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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D.

CHAPTER XL
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180, 185.
** D'Ewes, p.

185.
*** D'Ewes, p.

159.
**** D'Ewes, p.

160.
Sir Humphrey Gilbert, the gallant and renowned sea adventurer, carried these topics still further.

He endeavored to prove the motion made by Bell to be a vain device, and perilous to be treated of; since it tended to the derogation of the prerogative imperial, which whoever should attempt so much as in fancy, could not, he said, be otherwise accounted than an open enemy.


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