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Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781332611621

Excerpt from Great Builders and Explorers of the Empire: Travels and Adventures Through Unknown Lands and Among Strange Peoples A few more years of honour and prosperity, and then the days of trouble came. Though sometimes in disgrace with Queen Elizabeth, he was never in favour with James I. Accused of crimes he never committed, he suffered years of imprisonment in the Tower of London, only being set at liberty at last because the King thought it possible that, after all, his belief in the gold of Guiana might be justified. There fore in 1616 he went again, only to return as empty-handed as before. Meanwhile his enemies had been plotting his ruin, and four months after landing in England again he was condemned to death on an old and false charge of treason. He died at the hands of the executioner on October 29, 1618, in Old Palace Yard, Westminster. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.