A history of the administration of the Royal Navy and of merchant shipping in relation to the Navy from MDIX to MDCLX, with an introduction treating of the preceding period

by M. Oppenheim

[654] State Papers Dom., ccxxxix, 109.

[655] Rot. Pat. 8th Nov. 1595.

[656] State Papers, Dom., clii, 19.

[657] Born in 1532 of a well-known Plymouth mercantile and seafaring family. He went to sea early, but his voyages of 1562-4-8, and the diplomatic difficulties to which they led with Spain, first brought him into prominence. He married Katherine Gonson about 1558.

[658] State Papers, Dom., cxi, 33.

[659] State Papers, Dom., cclxxvi, 57.

[660] Ibid., ccxxii, 48.

[661] Harl. MSS., ccliii, f. 6.

[662] Ibid.

[663] State Papers, Dom., ccii, 35, Hawkyns to Burghley.