Sir William Monson

Sir William Monson (born 1568, Lincolnshire, Eng.—died February 1643, Kinnersley, Surrey) was an English naval officer best-known for his Naval Tracts. He entered Balliol College, Oxford, in 1581 but four years later ran away to sea; however, he took his degree in 1594. In the Spanish Armada campaign he served as a volunteer in the Charles pinnace and afterward accompanied George Clifford, 3rd earl of Cumberland, on three voyages to the West Indies. In 1596...