[81] This reverend but mutinous gentleman had previously been in Persia with the Shirleys.
[82] These islands are off Cape Sophia on the Greenland coast, a fact that the writer has good cause to remember, as he was once aground on them, and in some danger.
[83] I found Knight’s Journal among some other papers thrown aside in a very damp place in the tower of the India Office, and printed it at the end of my volume of Sir James Lancaster’s voyages, edited for the Hakluyt Society. A version of it is given by Purchas, but much is omitted.
[84] Brunel was a Dutchman. He had proposed to Christian IV to discover the lost colony of Greenland, and was probably in Hall’s first voyage. A Cape on the Greenland coast was named after him. The story of Oliver Brunel was brought to light by S. Müller and Koolemans Beynen, the very able young editor of the 2nd edition of the Barentsz voyages.
[85] The names and rank of the crew were as follows:
- 1. Henry Hudson (Captain).
- 2. John Hudson (Captain’s son).
- 3. Robert Juet (Mate).
- 4. Robert Bylot (Mate).
- 5. John King (Mate).
- 6. Edward Wilson (Surgeon).
- 7. Francis Clements (Boatswain).
- 8. William Wilson (Boatswain).
- 9. John Williams (Gunner).
- 10. Philip Staffe (Carpenter)
- 11. Sylvanus Bond (Cooper).
- 12. Bennet Mathews (Cook).
- 13. Henry Green (Clerk).
- 14. Habakuk Prickett (servant of Sir D. Digges).
- 15. Thomas Woodhouse (mathematical student).
- 16. Arnold Ladley (or Ludlow), A.B.
- 17. Michael Pierce, A.B.
- 18. John Thomas, A.B.
- 19. Adrian Moter, A.B.
- 20. Syriack Fanner, A.B.
- 21. Adam Moore, A.B.
- 22. Michael Butt, A.B.
- 23. Nicholas Sims (Boy).
[86] Prince Henry died November 6th, 1613, aged 18 years and a half.
[87] This distance would be greatly in error, unless the declinations of both heavenly bodies were the same.
[88] John Searle, a licensed surgeon, published his ephemeris in 1609. It was from 1609 to 1617, and the book also contained a correction of time in respect of several meridians, a list of places with latitude and longitude in time, and a table for converting degrees and minutes into time. David Origanus was the author of an ephemeris for the years from 1595 to 1650. His meridian was Wittenberg.
[89] I have not been successful in my attempts to discover who Master Herbert was. He was probably a gentleman volunteer.