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Definition of Sir john hawkyns
1. Noun. English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sir John Hawkyns
Literary usage of Sir john hawkyns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"sir john hawkyns. Sir Edward Yorke. Captain Fenner. Sir George Beeston. ...
the one to be commanded by sir john hawkyns, the other by FROM the year 1585 ..."
2. The Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson: In Six Books by William Monson, Michael Oppenheim, Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"sir john hawkyns. Sir Edward Yorke. Captain Fenner. Sir George Beeston. ...
the one to be commanded by sir john hawkyns, the other by FROM the year i585 ..."
3. Queen Elizabeth and Her Times: A Series of Original Letters, Selected from by Thomas Wright (1838)
"Your Honor's humbly at commandement as you have bounde me, sir john hawkyns TO MR.
HOLLAND. PS I have received your letter of the 19th of this present, ..."
4. Queen Elizabeth and her times, original letters selected from the private by William Cecil, Thomas Wright (1838)
"Your Honor's humbly at commandement as you have bounde me, sir john hawkyns TO MR.
HOLLAND. PS I have received your letter of the 19th of this present, ..."
5. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1873)
"Drake and sir john hawkyns, Knights, , ^—' , T1,v' do acknowledge by theis presents
that See fig. ..."
6. State Papers Relating to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Anno 1588 by John Knox Laughton (1894)
"The Lord Sheffield, sir john hawkyns ; with others, whose names I cannot recite.
The nth day of August, 1588, I arrived at Harwich, and delivered the letter ..."
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