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to travel abroad for three years, and left England 

 accompanied by his cousin, Elizabeth Southwell, 

 disguised as his page, whom he afterwards married. 

 They went to Florence, and Dudley entered into 

 the service of the Grand Duke Ferdinand I. for 

 whom he designed and constructed several warships. 

 In 1646 when he was seventy-two he published his 

 great work DeW Arcano del Mare. He died at 

 Carbello in 1649. Anthony a Wood says of him: 

 *■ This Robert Dudley was a compleat gentleman 

 in all suitable employments, an exact seaman, 

 a good navigator, an excellent architect, mathe- 

 matician, physician, chymist, and what not. He 

 was a handsome, personable man, tall of stature, 

 red-hair'd and of admirable comport, and above all, 

 noted for riding the great horse, for tilting, and for 

 his being the first of all that taught a dog to sit in 

 order to catch partridges.' The portrait is taken 

 from a proof engraving, in the British Museum, of 

 a copy by G. P. Harding of the original miniature 

 portrait by Nicholas Hilliard. 



Sir Anthony Sherley, ...... 272^ 



Sir Anthony Sherley was born in 1565. He graduated 

 B.A. at Oxford in i 581, and was elected probationer- 

 fellow of All Souls College. He took part in the 

 wars in the Low Countries under the Earl of 

 Leicester in 1586 and was present at Zutphen. 

 In August 1 591 he joined the Earl of Essex in 

 his expedition to Normandy in support of Henry 

 of Navarre. Henry made him a Knight of the 

 Order of St. Michael, whereupon Queen Elizabeth 

 imprisoned him for accepting the honour without 

 her permission. He was released on retiring from 

 the Order. He married Frances Vernon, first cousin 

 of the Earl of Essex, but the marriage proved un- 

 happy, and to distract his thoughts from his home 

 life he organised his expedition to the West Indies, 

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