1st Edition

The Hawkins' Voyages during the Reigns of Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth, and James I

Edited By Clements R. Markham Copyright 1879
    536 Pages
    by Hakluyt Society

    A revised edition of First Series1 above, edited, with an Introduction, along with narratives of the voyages of Sir Richard Hawkins' grandfather William, of his father Sir John, and of his cousin William Hawkins, from manuscripts and printed editions. The supplementary material consists of the 1878 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1878.

    Introduction.; The Voyage Of William Hawkins (1530), And Tbi Three Voyages Of His Son Sir John Hawkins (1562-1568); The First Voyage of the right worshipfull and valiant knight, sir Iohn Haukins, now treasurer of her Maiesties nauie Royall, made to the West Indies 1562.; The voyage made by the worshipful M. iohn Haukins, Esquire, now Knight, Captaine of the Iesus ofLubek, one of her Maiesties sbippes, and Generall of the Salomon, and her two barkes going in his companie to the coast of Guinea, and the Indies of Noua Spania, being in Affrica, and America: begun in An. Dom. 1564.; The arriuall and courtesie of M. Hawkins to the disb tressed Frenchmen in Florida, is elsewhere also recorded, both in French, and English, in the history of Laudonier, written by himselfe, and printed in Paris, Anno 1586. And translated into English by me Richard Hakluyt, Anno 1587. And published as followeth.; The 3. vnfortunate voyage made with the Iesus, the Minion, and foure other shippes ) to the partes of Guinea, and the West Indias, in the yeere 1567. and 1568. by M. Iohn Haukins.; The Observations Of Sir Richard Hawkins Knight, in His Voiage into the South Sea.; A Spanish Account of The Naval Action Between Sir Eichard Hawkins and Don Beltran De Castro.; This Journals of Captain William Hawkins; II “ A Journal kept by m[e William Hawkins in] my ‘voyage to the East I[ndies, beginning the 28 of] March a° 1607, concerning all [that happened vnto] the good Ship called the [Hector in the saied] Viag e I being Captaine t[hereof].”; III Captaine Williame Hawkins, his Relations of the Occurrenta which happened in the time of his residence in India, in the County (sic) of the Great Mogoll, and of his departure from thence; written to the Company.; §IV. A briefe Discourse of the strength, wealth, and Gouernment, with some Customes of the great Mogol: which I haue both seene and gathered by his chiefe Officers, and Ouer-seere of all his Estate.

    Biography

    Clements R. Markham