The published Summarie likely served as an official propaganda report for the voyage.

Evidence

On the basis of this fact, one may hypothesize that this copy of an interesting narrative of the expedition was made by Carleill’s order, perhaps to fill out the ‘book’ of the voyage which he had planned to keep but had not finished (see p. 71). Was it perhaps intended for the eyes of Carleill’s distinguished stepfather, Secretary Walsingham, as a kind of official report on the voyage? Since Walsingham had been active in the planning of the voyage and had been interested in reports conccrning it at various stages, one might conjecture further that he or someone close to him decided to use this report as the basic text for whatever published account was to be issued in England and in friendly regions abroad. … If this was the case, the various editions of the Summarie in 1588 and 1589 could be considered as the ‘official’ account of the voyage, judiciously edited so that it would support the purposes for which the voyage had been planned. — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 2144

Categorization

• XREF: Walsingham’s network commissioning and shaping voyage narratives parallels other state-directed early modern propaganda efforts. — connects to: The published Summarie was likely a Walsingham-orchestrated official account, edited to serve propaganda purposes — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 2144
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 2144

Library Connections

• The published Summarie was likely a Walsingham-orchestrated official account, edited to serve propaganda purposes #corroborates (0.95) — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 2144