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Possession of these goods was sufficient evidence to land Frobisher in prison. [21] In 1564, Frobisher was released from prison. In 1565, he purchased two ships, the Mary Flower and William Baxter. His stated intention was to outfit the ships for a trading expedition to the Guinea coast.
George Best (1555–1584) was a member of the second and third Martin Frobisher voyages in positions of importance; as Frobisher's lieutenant on the second and as captain of the Anne Francis on the third. [1] In 1578 he published A True Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discoverie. [2]
Mesch has his own background in prison ministry, working with his friend Tom Sheppard in the Turn-Key Outreach program, which is a jail ministry. However, their attempts to help inmates re-enter ...
Michael Lok was born in Cheapside in London, [1] by his own account in 1532. [2] He was one of the nineteen children, [3] and the youngest of the five surviving sons of Sir William Lok (1480–1550), [1] gentleman usher to Henry VIII and mercer, sheriff and alderman of London, by his second wife, Katherine Cooke (d.1537), daughter of Sir Thomas Cooke of Wiltshire.
Kalicho was the name assigned to an Inuk man from the Frobisher Bay area of Baffin Island (now in Nunavut Canada). He was brought back to England as a captive by Sir Martin Frobisher in 1577. He was taken along with an unrelated Inuk woman and her infant, who were named by the English as Arnaq and Nutaaq.
This was joined in August by another force of 2,000 soldiers from Plymouth under the command of John Norreys and ten ships of war with 1,200 sailors and marines commanded by Martin Frobisher in his flagship Vanguard. [8] Within Norreys force were fifty pioneers levied by Sir Walter Raleigh from the tin miners of Cornwall. [12]
Arnaq was most likely born in the Frobisher Bay area of Nunavut in the 16th century. The name used for her by her captors is very similar to the Inuit word for "woman" (ᐊᕐᓇᖅ arnaq), so her real name is unknown. She and her twelve-month old son, Nutaaq, were amongst four Inuit brought to England against their will by Frobisher. [1]
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Outreach Ministry Memorial Breakfast will be held at 8 a.m. Monday Jan. 17 at The Flame Banquet Center, 2801 Neuse Blvd. in New Bern.