The Original Writings and Correspondence of the Two Richard Hakluyts

Volumes I-II

E.G.R. Taylor, E.G.R. Taylor

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
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  9781317022053
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Early Modern History
• Index: History

Edited with introduction and notes. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 77) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1935.

The Original Writings and Correspondence of the Two Richard Hakluyts

Volume I

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E.G.R. TAYLOR

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THE ORIGINAL WRITINGS & CORRESPONDENCE OF THE TWO RICHARD HAKLUYTS

SECOND SERIES

No. LXXVI

ISSUED FOR 1935

COUNCIL

OF

THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY

1935

SIR WILLIAM FOSTER, C.I.E., President.

THE RIGHT HON. STANLEY BALDWIN, P.C., M.P., Vice-President.

MAJOR-GENERAL SIR PERCY COX, G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., K.C.S.I., Vice-President.

SIR ARNOLD WILSON, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., C.M.G., D.S.O., M.P., Vice-President.

J. N. L. BAKER, ESQ.

G. R. CRONE, ESQ.

ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM GOODENOUGH, G.C.B., M.V.O.

VINCENT T. HARLOW, ESQ., D.LITT.

A. R. HINKS, ESQ., C.B.E., F.R.S.

T. A. JOYCE, ESQ., O.B.E.

MALCOLM LETTS, ESQ., F.S.A.

PROF. A. P. NEWTON, D.LIT.

N. M. PENZER, ESQ.

PROF. EDGAR PRESTAGE, D.LITT.

PROF. C. G. SELIGMAN, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.

BRIGADIER-GENERAL SIR PERCY SYKES, K.C.I.E., C.B., C.M.G.

PROF. E. G. R. TAYLOR, D.SC.

S. T. SHEPPARD, ESQ.

ROLAND V. VERNON, ESQ., C.B.

J. A. WILLIAMSON, ESQ., D.LIT.

EDWARD HEAWOOD, ESQ., Treasurer.

EDWARD LYNAM, ESQ., M.R.I.A, Hon. Secretary (British Museum, W.C.).

THE ORIGINAL WRITINGS & CORRESPONDENCE OF THE TWO RICHARD HAKLUYTS

WITH

AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY

E. G, R, TAYLOR, D.Sc.

Professor of Geography
University of London

VOLUME I

PREFACE

THE idea of collecting into one book the original writings of the two Richard Hakluyts was suggested to the editor of the present volumes on first reading the excellent biographical study of the two men written by Dr Bruner Parks in 1928.¹ In the appendices to his work, Dr Parks gave careful references to all the printed and manuscript materials relating to the Hakluyts that were known to him, and these proved to be so scattered, or so rare or otherwise difficult of access, that it appeared likely that to assemble and print them in full would result in a volume of great interest and value. Moreover, the Discourse of Western Planting, the most important of the younger Hakluyt’s own writings, although twice printed, is in both versions very corrupt. It has been re-transcribed from a photostat copy of the sole original manuscript. In addition to all material actually written by, or ascribable to, the two Hakluyts, all the extant letters addressed to them have been printed, since these throw considerable light on their geographical work.

Both men were earnest and consistent propagandists for English colonial expansion, which they believed would promote the industrialisation of England, and hence put an end to the unemployment which unreflecting publicists ascribed to overpopulation. Their combined writings cover a period of nearly fifty years from the critical date 1568, and coming as they do from a lawyer and a parson, may fairly be claimed as giving the views of the Elizabethan ‘intellectuals’ as opposed to those of the soldiers and statesmen whose voices are more generally heard.

The Editor wishes to emphasise her great debt to Dr Parks, whose preliminary labours alone made this book possible, and to acknowledge the kindly help and criticism of Sir William Foster, Mr Edward Lynam, and Dr Fulmer Mood.

E. G. R. TAYLOR

CHELSEA 1935

NOTE

¹ Richard Hakluyt and the English Voyages, Amer. Geog. Soc. Special Publication No. 10.

CONTENTS & SOURCES

INTRODUCTION

DOCUMENTS

1. Will of Richard Hakluyt, skinner, 1557

(From the original at Somerset House)

2. Extracts from Camden’s Annals, 1560–63

(English Edition of 1630)

3. Letter from Roger Bodenham, 1566

(Lansdowne MSS. 9, no. 52)

4. Letter from Leonard Chilton, 1567

(From G. R. G. Conway, An Englishman and the Mexican Inquisition)

5. Extracts from Camden’s Annals, 1567

6. Extract from the Calendar of State Papers, 1568

(Simancas Archives, Ed. M. A. S. Hume)

7. Letter from Richard Hakluyt, lawyer, 1567/8

(Correspondence of Ortelius, no. 167. Ed. Hessels. Translated by F. C. Francis, Esq.)

8. Extracts from Camden’s Annals, 1568

9. Extract from the Calendar of State Papers, 1569

(Simancas Archives)

10. Extract from Camden’s Annals, 1569

11. Extracts from the Calendar of State Papers, 1570

(Simancas Archives)

12. Extracts from Camden’s Annals, 1571

13. Letter from Richard Hakluyt, lawyer, 1571

(S.P. Dom. Eliz. Vol. 77, no. 18)

14. Extracts from the Calendar of State Papers, 1571

(Simancas Archives)

15. Letter from Richard Hakluyt, lawyer

(S.P. Dom. Eliz. Vol. 83, no. 7)

16. Report from Henry Hawks, 1572

(Reprinted from the Principal Navigations, 1589 edn.)

