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Sir Richard Grenville, ...... 48 



Sir Richard Grenville or Greynville belonged to a 

 Cornish family and was born about 1 541. He was 

 a cousin of Sir Walter Raleigh. In 1571 he sat in 

 Parliament as member for Cornwall. He made his 

 first sea voyage in May 1585 when he commanded 

 a fleet of seven ships intended for the settlement of 

 Virginia. On his way home 'he tooke a Spanish 

 ship of 300 tunne richly loaden, boording her with 

 a boate made with boards of chests, which fell 

 asunder, and sunke at the ships side, assoone as 

 ever he and his men were out of it.' In 

 1 586 he made another voyage to Virginia. In 1 588 

 he was engaged in planning measures of defence for 

 the western counties in anticipation of the Spanish 

 Armada. In 1591 the action off the Azores took 

 place which resulted in the loss of the ' Revenge ' 

 and his death. The portrait here reproduced is 

 taken from the British museum copy of Holland's 

 Heroologia published in London in 1620. 



John Huighen van Linschoten, .... 64 



Linschoten was born at Haarlem about 1563, but it was 

 from Enkhuizen, whither his parents had removed, 

 that in I 576 Linschoten set out on the travels which 

 have made his name famous. He first went to Spain 

 where he stayed six years ; next he joined the 

 Spanish fleet for the East Indies and was at Goa in 

 1583 when John Newbery and Ralph Fitch arrived 

 as prisoners from Ormuz. His account of their 

 escape is given in Volume V page 505 of this edition. 

 In 1 591 he was at Terceira in the Azores when the 

 Spanish fleet put in for repairs after the action with 

 the * Revenge,' and his ' large testimony ' of the 

 fight as related to him by the Spaniards, with the 

 description of the great storm which followed it, will 

 be found at page 80. In 1594-5 he accompanied 

 Barents in his voyages to the Arctic regions. He 

 died in 161 1. The portrait is taken from a copy in 



