HAKLUYT, Riennun (c.1552-1616).
An English writer on geography and history. After getting his degree at Oxford he lectured on the above subjects. In 1582 he published Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of itmerica, which attracted considerable attention. and ably secured his appointment as chaplain to the English Ambassador at Paris in 1583. There he collected all available information respecting French and Spanish voyages, and in 1584 wrote A Particular Discourse Concerning Western Dis coveries, first printed in 1877, in the collections of the Maine Historical Society. In 1587 he pub lished a translation of the journal of the French explorer Rant Laudoniere. The following year he returned to England and busied himself in preparing for publication his Principall IVaviga tions, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation. This appeared in one volume in 1589, but it met with such popular success that Hak luyt proceeded to collect material for a new and enlarged edition, which was published in three volumes in London in 1598-1600. In 1602
Hakluyt was made prebendary of Westminster, and in the following year archdeacon. He lent his influence to solicit a patent for the colonizing of Virginia from the King, and was one of the adventurers in the London or South Virginia Company. Besides his published works, he left a large collection of manuscripts. Hakluyt's Voyages have been reprinted twice, in 1809-12, and in rearranged form by Edmund Goldsmith at Edinburgh in 1889-90. His best monument is the society that bears his name. Consult: An account of Hakluyt in the introduction by J. W. Jones• to the society's edition of the Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America (Lon don, 1850) ; also an article by Froude in Short Studies on Great Subjects, vol. i. (London, 1867) ; and Voyages of Elizabethan Seamen: Select Nar ratives from Hakluyt's Principal Navigations, edited by Payne (Oxford, 1893-1900). See HAK LUYT SOCIETY.