[544] The passage in italics is wanting in the original MS.
[545] Below.
[546] MS. Ockum. In the Medway.
[547] Kenrick Edisbury, alias Wilkinson, who in 1626 was Paymaster of the Navy, succeeded Sir Thos. Aylesbury as Surveyor of the Navy in December 1632 and died in 1638. Mr. Oppenheim pronounces him 'perhaps the most observant and energetic of the chief officers.'
[548] John Goodwin, Master Attendant at Portsmouth.
[549] Nathaniel Apslyn. In 1626, when Carpenter of the Red Lion, he was recommended by Pett for the post of Assistant Master Shipwright, and was appointed in that capacity at Chatham.
[550] Hawkridge is said to have accompanied Button in the voyage of 1612. In 1619 he was in command of an expedition in search of the North-West Passage which proved a failure. Subsequently he was captured with his ship and cargo, valued at £2000, by the pirates of Algiers and held to ransom. See Christy, Voyages of Foxe and James (Hakluyt Soc.).
[551] Near Wye, on the main road from Ashford to Canterbury.
[552] MS. 'Shorum.'
[553] Nephew.