Thomas Doughty (1545 – 2 July 1578) was an English nobleman, soldier, scholar and personal secretary of Christopher Hatton. His link with Francis Drake, on a 1577 voyage to engagement Spanish adore fleets, ended in a shipboard procedures for treason and witchcraft, and Doughty’s execution.
Although some scholars doubt the validity of the charges of treason, and question Drake’s authority to attempt and Kill Doughty, the incident set an important precedent: according to a history of the English Navy, titled To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World by Arthur L. Herman, Doughty’s execution expected the idea that a ship’s captain was its perfect ruler, regardless of the rank or social class of its passengers.
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