FRANCIS WILLUGHBY. 51 



with excellent gifts and abilities both of body and 

 mind, a quick apprehension, piercing wit, sound 

 judgment, and great industry. He was, from his 

 childhood, addicted to study. Though duly 

 prizing the advantages of birth, and fortune, and 

 talent, he did not content himself therewith, or 

 value himself on them, but laboured after what 

 might render him more deservedly honourable, 

 and more truly to be called his own,* as being 

 obtained by the concurrence at least of his own 

 endeavours ; and that as soon as he had come to 

 the use of reason, he was so great a husband of 

 his time, as not willingly to lose or let slip un- 

 occupied the least fragment of it, detesting no 

 vice more than idleness, which he looked upon 

 as the parent and nurse of almost all others. He 

 was also so excessive in the prosecution of his 



Willoughbie and most of his company were alive in 

 January, 1554. No lesse than 70 persons, including 

 marchants, officers, and ship's company, perished with the 

 gallant Sir Hugh Willoughby. The ships, and the dead 

 bodies of those that perished, were discovered the follow- 

 ing year by some Russian fishermen, and who found the 

 papers from which the foregoing account is taken." 



The reader will not have failed to notice in the pre- 

 ceding account, which is copied from Hakluyt, literatim, 

 an indifference to authography in several words. This is 

 also observable with regard to the name of the " captaine 

 . general," which is spelt at the top of the page, Sir Hugh 

 Willoughbie, and in the course of the narrative, Willughby, 

 though not unfrequently as at the top of the. page also. 



* " Vix ea nostra voco." This, like the mottoes to 

 the arms of many other noble families of Engl nd, con- 

 veys a most useful admonition. 



