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WORKS ISSUED BY
THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY
THE ROANOKE VOYAGES
VOL. I
SECOND SERIES
No. CIV
ISSUED FOR 1952
COUNCIL AND OFFICERS
OF
THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY
1955
PRESIDENT
J. N. L. BAKER, Esq., M.A., BXitt.
VICE-PRESIDENTS
Professor E. G. R. TAYLOR, D.SC. JAMBS A.WILLIAMSON, Esq., D.Lit.
TRACY PHILIPPS, Esq., M.C., Hon. D.C.L. MALCOLM LETTS, Esq., F.S.A.
COUNCIL (WITH DATE OF ELECTION)
Professor C. R. BOXBR (1955)
Sir ALAN BURNS, G.C.M.G. (1955)
Miss E. M. J. CAMPBELL (1953)
G. R. CRONE, Esq. (1955)
Professor E. W. GILBERT, M.A., B.Litt. (1952)
H. V. LIVERMORE, Esq. (1953)
Sir HARRY LUKE, K.C.M.G. (1954)
WALTER OAKESHOTT, Esq., F.S.A. (1954)
J. PACKMAN, Esq. (1951)
N. M. PENZER, Esq., Litt.D., F.S.A. (1952)
Professor D. B. QUINN (1952)
Lord RENNELL OF RODD (1954)
Royal Geographical Society
(General Sir JAMES MARSHALL-CORNWALL, K.C.B.
W. S. SHEARS, Esq. (1953)
Sir RICHARD WINSTBDT, K.B.E., C.M.G., F.B.A. (1953)
TRUSTEES
E. W. BOVILL, Esq., F.S.A. MALCOLM LETTS, Esq., F.S.A
TREASURER
F. B. MAGGS, Esq.
HON. SECRETARY
R. A. SKELTON, Esq., B.A., F.S.A., British Museum, London, W.C.I
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THE
ROANOKE VOYAGES,
15841590
DOCUMENTS TO ILLUSTRATE
THE ENGLISH VOYAGES TO NORTH AMERICA
UNDER THE PATENT GRANTED
TO WALTER RALEIGH
IN 1584
EDITED BY
DAVID BEERS QUINN
Professor of History in the University College of Swansea
(University of Wales)
VOLUME I
LONDON
FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY
1955
Printed in Great Britian at the University Press, Cambridge
(Brooke Crutchley, University Printer)
Collotype illustrations printed by Waterlow & Sons
CONTENTS
VOLUME I
CHAPTER I
The Discovery of RaleighS Virginia, 1584
P.R.O., Patent Roll, 26 Eliz., pt. i, mm. 3840; collated with Chancery Warrant, 16 March 26 Eliz., ser. n, C. 82/1414, and Hakluyt, Principall navigations (1589), pp. 7258; m (1600), 2435.0
Extract. Letters and memorials of state, ed. Arthur Collins, 1 (1746), 298.
R. Holinshed, Chronicles, III (1587), 1369.
Hakluyt, Principall navigations (1589), pp. 72833; III (1600), 24651.
Sir Walter Raleigh, History of the world (1614), bk. I, ch. 8, pp. 1756 (Ist numeration).
CHAPTER II
Preparations for the 1585 Voyage
Extracts. Professor J. E. Neales transcripts of parliamentary diaries; DEwes, Journals (1682), pp. 33941; House of Lords, Journals, II, 74.
House of Lords MS.
Essex County Record Office, Chelmsford. MS D/DRh, M I.
Extracts and abstracts. B.M., Lansdowne MS 133, fos. 10, 13 v.; P.R.O., High Court of Admiralty, Examinations, Instance and Prize, H.C.A. 13/256.
P.R.O., State Papers, Domestic, Elizabeth. S.P. 12/185, 59.
Records of the court of the Stationers Company, 15761602, ed. W. W. Greg and E. Boswell p. 17; Register of the Company of Stationers, 15541640, ed. E. Arber, I, 509.
North Devon Athenaeum, Barnstaple. Receivers Accounts, 15845.
Brit. Mus., Additional MS 5752, fo. 39.
P.R.O., State Papers, Ireland, Elizabeth, S.P. 63/114, 71.
Abstract from Roger Granville, History of the Granville family, pp. 1247.
P.R.O., State Papers, Foreign, Holland and Flanders, S.P. 84/31, 104.
Abstracts. P.R.O., H.C.A. 13/26.
Extracts. P.R.O., State Papers, Domestic, Elizabeth Additional, S.P. 5/29,9.
Abstract. P.R.O., State Papers, Foreign, France, S.P. 78/14, 120.
P.R.O., Signet Office Doequet Book, Ind. 6800, fo. 24; William Murdin, A collection of state papersleft by... William Cecill Lord Burghley (1759), p. 782.
CHAPTER III
The 1585 Virginia Voyage
Plymouth Plymouth City Records, Black Book, fo. 7.
Holinshed, Chronicles, III (1587), 14012.
Hakluyt, Principall navigations (1589), pp. 7336; III (1600), 2513.
Hakluyt, Principall navigations (1589), pp. 7367; III (1600), 254.
P.R.O., State Papers, Colonial, CO. I/I, 4.
P.R.O., State Papers, Colonial, CO. I/I, 3
P.R.O., State Papers, Colonial, CO. I/I, 5.
Hakluyt, Principall navigations (1589), p. 793; III (1600), 2545.
P.R.O., State Papers, Colonial, CO. I/I, 6.
P.R.O., Maps and Plans, G. 584.
Plymouth City Records, Receivers Accounts, 17 Sept. 158417 Sept. 1585. fo. 61.
Abstract. P.R.O., State Papers, Domestic, Elizabeth, S.P. 12/183, 5.
Extract. Fugger news-letters, 2nd ser., ed. V. von Klarwill, p. 96.
P.R.O., State Papers, Colonial, CO. I/I, 7.
Extract. Fugger news-letters, 2nd ser., ed. V. von Klarwill, p. 96.
Extract. Hist. MSS Comm., Ancaster MSS, pp. 1617.
Extract. Fugger news-letters