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 WILLOUGHBY (FAMILY) - LoveToKnow Article on WILLOUGHBY (FAMILY)
Sir Hugh Willoughby, the seaman, was a member of this family.
1528), and a grandson of Sir Hugh Willoughby of Wollaton.
His early services were as a soldier on the Scottish borders, but he soon turned his thoughts to the sea, and was appointed captain of a fleet of three ships which set out in 1553 with the object of discovering a north-eastern passage to Cathay and India.
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Elegiac verses by William Wordsworth INTRODUCTION The first relations between England and Russia were established in Queen Elizabeth's reign, in the manner here set forth, by the expedition undertaken by Sir Hugh Willoughby and completed by Richard Chanceler or Chancellor, captain of the Edward Bonaventure.
Chanceler went on after Willoughby and the crew of his ship, The Admiral, with the crew of another vessel in the expedition, had been parted from Chanceler in a storm in the North Sea, and Willoughby's men were all frozen to death.
And hereupon we have given order, that wheresoever your faithful servant Hugh Willoughbie land or touch in our dominions, to be well entertained, who as yet is not arrived, as your servant Richard can declare.
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 Discovery Of Muscovy by Richard Hakluyt eBook by BookRags
The first relations between England and Russia were established in Queen Elizabeth’s reign, in the manner here set forth, by the expedition undertaken by Sir Hugh Willoughby and completed by Richard Chanceler or Chancellor, captain of the Edward Bonaventure.
Chanceler went on after Willoughby and the crew of his ship, The Admiral, with the crew of another vessel in the expedition, had been parted from Chanceler in a storm in the North Sea, and Willoughby’s men were all frozen to death.
The story of Chanceler’s voyage and the following endeavours to open Muscovy to English trade is here given, as it was told in Hakluyt’s collection of “The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries made by the English Nation,” the folio published in 1589.
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 WILLOUGHBY (FAMILY) - LoveToKnow Article on WILLOUGHBY (FAMILY)
His early services were as a soldier on the Scottish borders, but he soon turned his thoughts to the sea, and was appointed captain of a fleet of three ships which set out in 1553 with the object of discovering a north-eastern passage to Cathay and India.
1528), and a grandson of Sir Hugh Willoughby of Wollaton.
Having exchanged his name of Bugge for that of Willoughby, Richard de Willoughby became a judge during the reign of Edward II.
16.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WI/WILLOUGHBY_FAMILY_.htm   (2240 words)

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