Sir Francis Drake: The Complete Series [DVD] [1961]

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On his voyage to interfere with Spanish treasure fleets, Drake had several quarrels with his co-commander Thomas Doughty and on 3 June 1578, accused him of witchcraft and charged him with mutiny and treason in a shipboard trial. [72] Drake claimed to have a (never presented) commission from the Queen to carry out such acts and denied Doughty a trial in England. The main pieces of evidence against Doughty were the testimony of the ship's carpenter, Edward Bright, who after the trial was promoted to master of the ship Marigold, and Doughty's admission of telling Lord Burghley, a vocal opponent of agitating the Spanish, of the intent of the voyage. Drake consented to his request of Communion and dined with him, [73] of which Francis Fletcher had this account:

a b To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (2004) Herman, Arthur. Harper Collins, New York ISBN 0-06-053424-9 p.94 Morgan, Basil (4 October 2007). "Hawkins, Sir John (1532–1595), merchant and naval commander". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/12672. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Sauer, Carl Ortwin (1966). The Early Spanish Main. University of California Press. pp.2–4. Tierra Firme continued to be the common name for the south side of the Caribbean. It was translated into English as the Spanish Main, the ports of which were raided by English ships. White, Richard (2020). California Exposures. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. pp.1–31. ISBN 978-0393243062. OCLC 1102467481.Santos, Luis Gorrochategui (2018). The English Armada: The Greatest Naval Disaster in English History. Bloomsbury Publishing. p.245. ISBN 978-1350016996. The episode also stars Michael Golden as Rafe and Edward Cast as captain of the Guard and Michael Crawford sings " Greensleeves". Drake first became a member of parliament for the last session of the 4th Parliament of Elizabeth I, [114] on 16 January 1581, for the constituency of Camelford. He did not actively participate at this point, and on 17 February 1581 he was granted leave of absence "for certain his necessary business in the service of Her Majesty". [115] Lane, Kris (2015) [1990]. Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas 1500–1750. M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0765602565.

Drake's will was the focus of an extensive confidence scam which Oscar Hartzell perpetrated in the 1920s and 1930s. [178] Kluge, Sofie (2021). Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age: The Poetics of History. Routledge. p.138. ISBN 978-1000450866. This episode is very loosely based on Thomas Stukeley's failed attempt to set up a colony in Florida in 1563. S.F. Hails Golden Hinde". Spokane Daily Chronicle. The Associated Press. 10 March 1975. Archived from the original on 23 November 2015 . Retrieved 26 April 2015– via Google News Archive Search. Parry, John H. (1984). "Drake and the World Encompassed". In Thrower, Norman J.W. (ed.). Sir Francis Drake and the Famous Voyage, 1577–1580: Essays Commemorating the Quadricentennial of Drake's Circumnavigation of the Earth. University of California Press. pp.3–4. ISBN 978-0520048768.Best, Brian (2021). Elizabeth's Sea Dogs and their War Against Spain. Frontline Books. p.57. ISBN 978-1526782885.

Drake left the Pacific coast, heading south-west to catch the winds that would carry his ship across the Pacific, and a few months later reached the Moluccas, a group of islands in the western Pacific, in eastern modern-day Indonesia. Harry Kelsey maintains, against scholarly consensus, that because of the contrary prevailing winds and currents, it is much more probable that Drake careened his ship on the shore of Magdalena Bay in Lower California, and sailed to the Moluccas and Spice Islands from there. [103] At this time Diego died from wounds he had sustained earlier in the voyage; Golden Hind later became caught on a reef and was almost lost. After the sailors waited three days for convenient tides and had dumped cargo. Befriending Sultan Babullah of Ternate in the Moluccas, Drake and his men became involved in some intrigues with the Portuguese there. [104] He made multiple stops on his way toward the tip of Africa, eventually rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and reached Sierra Leone by 22 July 1580. Whiting, J. R. S. (1988). The Enterprise of England: The Spanish Armada. Gloucester: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0312024010. Best, Brian (2021). Elizabeth's Sea Dogs and their War Against Spain. Frontline Books. p.45. ISBN 978-1526782885.

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Fernández-Armesto, Felipe (1988). The Spanish Armada: The Experience of War in 1588. Oxford University Press. p.177. ISBN 978-0198229261.