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America and West Indies
October 1585

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Institute of Historical Research

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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, Volume 1: 1574-1660

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W. Noel Sainsbury (editor)

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1860

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4

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'America and West Indies: October 1585', Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, Volume 1: 1574-1660 (1860), pp. 4. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=68909 Date accessed: 20 June 2013. Add to my bookshelf

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October 1585

October 1585

Oct. 29.
Plymouth		7. Sir Rich. Grenville to Sec. Walsingham. Acquaints him with the success of his voyage. Has performed the action directed, and discovered, taken possession of, and peopled a new country [Virginia], and stored it with cattle, fruits, and plants. The commodities that are found there are such as he was advertised of by his cousin Sir Walter Raleigh. In his way home captured, after some fighting, a Spanish ship, returning from St. Domingo, laden with ginger and sugar. The report that the Spaniards bring great quantities of pearl and gold and silver from St. Domingo is incorrect.