If this statement be literally true he must be identical with the Captain John Hagthorpe who, on 22 April 1626, was certified by Robert Hemsworth as a fit person to command 'one of the ships to waft the cloth fleet to the East land'.
[4] He had also taken part in the Cadiz expedition of 1625, and with four other captains petitioned Duke of Buckingham on 20 September 1626 for payment of the king's gratuity of one hundred nobles.
[5] A week later he was charged by William Hope, gunner of the Rose of Woodbridge, with illegally selling ship's stores,[6] a course he was probably driven to adopt on account of the persistent neglect of the admiralty to furnish him with victuals and beer.
The Visions of Things, or foure Poems,’ 16mo, London, 1623, dedicated to Charles, prince of Wales, to whom he renews the suit addressed in his former volume to the king.
‘Englands-Exchequer, or a Discovrse of the Sea and Navigation, with some things … concerning plantations,’ &c., 4to, London, 1625, an eloquently written prose tract, with poetry interspersed, inscribed to the Duke of Buckingham.