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NOTE,
It is stated that the Trustees o£ the British Museum will issue in 1938 to subscribers, at £5155,,
one volume folio of John White's " The Picture of Sundry Things collected and counterfeited
according to the truth in the Voyage made by Sir Walter Raleigh Knight, for the Discovery oj Li
Virginea, in the 2jth Yeare oj the most hafpie reigne of our Soveraigne Lady Quecne Elizabeth, and
in theyeare of our Lorde God ifa" (Facsimile reproductions in colour from originals in the B,M,;
General Introduction by Laurence Binyon; with Notes on the History, Fauna and Flora by various
authorities and edited by A, M, Hind),
This was the second Virginian voyage; the" discovery" had been in 1584, But the wording
of the title lends new colour to the now-popular illusion that Raleigh in person went voyaging to
Virginia (as depicted in the modern memorial window in St. Margaret's, Westminster),
It is to be hoped the editors intend to include in their notes Holinshed's description of the
expedition, making clear that, while fitted out by Raleigh, it was led by Grenville.
As if in compensation for the tendency to ignore Grenville's services in the 1585 venture, he
appeared in a London newspaper controversy in 1935 as the originator and leader of the West Country
Gentlemen's petition of 1573-4 to Queen Elizabeth, which is unsigned but docketed, "Sr Humfrey
Gilbert, Sr George Pec(ham, Mr, Carlisle, and Sir Ri, Grenville and others, Voiages."
As Grenville was not knighted until 1577, the annotation would most likely have been made in
1578; at which time the matter was again put before the Queen, and Sir Humphrey did at last receive
the Patent he had so long been trying to obtain, (See E,E, Vol. II, pp, 221-222; Vol. Ill, pp, 98-106;
and Vol, IV, pp. 254-256),
Grenville was Gilbert's cousin (see Table facing p, 182); but he was two generations younger,
That Gilbert was the pioneer, not only by seniority but as being the first to renew the English
ambition to possess ports oversea, was claimed by Gilbert himself; and in his letter to Walsingham,
7th Feb., 1582(3), (E.E. Vol, IV, p, 260,) he refers to having formerly suffered "the scorn of the
world for conceiving so well of a matter that others held so ridiculous, though now by my means
better thought of," (See E.E. Vol. Ill, pp, 87, 89, for Gilbert's ideas as first formulated in 1566),