Dallam, Thomas; Covel, John; Bent, James Theodore [Hrsg.]: Early voyages and travels in the Levant: with some account of the Levant Company of Turkey Merchants (London, 1893)

DR. COVEL'S DIARY.

Cap. 2.—Our Leaving the Downs, and Passage
through the channel to sea.

EPT. 21. In the morning we had a
fresh gale at N.N.E., and it so con-
tinued between N. and E. a fair wind
for us. About half-an-hour after
eleven we set sail out of the Downes,
being seven general ships, for the
Levant; Captain Partridge in the Turkey Merchant, for
Scanderoon.

Capt. Joh. Hill, in the London Merchant,} for Smyrna and

Capt. Pain, in the Speedwell, > Constantinople.

Capt. Dier Roles, in the Mary and Martha, ^

Capt. Kerington, in the Levant Merchant, V for Smyrna.

Capt. Stoey, in the Pearl, )

~' ' jx. ti i tt } for Smyrna and

Capt. Bromwell, in the 1 ho. and Prances, -

) scanderoon.

Our convoy were, Capt. Robinson, in the Greenwich,1 as

Admiral (who was to leave us at the next end of Candia,

and go on to Scanderoon with the Turkey Merchant), and

1 Most of these ships are alluded to in the State Papers, when they
came in to be cleaned, when they brought in a prize, etc., etc. Sir
Thomas Allen was once in command of the Greenwich.