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think, in a heavy sea. The legend aft reads : * The 

 armes of St, Diago a special note to know them.' 

 The drawing, first reproduced by Mr. Julian Cor- 

 bett in his Drake and the Tudoi^ Navy, Volume II., 

 p. 366, is taken from the original (sent home by 

 an English spy) in the Record office. 



The Rich Mines of Potosi, . . . .172 



Reproduced from a copy of The Discoverie and Conquest of 

 the Provinces of Peru, and the Navigation in the South Sea, 

 along that Coast, and also of the ritche Mines ofPotosi. 

 Imprinted at London by Richard J hones. Febru. 6. 

 IS^I", in the Hunterian Library in the University 

 of Glasgow. 



Sir Robert Dudley, ...... 208 



Sir Robert Dudley, the son of Robert Dudley, Earl of 

 Leicester and Lady Sheffield, was born on August 

 7th 1574, at Sheen House in Surrey. He matricu- 

 lated at Christ Church, Oxford, in May 1588. He 

 states that he held a colonelcy in the army assembled 

 at Tilbury under command of his father in the same 

 year. In 1594 he started on his expedition to 

 Trinidad and Guiana, his first intention — to take 

 an expedition into the South Seas — having been 

 forbidden by the Queen. Besides the account of 

 this voyage printed by Hakluyt (p. 203) two other 

 accounts have been preserved, one by Captain Wyatt 

 who commanded Dudley's * main battle of pike,' 

 and one by Abraham Kendall, his sailing master. 

 {Warner's Voyage of Sir Robert Dudley to the West 

 Indies, Hakluyt Society, 1899.) ^^ ^59^ Dudley 

 commanded the ' Nonpareil ' in the Cadiz expedi- 

 tion under Essex and Nottingham, and was knighted 

 at Plymouth on the return of the expedition. In 

 1603 he began the lawsuit to prove his legitimacy, 

 but the judgment given on May loth 1605 went 

 against him. In the same year he obtained a license 



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