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In December 1584 Northumberland was sent to the Tower for a third time. He protested his innocence, and courted inquiry. Six months later, on 21 June 1585, he was found dead in his bed in his cell, having been shot through the heart. A jury was at once summoned, and returned a verdict of suicide.
The colony was founded in 1585, but when it was visited by a ship in 1590, the colonists had inexplicably disappeared. It has come to be known as the Lost Colony, and the fate of the 112 to 121 colonists remains unknown. Roanoke Colony was founded by the governor Ralph Lane in 1585 on Roanoke Island in present-day Dare County, North Carolina. [1]
21 December (baptism) – Thomas Weston, merchant adventurer (died c. 1647) Francis Beaumont, dramatist (died 1616) Approximate date William Baffin, explorer (died 1622) Mary Frith, cutpurse (died 1659) Myles Standish, military officer and colonist (died 1656) 1585 23 January – Mary Ward, nun (died 1645)
William Parry (or Parrie) (died 2 March 1585) was a Welsh courtier and spy. ... In 1580 Parry again returned to England. in November, ...
A champion also of the international Protestant cause, he led the English campaign in support of the Dutch Revolt (1585–1587). His acceptance of the post of governor-general of the United Provinces infuriated Queen Elizabeth. The expedition was a military and political failure, and it ruined Leicester financially.
1585 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1585th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 585th year of the 2nd millennium, the 85th year of the 16th century, and the 6th year of the 1580s decade. As of the start of 1585, the ...
12 February – Thomas Whitmore, politician (died 1677) 1 March – John Mennes, admiral (died 1671) 9 April – Sir Thomas Mauleverer, 1st Baronet (died 1655) 25 April – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (died 1658) 14 August – Méric Casaubon, classicist (died 1671)
Neville died in prison for being a priest in 1648. [3] Ward left England in order to enter a monastery of Poor Clares at Saint-Omer in northern France; she then moved to the Spanish Netherlands as a lay sister. [5] In 1606 she founded a new monastery of the order specifically for English women at nearby Gravelines, [6] doing so with much of her ...