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ingly meagre, terminates just after their arrival 

 in the Arzina, and contains only the following 

 paragraph respecting their distressed situation. 



'* Thus remaining in this haven the space of 

 a wceke, seeing the yeere farre spent, and also very 

 evill wether, as frost, snowx and haile, as though 

 it had been the deepe of winter, we thought 

 it best to winter there. Wherefore we sent out 

 three men south south-west, to search if thev could 

 find people, who went three dayes journey, but 

 could finde none. After that we sent other three 

 westward four dayes journey, which also returned 

 without finding any people. Then sent we three 

 men south-east three dayes journey, who in like 

 sorte returned without finding of people or any 

 similitude of habitation.''^ 



" It is singular," says Mr. Pennant, " that so 

 very little has been preserved concerning that very 

 illustrious character. Sir Hugh Willoughby. It 

 appears that he was son of Sir Henry Willoughby, 

 Knight and Baronet, by his third wife Elen, 

 daughter of John Egerton,!Esq. of Wrine Hall in 

 Cheshire. Sir Hugh married Jane, daughter of 

 Sir Nicholas Shelley, of Shelley, in the county of 

 Nottingham, Knight ; by her he had a son named 

 Henry, of whom I do not find any account. They 

 were originally of Riseley in Derbyshire ; Sir 

 Hugh is styled by Camden, of Riseley. They 



* Sir H. Willoughbfs note, Hakluyt, vol. p. 236, 



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