Richard Hakluyt: London's role in navigation and history - Anthony Payne

Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) is famous for his Principal Navigations, intended both to record past maritime achievement and to inspire new endeavours. This lecture will explore Hakluyt's enterprise in the context of the two London associations that supported him, the Clothworkers' Company and by his cousin, a Middle Temple lawyer connected to City overseas trading interests.