Re: Miss Carthewkatherine_bJanuary 28 2016, 09:16:44 UTC
No, because this is Miss Carthew from Judy the Guide, not Miss Carthew from Head Girl. It's a huge section:
“Yes, I think I will.” The mistress paused and looked round the circle of fresh English faces. “You’ve all heard of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know,” she went on. “If I asked you who he was you would all tell me about the act of gallantry which gained him a place at the Court of Elizabeth; of his bringing tobacco to England; his imprisonment under the first James - ‘the wisest fool in Christendom’; and his death. But I wonder how many of you realise that it was his labours which helped very largely to lay the foundation stone of our Empire?”
“He founded Virginia,” said Nanciebel doubtfully.
“Yes, he did that. And what I want to talk about now is the founding of Virginia. It was not done easily; no great work is! And it cost its founders life and liberty. But it still stands; as Raleigh stands an adventurer for loyalty’s sake. And what an adventurer he was, this dark-faced man, with jewels in his ears and a pearl band round his hat, and the spirit of a dreamer who was yet a doer shining in his sea-blue eyes! Drake was a sailor, pure and simple - a gallant sea captain who loved nothing better than roving. Grenville, Frobisher, Hawkins, Gilbert. Howard of Effingham - all the names which have come down to us from ‘the spacious days of great Elizabeth’ - they are, with that one exception, the names of seamen patriots. But Raleigh was greater than that. He was a seaman who was a statesman, an historian, a poet, ina ddition to being a soldier and an explorer, as all the others were.
“Spain, in her arrogance, claimed the waters of the Southern Atlantic as her. France claimed what is now Canada.” She flashed a quick smile at Judy, sitting absorbed in her story. “Englishmen hated to think of little England being left out of the count. So Frobisher and Gilbert and Hawkins tried to discover the north-west passage to India, not knowing that there could be no such thing, since the seas are icebound almost continously. Drake and Grenville roved the so-called ‘Spanish Main,’ and played the pirate with much grace and much profit to Elizabeth. Raleigh, forbidden by the imperios queen to follow their example. Had to content himself at home for the time being, and could only send ships and men to the chase - he might not go himself.
“In 1584 he got the queen to give him a Royal Charter - the very first of the kind ever issued - and, armed with this, he sent an expedition to found a colony on the eastern shores of North America. This colony, which was to be named Virginia in honour of the Virgin Queen, was begun by a very small number, but on the following year Grenville sailed for it with more men; so that the colony of Virginia was finally established by nearly a hundred of all classes under Ralph Lane. There were gentlemen clad in buffskin boots and jerkins, with rings on their hands and jewels in their ears; there were one or two soldier adventurers, ‘quick in quarrel, and full of strange oaths’; there were sturdy yeomen farmers, slow-thinking, obstinate peasants. No one was allowed to join who was not prepared for hard work, and in this new land, with its good climate, rich soil, and enormous areas of country, they found that work would repay them.
“Then some petty trouble stirred up the Indians against them; the harvest was left ungathered, or was fired by the revengeful Red men; the food ran short, and the colony was faced with starvation.
“Then, one day, one of the look-outs by the shore gave a shout. Three ships flying the lion flag of England had been sighted on the horizon, and before very long Francis Drake had landed. He took off the colonists and sailed away with them for England, and three days later Grenville arrived with ships and stores, to find the Englishmen gone.
“Yes, I think I will.” The mistress paused and looked round the circle of fresh English faces. “You’ve all heard of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know,” she went on. “If I asked you who he was you would all tell me about the act of gallantry which gained him a place at the Court of Elizabeth; of his bringing tobacco to England; his imprisonment under the first James - ‘the wisest fool in Christendom’; and his death. But I wonder how many of you realise that it was his labours which helped very largely to lay the foundation stone of our Empire?”
“He founded Virginia,” said Nanciebel doubtfully.
“Yes, he did that. And what I want to talk about now is the founding of Virginia. It was not done easily; no great work is! And it cost its founders life and liberty. But it still stands; as Raleigh stands an adventurer for loyalty’s sake. And what an adventurer he was, this dark-faced man, with jewels in his ears and a pearl band round his hat, and the spirit of a dreamer who was yet a doer shining in his sea-blue eyes! Drake was a sailor, pure and simple - a gallant sea captain who loved nothing better than roving. Grenville, Frobisher, Hawkins, Gilbert. Howard of Effingham - all the names which have come down to us from ‘the spacious days of great Elizabeth’ - they are, with that one exception, the names of seamen patriots. But Raleigh was greater than that. He was a seaman who was a statesman, an historian, a poet, ina ddition to being a soldier and an explorer, as all the others were.
“Spain, in her arrogance, claimed the waters of the Southern Atlantic as her. France claimed what is now Canada.” She flashed a quick smile at Judy, sitting absorbed in her story. “Englishmen hated to think of little England being left out of the count. So Frobisher and Gilbert and Hawkins tried to discover the north-west passage to India, not knowing that there could be no such thing, since the seas are icebound almost continously. Drake and Grenville roved the so-called ‘Spanish Main,’ and played the pirate with much grace and much profit to Elizabeth. Raleigh, forbidden by the imperios queen to follow their example. Had to content himself at home for the time being, and could only send ships and men to the chase - he might not go himself.
“In 1584 he got the queen to give him a Royal Charter - the very first of the kind ever issued - and, armed with this, he sent an expedition to found a colony on the eastern shores of North America. This colony, which was to be named Virginia in honour of the Virgin Queen, was begun by a very small number, but on the following year Grenville sailed for it with more men; so that the colony of Virginia was finally established by nearly a hundred of all classes under Ralph Lane. There were gentlemen clad in buffskin boots and jerkins, with rings on their hands and jewels in their ears; there were one or two soldier adventurers, ‘quick in quarrel, and full of strange oaths’; there were sturdy yeomen farmers, slow-thinking, obstinate peasants. No one was allowed to join who was not prepared for hard work, and in this new land, with its good climate, rich soil, and enormous areas of country, they found that work would repay them.
“Then some petty trouble stirred up the Indians against them; the harvest was left ungathered, or was fired by the revengeful Red men; the food ran short, and the colony was faced with starvation.
“Then, one day, one of the look-outs by the shore gave a shout. Three ships flying the lion flag of England had been sighted on the horizon, and before very long Francis Drake had landed. He took off the colonists and sailed away with them for England, and three days later Grenville arrived with ships and stores, to find the Englishmen gone.
TBC...
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