[427] A seaman’s spell at the wheel is called his “trick.” (Ibid. p. 697.)

[428] A keel is 21 tons 5 cwt.

LIST OF ARTICLES IN APPENDIX.

No. Page
1.Letter of Mr. Robert Thorne to Dr. Ley, ambassador of Charles V[541]
2.Letter of Advice and Instruction from the Merchant Adventurers Co.[555]
3.Inventory of ye Great Barke, A.D. 1531[557]
4.Furniture of the Harry Grâce à Dieu, in Pepysian Library at Cambridge[559]
5.Names of all the King’s Majesty’s Shippes, Galleys, etc., (official return, 1 Edw. VI.) (Archæologia)[561]
6.Note of all Shippes bound to Turkey, etc., etc.[563]
7.Mersey Docks and Harbour board[564]
8.Extracts from Charter Party of E. I. C.[570]
9.Ships of E. I. Company, etc., 1700-1819[572]
10.Ships of E. I. C. in 1820[576]
11.Historical Abstract of services of E. I. C.[578]
12.List of Wages, E. I. C.[583]
13.Victualling Bill of E. I. C.[585]
14.List of Large Ships of E. I. C. in 1831[586]
15.Memorial of Capt. George Probyn[588]

APPENDICES.

APPENDIX No. 1, Vol. ii., p. 70.

The Booke made by the Right Worshipful Mr. Robert Thorne, in the yeere 1527, in Sivil, to Doctour Ley, Lord ambassadour for King Henry the Eight, to Charles the Emperoar, being an information of the parts of the world, discovered by him and by the King of Portingal: and, also of the way to the Moluccaes by the North.

Right noble and reverend in I.C. I have received your letters, and have procured and sent to know of your servant, who, your Lordship wrote, should be sick in Merchena. I cannot there, or elsewhere heare of him, without he be returned to you, or gon to S. Lucar, and shipt. I cannot judge but that of some contagious sicknesse hee died, so that the owner of the house, for defaming his house, would bury him secretly, and not be knowen of it. For such things have often times happened in this countrey.

Also to write unto your Lordship of the new trade of Spicery of the Emperour, there is no doubt but that the Islands are fertile of cloues, nutmegs, mace, and cinnamom; and that the said islands, with other there about, abound with golde, rubies, diamonds, balasses, granates, jacincts, and other stones and pearls, as all other lands that are under and near the Equinoctiall. For we see where nature giveth anything she is no nigard. For as with us, and other, that are aparted from the said Equinoctiall, our mettals be lead, tin, and iron, so theirs be gold, silver, and copper. And as our fruits and grains be apples, nuts, and corne, so theirs be dates, nutmegs, pepper, cloues, and other spices, and as we have jeat, amber, cristal, jasper, and other like stones, so have they rubies, diamonds, balasses, saphyres, jacincts, and other like. And though some say that of such precious mettals, graines, or kind of spices, precious stones, the abundance and quantity is nothing so great as our mettals, fruits, or stones, above rehearsed; yet if it be well considered, how the quantitie of the earth under the equinoctiall to both the Tropicall lines (in which place is found the said golde, spices, and precious stones), is as much in quantity as almost all the earth, from the Tropickes to both the Poles; it cannot be denied but there is more quantitie of the sayd mettals, fruites, spices, and precious stones, then there is of the other mettals, and other things before rehearsed. And I see that the preciousness of these things is measured after the distance that is between us, and the things that we have appetite unto, for in this navigation of the Spicerie was discovered, that these Islands nothing set by golde, but set more by a knife and a nayle of iron, then by his quantitie of golde, and with reason, as the thing more necessary for mans service. And I doubt not but to them should be as precious our corne and seeds, if they might have them, as to us their spice; and likewise the pieces of glasse that here we have counterfeited are as precious to them as to us their stones; which by experience is seen daylie by them that have trade thither. This of the riches of those countries is sufficient.