ILLUSTRATIONS 



Plan of Westminster, a.d. 1593, ... 32 



Reproduced from a copy in the British Museum of the 

 Speculum Britaniae, The first parte by The travaile 

 and vew of John Norden^ Anno 1593. 



Letter from Richard Hakluyt to Sir Francis 



Walsingham, ist April, 1584. ... 80 



In the first part of this letter Hakluyt urges on Sir 

 Francis Walsingham the foundation of a lecture 

 on Mathematics in Oxford, and another, on * the 

 Arte of Navigation' in London, at a yearly stipend 

 of Fifty pounds each. * In my simple judgment,' 

 writes Hakluyt, the money so spent 'wold be 

 the best hundred pounds bestowed, that was 

 bestowed these five hundred yeares in England.' 

 The remainder of the letter gives various items 

 of news which may be of political interest to 

 Walsingham. The letter was written when Hak- 

 luyt was chaplain to the Embassy in Paris. It is 

 docquetted ' primo Aprilis 1584. Ffrom M'- Hak- 

 luite the preacher at Paris ' and endorsed in a 

 modern hand ' This is a private not a diplomatic 

 letter from Hackluyt to Walsingham.' The repro- 

 duction is made, by permission, from the original 

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