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At length, in his mature manhood, he and his distinguished half-brother Raleigh formed the design of first colonizing Newfoundland, and then the neighboring islands and continent. Hence we find him on August 5, 1583, standing on the beach in the harbor of St. John's.

Dated at Alger in our kingly palace, signed with our princely Signet, and sealed with our great seale, and writen by our Secretarie of estate, the 23. of Ianuarie, 1583. A letter written in Spanish by Sir Edward Osborne, to the king of Alger, the 20. of Iuly, 1584 in the behalfe of certeine English captiues there detained. Muy alto y poderoso Rey, Sea seruida vostra alteza.

Grindal's Inj. at York, 1571, Remains of Grindal, Parker Soc., 129. Or judge acting by delegation from the ordinary. Cf. Queen's Inj. of 1559, Art. xiv. Hale; Crim. Prec., 193. Cf. Also Whitgift's Articles of 1583, Cardwell, Doc. Canterbury Visit., xxv, 36. Cf. Canons of 1597: "De recusantibus et aliis excommunicatis publice denunciandis." Cardwell, Syn., i, 156. Also Croke's Eliz.

"We by the present Edict which is perpetual and irrevocable, revoke the Edict given at Nantes in 1583 together with every concession to the Protestants of whatever nature they be. We will that all temples of that religion be instantly demolished. We prohibit our Protestant subjects to assemble for worship in any private house.

The French settlement near Quebec was abandoned, so far as the officers of the French king were concerned, and between 1545 and about 1583, if any other Frenchman or European visited Canada it was some private adventurer who traded with the natives in furs, or Basques from France and Spain who frequented the waters of the Gulf of St.

Very soon afterwards, in August, 1583, the states of the united provinces assembled at Middelburg formally offered the general government which under the circumstances was the general sovereignty to the Prince, warmly urging his acceptance of the dignity.

"Hangcross tree," which once stood near the L. & S.W. station, was long locally reputed to be the gibbet on which some of the Duke's sympathisers expiated their treason. The town is nowadays chiefly dependent upon a large lace works and some collar factories. A leaden pipe carries the date 1583, though the present school was not founded till 1671. Charlcombe is a parish 2 m.

While the different pueblos of Tusayan were not specially mentioned until forty years after they were first visited, the name Awatobi is readily recognized in the account of Espejo in 1583, where it is called Aguato, which appears as Zaguato and Ahuato in Hakluyt. In the time of Oñate the same name is written Aguatuybá.

April 11, 1643, he says he had completed sixty years . On Easter-day 1644 he reckons sixty-one years . He acquaints us in his Poems , that he was fifteen when he went first to France: he went there in 1598; and speaking of Easter 1614 he informs us he was then one-and-thirty. From all these different calculations it is manifest that Grotius was born in 1583.

Preliminary to the entradas of the padres, Don Antonio de Espejo, in 1583, went from the Rio Grande to Moki and westward to a mountain, probably one of the San Francisco group, but he did not see the Colorado. Twenty-one years elapsed before a white man again ventured into this region.