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33: 104:, resigning in July 1576 to join Drake in his preparation of a fleet for purposes which are still disputed. He acted as Drake's chaplain during the three-year voyage which ensued, keeping a journal of their adventures which he handed to Drake on the expedition's return to England in 1580. 143:
in Buckinghamshire from 1579 to 1592, but a later writer, David B. Quinn, points out that Fletcher was still overseas in 1579 and believes Venn has confused him with a man named Richard Fletcher. In 1593 Fletcher became Vicar of
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Fletcher was sometimes at odds with Drake. In a sermon he preached to the expedition in January 1580, Fletcher suggested that their ships' recent woes had resulted from the unjust death of
165:. A copy of the first part of Fletcher's journal was made by a man named John Conyers, described as "Citizen and Apothecary of London", about 1677, and this survives in the 238:
Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900
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Much is known about Fletcher's three years of voyaging around the world with Drake, but there is little certain information about the rest of his life.
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amid storms, and Fletcher recorded that the ship was driven to the "utmost island of Terra Incognita". He made a map of "Elizabeth Iland"
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Founded Upon the Seas: A Narrative of Some English Maritime and Overseas Enterprises during the Period 1550–1616
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The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake... carefully collected out of the Notes of Master Francis Fletcher
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Sir Francis Drake: an exhibition to commemorate Francis Drake's Voyage around the World, 1577–1580
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of the world from 1577 to 1580 and kept a written account of it.
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identified Fletcher with a man of this name who entered
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Fletcher's log of Drake's voyage formed the basis of
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Index

Francis Fletcher (clergyman)

Elizabeth Island
Cape Horn
Church of England
Sir Francis Drake
circumnavigation
John Venn
Pembroke College, Cambridge
St Mary Magdalen, Milk Street
City of London
Golden Hind
Strait of Magellan
Elizabeth Island
Thomas Doughty
excommunicated
Bradenham
Tickhill
benefice
The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake
Francis Drake
British Library
Drake's Venture





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