alike to England as to Spain. But this was never known until the Yenetian archives revealed it. centuries after his death. King Edward's government receixed him as a valuable acquisition, and granted him pension.

When the monopoly of the foreign merchants of the elyard was withdrawn, the Company of Merchant Adventurers resolved to seek for new outlets for English manufactured goods, and, after much considcti,m, it was resol;ed that the vessels should he fitted out, to undertake a voyage to Cathay by the north-east. One of the leading promoters was Lord Howard of l';thngham, father of the eat adminl: and Sebastian Cabot was chosen as the fit governor of the company. The choice of the commander for this expedition fell upon Sir Hugh Wilhmghby, a younger son of an ancient Nottinghamshire family. His portraits at Wo!laton and in the painted hall at Greenwich. show us a tall, handsome man. ;ith a small head and andaide expression of countenance. He had the title of captain-general, with his flag on board the Boom Slwranza, of 1 tons. His second in command, on hoard the Edward Bom,'entm'e, of 160 tons, was Richard ('hancellor, an experienced seaman, who had already seen sewice in the Mediterranean. Stephen Borough was with ('hancellor as master, and John Buckland as mate. The third vessel was the Bom Cofidctia, 0f 90 tons. Rather elaborate ordinances and instructions were drawn up for Willoughby's expedition, borrowed from similar documents in the oce of the Chief Pilot of- Spain. One, as Mr. Harfisse has pointed out, is copied from the instructions which the Council of the Indies prescribed, in 1523, to ('abot himself, for the expedition to the 16yet I%te. In these instructions the captains were enjoined to enter daily in their journals the navigations of every day and night. The journMs of the difik, rcnt ships were to be compared periodically, and, after debate and consultation, to be entered in a common ledger.

On the 20th of May, 1553, the three ships forming Sir Hugh Willoughby's expedition were towed down the Thames by boats, with the crews dressed in sky-bhte cloth. The ships saluted as they passed the royal palace of Greenwich, the roofs and towera of which were cvwdcd with spectators. ut the poor young king was too ill even to come to a wind.w. The evidence points to his having been poisoned, probMly not through criminal intent, but

owing to ignorance and neglect. Five w,ars of terror ana mis-