17. Extracts from Camden’s Annals, 1576

18. Notes on Colonisation by Richard Hakluyt, lawyer, 1578

(Reprinted from Divers Voyages to America)

19. Italian Newsletter from Rome, 1578

(Reprinted from the Calendar of State Papers, Simancas Archives)

20. Letter from Anthony Parkhurst, 1577–8

(Lansdowne MSS. 100, no. 10)

21. Letter from Anthony Parkhurst to Richard Hakluyt, lawyer, 1578

(Reprinted from the Principal Navigations, 1598–1600 edn.)

22. Letter from Sir Humfrey Gilbert to Walsingham, 1578

(S.P. Dom. Eliz. Vol. 126, no. 44)

23. Notes on Dyestuffs by Richard Hakluyt, lawyer, 1579

(Reprinted from the Principal Navigations, 1589 edn.)

24. Pamphlet by Richard Hakluyt, the younger, 1580

(S.P. Dom. Eliz. Vol. 229, no. 97)

25. Instructions for the North-east Passage by Richard Hakluyt, lawyer, 1580

(Reprinted from the Principal Navigations, 1589 edn.)

26. Letter from Mercator to Richard Hakluyt, the younger, 1580

(Reprinted from the Principal Navigations, 1589 edn.)

27. Extract from Camden’s Annals, 1580

28. Note by Richard Hakluyt, the younger, 1580

(S.P. Dom. Eliz. Vol. 169, no. 53)

29. Dedication of Florio’s Cartier, 1580

(Reprinted from the original)

30. Extracts from Camden’s Annals, 1581

31. Letters from Francis Drake, 1581

(Cotton MSS. Otho E VIII)

32. List of Geographical Authorities compiled by Richard Hakluyt, 1582

(Reprinted from Divers Voyages)

33. Notes by Richard Hakluyt, 1582

(Reprinted from Divers Voyages)

34. Note by Richard Hakluyt, 1582

(Reprinted from Divers Voyages)

35. Richard Hakluyt’s Preface to Divers Voyages, 1582

(Reprinted from the original)

36. Notes on the Levant Trade by Richard Hakluyt, lawyer, 1582

(Reprinted from the Principal Navigations, 1598–1600 edn.)

37. Notes for a Factor by Richard Hakluyt, lawyer, 1582

(Reprinted from the Principal Navigations, 1598–1600 edn.)

38. Letters from Sir F. Walsingham, 1583

(Reprinted from the Principal Navigations, 1598–1600 edn.)

39. Letter from John Newbery, 1583

(Reprinted from the Principal Navigations, 1598–1600 edn.)

40. Letter from Stephen Parmenius, 1583

(Reprinted from the Principal Navigations, 1589 edn.)

41. Dedication of Aristotle’s Politics, 1583

(Royal MSS. 12 G 13, fol. 2)

42. Extract from Camden’s Annals, 1583

43. Verses in praise of Carlisle’s proposed Voyage, 1583

(Reprinted from Peckham’s True Report)

44. Letter from Richard Hakluyt to Walsingham, 1584

(S.P. Dom. Eliz. Vol. 167, no. 7)

45. Letter from Richard Hakluyt to Walsingham, 1584

(S.P. Dom. Eliz. Vol. 170, no. 1)

ILLUSTRATIONS

Plate I. The Middle Temple and its precincts

(From a reproduction of Ralph Agas’ Plan of London, circa 1592)

Plate II. Christ Church, Oxford, and Brodegates Hall

(From Robert Whittlesey’s engraving of Agas’ Plan of Oxford, 1578)

Plate III. The handwriting of the elder Hakluyt

(From Harleian MS. no. 7369)

Plate IV. The handwriting of the younger Hakluyt

(From Documents 24 and 55)

Plate V. Map of Norumbega, 1556

(From Ramusio’s Viaggi Vol, III, fol. 434)

Plate VI. Map of the New World, 1587

(From a World Map by Rumold Mercator after Gerard Mercator)

LIST OF AUTHORITIES

Acts of the Privy Council.

Additional MSS. (Brit. Mus.), 22,583.

Amherst, Lord. Discovery of the Solomon Islands. (Hak. Soc. Pub. 2nd series, 7 and 8.)

Arber, Edward. Transcripts from the Stationers’ Registers. 1875.

——— Travels and Works of Captain John Smith. 1878.

Bagrow, L. A. Ortelii Catalogus. 1928.

Biggar, H. P. Documents relating to Cartier and Roberval. 1930.

Brebner, J. B. Explorers of North America. 1933.

Brown, Alexander. Genesis of the United States. 1890.

Bruce, John. Annals of the East India Company. 1815.

Bulleyne, Dr. Bulwark of Defence. 1562.

Calendars of State Papers, Colonial Series, Domestic Series, Foreign Series (Archives of Simancas).

Camden, Wm. Annals (1630).

Clarendon Papers (Bodleian).

Conway, G. R. G. An Englishman and the Mexican Inquisition. 1927.

Cortesāo, Armando. Cartografia e cartografos portugueses. 1935.

Cotton MSS. (Brit. Mus.).

Court Books of the East India Company.

De Bry, Theodore. Peregrinations. 1590 et seqq.

Dee, John. Diary (Ashmolean MSS. Bodleian).

——— Pety Navy Royall. 1576.

——— Volume of Famous and Rich Discoveries (Cotton MSS.). 1576–7.

Drayton, Michael. Ode to the Virginia Voyage. 1606.

Early Chancery Proceedings (Record Office).

Eden, Richard. Decades of the New World. 1555.

Foster, Sir Wm. England’s Quest of Eastern Trade. 1933.

Gager, Wm. Notes and Verses (Add. MSS. 22,583).

Gerard, John. The Herball. 1597.

Goldsmid, E. Early English Voyages to America. 1891.

Goodwin, W. B. Rhode Is. Hist. Soc. Coll. XXVII.

Hakluyt, Richard. Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. 1598–1600. (Quoted from the Glasgow edition of 19...