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Definition of Hawkyns

1. Noun. English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595).

Definition of Hawkyns

1. Proper noun. (surname patronymic from=given names) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawkyns

Literary usage of Hawkyns

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1897)
"(condemnation in usual/orm) MATE o. Hawkyns. AD 1573 File 45, No. 110. Sentence for restitution of the goods of Salvage, a Spaniard, which had been ..."

2. Select Pleas in the Court of Admiralty by Great Britain High Court of Admiralty, Reginald Godfrey Marsden (1897)
"Ill is a similar sentence against Hawkyns in favour of one Jeronimus do Lopez, .'J155 out of a value of £675 being allowed for salvage. The libel, ibid. No. ..."

3. State Papers Relating to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Anno 1588 by John Knox Laughton, Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"which is to be paid him or to the bringer hereof in London, at sight of this bill, by the hands of the right worshipful John Hawkyns Esquire, Treasurer of ..."

4. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"Sir John Hawkyns. Sir Edward Yorke. Captain Fenner. Sir George Beeston. ... Captain Hawkyns. Captain Burnell. Her Majesty now beginning to find how ..."

5. 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. ... Captain Hawkyns. Captain Burnell. Her Majesty now beginning to find how ..."

6. Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, from the Year 1581 Till Her Death by Thomas Birch (1754)
"The king of Spain of *' late did fend money to the earl of Tyrone and the other rebels in Ireland ; but " the quantity I know not." Dr. Hawkyns wrote to mr. ..."

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