HENRY SPINDELAY, gunner in Capt. Chester's ship.
JAMES SYDYE, mentioned only in Doughty's case.
WILLIAM SEAGE, mentioned only as above.
JOHN DAVIS, whose name the great northern Strait will ever perpetuate, who was perhaps in Capt. Winter's ship, though we are not sure of the fact; but in 1595, he said he had then "thrice passed the Straits of Magellan," which renders it quite certain that he must have sailed with Drake in his voyage of circumnavigation, as there is no other way of accounting for his having "thrice passed those Straits."
Thus out of "164 able and sufficient men," we have about one third of them by name; and from a passage in "Barrow's Naval Worthies" we are led to hope, that "twenty-nine" other names will yet be recovered. Should they come to our hand, we may at a future time make an article respecting them also.[O]
FOOTNOTES:
[N] The time of Sir Francis Drake's birth has usually been fixed at 1545; but from genealogical and other investigations, it appears that he must have been born as early as 1537.
[O] Mr. Drake has in a forward state for publication a full account of Admiral Drake and his Voyages, containing some important facts hitherto unpublished.—Editor.