admiralty' in March 1608, subsequently knighted and a Master of Trinity House.
[295] In 1618 'Captains Geer and Moore' were engaged 'in receiving and inventorying the Destiny and her furniture, the goods of Sir Walter Raleigh.'—Cal. S. P. Dom., November 2, 1618.
[296] A servant of the East India Company.
[297] Of Limehouse, mariner.
[298] See Introduction.
[299] MS. 'Cleye.' Referred to at p. 33 as 'Nicholas Clay of Redriff, shipwright and yardkeeper.' Nominated in the Charter of 1605 as one of the 'Assistants' of the Shipwrights' Company. The name is there spelt 'Cley,' but he signed as 'Nycholas Clay.'
[300] Referred to at p. 33 as 'Thomas Graves of Limehouse, shipwright and yardkeeper'; the indictment is, however, signed by 'John Greaves' (see Introduction), and it may be noted that 'John Graves' was nominated an 'Assistant' by the Charter of 1612. Probably Pett has made a mistake in the forename.
[301] Probably Robert Tranckmore, who with Jonas Day was employed in 1627 in making a dry dock, etc., at Portsmouth. These two with Pett were also ordered to report on the faults in the ships built by Burrell.
[302] Clerk of the Check at Woolwich.
[303] Brother of Sir Peter Buck, Clerk of the King's Ships. It appears from p. 33 that he was an under clerk to Sir Peter. In October 1607 Thomas Buck and William Holliday were granted 'protection' for a year, and this was renewed in September 1609. On 31st July 1609 Thomas Buck and John Clifton were granted the moiety of all forfeitures, etc., incurred by officers of the navy for frauds against the Crown.
[304] John Clifton (see preceding note); he had been purser in the Answer in the Spanish voyage of 1605.
[305] In October 1604 he was granted with others a reward of 5s. a ton for building five new ships. He was a friend of William Adams, the navigator, who refers to him in his letter from Japan of October 23, 1611, to the East India Company. It would appear that he and Diggens (and possibly Woodcott) would more properly have been included under 'shipwrights.'
[306] Probably the William Bigatt who was master of the Lion under William Borough in 1587. See 'The Mutiny of the Golden Lion' in Oppenheim, Administration of the Royal Navy, p. 382 et seq.
[307] Of Stepney.
[308] Became in 1610 one of the six principal masters. Newport's reversion (see note 7, p. 54) was granted 'after the placing of John King.'
[309] Possibly Arthur Pett, the navigator of 1580. He was one of the members incorporated by the second charter of the Virginia Company in 1609.
[310] Possibly referred to in Court Minutes of the East India Company (Cal. S.P. East Indies, 407) of April 1608: 'Gratifications to Diggins, Burrell, Kitchen and Woodcott.'
[311] This may be the 'old Thomas Fuller' who died in the East India Company's ship Thomas in 1612.
[312] MS. 'Write.' In 1604 the Lord Mayor was directed to appoint Richard and Robert Wright joint packers of woollen cloths, &c., and porters of strangers' goods in and out of the port of London. It is not, however, clear that this is the same man.
[313] Of Ratcliff. Mentioned in the grant to the North-West Passage Company. Cal. S.P. Colonial, July 26, 1612.
[314] Granted in August 1604 the usual allowance for building five new ships. William Adams, who died in Japan in 1620, had been for twelve years apprenticed to Diggens, and refers to him affectionately in his letters to the East India Company. (See Letters received by the East India Company, vol. i.)
[315] Probably the 'Edward Jordan, mariner,' mentioned in the Pipe Office Dec. Acct. for 1613 (No. 2251).
[316] Principal master workman of the East India Company; see Introduction.
[317] Brother-in-law of Phineas. A shipbuilder at Ratcliff; nominated as a warden in the shipwrights' charter of 1605.
[318] Nominated as an 'Assistant' in the shipwrights' charter of 1612.
[319] Thomas Cole of Woodbridge and Thomas Pryme of Yarmouth were nominated 'Assistants' in the shipwrights' charter of 1605.
[320] MS. 'Androes.'