This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... HENRY HUDSON CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY O understand a man's motives, to measure his work, or to form a just estimate of his character, it is necessary to know something of the age in which he lived and the influences and conditions that directed or modified his thought. To study Henry Hudson's life and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... HENRY HUDSON CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY O understand a man's motives, to measure his work, or to form a just estimate of his character, it is necessary to know something of the age in which he lived and the influences and conditions that directed or modified his thought. To study Henry Hudson's life and voyages we are obliged to investigate as carefully as possible his environment. In the following pages particular attention will be invited to the closely allied mercantile and maritime enterprises of the sixteenth century, with some references to the causes and effects of the great energy that inspired them, and a brief glance at some of the men who conducted them. First, however, we shall sketch in outline the central character of our history. An older Henry Hudson, supposed to have been the grandfather of the navigator, was an alderman in the city of London. His arms are described as "argent, sem6e of fleurs-de-lis gules, a cross engrailed sable." His tomb in the old parish church of St. Dunstan's in the East bears this inscription: Here lyeth Henry Heardson's corps, Within this Tombe of Stone: His soul (through faith in Christ's death, ) To God in Heaven is gone. Whiles that he lived an Alderman And skinner was his state: To Vertue bare hee all his love, To Vice bare he his hate. He had to wife one Barbara Which made this tombe you see By whom he had of issue store, Eight sonnes and daughters three. Obiit 22. Decemb. An. Dom. 1555. This ancestor of our navigator was one of those who shared with Sebastian Cabot in the establishment of the Muscovy Company, of which we shall have more to say hereafter. There is every reason to believe that Henry Hudson's training was gained in the service of that company, and he was influenced by the...
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