Richard Hakluyt [SEP] date of death
Richard Hakluyt
Richard Hakluyt (; 1553 – 23 November 1616) was an English writer. He is known for promoting the English colonization of North America through his works, notably "Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America" (1582) and "The Principall Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation" (1589–1600).
Hakluyt was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. Between 1583 and 1588 he was chaplain and secretary to Sir Edward Stafford, English ambassador at the French court.
owner of the Codex, writing in 1625, the Spanish fleet was attacked by French privateers, and the codex, along with the rest of the booty, taken to France.
It was certainly in the possession of André Thévet, cosmographer to King Henry II of France. Thévet wrote his name in five places on the codex, twice with the date 1553. It was later owned by the Englishman Richard Hakluyt. According again to Samuel Purchase, Hakluyt bought the Codex for 20 French francs. Some time after 1616 it