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Hatton, was stabbed in the Strand by a Puritan 

 fanatic named Burchett. In November, 1578, 

 Hatton was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the 

 Household, with a seat in the Privy Council, and 

 on 1st December he was knighted at Windsor. He 

 was returned to Parliament for Northamptonshire 

 in 1584. He was a Commissioner for the trial of 

 Anthony Babington and his fellow-conspirators in 

 September, 1586, and played a most important part 

 in the proceedings which ended in the execution 

 of Mary Queen of Scots. On 25th April, 1587, 

 the Queen appointed him Lord Chancellor, which 

 post he retained until his death on 20th November, 

 1 59 1. He was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. It 

 was in honour of Sir Christopher Hatton that 

 Drake, on entering Magellan Straits, changed the 

 name of his ship from the * Pelican ' to the ' Golden 

 Hind,' the Hatton crest being a * hind trippant or.' 

 The portrait is taken from an engraving in the 

 Print Room of the British Museum after the 

 portrait by Ketel. 



A Galley, ........ 240 



Reproduced from Furttenbach's Architectura 'Navalis, 

 Ulm, 1629. Galleys were for long the main arm 

 of the Continental navies. Propelled as they 

 were by oars, for although they carried lateen 

 sails they depended chiefly on the oars, they 

 were very formidable vessels, especially in narrow 

 channels and confined waters. As, however, the 

 freeboard was necessarily low, and as the principal 

 armament was carried at the bow and could not be 

 used for broadside fire, they were of little value in 

 the ocean, and could not move far from land. The 

 English seamen soon found out their weak points. 

 Writing to Drake after the first attack on Cadiz, 

 Captain Thomas Fenner says, * I assure your honour 

 there is no account to be made of his [the King of 

 Spain's] galleys. Twelve of Her Majesty's ships 

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