In November, Sir Humphrey Gilbert set out on his first voyage, while in France Nicolas Pithou published his translation of Dionysius Settle: La Navigation du Cap.
This not only introduced to an English public Ramusio's version of Zeno the Venetian and Friseland, which we saw in Sidney's letter to Languet, and the 1563 French text about Jean Ribaut's Protestant colony in Florida, but also contained a set of fascinating notes on colonization thought to have been prepared for Sir Humphrey Gilbert in 1578.(36) In the dedication Hakluyt reminds Sidney that he has always been "so readie to pleasure me and all my name," and hopes that he will "continue and increase [his] accustomed favour towarde those goodly and honorable discoveries" (sig.
However, the Trust possesses such a property in Compton Castle -- the boyhood home of
Sir Humphrey Gilbert who received Elizabeth I's 'Patent for Discovery of Strange Lands' in 1576 and whose subsequent pioneering expeditions to colonise the New World led to the acquisition of the 'New Found Land' off the coast of modern-day Canada in 1583.