TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
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Only five copies of it appear to be known: three of these are in public libraries, and two of the three are more or less imperfect: one of them wants four pages, and of the other some of the marginal notes have been cut away, and a portion of a leaf destroyed.
The contents, besides their value in an historical point of view, are of interest in reference to the biographies of two such men as Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins, both of whom perished in the course of the enterprise to which the pamphlet relates.
J. P. C.