But now that all these their endeavours fucceeded not, our Kingdome at
that time being well furnished in fhips, and impatient of idlenefse :
they resolved at length to adventure upon other parts. And first Sir
Humphrey Gilbert with great courage and Forces attempted to make a
discovery of those parts of America, which were yet unknowne to the
Spaniard : but the successe was not answerable. Which attempt of his,
was afterward more prosperously prosecuted by that honourable Gentleman
Sir Walter Rawleigh: to whose meanes Virginia was first discovered unto
us, the Generall of his Forces being Sir Richard Greenville : which
Countrey was afterwards very exactly furveighed and described by Mr.
Thomas Harriot.

This William Sanderson, the patron of Mollineux, Hood, and Hues, was a
rich and liberal London merchant, who had married a niece of Raleigh. He
contributed largely to Sir Walter's first reconnoitring expedition in
1584 under Amidas and Barlow, and was afterwards a liberal adventurer
and supporter of Raleigh in all his colonial schemes. He was fond of the
science of geography, and contributed largely to the preparation and
publication of the globes of Mollineux, and the Descriptions of them by
Hood and Hues in 1592 and 1594. He was also a good friend of all
Raleigh's friends, and acted as Sir Walter's fiscal agent in regard to
the Wine monopoly. On being called upon for a settlement of the large
amount due, as Raleigh supposed, after his imprisonment in the Tower,
Sanderson denied his indebtedness, was sued, cast into the debtors'
jail, and died in poverty. His son published severe comments against
Raleigh.

Robert Hues, who was an intimate friend and associate of Hariot, was
born at Hertford in 1554. He became a poor scholar at Brazen nose, and