ABSTRACT
The knowledge of the voyage of the Bark Young to the West Indies in 1590 is based primarily upon High Court of Admiralty materials. The chief documents are connected with the claim of the owners of the privateer that certain French ships had robbed the Bark Young of a Spanish prize captured by the English company in the West Indies. The chief adventurers in the voyage of the Bark Young of Chichester were John Young and John Crooke and Sir George Carey. John Young, a Chichester man, was an old sea-dog. The voyage of the Bark Young may be considered as one of the three West Indies expeditions which he set forth under the command of his servant Captain William Irish of the Isle of Wight. The prize-goods were shared between the captors and when the Bark Young returned to Southampton she declared 'divers small parcels', including two elephant's tusks, some linen cloth, coarse thread, hats and women's doublets.
