He accompanied the Earl of Essex on his 'Islands' voyage of 1597. In 1598-9, on Essex's invitation, he led a company of English volunteers to Ferara to assist Don Cesare d'Este. The dispute was settled by the time he arrived there, and he received instructions from Essex to proceed to Persia to obtain an alliance with the Shah against the Turks, and to promote commercial intercourse. The enter- prise was not officially sanctioned, and Sherley was refused permission to return to England. He had a kindly reception from the Shah Abbas the Great, and after five months' stay returned to Europe as the Shah's envoy in 1599. His appeal for permission to return to England was refused, and he then went to Venice and opened correspondence with Spain. In April 1603 he was imprisoned for debt in an island near Scio. In 1605 he went to Prague and was employed by Rudolph II. on a mission to Morocco. On his way back he went to Madrid, and was com- missioned as general of a fleet to attack the Turks and the Moors in the Levant and to hamper Dutch trade. In 1609 his expedition sailed, but it was a complete failure, and he was dismissed and dis- honoured on his return. The King of Spain in 1611 allowed him a small pension, and he remained at Madrid in beggary until his death. The por- trait is taken by permission of the Earl of Crawford from a copy, in the Library at Haigh Hall, Wigan, of the Atrium Heroicum Caesarum Regum Aliarumque Summatum ac Procerum by Dominicus Custos, printed at Augsburg in 1600.
Capture of Don Antonio de Berreo,
This engraving of the capture of Don Antonio de Berreo, Governor of Trinidad, by Sir Walter Ralegh, is re- produced from De Bry's Collections of Travels and Voyages, Grands (America) Voyages, Part VIII., Frank- fort, 1599.
Map of Guiana by Sir Walter Ralegh,
This map is reproduced from the original in the No
Manuscript Room in the British Museum. doubt is now entertained that the map is the work of Sir Walter Ralegh himself and is in his hand- writing. The fabled Lake and City of Manoa is shown in the centre of the map, with El Dorado slightly to the left. It is to be noted that for convenience of reference the map has been repro- duced upside down, the northern coast of Guiana and the Atlantic Ocean being at the bottom of the map as here given.
Map of Drake's West Indian Expedition, 1585-6, . This map 'newlie come forth by Baptista B.' serves to
illustrate Drake's West Indian Expedition of 1585-6, 'the whole course of the saide viadge beinge plainlie described by the pricked line.' The 'summarie and true discourse' of the expedition by Master Thomas Cotes will be found at page 97. The map is repro- duced from the original in A Summarie and True Discourse cited above.
Principall Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Made to all the Isles called Las Antillas and along the coasts of Tierra Firma, and certeine voyages made for the discoverie of the large, rich,
and beautifull Empire of Guiana, with
the discourses and letters pending
upon the voyages of this
tenth volume
The Principal Voyages of the English Nation [III. 498.] to the Isles of Trinidad, Margarita, Dominica, Deseada, Monserrate, Guadalupe, Martinino, and all the rest of the Antilles; As likewise to S. Juan de Puerto Rico, to Hispaniola, Jamaica and Cuba: and also to Tierra Firma, and all along the coast and Islands therof, even from Cumana and the Caracos to the neckland of Dariene, and over it to the Gulfe of S. Michael and the Isle of Perles in the South sea: and further to Cabeça Cativa, Nombre de dios, and Venta de cruzes, to Puerto Belo, Rio de Chagre, and the Isle of Escudo, along the maine of Beragua, to the Cape and Gulfe of the Honduras, to Truxillo, Puerto de Cavallos, and all other the principall Townes, Islands and harbours of accompt within the said Gulfe, and up Rio dolce falling into this Gulfe, above 30. leagues: As also to the Isle of Coçumel, and to Cape Cotoche, the towne of Campeche, and other places upon the land of Iucatan; and lower downe to S. Juan de Ullua, Vera Cruz, Rio de Panuco, Rio de Palmas, &c. within the Bay of Mexico: and from thence to the Isles of the Tortugas, the port of Havana, the Cape of Florida, and the Gulfe of Bahama homewards. With the taking, sacking, ransoming, or burning
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