The life of Sir Thomas Gresham. Founder of the Royal Exchange / [Anon].

  • Charles Macfarlane
Date:
1845
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Credit: The life of Sir Thomas Gresham. Founder of the Royal Exchange / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tain again evaporated fire. But from so dismal a place they made all the haste that they could: when the wind still thwarting their course, and desiring much to know more of this matter, they returned to Palermo. And forthwith inquiring of Anthonio, it was told them that he was dead ; and computing the time, did find it to agree with the very instant that the voice was heard by them. Gresham reported this at his return to the King (Henry the Eighth), and the mariners being called before him, confirmed by oath the narration. In Gresham himself, as this gentleman said (for I no otherwise report it), it wrought so deep an im- pression that he gave over all traffic; distributing his goods, a part to his kinsfolk, and the rest to good uses, retaining only a competency to him- self; and so spent the rest of his life in a solitary devotion.” * Richard Gresham, the third of these brothers, and father of Sir Thomas, was born at Holt, but bred a mercer in the City of London, being ap- prenticed to Mr. John Middleton, an eminent mercer and merchant of the staple at Calais. <As early as the year 1507, he was admitted to the freedom of the Mercers’ Company. He was so very fortunate in trade that he purchased large * Narration of a Journey begun A.D. 1610, lib. iv. p. 249, 3rd edition. Lond. 1627.—The author, George Sandys, was born in 1577, and died in 1643. He was the youngest son of Dr. Sandys, archbishop of York. In the course of his travels he visited Greece, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Sicily, and Italy. His book of Travels is a delightful volume; but he is, perhaps, still better known as a poet than as a tra- veller. He translated into English verse, and with much spirit, the Metamorphoses of Ovid, and executed a version of the Psalms.
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