Note 221 — Chapter IV

A paper read by George Dexter, Esq., before the Massachusetts Historical Society, Oct. 13, 1881, upon “The First Voyage under Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s Patent of 1578,” corrects an error into which Mr. Edwards had fallen about this voyage, and shows that it was undertaken in 1578 instead of 1579, as stated by Mr. Edwards, and that Ralegh was the captain of one of the vessels. A few additional references may serve the curious student. Some new material was first brought forward in the Archæologia, vols. xxxiv. and xxxv. Ralegh’s career in Ireland is followed in the Nineteenth Century, Nov. 1881. His last year is considered in Gardiner’s Prince Charles and the Spanish Marriage. A contemporary account of his execution from Adam Winthrop’s note-book is printed in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Sept. 1873. A psychological study may be found in Disraeli’s Amenities of Literature. Two American essays may be mentioned,—that in Belknap’s American Biography, and J. Morrison Harris’s paper before the Maryland Historical Society in 1846.