This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... cause he had at heart; but, as everybody knows, no gold was found, and he himself was altogether impoverished. Two notable letters, undated but evidently to be referred to this time, are extant. In one, Frobisher addresses the Queen, praying to be employed somehow in her Majesty's service, or else to have ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... cause he had at heart; but, as everybody knows, no gold was found, and he himself was altogether impoverished. Two notable letters, undated but evidently to be referred to this time, are extant. In one, Frobisher addresses the Queen, praying to be employed somehow in her Majesty's service, or else to have some relief, " that he may but live;" and assuring her that he would rather live with credit as her servant for a penny a day than grow rich under foreign princes. Not quite so self-sacrificing is his wife. Along with the husband's petition is one in which Dame Isabel Frobisher, " the most miserable poor woman in the world, in her most lamentable manner," relates to Sir Francis Walsingham how her former husband was a very wealthy man, who left her in very good state, but how her present lord--"whom God forgive"--has spent all, and put her and her children "to the wide world to shift." They are Gilbert's Project for a North-Ameriean Colony. 219 Sainsrcry, pp. 51, 52. t Ibid., p. 14. all, she says, in a poor room at Hampstead, ready to starve, and, unless the Secretary of State will help her to recover a debt of four pounds, or will otherwise assist her, they must famish. Frobisher and his household were not the only ones reduced to poverty by zeal in the cause of maritime research. In 1581 Sir Humphrey Gilbert wrote to Walsingham about some money due to him from the Crown. It was a miserable thing for him, he said, that, after seven-and-twenty years' service, he should now be subject to daily arrests, executions, and outlawries, and have even to sell his wife's clothing from off her back, for the sake of buying food to live upon; and there are extant several other as touching letters, from himself and his wife, detailing the straits to which...
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