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	RICHARD HAKLUYT - LoveToKnow Article on RICHARD HAKLUYT
		Richard went to school at Westminster, where he was a queens scholar; while there his future bent was determined by a visit to his cousin and namesake, Richard Hakluyt of the Middle Temple.
		The first-fruits of Hakluyts labors in Paris are embodied in his important work entitled A particuler discourse concerning Wesierne discoveries written in the yere 1584, by Richarde Hackluyt of Oxforde, at the requeste and direction of the righte worshipfull Mr Walter Rag/fly before the comynge home of isis twoo barkes.
		Hakluyts other works consist mainly of translations and compilations, relieved by his dedications and prefaces, which last, with a few letters, are the only material we possess out of which a biography of him can be framed.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HA/HAKLUYT_RICHARD.htm (1798 words)

	§13. Richard Hakluyt. IV. The Literature of the Sea. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael ...
		In Paris, as chaplain to the ambassador, Hakluyt discovered a manuscript account of Florida, which was published at his expense in a French edition at Paris, in 1586, dedicated to Sir Walter Ralegh as the discoverer of Virginia.
		Hakluyt’s edition of Peter Martyr, subsequently translated into English at his suggestion by Michael Lok, was an important addition to scientific knowledge, and was followed, in 1594, by The Seaman’s Secrets of John Davys, to which reference has already been made.
		Though Hakluyt had to deplore the scarcity of his materials, and to labour under the multitude of his enquiries and the magnitude of his task, he was sustained until the end and spurred to boundless enthusiasm by the subject which he had made his own.
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	Richard Hakluyt -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Hakluyts were of (A Celtic language of Wales) Welsh extraction, and appear to have settled in (Click link for more info and facts about Herefordshire) Herefordshire around the (Click link for more info and facts about 13th century) 13th century.
		Hakluyt died in 1616 and was buried in (A famous Gothic church in London on the site of a former Benedictine monastery) Westminster Abbey (November 26); by an error in the abbey register his burial is recorded under the year 1626.
		The Hakluyt Society was founded in 1846 for printing rare and unpublished voyages and travels, and continues to publish two or three volumes per year.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/richard_hakluyt.htm (843 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Hakluyt, Richard
		Richard Hakluyt, 1552-1616, was a geographer, clergyman, translator, collector and editor of adventure narratives, and advocate for the westward expansion of English power.
		Hakluyt was ordained a priest of the Church of England some time before 1580 and gained increasingly comfortable church livings throughout his life, including the rectorship of Wetheringsett and a prebendary of Westminster.
		Hakluyt’s most important work was first published in 1589 under the title The Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation; he published the second edition in three volumes in 1598, 1599, and 1600, under the slightly different title, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation.
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		Hakluyt was ordained in 1578, held a number of benefices, and served two parishes.
		Hakluyt became active already in his student days in encouraging English overseas colonization, and in collecting information about the voyages of discovery.
		Hakluyt was a director of the Virginia Company in 1589, and later, in 1606, a patentee of a new Virginia Company.
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	Richard Hakluyt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Hakluyts were of WalesWelsh extraction, and appear to have settled in Herefordshire around the 13th century.
		His last publication was a translation of Hernando de Soto (explorer)Hernando de Soto's discoveries in Florida, entitled ''Virginia richly valued by the description of Florida her next neighbour'' (London, 1609, 4to).
		Out of his various emoluments and preferments (of which the last was Gedney, LincolnshireGedney rectory, Lincolnshire, in 1612) he amassed a small fortune, which was squandered by a son.
	www.infothis.com /find/Richard_Hakluyt (825 words)

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		Richard Chancelour Captaine of the Edward Bonauenture, and Pilot generall of the fleete.
		Richard Chancelor, Captaine, and Pilot maior of the fleete.
		Nowe Richard Chanceler with his shippe and company being thus left alone, and become very pensiue, heauie, and sorrowfull, by this dispersion of the Fleete, hee (according to the order before taken,) shapeth his course for Wardhouse in Norway, there to expect and abide the arriuall of the rest of the shippes.
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		This was translated by Hakluyt and published in London under the title of A notable historie containing foure voyages made by certayne French captaynes into Florida (London, 1587, 4to.).
		Hakluyt’s great collection, though but little read, has been truly called the “ prose epic of the modern English nation.” It is an invaluable treasure of material for the history of geographical discovery and colonization, which has secured for its editor a lasting reputation.
		Hakluyt's Galvano was edited for the Hakluyt Society by Admiral C. Bethune in 1862.
	www.ermeland.de /hakluyt.htm (909 words)

