1 Ashmole Ms. 36.37 folio 100v, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
2 This, the departure from Cowes on the morning of March 29, 1630, proved to be a false start. But John Winthrop took it in his journal to be the true beginning of his voyage. In fact the ship did not pass through the Needles until 8 April 1630. Winthrop’s Journal, ed. James K. Hosmer (2 vols., New York, 1908), I, 23, 29 March 1630.
The spelling of the ship’s name is disputed by New England historians. Winthrop wrote it as Arbella, others as Arabella; see Edward Channing, History of the United States (6 vols., New York, 1905-25), I, 330n; and Winthrop Papers, Stewart Mitchell, ed. (5 vols., 1929, rpt. New York, 1968), II, 239n.
3 A passenger list compiled by C. K. Bolton appears in Albert K. Rogers, Voyage of the Arbella, 1630 (Boston, 1930); another list is in the Winthrop Papers, II, 276.
4Winthrop’s Journal, I, 23-49.