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1554
College at Oxford University
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1570
Lane had involved himself in maritime affairs
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1571
Queen’s commission to seize ships
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1576
Started serving queen Elizabeth
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Lane received a commission to go to Ireland and direct the construction of forts
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Seven ships with about 600 men under the overall command of Sir Richard Grenville left England.
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A fleet led by Sir Francis Drake left Roanoke carrying the first English colonists back home.
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He provided the foreword to Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
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His account of the colony appeared in Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations
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Lane was back in Ireland serving as “muster master general” and “clerk of the check of the garrison” and remained in that country for the rest of his life.
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Lane was back in Ireland serving as “muster master general” and “clerk of the check of the garrison” and remained in that country for the rest of his life.
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Lane’s physical weakness had made him unfit as muster master.
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Lane died in Dublin, Ireland