Sir Walter Raleigh." There is a document dated the 15th
November, 1593, in the 35th of Elizabeth, which runs as
follows:--"Committee appointed on behalf of such of the City Companies
as have ventured in the late Fleet set forward by Sir Walter Raleigh,
Knight, and others, to join with such honourable personages as the
Queen hath appointed, to take a perfect view of all such goods, prizes,
spices, jewels, pearls, treasures, &c., lately taken in the Carrack,
and to make sale and division (Jor. 23, p. 156). Suit to be made to
the Queen and Privy Council for the buying of the goods, &c., lately
taken at sea in the Carrack; a committee appointed to take order
accordingly; the benefit or loss arising thereon to be divided and
borne between the Chamber [of the Corporation of the City] and the
Companies that adventured (157). The several Companies that adventured
at sea with Sir Waiter Raleigh to accept so much of the goods taken in
the Carrack to the value of 12,000L. according to the Queen's offer. A
committee appointed to acquaint the Lords of the Council with the
City's acceptance thereof (167). Committee for sale of the Carrack
goods appointed (174). Bonds for sale to be sealed (196)....
Committee to audit accounts of a former adventure (224 b.)."

[19] There were three sisters in all, the eldest of whom (Abigail) fell
a victim to the cruelty of Nunn, who struck her across the head with
the fire-tongs, from the effects of which she died in three days. Nunn
was tried and convicted of manslaughter. He died shortly after. Mrs.
Nunn, Phineas's mother, was already dead.

[20] It would seem, from a paper hereafter to be more particularly
referred to, that the government encouraged the owners of ships and
others to clear the seas of these pirates, agreeing to pay them for
their labours. In 1622, Pett fitted out an expedition against these
pests of navigation, but experienced some difficulty in getting his
expenses repaid.

[21] See grant S.P.O., 29th May, 1605.

[22] An engraving of this remarkable ship is given in Charnock's
History of Marine Architecture, ii. p. 199.

[23] The story of the Three, or rather Two Ravens, is as follows:--The
body of St. Vincent was originally deposited at the Cape, which still
bears his name, on the Portuguese coast; and his tomb, says the legend,
was zealously guarded by a couple of ravens. When it was determined,
in the 12th century, to transport the relics of the Saint to the
Ca