[282]. Venetian Cal. vi, No. 327.
[283]. Hakluyt, vi. 177–211.
[284]. A. P. C., v. 305, 315, 322, 358, 384.
[285]. Hakluyt, vi. 212–31.
[286]. The date of this voyage is given, by a misprint, in the 1598–9 editions of Hakluyt as 1577. Modern reprints have perpetuated the mistake. The date is correctly given in the 1589 Hakluyt as 1557, that is 1558 by our present style of beginning the year on January 1.
[287]. Kervyn de Lettenhove, Les Pays-Bas et l’Angleterre, i. 152: ‘Los navios ... eran dos de la Reyna y los mejores que Su Majestad tenian.’
[288]. Acts of the Privy Council, ii. 137.
[289]. Hakluyt, vii. 156–7. Some confusion has arisen as to the year of this patent, but it is perfectly clear. ‘The sixt day of Januarie, in the second yeere of his raigne. The yeere of our Lord 1548’ is January 6, 1549, by the present style. Edward VI succeeded to the throne on January 28, 1547.
[290]. Navarette, Colección de Documentos inéditos para la historia de la España, iii. 512. The letter is here dated November 15, 1554, but was probably written at least two years earlier. Northumberland was executed on August 22, 1553.
[291]. Charter of Philip and Mary, February 6, 1555, and Cal. S. P. Dom. Addenda, Mary, p. 439. The latter is a list of the members in May 1555. It includes the names of three women among the adventurers.