[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.