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1550
Parliment
He served in the English Parliament. -
1554
University
He attended Oxford University. -
1563
working for the queen
In 1563 he worked for Queen Elizabeth in court. -
1569
. Lane participated in a force that suppressed a rebellion in Scotland
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1570
Lane had involved himself in maritime affairs which included a queen’s commission
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1580
he was developing plans and offering his services in helping England struggle with Spain
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Lane received a commission to go to Ireland and direct the construction of forts.
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the queen recalled Lane from Ireland and he was given command of the colony that Sir Walter Raleigh was organizing to sail to Virginia (Roanoke Island)
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seven ships with about 600 men under the overall command of Sir Richard Grenville left England. After a storm scattered the fleet and reduced it to five ships, the company regrouped.
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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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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