Hunsdon, the Chamberlain of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, who resided at Huntingfield, in this county, the following account of the success of his expedition.

Right Honourable,

As your favour heretofore hath bene moste greatly extended towards me, so I humbly desire a continuance thereof; and though their be no meanes in me to deserve the same, yet the uttermost of my services shall not be wanting, whensoever it shall please your Honour to dispose thereof. am humbly to desire your Honour to make knowen unto Her Majesty, the desire I had to doe Her Majesty service in the performance of this voyage. And as it has pleased God to give her the victory over part of her enemies, so I trust yer long to see her overthrow them all. For the places of their wealth, whereby they have maintained and made them warres, are now perfectly discovered, and if please Her Majesty, with a very small power, she may take the spoile of them all. It hath pleased the Almighty to suffer mee to circompasse the whole globe of the world, entering in at the Streight of Magellan, and returning by the Cape de Buena Esperanza. In which voyage I have either discovered or brought certeine intelligence of all the rich places of the world, that were ever knowen or discovered by any Christian. I navigated alongst the coast of Chili, Peru, and Nueve Espane, where I made great spoiles: I burnt and sunk nineteen sailes of ships, small and great. All the villages and townes that ever I landed at, I burnt and spoiled; and had I not bene discovered upon the coast, I had taken great quantitie of treasure. The matter of most profit unto me was a great ship of the king's, which I took at California; which ship came from the Phillippines, being one of the richest of merchandize that ever passed those seas, as the king's register and merchants' accounts did shew. Which goods (for that my ships were not able to contein the least part of them) I was inforced to set on fire. From the Cape of California, being the uttermost part of all Nueva Espane, I navigated to the islands of the Phillippines hard upon the coast of China, of which country I have brought

such intelligence as hath not bene heard of in these parts. The statelinesse and riches of which country I fear to make report of, least I should not be credited; for if I had not knowen sufficiently the incomparable wealth of that country, I should have bene as incredulous thereof as others will be that have not had the like experience. I sailed along the islands of the Malucos, where among some of the heathen people I was well intreated, where our countreymen may have trade as freely as the Portugals, if they will themselves. From thence I passed by the Cape of Buena Esperanza, and found out by the way homeward the island of St. Helena, where the Portugals used to relieve them selves; and from that island, God hath suffered me to return into England. All which services, with myself, I humbly prostrate at Her Majesty's feet, desiring the Almighty long to continue her reigne among us: for at this day she is the most famous and victorious prince that liveth in the world.

Thus humbly desiring pardon of your Honour for my tediousnesse, I leave your lordship to the tuition of the Almighty. Plimmouth, this ninth of September, 1588.

Your Honour's most humble to command,

THOMAS CANDISH.

This letter, in the glimpses it affords of the greatness of Spanish wealth, and the evident satisfaction existing in the mind of the victor, reminds the reader of the days, when Buccaneers, and other pirates owning gentle and even noble blood, roamed over the main, and took toll from all that owned the name of Spaniard. How pregnant of magnificence is the phrase, “if I had not knowen sufficiently the incomparable wealth of that country, I should have been as incredulous thereof as others will be, that have not the like experience." The Spanish possessions were not merely an Eldorado of the imagination, but a land of gold and riches in reality.

Cavendish, after the success of this enterprize, retired to his residence-Grimstone Hall-and gave his time to the cultivation and improvement of his patrimonial estate. The opening of

the wealth of the South American possessions of Spain however, let loose a host of private expeditions, some of them, ending in success, but many in disappointment and total failure. The fame of the new countries, of which he had just caught a glimpse, seems to have haunted our voyager in his retreat, and in an evil hour, impelled towards another expedition of the same nature as the first, he set sail towards the new hemisphere, with an increased number of ships, on the 26th of August, 1591. The voyage proved unfavourable from its commencement. He did not reach the Magellan Straits, until nine months from the date of sailing—namely, May, 1592. On the night of the 20th of that month, a dreadful storm arose, which separated his little squadron, and in the darkness, the ship which contained this adventurous man and his fortunes, sunk to rise no more. Some of the remaining vessels returned home, but the melancholy news brought by the survivors, cast a damp over the heart of the nation and the sovereign. One of the seamen who accompanied Cavendish, Thomas Eldred, and returned, was a native of Ipswich, and dying a landsman's death, lies buried in St. Clement's church of that town-his epitaph recording in brief terms, the voyages of his commander.

The situation of Grimstone Hall, was admirably suited for the residence of a man like Thomas Cavendish, who loved the ocean, and the sights and sounds that usually attend upon the sea, as closely as he did his own being. It stood a short distance in shore, but from its open windows, the wide expanse of the German ocean, opened beneath his eye. A voyage so long and perilous as that which he accomplished, and never previously attempted but by one brave spirit, must naturally be supposed to have occupied much of his thoughts -his speculations—and serious attention. A voyage round the world in the days of Elizabeth, considering the condition of nautical and geographical science, was very closely akin to a leap into the impenetrable darkness of the deep profound; and required the courage, perseverance and bravery of a Columbus to venture upon, much less to bring to a successful termination.

Here therefore, within the comfortable nook of the chimney corner at Grimstone Hall, may we naturally picture Cavendish, seated before the blazing fire, and poring over the rude charts of former navigators, to direct his own future way. Or roaming along the shore, listening to the hoarse dash of the rising waves, he silently gazed upon those twinkling orbs-without whose guiding light the mariner's path over the weary waste of waters would be void-and studied their rising and setting, as though they were a book.

The place was otherwise advantageous, as the residence of a spirit like Cavendish, imbued as was the man, with every interest allied to his profession. Beyond Grimstone Hall, to the west, runs the river Orwell, on the western shore of which stream stands Harwich, in our voyager's time, the port, where many a gallant expedition devoted to enterprize and discovery, collected their forces and from whence they sailed. He was thus enabled to keep himself constantly in communication with ships, and seafaring men, making himself acquainted with all that transpired connected with the world of waters.

"Master Thomas Fuller" of Ipswich, was master of Cavendish's ship, Desire, in his first voyage, and one " Master Thomas Pretty," of Eye, became the historiographer of the expedition.

Grimstone Hall, was occupied as a farm house for many years but is now pulled down. It could formerly be seen from the river Orwell by looking across the low grounds and marshes towards Trimley. Its roof discerned amid a knot of trees, formed an exceedingly picturesque object.

FRAMLINGHAM CHURCH,

ITS TOMES, AND CONCISE BIOGRAPHIES OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS

DEAD THAT LIE THEREIN.

"And shrink ye from the way
To the spirits' distant shore?-

Earth's mightiest men, in arm'd array,

Are thither gone before.

the bards whose lays

Have made your deep hearts burn,

They have left the sun, and the voice of praise,
For the land whence none return."

HEMANS.

THE Church of Framlingham, is certainly to be ranked as one of the most interesting objects in the county of Suffolk. Within its walls, ranged side by side, stand a series of tombs unequalled in their historic interest, by any collection of a similar character perhaps in England. While exhibiting the common fate of the family of man, in that of a line "most noble" in its generation, they also serve as moral axioms of great weight, and inform us in a spirit not to be controverted, that man should put not his faith in the profession or power of princes.

The touching series of family monuments, giving to Framlingham Church, its fame, is as follows:

A tomb erected to the Third Duke of Norfolk, father of the celebrated Earl of Surrey.