John Derricke (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

1578–1581) was the author and artist of '' The Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne'', a 1581 book describing the Irish campaigns of Lord Deputy

Henry Sidney Sir Henry Sidney (20 July 1529 – 5 May 1586), Lord Deputy of Ireland, was the eldest son of Sir William Sidney of Penshurst, a prominent politician and courtier during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI, from both of whom he received ...

. The book's dedication to

Sir Philip Sidney ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...

was signed at Dublin on 16 June 1578, indicating that Derricke completed the book in Ireland and was likely an eyewitness to the events therein. Katherine Duncan-Jones connects Derricke's dedication to an assumption that Sir Philip would succeed Sir Henry, his father, as Lord Deputy.Katherine Duncan-Jones , ''Sir Philip Sidney, Courtier Poet'' (1991), p. 229. He probably returned to England with Sidney in 1578, after which his illustrations would have been engraved and his book published in London by John Day in 1581. The Image of Irelande - plate11

He was in all likelihood also the John Derick who was appointed to collect custom duty on wine imported into

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port in 1569.

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* Anthony M. McCormack and Terry Clavin, "Derricke, John", ''

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