. Historical portraits ... withdifficulty escaped with the loss of five ships out of their flotilla ofsix, and with a heavy loss of the capital invested in the voyage. In1573 Hawkins became Treasurer and Controller of the Navy, andthereby practically held the office of chief adviser on naval con-struction in the government dockyards : it was alleged, but notproved, that, while holding this post, he had made large private profitby fraudulent practices. If that was the case, much may be forgivento the man who built the first-rates which pounded the SpanishArmada to matchwood in 1588. Hawkins com
. Historical portraits ... withdifficulty escaped with the loss of five ships out of their flotilla ofsix, and with a heavy loss of the capital invested in the voyage. In1573 Hawkins became Treasurer and Controller of the Navy, andthereby practically held the office of chief adviser on naval con-struction in the government dockyards : it was alleged, but notproved, that, while holding this post, he had made large private profitby fraudulent practices. If that was the case, much may be forgivento the man who built the first-rates which pounded the SpanishArmada to matchwood in 1588. Hawkins commanded the Victoryin the great fight of that year, and distinguished himself by suchvalour that he was knighted by the Lord High Admiral duringthe battle. After the victory he appears as one of the foundersof the charitable institution for old sailors known as the Chest atChatham, where he also built a hospital. He was with Drake onthe last voyage to the Indies in 1595, and died off Porto Rico inthe November of that SIR JOHN HAWKINSFrom the picture in tlie possession of Miss Stuart Hawkins Face p. 164 i65 EDMUND SPENSER {d. 1599) was born in London, but of an old and gentle Lancashire family,about the year 1552. His father, John, was engaged in the clothingtrade in London. Edmund was educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool, from whence he went to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, as asizar in 1569. He there became a first-rate and elegant scholar bothin Latin and Greek, and, with the exception of Milton, he is themost learned of all our poets. He was also deeply read in Frenchand Italian. He took his degree in 1576, and, after a sojournin Lancashire, where he fell hopelessly in love, he appears in 1579as an inmate of Leicesters household in London. Here, after somecoquetting with the scheme, he successfully resisted his friendGabriel Herveys plan for writing English poetry in classical metreand according to the classical rules of prosody. Here also heformed a warm friendship wit
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