[2] Dampier, “Voyages,” 1699, vol. 2, pt. 2, p. 104; pt. 3, p. 20, pp. 108-12. This supposition is supported by the fact that Dampier sailed under Rogers in 1708. If the supposition is correct, Rogers may have been born prior to 1679.
[3] On 24 January, 1704/5, a marriage licence was issued from the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury for:—“Woodes Rogers, of the City of Bristol, Merchant, bachelor, about 25, and Mrs. Sarah Whetstone, spinster, 18, with consent of her father the Hon. Rear-Admiral William Whetstone ... at St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, London” (Harleian Soc, xxiv, 247).
[4] “Notes and Queries,” Ser. ix, vol. i, 69.
[5] 6 Anne, cap. 13, 26 March, 1708.
[6] Stark, “Abolition of Privateering,” p. 69.
[7] Nixon, “Thomas Dover,” 1909, p. 2.
[8] Born 1662. He appears to have been of a very quarrelsome nature, and was afterwards transferred to the Dutchess. He died in 1742.
[9] Cooke like Rogers possessed literary ability. In 1712 he published an account of the expedition, “A Voyage to the South Sea and Round the World.” The book is inferior to the account given by Rogers.
[10] Born 1652, a famous navigator and hydrographer. Served in the R.N. 1673, and joined the Buccaneers six years later. Returned to England in 1691, and in 1699-1700 conducted a voyage of discovery to the South Seas. In 1703 appointed to command two privateers, and it was during this voyage that Selkirk was marooned on Juan Fernandez by Capt. Stradling. Dampier returned to England in 1707. A good pilot but a bad commander. He died in London, 1715.
[11] John Paul, 3rd Lieutenant of the Chichester, 1696. Captain, 1706, and promoted to the Hastings. Employed on the Irish station for many years, and among other duties convoyed the outward bound merchant ships to the westward. Died 1720.