This Appendix, which provides details on Admiralty officials, sea officers, shipwrights and military officers commanding troops aboard HM ships, also serves Elizabethan Naval Administration [ENA], and so includes some individuals not featured in this volume

Entry is restricted to those who appear twice or more in the texts. Any comment on such persons featuring once only is made in the footnotes. The footnotes briefly identify other known persons at the first occurrence.

Inset references are given for naval appointments, and any other details which augment or correct the general authorities listed in the several endnotes. Only the more significant naval commands are included; where not otherwise specified the sources are as for Appendix 1 (see pp. 461–4).

Note on Appointments

Where offices are conferred by letters patent, the date of passing the great seal marks the formal start of tenure, but the day from which the fruits are paid (where shown) is a surer guide to the actual period of employment.

Grants for life in survivorship were a common practice in an age which had no pensioned retirement; by agreement between the parties the younger man would take over most or all of the duties, leaving his senior colleague some part of the income.

A reversion gave right of succession to the incumbent office holder; it

The allowances for travel and boat-hire were flat rates payable for any day on which journeys were made. Because these moneys did not pass through the Navy Treasurer's books, the totals actually paid could only be discovered by an extensive examination of the Exchequer records beyond the scope of the present work.

Alexander, Stephen Admiralty clerk d. 1577

Listed as employee and shipkeeper at Deptford in 1548 [I.65]. By 1562 the clerk keeping the ‘book of report’ which recorded the purchase of provisions and other commodities [ENA, 4 (f. 10 and passim)]. Paid for ‘making perfect’ the Quarter Book entries for the whole of 1563 [f. 335v], so the scribe responsible for ff. 159–361. Buried at Deptford 31 July 1577 [Drake, Hasted's Kent, p. 40].

Anthony, Robert naval commander

Occ. in list of captains 1553/5 [II.80]. Served with Sussex in raid on Western Isles 1558 [II.77].

Baeshe, Edward Surveyor-General of naval victualling 1550–87

Born c. 1507, son of Richard Bashe, shoehorn maker of Worcester.