paintings, and remained here some time, but did not succeed in obtaining
what he wanted, probably because Le Moyne was meditating a similar work
of his own, and being still attached to the household of Raleigh was not
free to negotiate for that peculiar local and special information which
he had already placed at Raleigh's disposal for his colony planted a
little north of the French settlement in Florida, then supposed to be in
successful operation, but of which nothing had yet been published to
give either the world at large or the Spaniards in the peninsula a
premature clue to his enterprise.

There is still preserved a good memorial of De Bry's visit to London in
the celebrated funeral pageant at the obsequies of Sir Philip Sidney in
the month of February 1587, drawn and invented by T. Lant and engraved
on copper by Theodore de Bry in the city of London, 1587. A complete
copy is in the British Museum, and another is said to be at the old
family seat of the Sidneys at Penshurst in Kent, now Lord de L'lsle's;
while a third copy not quite perfect adorns the famous London
collectionof Mr Gardner of St John's Wood Park.

LeMoyne died in 1588, and De Bry soon after came to London a second time
and succeeded in purchasing of the widow of Le Moyne a portion of the
artist's drawings or paintings together with his version of the French
Florida Expeditions. While here this time De Bry fell in with Richard
Hakluyt, who had returned from Paris in November 1588, escorting Lady
Sheffield.

Hakluyt at the end of this year, or the beginning of 1589, was engaged
in seeing through the press his first folio collection of the voyages of
the English, finished, according to the date in the preface, the 17th of
November, though entered at Stationers' Hall on the strength of a note