Outfitting a 2,500-man expedition cost about 31,000 pounds plus 12,000 in wages by 1595

Evidence

The cost outward may be compared with the figures for the Hawkins-Drake voyage of I595, with the outfitting costs for an expedition of 2,500 men then coming to 31,000 1. and wages to some 12,000 l. — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 382

Categorization

• XREF: Direct benchmark against Drake’s earlier 57,000-pound outward charge, giving the reader a cost trajectory for Elizabethan expeditions.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 382