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  Sir Francis Drake revived who is or may be a pattern to stirre up all heroicke and active spirits of these times to benefit their countrey and eternize their names by like noble attempts : being a summary and true relation of foure severall voyages made by the said Sir Francis Drake to the West-Indies ... / collected out of the notes of the said Sir Francis Drake, Mastet [sic] Philip Nichols, Master Francis Fletcher, preachers, and notes of divers other gentlemen (who went on the said voyages) carefully compared together.
  Date of publication:
  1653
  

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  Drake, Francis, Sir, d. 1637. World encompassed by Sir Francis Drake. ; Nichols, Philip. ; Fletcher, Francis, 16th cent. ; Bigges, Walter, d. 1586. and R. D.
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  Preface signed: R.D. "A Summarie and true discourse" is written by W. Bigges. Cf. BM; NUC pre-1956. First and second accounts separately paged; third and fourth accounts continuously paged. The second, third and fourth ...
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  A summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes VVest Indian voyage wherein were taken, the townes of Saint Jago, Sancto Domingo, Cartagena & Saint Augustine.
  Date of publication:
  1589
  

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  Bigges, Walter, d. 1586. ; Croftes, Lieutenant. ; Gates, Thomas, Sir, d. 1621. and Boazio, Baptista. Famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes and barkes wherin weare gotten the townes of St· Iago: :Sto: Domingo, Cartagena and :St: Augustines the same beinge begon from Plimmouth in the moneth of September 1585 and ended at Portesmouth in Iulie 1586.
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  "Begun by Captaine Bigges, vvho ended his life in the said voyage ... aftervvardes finished (as I thinke) by his Lieutenant Maister Croftes or some other"--Dedication by T. Cates (i.e. Thomas Gates). "The first complete ...
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  A summarie and true discourse of Sir Francis Drakes VVest Indian voyage wherein were taken, the townes of Saint Iago, Sancto Domingo, Cartagena & Saint Augustine : with geographicall mappes exactly describing each of the townes with their scituations, and the manner of the armies approching to the winning of them.
  Date of publication:
  1589
  

  Author(s):

  Bigges, Walter, d. 1586. ; Croftes, Lieutenant. ; Gates, Thomas, Sir, d. 1621. and Boazio, Baptista. Famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes and barkes wherin weare gotten the townes of St· Iago: :Sto: Domingo, Cartagena and :St: Augustines the same beinge begon from Plimmouth in the moneth of September 1585 and ended at Portesmouth in Iulie 1586.
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  "Begun by Captain Bigges, vvho ended his life in the said voyage ... the same being aftervvardes finished (as I thinke) by his Lieutenant Maister Croftes, or some other"--Dedication by Thomas Cates [i.e. Thomas Gates]. ...
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