What is recorded here
This green commemorative plaque records: Sir Francis Drake in the year of the Spanish Armada owned a house and ground upon this site, and probably here resided.
Sir Francis Drake was an English sea captain, privateer, slave trader, and explorer during the Elizabethan era; he is remembered for his circumnavigation of the globe between 1577 and 1580 and his role in defeating the Spanish Armada in 1588.
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