Little John (London)

Template:PnItemTop [[File:|thumb|right|500px|In lieu of the Little John: the galeass Antelope (1546). Original by Anthony Anthony – Roll of Henry VIII's Navy / Wikipedia, public domain.]]

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London, home port of the Little John in 1591.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-08-25. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-05-17.

Little John was the name of a London-based ship which in 1591 intercepted a Spanish ship en route from Mexico or Spanish Central America to Havannah, Cuba.Template:PnItemQry

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.

Sources

• Green, Mary Anne Everett, ed. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth, 1591-1594 (London, 1867), p. 143.

Background

• Wikipedia: London.
• Wikipedia: New Spain.

Notes