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122 Chancery 104/160, Public Record Office.
123 HCA 26/18, Public Record Office.
124 Chancery 104/160, Public Record Office.
125 Chancery 104/16, Public Record Office.
125 Woodes Rogers, A Cruising Voyage. And following.
136 Woodes Rogers to owners, February 1708. Chancery 104/160, Public Record Office.
136 Woodes Rogers, A Cruising Voyage.
139 Edward Cooke, A Voyage to the South Sea.
140 Woodes Rogers, A Cruising Voyage.
140 Edward Cooke, A Voyage to the South Sea.
141 Woodes Rogers, A Cruising Voyage.
142 Woodes Rogers, A Cruising Voyage; Edward Cooke, A Voyage to the South Sea; Bryan Little, Crusoe’s Captain: Being the Life of Woodes Rogers, Seaman, Trader, Colonial Governor (1960).
142 Woodes Rogers, A Cruising Voyage. And following.
144 See Chancery 104/160 and 104/61, Public Record Office.
147 Vanbrugh in a letter to the Bristol owners, 11 December 1710. Chancery 104/160, Public Record Office.
147 Woodes Rogers, A Cruising Voyage.
149 Richard Hitchman in a statement to Dr Dover, undated, Chancery 104/61, Public Record Office.
150 Woodes Rogers, A Cruising Voyage.
151 Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859); Nora Barlow (ed.), Charles Darwin’s Diary of the Voyage of HMS Beagle (1933).
152 See the entry in Captain Courtney’s Committee Book for 29 August 1709. Chancery 104/36 (part 2), Public Record Office.
152 Woodes Rogers, A Cruising Voyage; Edward Cooke, A Voyage to the South Sea; Bryan Little, Crusoe’s Captain.
153 Woodes Rogers, A Cruising Voyage. And following.
155 Edward Cooke, A Voyage to the South Sea; Bryan Little, Crusoe’s Captain.
156 Woodes Rogers, A Cruising Voyage; Edward Cooke, A Voyage to the South Sea. And following.
158 Woodes Rogers to Owners, 25 July 1710, Chancery 104/160, Public Record Office.
158 Thomas Dover to Owners, 11 February 1711, Chancery 104/60, Public Record Office.
161 Woodes Rogers to Owners, 25 July 1710, Chancery 104/160, Public Record Office.
161 Woodes Rogers, A Cruising Voyage. And see Bryan Little, Crusoe’s Captain.
162 See Woodes Rogers, ‘An Abstract of the Most Remarkable Transactions’, 6 February 1711; and Letters to Owners from Stephen Courtney, Edward Cooke, Thomas Dover and Woodes Rogers, all in Chancery 104/160, Public Record Office.
162 Woodes Rogers to Owners, 25 July 1710, Chancery 104/160, Public Record Office.
163 See the ships’ Committee Books, parts one and two, Chancery 104/36, Public Record Office.
164 Thomas Dover to Owners, 11 February 1711, Chancery 104/60, Public Record Office.
165 James Hollidge, merchant and Mayor of Bristol, to Owners, 18 August 1711, Chancery 104/160, Public Record Office.
165 See D/19 and E/13, 1711, in the Oriental and India Office Collection at the British Library.
166 See the Burney Collection of Early Newspapers in the British Library.
5. LONDON SCRIBBLERS
169 William Funnell, A Voyage Round the World.
169 Dampier’s Vindication.
173 Woodes Rogers, A Cruising Voyage; and see G.E. Manwaring’s introduction to a reprint of this in 1928.
175 See George A. Aitken, The Life of Richard Steele (1889).
176 See the Post-Boy, October 29–31, 1713.
180 See East India Company correspondence E1/3 and D/92, Oriental and India Office Library Collection, British Library, and Glyn Williams, The Great South Sea (1997).
182 (C24/1321 pt. 1) Public Record Office.
183 Ibid.
184 Review, no. 68, 30 August 1711.
185 Correspondence concerning proposals for this South Sea project is in Add MS 28, 140, British Library. And see John E. Flint & Glyndwr Williams, Perspectives of Empire (1973).
