ABSTRACT
The seventh day of May 1586, we departed out of Dartmouth haven, foure sailes, to wit, the Mermaid, the Sunshine, the Mooneshine, and the Northstarre. In the Sunshine were sixteene men, whose names were these: Richard Pope, maister ; 1 Marke Carter, maisters mate ; Henry Morgan, purser; George Draward, John Mandie, Hugh Broken, Philip Jane, Hugh Hempson, Richard Borden, John Filpe, Andrew Madocke, 2 William Wolcome, Robert Wagge (carpenter), John Bruskome, William Ashe, Simon Ellis.
