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“I Miles Philips”: An Elizabethan Seaman Conscripted by History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Richard Helgerson
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Let me begin with a confession. I accepted Tilottama Rajan and Linda Woodbridge's invitation to take part in this panel less from an eagerness to talk about history and its imagining, though I will certainly get to them, than from an eagerness to talk about a particular text. That text, as described in its lengthy original title, is “A Discourse Written by One Miles Philips Englishman, One of the Company Put on Shoare Northward of Panuco, in the West Indies by M. John Hawkins 1568. Conteining Many Special Things of That Countrey and of the Spanish Government, but Specially of Their Cruelties Used to Our Englishmen, and amongst the Rest to Him Selfe for the Space of 15. or 16. Yeres Together, until by Good and Happy Meanes He Was Delivered from Their Bloody Hands, and Returned to His Owne Countrey. An. 1582” (Philips 398).

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Talks from the Convention
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PMLA , Volume 118 , Issue 3: Special Topic: Imagining History , May 2003 , pp. 573 - 580
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2003

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