Sir Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon, in February or March of 1544 at the earliest, when his namesake godfather Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford was but age 17.[4] Drake's family immediately removed to Kent where he was raised. Although Drake's birth is not formally recorded, it is known that he was born while the six articles were in force and that 'Drake was two and twenty when he obtained the command of the Judith'(1566) this carries back his birth to 1544 (at which time the six articles were in force). He was the eldest of the twelve sons[5] of Edmund Drake (1518–1585), a Protestant farmer called in question for his religion by the six articles, who became a minister among the seamen in the king's navy to read prayers to them, and his wife Mary Mylwaye.
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