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Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, and are 

 inserted by permission of the College authorities. 



The Minion, ....... 432 



The * Minion' * of the Queenes ' was built in 1523 for 

 Henry VIII.'s navy. She was originally of 180 

 tons but was rebuilt about 1536 as a 300 ton 

 ship. She was given to Sir Thomas Seymour 

 about 1549, but about 1560 her name reappears in 

 the Navy Lists. (Oppenheim, Administration of the 

 Royal Navy.) In 1561 she was lent to the Guinea 

 merchants and was damaged in an action with the 

 Portuguese (Hakluyt, Vol. VL, p. 260). In 1564. 

 she was again employed in the Guinea trade and 

 in 1567-68 she formed one of Hawkins' fleet in 

 his third expedition to Guinea and the West 

 Indies. She was so badly damaged at San Juan 

 d'Ulloa and 'so sore beaten with shot from our 

 enemies and brused with shooting off our own 

 ordinance' that with the greatest difficulty she 

 was brought into Mounts Bay in Cornwall on the 

 25th of January 1569. She was condemned in 

 1570. 



Map of the World by Peter Plancius A. D. 1594, . 474 



Peter Plancius was born in 1552. He was a Calvinistic 

 preacher, pastor of the church at Amsterdam, but 

 his chief title to fame is his service to geography. 

 He maintained the existence of an open polar sea, 

 and he induced the people of Amsterdam to despatch 

 an expedition to seek a passage north of Novaya 

 Zemlya under Willem Barents. He died on 25th 

 May 1622 (Markham, John Davis the Navigator, 

 Hakluyt Society, 1880). The Map is interesting 

 as being one of the few attempts to apply the 

 principles of Mercator's * projection ' before their 

 correct demonstration by Edward Wright. The 

 engraved margin shows the inhabitants and products 



