Carleill dictated the Tiger’s log to clerk Powell

Evidence

The handwriting is consistent throughout, a somewhat difficult Elizabethan hand. probably that of Edward Powell, who noted on 2 October (see p. 86) that he was taking over from ‘my captain’ the keeping of the record. The captain, who apparently dictated the earlier pages to his clerk, was Christopher Carleill, Drake’s lieutenant general and captain also of the ship Tiger. This identification is established by the use of the personal pronoun I in relation to conferences with Drake and to actions of both Carleill and his ship. — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 532

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the editorial practice of using Carleill’s Walsingham despatch to reconstruct the fire-damaged Cotton MS — useful for how later editors reconstruct Drake’s raid.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 532