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She now gave him important commands, and from this period at least his career may be regarded in connection with the regular service of his sovereign. In the autumn of 1585 Drake sailed with twenty-five ships against the Spanish Main, harrying the coasts of the West Indies and of northern South America.
So soon as the despatches from France arrived, Walsingham, 18th March, 1585, sent for Ortel, and the two held a long conference. Walsingham. "We have just received letters from Lord Derby and Sir Edward Stafford, dated the 13th March.
But the common-sense of Europe saw through the form to the substance which lay below it, and the instinct of their countrymen gave them a place among the fighting heroes of England, from which I do not think they will be deposed by the eventual verdict of history. On December 21, 1585, a remarkable scene took place in the English House of Commons.
His writings were full of noble thought and pure, sweet feeling, worthy his true heart and his great soul. In 1585, a wonderful tribute was paid to the talent and exalted worth of Sir Philip Sidney. The throne of Poland having become vacant by the death of Stephen Bathori, he was invited to enroll himself among the candidates.
My landlord's daughter had for godmother a young lady whose name was Foutine." The same saint was similarly honoured at Embrun. When the Protestants took that town in 1585, they found, among the relics of the principal church, the Phallus of St. Foutin. The devotees of that town, in imitation of pagan ones, made libations to this obscene idol.
Retaken in 1567, he was handed over to the queen's officers, under a pledge that his life would be spared. And, in consequence of this pledge alone, was he never brought to trial, but kept a close prisoner in the Tower for eighteen years, until in 1585 he was, according to all reliable accounts, deliberately poisoned.
Under the name of the "Sibley tent" it is now in use, with some modifications of plan, in the United States Army, for service on the plains. Sir Richard Grenville's expedition in 1585 visited the south part of the original colony of Virginia, now included in North Carolina. They landed at Roanoke Island, and also ascended a section of Albemarle Sound as far as the villages of Pomeiock and Secotan.
To John Davis belongs the honour of having discovered the Straits in 1585; and two years later, in a third voyage, that bold navigator and great whaler reached the sixty-third parallel, twenty-seven degrees from the Pole.
At last the Earl of Leicester came. Embarking at Harwich, with a fleet of fifty ships, and attended "by the flower and chief gallants of England" the Lords Sheffield, Willoughby, North, Burroughs, Sir Gervase Clifton, Sir William Russell, Sir Robert Sidney, and others among the number the new lieutenant-general of the English forces in the Netherlands arrived on the 19th December, 1585, at Flushing.
Wholesale arrests were effected, and great numbers of the clergy put to death merely because they were priests, and of the laymen merely because they harboured priests. Three were executed in 1585, thirteen in 1586, and seven in 1587.
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