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Captain John Davis sidled from Dartmouth to discover a north-west passage to the East Indies. He returned on the 3a of September, 1585. He was killed near Malacca, December 27, 1605.

1596, Jan. 28. Died, Sir Francis Drake, who is distinguished as being the first man of his country who achieved the circumnavigation of the globe, which took up two years and ten monuis ; on his return in 1580, the queen dined on board the ship, at Deptford, whicn had per- formed so memorable a voyage, and conferred the honour of knighthood on the commander. The following inscription is from a laie portrait in the Cracherode collection :*

SIR FRAMaS DRAKB, KmOHT.

Oar ifiTS TiphyVit valoon noble mixronr,

Eiicliahmen'a grlory, anil the Spuiiatd's terroor. The saylora staire, sea-taminK sail- winged Drake,

Whoae fame, tbo' he be dead. Uvea fresh awake. Which with his corps whole oceans cannot dround

Bat shall endore so lonf as world is round. Which he encompast, one whose uci I feare

England will nerer see again but hirb.

In the ever memorable service which termi- nated in the defeat of the Spanish armada, sir Francis Drake, whom Elizabeth had appointed vice admiral under lord Howard of Effingham, had the chief share, and the horrible vengeance experienced by the flying armada was inflicted principally by his division of the fleet. After this he went to the West Indies^ with sir John Hawkins, but the two commanders disagreeing in their plans little was done by them. Drake died ofl^ Nombre de Dios. He was born at Tavistock, in Devonshire, in 1545, and was re- presentative for the town of Plymouth, to which he was a great benefactor, by causing water to be conveyed to it from springs at eight miles distance.

1597, March 1. King James VI. of Scot- land, grants a privilege to John Skene, clerk of the register, for the printing of all laws and acts of parliament, and Rol^rt Waldegrave to be the printer.

1597, March 15. The lawe$ and octet of parliament, maid be king James thefint,and hu tueceuowrt, kings of Scotland, visited, collected, and extracted furth of the register. Edingbiirgh be Robert Waldegrave, prenter to the kingis majestie. Folio.

was the son of Mordsnnt Cracherode, who went oat to make his fortune as a commander of the maiine« in Anson's ship- He returned in conseqaencc of his share of prize money, a wealthy man. Hence the property of his son, and hence the BiiUatkeea Crackeniima, in the British Moseum. — DMin.
 * The Rev. C. M. Cracherode, of celebrated book fame,

t npbys was the pilot of the Aiko, the (list ship.

t A fnie di$courte of nr FranciM Drake'M Wat Indian vofagt, and taking of St. Jago, Santo Domingo, Carta- gena, and St. AuguMtim. London: printed by Richard Field. lS8g. 4to.

A Libel of SpaniMh Lie* found at the Sack of Cala, diteouning the Fight in tht Wat India ietween the EngUak and the Spaniard, and of the Death of Sir FranciM I>rake, with an Amwer confuting the Maid SpaniMh Lia, 8tc. Lon. don, IWt. 4to. By Captain Henry Savile. A copy Is in the Bodleian Ubrary. See Wood's Athente Onmiensn.

1596. Died, Francis Raphelenoius, the celebrated printer of the university of Leyden. This distinguished scholar was born of parents of low condition, and destined for trade. An invariable love of study directed his attention towards books; and during the civil wars in France, he came to England, and taught the learned languages some time at Cambridge. Going over to Antwerp, to purchase rare books there for the university, he fell, first, in love with the splendid apparatus of PlanUn's print- ing office; and, secondly, with the not less attractive charms of Mademoiselle Margaret Plantin. He had by her three sons and a daughter. He died in his 5eth year. His learning lay chiefly in the Hebrew and oriental languages, and that part of the Folyglott (the latter volumes) which embraces Hebraic lexi- cography, &c. was executed more particularly under the eye of Raphelengius. This able man, besides being printer to me university of Ley- den, conducted the press of his fiitber-in-law, who had establis)ied an office there. Thus, in the frontispiece of Whitney's Emblems, we read, Imprinted at Leyden, in the house of Christo- pher Plantin.

1596. At the national synod, held at Saumur, in France, Monsieur Adam D'Orival, minister of the church of Sancerre, was ordered " to write from the assembly, to the church of Geneva, to acquaint them with the frauds committed by their booksellers, who vended in these parts a number of Psalm Boohs, and New Testaments of the old translation, only prefixing a new titie, as if it were a new translation." The same synod gave Jeroh HAULXiN.of Rochelle, permission to print their French Bibles. " The province of Xaintonge cravingleave," say they, " for Mon- sieur Haultin, of Rochelle, to print our French Bibles, he engaging his word, to do them on better paper, with a fairer character, and at a cheaper rate than those of Geneva, which are now become very rare and dear. This synod doth permit the said Haultin to print the Bible, and adviseth him to have a singular care that they be done most accurately and correctly." Le Long notices several impressions of the New Testament, printed by Haultin, and two of the whole Bible, by his heirs.

The first edition of the New Testament in the Basque tongue was printed at Rochelle in the year 1671, with the title of, Jesus Christ Gure Taunaren Testamentu Berria, ^c. Bochellan, Pierre Hautin Imprimifale, 1571. On the title are engraved the arms of the queen of Navarre, thrnugh whose zealous exertions in the cause of religion this translation into the Biscaian dialect was made, and who also caused the catechism and prayers used in the church of Geneva, to be translated and printed at Rochelle.

Bartholomew Berton exercised the art of printing at Rochelle, in 1564 and 1566, in which latter year he printed the following work : Le grand Rautier pilotage, et encrage de mer, written by Pierre Garcie ; with rade but interesting wood cuts. A copy is in Trinity college, Dublin.

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