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Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century

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Sir Humphrey Gilbert was half-brother to Sir Walter Raleigh, and was a famous navigator of Elizabeth's reign. In 1583 he took possession of Newfoundland, but his ship foundered on the voyage home, 9th September 1584.

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