George, Third Earl of Cumberland (1558-1605)

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Excerpt from George, Third Earl of Cumberland (1558-1605): His Life and His Voyages, a Study From Original Documents The existence of this book is due to the fact that its author was fortunate enough to discover, in the muniment rooms at Skipton Castle and Appleby Castle, certain documents relating to the Earl of Cumberland and quite a considerable bundle of his letters and of those from his wife, none of which had hitherto been published. In this connection the author would wish to mention his able and learned helper, Miss D. O. Shilton, who is well known at the Public Record Office, as without her assistance he could scarcely have recognised the importance of some of the documents and certainly would not have been able to decipher much of the strange, cramped and irregular handwriting of the letters from the Countess. There are many allusions to the Earl of Cumberland in books dealing with Elizabethan voyages, and in some cases, as, for example, in Sir Julian Corbett's work on the Successors of Drake, considerable space has been allotted to an account of his many expeditions and to a consideration of his character. All the writers, so far as can be ascertained however, have gone for their information to Hakluyt, Purchas, and Wright, and to Monson's Tracts, supplementing their statements from an anonymous manuscript in the Sloane collection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.