[359] Hawks, History of North Carolina, i. 196., ed. 1857.
[360] Archæologia Americana, iv. 11; and Colonial State Papers, i., under August 12, 1585.
[361] Calendar of Colonial State Papers, i. no. 2.
[362] [His patent is in Hakluyt, iii. 174, and in Hazard, i. 24.—Ed.]
[363] [See chapter iii. in the present volume, for notices of earlier parts of Gilbert’s career. J. Wingate Thornton points out his pedigree in “The Gilbert Family,” in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1850, p. 223. In the same place, July, 1859, is one of Gilbert’s last letters (from the state-paper office), with an autograph signature which is copied in a later note.—Ed.]
[364] See Richard Clarke’s narrative of “The Voyage for the discovery of Norumbega, 1583,” in Hakluyt, iii. 163; [and Edward Haies’s account of the voyage of 1583, Ibid., iii. 143, and also in E. J. Payne’s Voyages of Elizabethan Seamen, London, 1880, p. 175. Soon after Haies, in the “Golden Hind,” reached England, after seeing Gilbert, in the “Squirrel,” disappear, A True Reporte of the late Discoveries (London, 1583) came out, purporting on the titlepage to be by Gilbert; but Hakluyt, who reprinted it in 1589 and 1600, interpreted the initials G. P., of the Dedication, as those of Sir George Peckham, who had in his tract urged another attempt under Gilbert’s patent, as Captain Carlyle had done in his discourse just before Gilbert sailed, which was also reprinted in Hakluyt. See also Hakluyt’s Westerne Planting, ed. by Deane, p. 201; George Dexter’s First Voyage of Gilbert, p. 4. The Rev. Abiel Holmes, D.D., printed in Mass. Hist. Coll., ix. 49, a memoir of Parmenius the Hungarian, who went down in Gilbert’s largest ship.—Ed.]
[365] Principal Navigations, iii. 246. [Also chapter iv. of the present volume.—Ed.]
[366] Ibid., iii. 193.
[367] A Briefe and true Relation of the Discouerie of the North part of Virginia; being a most pleasant, fruitfull, and commodious Soile. Made this present yeare, 1602, by Captaine Bartholomew Gosnold, Captaine Bartholomew Gilbert, and divers other gentlemen their associats, by the permission of the honourable Knight, Sir Walter Ralegh, etc. Written by Mr. Iohn Brereton, one of the voyage. Whereunto is annexed a Treatise of Mr. Edward Hayes. 4º, London. Geor. Bishop, 1602.
[Of Brereton’s book there are copies in Harvard College Library (imperfect) and in Mr. S. L. M. Barlow’s collection. One in the Brinley sale, No. 280, was bought for $800 by Mr. C. H. Kalbfleisch of New York.