Clements R. Markham - The Hawkins Voyages during the Reigns of Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth, and James I

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REPORT FOR 1878.

T HE Hakluyt Society has to mourn the loss of its President, Sir David Dundas, who held that post for six-and-a-half years.

Sir David Dundas was the eldest surviving son of Robert Dundas, Esq., of Ochtertyre, in Perthshire. Born in 1799, he was a Queens Scholar at Westminster, whence he was elected off as a Student of Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated M.A. in 1822. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple on February 7th, 1823, and went the Northern Circuit. In April 1840, he was appointed a Queens Counsel, Solicitor-General on July 10th, 1846, and was knighted on February 4th, 1847. He resigned the office of Solicitor-General in March 1848, and was Judge-Advocate General from May 19th, 1849, until 1852. On June 29th, 1849, Sir David Dundas was sworn of the Privy Council. In 1840, he was elected Member of Parliament for Sutherlandshire, which seat he held until 1852, and again from May 1861, until May 1867. He was also a Trustee of the British Museum.

Sir David was an active Member of the Hakluyt Society from its foundation. He presided at a meeting of the Council on the 15th of November, 1853, for the first time, and was ever afterwards a constant attendant, presiding at twenty-eight of the meetings. He never edited a volume for the Society, but was ever ready with advice and assistance, sparing no trouble in making researches; while his fine library, which contained many works bearing on the Societys objects, was always at the service of editors. His great knowledge of books relating to early voyages and travels rendered his services as a Member of the Council invaluable. On June 3rd, 1863, Sir David Dundas succeeded the Marquis of Lansdowne as one of the Vice-Presidents; and, after the lamented death of Sir Roderick Murchison, who had presided since the foundation of the Society in 1847, Sir David was unanimously elected to be the second President of the Hakluyt Society, on the 20th of November 1871. He continued to fulfil the duties of that post until his death on the 30th of March 1877, and his sound practical judgment, as well as his fund of useful and interesting information, made his presence always most acceptable. The last time he attended a meeting of the Council was a very few days before his decease, namely, on the 13th of March 1877.

Since the last Report, in 1874, the Society has lost several other active and useful Members. Among these are Rear-Admiral Sherard Osborn, C.B., Commodore J. G. Good-enough, R.N., C.B., C.M.G., The Hon. Frederick Walpole, M.P., Sir William Stirling Maxwell, Bart., the Earl of Sheffield, and the Bishop of St. Davids.

On the 19th of June 1877, Colonel Henry Yule, R.E., C.B., was unanimously elected to be the third President of the Hakluyt Society.

Since the last Report in 1874, the following volumes have been issued to Members :

I. THE FIRST VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD BY MAGELLAN . Translated from the Accounts of Pigafetta and other contemporary writers, accompanied by original documents, with notes and an introduction, by Lord Stanley of Alderley.

II. THE CAPTIVITY OF HANS STADE OF HESSE, IN A.D . 1547-1555, AMONG THE WILD TRIBES OF EASTERN BRAZIL . Translated by Alfred Tootal, Esq., of Rio de Janeiro, and annotated by Richard F. Burton.

III. THE SECOND EDITION OF THE THREE VOYAGES OF WILLIAM BARENTS TO THE ARCTIC REGIONS (1594, 1595, and 1596). By Gerit de Veer: the first edition, edited by G. Charles T. Beke, Phil.D., in 1853 ; the second edition, with an introduction, by Lieut. Koolemans Beynen, of the Royal Netherlands Navy.

IV. THE COMMENTARIES OF THE GREAT AFONSO DALBO-QUERQUE, SECOND VICEROY OF INDIA . Translated from the Portuguese edition of 1774, with notes and an introduction, by Walter De Gray Birch, F.R.S.L.

V. THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE COMMENTARIES OF DALBO-QUERQUE .

VI. THE VOYAGES OF SIR JAMES LANCASTER, KT., TO THE EAST INDIES , with Abstracts of Journals of Voyages to the East Indies during the Seventeenth Century, preserved in the India Office ; and THE VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN JOHN KNIGHT (1606) TO SEEK A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE . Edited by Clements R. Markham, C.B., F.R.S.

Two Volumes are in the printers hands, and will shortly be issued, namely :

THE THIRD VOLUME OF THE COMMENTARIES OF AFONSO DALBOQUERQUE ; and

THE SECOND EDITION OF THE OBSERVATIONS OF SIR RICHARD HAWKINS , to which will be added the Voyages of his grandfather William Hawkins, of his father Sir John Hawkins, and of his cousin William Hawkins, thus forming a monograph on the naval services of this family of distinguished Elizabethan seamen: edited, with an introduction, by Clements R. Markham, C.B.

Several volumes have been undertaken by Editors, and are making progress. Mr. W. A. Tyssen Amherst is engaged upon the translating and editing of the JOURNAL OF THE PILOT GALLEGO , and other documents relating to the Voyages of Mendaa. Mr. R. C. Groves is editing Rosmitals EMBASSY TO THE COURTS OF ENGLAND AND SPAIN in 1466. Lord Stanley of Alderley will translate and edit the NARRATIVE OF THE PORTUGUESE EMBASSY TO ABYSSINIA in 1520, by Father Francisco Alvarez. Mr. Clements Markham has undertaken to edit, and collate with the original Spanish, the (1603) translation of Acostas NATURAL HISTORY OF THE WESTERN INDIES ; and Captain A. H. Markham, R.N., will edit a monograph of JOHN DAVIS , including his Three Arctic Voyages, his Voyage with Cavendish, his Seamens Secrets, his Worlds Hydrography, his Voyage to the East Indies with the Dutch Fleet, and his last Voyage with Michelborne. These volumes will meet the just demands of subscribers down to the end of the year 1880.

The Council have great pleasure in being able to report that there has been a satisfactory increase in the number of Members. In 1873 there were 214, in 1874 the number was 228, and it is now 248. The funds are in a healthy state.

The following six Members retire from the Council:

C APTAIN P ORCHER , R.N. (deceased)

H ENRY H. H OWORTH , Esq.

C APTAIN C RUTTENDEN .

W. E. F RERE , Esq., C.M.G.

A UGUSTUS W. F RANKS , Esq.

E DWARD T HOMAS , Esq., F.E.S.