185 Add MSS 25, 494, British Library.
186 W.H.Hart came across this indictment while researching eighteenth-century Queen’s Bench records. See Notes and Queries, 30 March 1861.
6. HOME
189 This anecdote was told to Selkirk’s first biographer, John Howell, by a great-grand-nephew of Selkirk’s. See The Life and Adventures of Alexander Selkirk (1829).
190 John Howell, The Life and Adventures of Alexander Selkirk.
191 See R.L. Megroz, The Real Robinson Crusoe (1939).
191 See Henry Cadwallader Adams, The Original Robinson Crusoe (1877).
192 See Bryan Little, Crusoe’s Captain.
192 See the Log Books of the Enterprise and Weymouth, Admiralty Records 52/316, Public Record Office.
192 This will was published in the Scots Magazine, vol.67 (1805).
195 See Thomas Wright, The Life of Daniel Defoe (1894); James Sutherland, Defoe (1937); Pat Rogers, Robinson Crusoe (1979).
201 The petitions of Frances Candis and Sophia Bruce are in Chancery II/52/31 and Chancery II/297/61 (1714–58), Public Record Office.
202 Selkirk’s will of 1720 is also in the Public Record Office.
203 The logbooks of the Weymouth are in Admiralty 4/53 and Ad. Rec. 52/316 in the Public Record Office.
203 For the paybooks of the Weymouth see Admiralty 33/308 in the National Maritime Museum.
205 See J.J. Keevil, Medicine and the Navy (1958).
208 See Chancery II/52/31 and 297/61 in the Public Record Office.
209 See ‘The Say Papers’ in Monthly Repository, 1810. And see R.L. Megroz, The Real Robinson Crusoe.
7. THE ISLAND
214 See Richard Walter, Anson’s Voyage Round the World (1928); and Glyn Williams, The Prize of All the Oceans (1999).
219 See Carl Skottsberg (1880–1963), The Natural History of Juan Fernandez (1922).
221 See Philippe Danton, Les Iles de Robinson (Paris 1999).
INDEX
Acapulco, 31, 104, 138, 158, 169
Acapulco galleon, 121, 183
Addison, Joseph, 176 & n
Alexander, Joseph, 123
Amboyna, 114 & n
Angulo, Don Fernando de, 156
Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 32, 46, 185–6
Anson, George, Baron, 107n, 214; A Voyage Round the World, 40n
Ashton, Philip, 93
Assumsion (Spanish ship), 79
Auchinleck, John, 50
Bahamas, 192
Ballett, John: sails as surgeon with Dampier, 45; inadequate medical treatment by, 61, 63; treats wounded after fight, 73–4; remains with Dampier, 112; on 1708/9 voyage, 127, 134; and epidemic at Guayaquil, 146
Bank of England, 165
barks: defined, 32n
Barnaby, James, 45, 64–5, 182
Barnsley, John, 205
Batavia: Dampier imprisoned at, 113; survivors meet at, 114; 1708/9 expedition reaches, 161–3; Marquess sold at, 161, 165, 170
Batchelor (formerly Disengano): attacked and captured, 153–5; share-out of plunder from, 178–81
Batchelor’s Delight (ship), 41
Bateman, Sir James, 185
Bath, William, 164
Beagle, HMS, 150
Beaucheane-Gouin, Capitaine Jacques de, 122
Beginning (ship), 139
Begona (treasure ship), 156–9
Bell, Margaret (Mrs John Selcraig), 55, 190
Bellhash (Master of St George), 94, 103, 112
Bertero, Carlo, 21n
Bible, Holy: Selkirk’s faith in, 96; Spaniards destroy Selkirk’s, 117–18
birds, 25; see also individual species
boa constrictors, 23
booby birds, 61
botanists, 21n, 218
Bristol: merchants back Dampier’s expedition, 122, 162, 165; Rogers in, 173; Selkirk in, 185–6
Broady, James, 48, 61
Bruce, Sophia: marriage to Selkirk, 190–3; in Selkirk’s will, 192, 206; Selkirk abandons, 201; claims inheritance on Selkirk’s death,
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