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 November 1611, and three months later arrived at Surat, where he found Sir Henry Middleton [q. v.], with whom he went to the Red Sea, and afterwards to Java. At Bantam he went on board the Thomas [see ], and in her sailed for England. She touched at the Cape in April 1613, and on the passage home, probably near the end of it, Hawkyns died. His remains were brought to Ireland and there buried (Cal. State Papers, East Indies, 1513–1616, No. 810). By his native wife, who had accompanied him, and was with him on board the Thomas, he does not seem to have had issue. In the following year she married Captain Gabriel Towerson [q. v.], and with him returned to India.

This Hawkyns was certainly a man of superior ability, and rendered valuable service to English commerce in procuring its formal recognition at Surat. But his identification with the nephew of Sir John Hawkyns is very unsatisfactory. It is not based on any evidence; and, indeed, what little evidence there is seems to point the opposite way. Fenton's lieutenant, if only by reason of his name and family, was a man of some consequence, and it is difficult to conceive that he could have been to the West Indies (cf., p. 401), or have gained experience in the East without any record remaining. Fenton's lieutenant had not a brother Charles (, p. 16), nor yet brothers Giles or Roger; the Mogul's friend seems to have had all three (, p. xlii n.; Cal. State Papers, East Indies, 1513–1616, Nos. 691, 862, 274). A good deal was said in 1614 about the inheritance of the widow of Captain Hawkyns who died, apparently intestate, on board the Thomas (ib. No. 693, and freq.), but nothing was claimed for any daughters by a former marriage. Another point is this: when, on the passage out in 1607, Captain Keeling called a council to consider the advisability of touching at Sierra Leone, it was resolved to do so, because ‘Sir Francis Drake and Captain Cavendish had made a favourable report’ of it (, Voyages to the East Indies, Hakluyt Soc., p. 113); but not a word was said about the much greater experience and knowledge of Sir John Hawkyns. All which tends to the conclusion that the Hawkyns of East Indian distinction was not the son and grandson of the mayors of Plymouth. 

HAWKINS, WILLIAM (d. 1637), poet, was probably born at Oakington, near Cambridge. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. 1622–3, and M.A. 1626. In the interval he became master of the free grammar school at Hadleigh, Suffolk, but gave up the post to become curate to the rector of Hadleigh, Dr. Thomas Goad (1576–1638) [q. v.], who admired his Latin verses. He died in 1637 probably of the plague then raging, and was buried at Hadleigh on 29 June of that year.

Hawkins was author of: 1. A lyrical drama entitled ‘Apollo Shroving’ (London, 1627), which was acted by the boys of Hadleigh school on Shrove Tuesday, 6 Feb. 1626–7, Joseph Beaumont (1616–1699) [q. v.] taking a prominent part. Some lines in the siren's song (act iii. sc. 6, ll. 10–15) may have been remembered by Milton when describing Eve visiting her fruits and flowers (Paradise Lost, bk. viii. ll. 40–7). 2. A volume of Latin verse entitled ‘Corolla varia … (Eclogæ tres Virgillanæ declinatæ … Nisus verberans et vapulans, decantatus per Musas virgiferas, juridicas),’ 3 pts. 8vo, Cambridge, 1634. A full analysis of this curious and clever volume is given in Pigot's ‘Hadleigh,’ pp. 179–85. 3. Verses in the Cambridge collections called ‘Rex redux,’ on the king's return from Scotland in 1633; ‘Carmen Natalitium,’ on the birth of the Princess Elizabeth, 1635; and ‘Σγνῴδια sive Musarum Cantabrigiensium concentus,’ &c., on the birth of the Princess Anne, 1637. 4. Latin elegies by him on Edward Gale, apothecary of Hadleigh, 1630, in Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 15227, f. 63. 

HAWKINS, WILLIAM (1673–1746), serjeant, a descendant of Sir John Hawkins or Hawkyns [q. v.], and second son of John Hawkins and Mary, daughter of Edward Dewe of Islip, Oxfordshire, was born in 1673. In 1689 he graduated B.A. at St. John's College, Cambridge, and M.A. in 1693. He was admitted a member of the Inner Temple 10 Feb. 1700, and was called to the bar on 29 June 1707. He became a serjeant-at-law on 1 Feb. 1723. Though his name is not mentioned in the ‘State Trials’ (xvii. 367), he appeared with other counsel for the wardens of the Fleet, Huggins and Bambridge, on their trials respectively for the murders of