LIFE AFLOAT IN TUDOR TIMES
Two stories from Hakluyt's Voyages will illustrate what sort of work the English were attempting in America about 1530, near the middle of King Henry's reign. The success of ' Master Haukins' and the failure of 'Master Hore' are quite typical of several other adventures in the New World.
' Olde M. William Haukins of Plimmouth, a man for his wisdome, valure, experience, and skill in sea causes much esteemed and beloved of King Henry the eight, and being one of the principall Sea Captaines in the West partes of England in his time, not contented with the short voyages commonly then made onely to the knowen coastes of Europe, armed out a tall and goodlie ship of his owne, of the burthen of 250 tunnes, called the Pole of Plimmouth, wherewith he made three long and famous voyages vnto the coast of Brasill, a thing in those days very rare, especially to our
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Publication information:
Book title: Elizabethan Sea-Dogs:A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions.
Contributors: William Wood - Author.
Publisher: Yale University Press.
Place of publication: New Haven, CT.
Publication year: 1918.
Page number: 33.
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