http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hp/colonial/Nchr/Subjects/powell.htm There seem to have been at least two college professors among the Roanokers. Thomas Luddington, one of Lane’s men, was a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford (and, incidentally, afterwards Preacher to the City of Lincoln)22 while Thomas Harris, a Lost Colonist, was a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, from 1579 to 1586. He held the master’s degree from the same college.23 22 Historical Manuscripts Commission, 14th Report, Appendix, Part VIII, the Manuscripts of Lincoln...Corporation. (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1895), 75, 78, 79. Roanoke Island Colony -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ROANOKE COLONISTS AND EXPLORERS: AN ATTEMPT AT IDENTIFICATION BY WILLIAM S. POWELL [Vol. 34 (1957), 202-226] heretofore had been kept in more or less haphazard fashion, and I combed the Quinn volumes for additional information. The problem had already begun to take shape in my mind. I was trying to discover anything I could about the life of the colonists and explorers in England or wherever they lived before they came to Roanoke; anything concerning their relationship with other colonists and explorers; and anything about their life at home again after their return, if they did, in fact, return. It was on the return voyage that the Indians, Wanchese and Manteo, were taken to England. After I had been working in London for several months I began to see something of a regional pattern in so far as the location of families was concerned. Frequently, in the sixteenth century, persons bearing a specific family name seemed to be concentrated in a small area rather than scattered throughout the country as later. This fact suggested the possible value of another batch of letters. By using Crockford’s Clerical Directory6 I determined the present-day names of the Church of England parishes in which these families had been centered. A letter to the local vicar explaining my work and asking for information from his parish records almost without fail brought me interesting information. In many cases either the vicar or his wife very kindly searched the registers for me and gave me the information I was seeking. In others I was told findings. By no means are they all conclusive. I still have much more work to do in digging up material, and more decisions to make on the basis of what I have found and perhaps will still find. There seem to have been at least two college professors among the Roanokers. Thomas Luddington, one of Lane’s men, was a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford (and, incidentally, afterwards Preacher to the City of Lincoln)22 while Thomas Harris, a Lost Colonist, was a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, from 1579 to 1586. He held the master’s degree from the same college.23 It is also possible that one of Lane’s men did a bit of recruiting for his alma mater. Both William White and Richard Wildye were graduates of Brasenose College, Oxford, and we find that young Thomas Hulme, a member of the same expedition, entered the same college the year following his return home. Hulme later studied law. Another young man in the same group, Richard Ireland, entered Christ Church, Oxford, two years later and eventually was Headmaster of Westminster School.26 .------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. http://www.nps.gov/archive/fora/colonist.htm#1586 THE 1585-6 COLONISTS Thomas Luddington .................................................................................................................................................The New World Tapestry is the largest stitched embroidery in the world. At 267 feet x 4 feet (81.3 m x 1.2 m) it is larger than the Bayeux Tapestry in France. The tapestry is located at the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, near Temple Meads railway station, in central Bristol, England. It depicts English colonisation attempts in America, Bermuda, Guiana (Venezuela) and Newfoundland between the years 1583 and 1642, when the Civil War broke out. 1586 Roanoke Panel Francis Walsingham, Ralph Lane, John Harris, Francis Drake, Philip Sidney, Richard Grenville Thomas Ford, Thomas Luddington, George Raymond, Marmaduke Constable, David Williams _________________________________________________________________ Live Search Maps – find all the local information you need, right when you need it. http://maps.live.com/?icid=hmtag2&FORM=MGAC01