with target raised to guard his head, darts
under the arms of the naked Goliath, and transfixes him with his sword.]

[Footnote 18: For Hawkins, see the three narratives in Hakinyt, III.
594; Purchas, IV. 1177; Stow, Chron., 807; Biog. Briton., Art. Hawkins;
Anderson, History of Commerce, I. 400.

He was not knighted until after the voyage of 1564-65; hence there is an
anachronism in the text. As he was held "to have opened a new trade," he
was entitled to bear as his crest a "Moor" or negro, bound with a cord.
In Fairhairn's Crests of Great Britain and Ireland, where it is figured,
it is described, not as a negro, but as a "naked man." In Burke's Landed
Gentry, it is said that Sir John obtained it in honor of a great victory
over the Moors! His only African victories were in kidnapping raids on
negro villages. In Letters on Certain Passages in the Life of Sir John
Hawkins, the coat is engraved in detail. The "demi-Moor" has the thick
lips, the flat nose, and the wool of the unequivocal negro.

Sir John became Treasurer of the Royal Navy and Rear-Admiral, and
founded a marine hospital at Chatham.]

[Footnote 19: "Better a ruined kingdom, true to itself and its king,
than one left unharmed to the profit of the Devil and the heretics."--
Correspondance de Philippe II., cited by Prescott, Philip IL, Book III.
c. 2, note 36.

"A prince can do nothing more shameful, or more hurtful to himself, than
to permit his people to live according to their conscience." The Duke of
Alva, in Davila, Lib. III. p. 341.]

[Footnote 20: Cartas escritas al Rep per el General Pero Menendez de
Aeilgs. These are the official despatches of Menendez, of which the
originals are preserved in the archives of Seville. They are very
voluminous and minute in detail. Copies of them were ohtained by the aid
of Buckiugham Smith, Esq., to whom the writer is also indebted for
various other documents from the same source, throwing new light on the
events descrihed. Menendez calls Port Royal St. Elena, "a name
afterwards applied to the sound which still retains it." Compare
Historical Magazine, IV. 320.]

[Footnote 21: This was not so remarkable as it may appear. Charnock,
History of Marine Architecture gives the tonnage of the ships of the
Invincible Armada. The flag-ship of the Andalusian squadron was of
fifteen hundred and fifty tons; several were of about twelve hundred.]

[Footnote 22: Barcia, 69. The following passage in one of the
unpublished l