was afterwards at St Mary's Hall with Hariot. He took his degree of
A.B.in 1579. He is said to have been a good Greek scholar, and after
leaving the University travelled and became an eminent geographer and
mathematician. He attracted the attention, probably through Raleigh, of
that noble patron of learning Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland,
who took him into his service, made him one of his scientific companions
while in the Tower, supported him partly at Sion, intrusted him to
instruct his children, and finally sent him to Oxford as tutor at Christ
Church of his eldest surviving son, Algernon Percy, who on the death of
his father on gunpowder treason day 1632, became the 10th Earl of
Northumberland. Hues died at Oxford the 24th of May, 1632, and was
buried in the cathedral of Christ Church, according to the inscription
on his monument. He is mentioned by Chapman in his translation of
Homer's Works [ 1616 ] as ' another right learned, honest, and entirely
loved friend of mine.' See infra, p. 183.

In 1595 Hariot was mentioned as a distinguished man of science in his
Seaman's Secrets by Captain John Davis the navigator, a friend and
partner of Raleigh.

On the eleventh of July 1596 Hariot under peculiar circumstances wrote a
long and confidential letter to Sir Robert Cecil, Chief Secretary of
State, in the interests of Raleigh's Guiana projects. The letter is here
given in full, as it shows better than anything else the close and
confidential relations existing between Sir Walter and Hariot at that
time. Raleigh had returned from Guiana, his first El Dorado expedition,
in August 1595, and had in the mean time employed such energy and
enterprise that within about five months he had fitted out and
dispatched his second El Dorado fleet under his friend Captain Keymis.
This second expedition returned to Plymouth in June 1596, a few days