Editing Francis Drake (section)

===Knighthood and arms===
Queen [[Elizabeth I|Elizabeth]] awarded Drake a knighthood aboard ''Golden Hind'' in Deptford on 4 April 1581; the [[Accolade|dubbing]] being performed by a French diplomat, Monsieur de Marchaumont, who was negotiating for Elizabeth to marry the King of France's brother, [[Francis, Duke of Anjou]].{{sfn|Cummins|1997|p=127}}<ref name="Moseley2011">{{cite web|url=http://www.plymouthdata.info/PP-Drake.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401142540/http://www.plymouthdata.info/PP-Drake.htm|archive-date=1 April 2012|website=The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History|title=Sir Francis Drake (c. 1541–1596)|publisher=Plymouthdata.info|orig-year=2004|date=26 February 2011|last=Moseley|first=Brian|access-date=12 February 2015}}</ref> By getting the French diplomat involved in the knighting, Elizabeth was gaining the implicit political support of the French for Drake's actions.<ref>{{cite book |first=Mary E. |last=Hazard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wtFtcD-u6YoC&pg=PA251 |title=Elizabethan silent language |page=251 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-0803223974 |date=August 2000 |access-date=23 September 2020 |archive-date=30 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151130092216/https://books.google.com/books?id=wtFtcD-u6YoC&pg=PA251 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Maria |last=Perry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ifnFBjfo1UIC&pg=PA182 |title=The Word of a Prince: A Life of Elizabeth I from Contemporary Documents |page=182 |publisher=Boydell Press |year=1990 |isbn=978-0851156330 |access-date=23 September 2020 |archive-date=12 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112061723/https://books.google.com/books?id=ifnFBjfo1UIC&pg=PA182 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Hakluyt|first=Richard|title=The Tudor Venturers|publisher=The Folio Society Ltd.|year=1970|isbn=1443704709|location=London|page=166}}</ref> During the Victorian era, in a spirit of nationalism, the story was promoted that Elizabeth I had done the knighting.<ref name="Moseley2011"/>
[[File:Coat of arms of Francis Drake.svg|thumb|left|Sir Francis Drake's new heraldic [[Achievement (heraldry)|achievement]], with motto: ''Sic Parvis Magna''<ref name="von Einsiedel2012"/>]]
After receiving his knighthood Drake unilaterally adopted the [[coat of arms]] of the ancient Devon family of Drake of Ash, to whom he claimed a distant but unspecified kinship. The right to use the arms was disputed in court<ref name="Prince1701">{{cite book|first=John |last=Prince|title=Danmonii orientales illustres: or, The worthies of Devon|year= 1810|orig-year=1701|page=[https://archive.org/details/danmoniioriental00prin/page/329 329]|url=https://archive.org/details/danmoniioriental00prin}}</ref> so Queen Elizabeth awarded Drake his own coat of arms.

Drake's [[Achievement (heraldry)|heraldic achievement]] and coat of arms contains the motto, ''Sic Parvis Magna'', which means: "Great achievements from small beginnings".<ref name="von Einsiedel2012">{{cite web |url=http://www.nationaltrustimages.org.uk/image/169478 |title=Image details |last1=von Einsiedel |first1=Andreas |publisher=National Trust Images |access-date=25 October 2012 |archive-date=3 September 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120903192626/http://www.nationaltrustimages.org.uk/image/169478 |url-status=live }}</ref> A hand coming out of the clouds is labelled ''Auxilio Divino'', which means "By divine aid".<ref name="Casellas2017">{{cite journal |last1=Casellas |first1=Jesus Lopez-Pelaez |title=Meaning and trade in some early modern Spanish and English emblems |journal=Nordic Journal of English Studies |date=1 September 2017 |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=1–37 |doi=10.35360/njes.410 |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA528075191&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=16546970&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E1116187b |language=English |quote=Furthermore, soon after that she granted him a coat of arms which showed a ship on a globe guided by the Divine Hand of Providence above an open visor, resting on a shield bearing the two pole stars divided by the sea: over, the motto auxilio divino, underneath: sic parvis magna (Great achievements from small beginnings). More explicit than previous emblems in its endorsement of protocapitalistic ventures, Whitney's "Auxilio divino" (By divine aid, see fig. 8), emblem 203 in his Choice of Emblems, was composed "in praise of Francis Drake.|doi-access=free }}</ref>