Richard Hakluyt the younger's notes for the East India company in 1601: A transcription of Huntington Library Manuscript EL 2360

Huntington Library Quarterly

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 423-436

  Hackel, Heidi Brayman ^a   Mancall, Peter C ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 60950017460     PISSN: 00187895     EISSN: 1544399X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/hlq.2004.67.3.423     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. Giovanni Batista Ramusio, Terze volume della navigationi e viaggi nel qual si contengono le navigationi al mondo nuovo (Venice, 1556), 435r-453v,
2. translated by Florio as A shorte and briefe narration of the two navigations and discoveries to the northweast partes called Newe Fraunce (London, 1580). Ramusio's text appears in the list of Italian authorities in the manuscript transcribed below.
3. James A. Froude, "England's Forgotten Worthies" (1853), in Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects (Ithaca, N.Y., 1967), 153.
4. Originally printed in Amsterdam in 1608, translated into English by Hakluyt in 1609. David Beers Quinn, ed., The Hakluyt Handbook, 2 vols., Hakluyt Society, 2d ser., nos. 144-45 (London, 1974), 1:324.
5. As David Armitage has noted in his recent edition of the text - the first time Hakluyt's translation has been published in full - there is no proof that Hakluyt had a commission from the Company for this work, so the link must remain conjectural. See Hugo Grotius, The Free Sea, trans. Hakluyt, ed. Armitage (Indianapolis, 2004), xxii.
6. John Bruce, Annals of the honorable East-India Company, 3 vols. (London, 1810), 1:112-13.
7. Quinn, Hakluyt Handbook, 1:314;
8. E. G. R. Taylor, ed., The Original Writings and Correspondence of the Two Richard Hakluyts, 2 vols., Hakluyt Society, 2d ser., 76-77 (London, 1935), 2:476. There are slight differences in spelling between Quinn and Taylor.
9. Cornelis Gerritszoon, An addition to the sea journal of nauigation of the Hollanders unto Iaua, containing the appearances, shewes, or resemblances of the Cape of Bona Speranza ... (London, 1598);
10. Jacob Cornelissoon van Neck's The Journall, or Dayly Register, Contayning a true manifestation, and historicall declaration of the voyage, accomplished by eight shippes of Amsterdam, under the command of Iacob Corneliszen Neck Admirall (London, 1601). This last text was entered into the Stationers' Register on 16 January 1601.
11. Hakluyt, "The chiefe places where sondry sorte of spices do growe in the East Indies, " Bodleian Library, MS. Arch. Seld. B.8; reprinted in Hakluyt, Divers voyages touching the discovery of America and the islands adjacent, ed. John W. Jones, Hakluyt Society, 1st ser., no. 7 (London, 1850), 151-60.
12. Hakluyt, Divers voyages, ed. Jones, 154, 158.
13. Writings and Correspondence, ed. Taylor, 2:482 n. 3.
14. Hakluyt's most explicit wedding of information to argument for expansion can be found in a document known as the "Discourse on Western Planting, " which he completed in 1584 either in Paris or soon after his return to England. See A particuler discourse concerninge the greate necessitie and manifolde commodyties that are like to growe to this realme of Englande ... known as Discourse of western planting, Hakluyt Society, extra ser., no. 45, ed. David B. Quinn and Alison M. Quinn (London, 1993), xv.
15. Bruce, Annals of the East-India Company, 1:112-14.
16. For contemporary views about the difficult relations between England and Spain at this moment, see William Camden, Annales, or the history of the most renowned and victorious Princesse Elizabeth, 3d ed., trans. R. N. (London, 1635), 519-28;
17. and Edmund Howes, Annales, or a generall chronicle of England. Begun by John Stow (London, 1631), 790-91.
18. For a modern summary, see Wallace MacCaffrey, Elizabeth I (London, 1993), 274-93.
19. "Notes attributed to Richard Hakluyt, 1600, " in Original Writings and Correspondence, ed. Taylor, 2:465-68. Bruce dates this petition to winter 1599/1600; Taylor to 1600.
20. Two of these documents have now been published: Discourse, ed.Quinn and Quinn;
21. and Grotius, The Free Sea, ed. Armitage.
22. Hakluyt had opportunities to go to the Western Hemisphere but turned them down; see David B. Quinn and Neil M. Cheshire, The New Found Land of Stephen Parmenius (Toronto, 1972), 44-45;
23. and "Dispensation for Richard Hakluyt and Robert Hunt, " 24 November 1606, in Philip L. Barbour, ed., The Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter, 1606-1609, 2 vols., Hakluyt Society, 2d ser., nos. 136-37 (London, 1969), 1:62-64.
24. For a general sense of Haklyut's role, see "Works in Which Hakluyt's Influence is Known or Acknowledged, " in Quinn, ed., Hakluyt Handbook, 2:571-75.