Sloane MS 2024

Sloane 2024

On Paper, in folio, ff. 143, XVII Century.

A poem in four books entitled, 'Kidleys Hawkins, or a poetical relation of the voyage of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knight, unto Mare del Zur, intended farther, but unhappily crost at the bay Acatames neere Panama by the Spanish Fleet under the commande of Don Beltran de Castro, Knight of the order of Alcantera 1593; the history of 88 with other historical passages of these tymes, during the raigne of B. Q. Elizabeth the principle harbours, ilands, and rivers from Blackwal neere London to the bay of Acatames neere Panama in Mare del Zur; the three days sea-fight betwixt our Knight and Don Beltan, the surrendry of the English, The Vice-Roys breach of promise and oath, and Hawkins his unjust and most cruel imprisonement for eleven yeares space in Peru, the Azores and Spanish Inquisition at Sevil accordingly described. By William Kidley in his Minority an Undergraduate in Exeter Colledge in Oxford, at vacant houres in Anno 1624 and in the 19th yeare of his age.'

Begin: —

'I thatt of late neere Isis sacred springs

Sung out my cares in mournfull echoings.'

This appears to have been the original MS. having the Author's corrections. Cf. Woods Athenae Oxoniensis, ed. London, 1815, tom. II. col. 367, where some extracts of this poems are printed.

William Kidley, of Exeter College, Oxford: Poem on Sir R. Hawkins' "Voyage to the South Seas": 1624.

Sir Richard Hawkyns, son of Sir John Hawkyns: Poem on, by W. Kidley: 1624.