Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
The following list of ships' names occurring in documents of the reign of James I. (March 24, 1603, to March 27, 1625), has been compiled mainly from the following sources:
High Court of Admiralty, Records.
State Papers Domestic, Ireland, Colonial, East Indies, America, Venice.
Historical MSS. Commission, Reports.
Customs Rolls.
Exchequer, Warrants for Issues, Issue Rolls, and K. R. Memoranda Rolls.
MSS. (various) British Museum.
Letter Book of the East India Company (Birdwood and Foster).
Letters received by the East India Company (Stevens).
Purchas, his Pilgrims.
Hakluyt Society, Publications.
Camden Society, Publications.
page 311 note 1 Add. MSS. 18666, f. 5.
page 311 note 2 Lansd. 142, f. 306.
page 338 note 1 The references to Libels, Examinations, Acts, Warrant Books, Miscellanea, Oyer and Terminer, Interrogatories, Exemplifications are to those series of the records of the High Court of Admiralty. The folios of these records being seldom numbered, the date (old style) of the document is given to facilitate reference.
page 341 note 1 See ‘The Mayflower,’ Eng. Hist. Rev., October 1904, p. 669.