A Catalogue of the Voyages-Continued.
to the Azores: which tooke the governour of the Isle
of S. Michael, and Pedro Sarmiento governour of the
Streights of Magellan in the yere 1586..
The voyage of Sir Francis Drake to Cadiz, and the memor-
able exploits and services performed by him as well
there as at diverse other places upon the coast of Spaine
and Portugale, and his taking of the great East Indian
Carak called The Sant Philip, neere the Isle of S.
Michael, Anno 1587.
A patent graunted to certaine merchants of Exceter, and
others of the West parts, and of London, for a trade to
the rivers of Senega and Gambra in Guinea, Anno
1588.
A voyage to Benin beyond the countrey of Guinea made
by Master James Welsh, who set foorth in the yeere
1588.
A relation concerning a voyage set foorth by M. John
Newton, and M. John Bird, merchants of London, to
the kingdome and citie of Benin, written by Antony
Ingram, An. 1588..
An advertisement to king Philip the 2. of Spaine, from
Angola, touching the state of the same countrey, An.
1591.
Sir Francis Walsingham was born about 1530. He
matriculated at King's College, Cambridge, and
subsequently entered Gray's Inn. On Queen
Mary's accession he left England and travelled on
the Continent, but returned home on her death.
He then entered Parliament as member for Ban-
bury, and later represented Lyme Regis and Surrey.
His knowledge of foreign affairs brought him under
the notice of Burghley, and through his foreign
friends and correspondents he obtained much valu-
able secret intelligence. In 1570 he went on an
embassy to Paris, and later in that year was ap-
pointed resident ambassador at the French Court.
In December, 1573, Walsingham was appointed one
of the principal Secretaries of State, and in 1577
was knighted. He was one of the Commissioners
who tried Mary, Queen of Scots, and it was largely
on the secret information obtained by him that she
was condemned. Walsingham died in London on 6th
April, 1590, and was buried privately the next night
in St. Paul's. The portrait here reproduced is from
the engraving in the British Museum of the original
formerly in the collection of the Duke of Dorset.
According to the tablet beneath the monument, which
is here pictured, in Great Saxham Church, Suffolk,
'New Buckingham in Norfolke was John Eldred's
first being. In Babilon hee spent some parte of
his time, and the rest of his earthly pilgrimage hee
spent in London, and was Alderman of that Famous
Cittie.' He traded to the East, and was a member
of the Levant Company.
The Emperor Akbar, .
Akbar (or the great') Mogul Emperor of India, is the
'Selabdim Echebar King of Cambaia,' frequently
mentioned by Hakluyt. He came to the throne
in 1556, when between thirteen and fourteen years
old, and reigned until 1605. In addition to being
a great conqueror, he was a wise and enlightened
ruler. The present picture represents him as he
appeared towards the middle of his reign, when at
the height of his power, and after he had founded
his new religion. It is reproduced from an original
in an album of miniatures and calligraphic speci-
mens of the seventeenth and early eighteenth
centuries, preserved in the Department of Oriental
MSS. in the British Museum.
From the copy in the British Museum of G. Braun and
F. Hohenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, 1573.
English Sailing Chart, 1592,
This chart, drawn by T. Hood, and engraved by Ryther
in 1592, is reproduced from the original in a
volume of miscellaneous papers entitled Sea Tracts,
Vol. II., in the Pepys Library, Magdalene College,
Cambridge, by permission of the College authorities.
It gives the coast lines from the latitude of the
Orkneys to the Cape Verde Islands. Thomas
Hood, 'Doctor in Phisicke,' was also a lecturer on
navigation, a seller of compasses, and author and
editor of various books on mathematics and naviga-
tion. Specimens of his charts are very rare.
From the copy in the British Museum of John Huighen
van Linschoten his Discours of Voyages unto ye Easte
and Weste Indies, printed at London, 1598. It is
of interest to note the 'diche begonne in auncient
tyme and somewhat attempted of late by Sinan
the Bassa to joyne both the Seas together '-now
the Suez Canal.
George Fenner, a man that had beene conversant in
many sea-fights,' belonged to a Sussex family, and
was probably a native of Chichester. The family
produced several other seamen, of whom William
Fenner, Viceadmiral under Drake and Norris in the
Portugal voyage (see p. 483), and Thomas Fenner,
captain of the Dreadnought' in Drake's Cadiz Ex-
pedition (see p. 438), are best known. The action.
off the Azores between the Portuguese squadron
and George Fenner's ships (see pp. 281-3) is
'memorable as the earliest revelation to English
seamen of the power their superiority in gunnery
was to give them' (Corbett, Drake and the Tudor
Navy, I. 93). On his return from the voyage to
Guinea in 1566, Fenner traded with the Low
Countries. In 1588 he commanded the 'Galleon
Leicester' against the Armada, and in 1597 accom-
panied Essex in the Islands voyage. The portrait is
taken from that in John Pine's Tapestry Hangings of
the House of Lords, London, 1753, in the British
Museum.
From the copy in the British Museum of G. Braun and
F. Hohenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, 1573.
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Despatch from Sir Francis Drake,.
This despatch, dated 27th April, 1587, gives Drake's
account of the burning of the Spanish ships in Cadiz
Harbour. It is reproduced by permission from the
original preserved in the Public Record Office. The
postscripts are in Drake's own handwriting. The
despatch, which is addressed To the righte honor-
able Sir Ffrauncis Walsingham, Knighte principall
Secretary to Her Matie with all haste haste poste
haste' runs as follows:
Righte honorable Theise are to geive to understande that
on the seconde of this moneth we departede out
of the sound of Plymouth we had sighte of the
Cape venester the vth we were encountrede with
a violente storme duringe the space of five daies by
which meanes our fleate was putt a sonder and a
greate leake sprange uppon the Dreadenoughte:
the 16th we mette all together at the Rocke & the
19th we arrivede into the roade of Cales in Spaigne
where we founde sondrie greate shippes some laden
some halfe laden and some readie to be laden with
the kings provisions for Englande; we staiede there
until the 24th in which meane tyme we sanke a
Biskanie of 12 tonnes, burnte a shippe of the
Marquice of Santa Cruse of 15 Tonnes and 31
shippes more of 1000 800 600: 400 to 200 tonnes
the peice carried awaie fower with us laden with
provision, And departede thence at our pleasure with
as moch honour as we coulde wishe notwithstand-
inge that duringe the tyme of our aboade there we
were bothe oftentymes foughte with all by 12 of
the kinges gallies (of whome we sanke two and
allwaies repulsed the rest) and were (withoute
Ceassinge) vehemently shott at from the shoare
but to our litle hurte, god be thanked, yeat at
our departure we were Curteouslie written unto
by one Don Pedro generall of those gallies; I
assure your Ho: the like preparacion was never
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