Protestant Sea Rovers


German and Italian cartographers to mark Lamanay or Li-
mayna as we see it on the old maps, and meant to designate
the area between the Manattee lagoon and the islets later
called Turneffe, a land familiar to the Huguenots of Florida,
and later used in the Spanish maps and by Father Lopez de
Cogolludo. Jacques Le Moyne belonged to the same school
of Dieppe pilot-cartographers as Guillaume Le Tetu.
 Sir Humphrey Gilbert had commanded an English con-
tingent which helped without authority the Low Countries'
rebellion against Spain, and had lived for five years in Lime-
house. Hakluyt was chaplain of the English embassy in Paris,
where he had listened to colonization stories of the Hugue-
nots of Florida, and had some printed. As Prebendary of
Bristol Cathedral he knew many of the Bristol seamen. He
was a minister of religion animated with imperial ideas, and
sailors were or should be his fellow ministers and crusaders
beyond the seas. The King of Spain maintained a teacher
who learnedly discoursed on the art of navigation and classi-
fied the Spanish sailors into different grades at the Casa de
Contratacion in Seville. Hakluyt, who taught geography,
admired this arrangement for the technical training and edu-
cation of the Spanish navigators, and in 1582 he appealed to
Drake to assist in establishing a similar lectureship for Eng-
lish seamen at Ratcliffe. A tablet erected in Bristol Cathedral
to the memory of Richard Hakluyt "sometime Archdeacon of
Westminster and for thirty years Prebendary of this cathedral
church," says-"His studious imagination discovered pew
paths for geographical science, and his patriotic labours es-
cued from oblivion not a few of those who went dowtr to
the sea in ships, to be harbingers of empire, descrying new
lands, and finding larger room for their race."
 Like Christopher Columbus in 1502, so was Sir Francis
Drake at The Guanajas in the Bay of Honduras in 1573, only
Drake then sailed the route in the opposite direction. In
"Sir Francis Drake Revived," we see that on Whitsunday
Eve, 24th May 1572, Drake left Plymouth on the "Pasha" of