[24] The drawings by Christianised Eskimos of Godthaab which have been printed, and are supposed to represent traditions about their conquest of the Norsemen, merely represent what the Danes told them.
[25] Vigdis M.d. hvilir her glede gud sal hennar.
[26] Voyages of the Brothers Zeni, by F. W. Lucas (Stevens, 1897).
[27] There are several astrolabes in the British Museum, one of 1280, another of 1342; one at King’s College, Cambridge (1540); two at Gonville and Caius College, one of early 14th century date, the other, rather later, formerly belonged to Caius himself; one at South Kensington (1374); one at Oriel College, Oxford, in rather bad condition; three at Merton College, one of 1350, another 1571, and a third very heavy one. At Merton there is also a very old quadrant of 12-inch radius, and a small disc of brass with pointers. At the Bodleian there is a Persian astrolabe. Mr Hyett’s astrolabe at Painswick House has 21 stars marked and one ring at the back; 36 festivals are marked. The number of English Saints shows it to be English. The interesting astrolabe which belonged to Sir Francis Drake is at Greenwich, its date is 1572. It belonged to the Earl of Chesterfield, who gave it to the Rev. T. Bigsby in 1783. Mr Bigsby gave it to King William IV, who presented it to Greenwich in 1833.
[28] Father of Sir Philip Sidney, and of Robert, 1st Earl of Leicester of that family.
[29] The first wife of Sir Henry Willoughby, Sir Hugh’s father, was Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Markham of Cotham. His third wife was Ellen, daughter of John Egerton of Winehill in Cheshire. Sir Henry had four wives. His effigy on the monument at Wollaton has two small wives on each side.
[30] Besides Willoughby there were a master and his mate, six merchants, a master gunner, a boatswain and his mate, a carpenter, a purser, two surgeons, and 20 men.
[31] Moxon (1676) places Willoughby Land near the south-east corner of Spitsbergen. On the map in Harris’s voyage (1748) it is an island half-way between Spitsbergen and Novaya Zemlya.
[32] I believe this is now in Lord Salisbury’s collection at Hatfield.
[33] Reproduced by kind permission of the publisher, from Dr A. D. de Vries’s Oud-Holland (Binger, 1882).