gone to America, — to search for Raleigh’s gold mine, maybe. This last most improbable; but if ‘t is so, and he should touch at Virginia, receive him with all honor. If indeed he is not out of favor, the Company may find in him a powerful friend; of powerful enemies, God knows, there is no lack!”

Thus the worthy Master Ferrar. And at the bottom of the letter, among other news of city and court, mention was made of the disappearance of a ward of the King’s, the Lady Jocelyn Leigh. Strict search had been made, but the unfortunate lady had not been found. “‘T is whispered that she hath killed herself; also, that his Majesty had meant to give her in marriage to my Lord Carnal. But that all true love and virtue and constancy have gone from the age, one might conceive that the said lord