	Voyager's Tales by Richard Hakluyt eBook by BookRags
		It was called “A particular Discourse concerning Western Discoveries, written in the year 1584, by Richard Hakluyt, of Oxford, at the request and direction of the right worshipful Mr.
		Richard Hakluyt’s paper, in aid of this beginning of the shaping of another England in the New World, was for a long time lost.
		Hakluyt remained about five years at Paris as Chaplain to the English Embassy, and while there he caused the publication in 1586 of an account by Laudonniere of voyages into Florida.
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	NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Today's Honorary Subscriber is the English clergyman-scholar Richard Hakluyt, who was Oxford University's first professor of modern geography and an influential promoter of overseas exploration in the age of Elizabeth I.
		Hakluyt belonged to a socially prominent family from the Welsh Marches.
		He was only five years old when his father died, leaving the family to the care of a cousin, another Richard Hakluyt, a lawyer who had many friends among prominent city merchants, geographers, and explorers of the day.
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	BBC - Radio 4 Empire - Towards the East Indies
		Equally important in the Hakluyt documents were descriptions of hazards at sea because in spite of Drake's return with charts of south east Asia, the English were still very far behind the Dutch and Portuguese in sailing from Western Europe via the Cape to the Far East.
		So it became apparent that in the Hakluyt accounts, the logs of the voyages themselves were to be as important as the investment opportunities.
		Richard Hakluyt made the first serious suggestion that globes should be used in all English schools in the 16th century for the teaching of world geography.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/empire/episodes/episode_13.shtml (956 words)

	Richard Hakluyt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Richard Hakluyt (~1552 - de noviembre el 23 de 1616) era escritor inglés, famoso por sus viajes que proveieron de Guillermo Shakespeare y otros el material.
		De Hakluyt otros trabajos consistir principalmente en traducciones y las compilaciones, relevadas por sus de los esmeros y los prefacios, que duran, con algunas letras, son el único material que poseemos fuera de cuál puede ser enmarcada una biografía de él.
		Hakluyt murió en 1616 y fue enterrado en la abadía de Westminster (de noviembre el 26); por un error en el registro de la abadía su entierro es registrado bajo año 1626.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ri/Richard%20Hakluyt.htm (1003 words)

	Alibris: Richard Hakluyt
		And because the citie of Mosco is the chiefest of al the rest, it seemeth of it selfe to challenge the...
		Hakluyt's voyages; the principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English nation made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres.
		Early English and French voyages, chiefly from Hakluyt, 1534-1608 with maps and a facsimile reproduction.
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	Richard Hakluyt
		In 1605 Hakluyt was appointed prebendary of Westminster, having before been prebendary of Bristol, and he received afterward the rectory of Wetheringset in Suffolk.
		His name is perpetuated in Hakluyt's head, a promontory on the northwest end of Spitzbergen, named by Henry Hudson in 1608; in Hakluyt's island in Bafiin's bay, named by Bylot, and in the Hakluyt society, founded in 1846 for the republication of early voyages and travels.
		The additions to the last edition comprise all the voyages and travels printed by Hakluyt, or at his suggestion, which were not included in his collection.
	www.famousamericans.net /richardhakluyt (499 words)

	Richard Hakluyt, Discourse of Western Planting, 1584
		"Richard Hakluyt (say, "hack-loot") was born in 1551 or 1552 (and died in 1616) and educated at Westminster School where he was Queen's Scholar, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he afterwards lectured on geography.
		There were two men who bore the name Richard Hakluyt, either of them meritorious according to Edmund Morgan (American Slavery American Freedom 1975, 14-8).
		The clergyman Hakluyt was "the younger," and the author of the texts mentioned here.
	www.auburn.edu /~lakwean/hist2010/doc1584_hakluyt.html (758 words)

	AllRefer.com - Richard Hakluyt (Geography, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Richard Hakluyt[hak´lOOt, hak´ulwit] Pronunciation Key, 1552?–1616, English geographer.
		Manuscripts left at his death were included by Samuel Purchas in his Pilgrims (4 folios, 1625); others are preserved at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
		The publication of narratives of early explorations has been continued by the Hakluyt Society, founded in 1846.
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	TheFreeBookShop.com - Library - Richard Hakluyt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hakluyt died in 1616 (November 23rd) and was buried in Westminster Abbey (November 26th); by an errorin the abbey register his burial isrecorded under the year 1626.Out of his various emoluments and preferments (of which thelast was Gedney rectory, Lincolnshire, in 1612) he amassed a small fortune, which was squandered by a son.
		Reckoning in these and an issue of Purchass Pilgrimesby the Glasgow publisher of the Hakluyt of 1903-1905, the society has now published or fathered 150 vols.
		For Hakluyts life the dedications of the 1589 and 1598 editions of the Principal Navigations should be especially consulted; also Winter Joness introduction to the Kakluyt Society edition of theDivers Voyages; Fullers Worthies of England, Herefordshire ; Oxford Univ.
	hakluyt.thefreebookshop.com (1808 words)

	hakluyt1.html
		The observations of Sir Richard Hawkins,knt in his voyage into southsea in the year 1593 Reprited from the edition of 1622 ed.
		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.
		The voyage of Francois Pyrard of Laval to the East Indies, the Maldives, the Moluccas and Brazil.
	agricola.utu.fi /hist/lahteet/hakluyt1.html (3420 words)

	Hakluyt Society publishes books on voyages of discovery, maritime exploration, history of navigation, navigators' ...
		Hakluyt Society publishes books on voyages of discovery, maritime exploration, history of navigation, navigators' journals.
		The Society is a registered charity inspired by and named after Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616), the famous collector and editor of narratives of voyages and travels and other documents relating to English interests overseas.
		Membership of the Hakluyt Society is strongly recommended to everyone interested in the history of exploration and travel, exploratory voyages, geographical discovery and world wide cultural encounter.
	www.hakluyt.com (331 words)

	Voyager's Tales Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Richard Hakluyt, notwithstanding the Dutch look of his name, was of a good British stock, from Wales or the Welsh borders.
		Richard Hakluyt, born about five years before the accession of Queen Elizabeth, was a boy at Westminster School, when visits to a cousin in the Middle Temple, also a Richard Hakluyt, first planted in him an enthusiasm for the study of adventure towards a wider use and knowledge of the globe we live upon.
		And after their departure from us they sent us a letter, signifying that there was no violence showed unto them as yet; yet within three days after they were violently used, for that the king's son demanded of them again if that they would turn Turk.
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		Richard he was promoted and made Archbishop of Canterbury, and Primate of all England.
		In his time king Richard with all indeauour prepared a Fleet and all things necessary for waging of warre against the Infidels at lerasalem, taking with him the standerd and ensignes of the kingdome.
		Richard surnamed Canonicus an obseruant Frier of Trinitie Church in London, was in great loue with the studies of good Artes, and tooke paines in them and learned them.
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	The Explicator: Hakluyt's 'Discourse of Western Planting.' (Richard Hakluyt)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Richard Hakluyt's 'Discourse of Western Planting' uses the conflict image of the Virgin Queen and the Whore of Babylon to represent Protestant England and Catholic Spain, respectively.
		The book was, on the surface, a ploy to get the support of the Queen of England, Elizabeth I. However, Hakluyt's sources, which include Bartolome de Las Casas's condemnation of Spain, Jeremiah, Isaiah and the Psalms, reveal that 'Discourse' also contains a warning addressed to the English who resembled their Spanish counterparts.
		Representations of the dueling Whore of Babylon and the Virgin Queen are quite...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:19190995&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (179 words)

	George Glazer Gallery - Original Manuscript Drawings by Thomas Derrick for Hakluyt Voyages, 1927 Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hakluyt's Principal Navigations is now considered one great books of the English language and one of the most popular maritime, travel, and exploration books of all time.
		In Principal Navigations, Hakluyt begins with the story of British explorations in the Old World, including Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, such as Sir Jerome Bowes' journey to Moscow.
		There is a section on British expeditions to the New World with detailed descriptions of voyages in search of a northwest passage and settlements in the Virginia and the Carolinas.
	www.georgeglazer.com /prints/worldcult/der/der-e.html (576 words)

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		Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, 12 vols.
		It was adapted by Richard Hakluyt the younger (d.
		Sir Richard Gresham, mayor of London, letter to Thomas Cromwell, Lord Privy Seal, seeking assistance in his proposal to build a Burse (or exchange) in Lombard street.
	www.shef.ac.uk /hri/bl/mss/oth5.htm (2752 words)

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		The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, v5, by Richard Hakluyt #8 in our series by Richard Hakluyt Copyright laws are changing all over the world.
		The messengers which are sent from the Master generall of the land of Prussia, doe propound and declare the affaires and negotiations vnderwritten.
		Richard by the grace of God, king of England, and France, and lorde of Ireland.
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		In 1582, Hakluyt published Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America, in which he advocated the colonization of North America.
		Hakluyt went to Paris, where he learned more about the New World from sea captains and merchants.
		Upon his return to England, Hakluyt published his best-known work, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589).
	www.libarts.ucok.edu /history/faculty/roberson/course/1483/suppl/chpIII/RichardHakluyt.htm (169 words)

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