The coming of the peoples . Copyriahl 1921 by Ticenfy-Jivc Bt-oadicay Corp. SEBASTIAN CABOT SETTING OUT FROM ENGLAND TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC. X tji- JOHN WHITE S MAP OF VIRGINIA This map made by John White, Governor of Sir Walter Raleighs second colonyon Roanoke Island, is the first known map of the Virginia coast. The originalmade in 1585, is now in the British Museum. PERILOUS BEGINNINGS 23 the home-land. Yet Elizabeth was willing to lether people go. The reason was a queer one. It lay in the oneword—Sheep! During the fourteenth century, the wool tradeof England had grown enormous. One of thec
The coming of the peoples . Copyriahl 1921 by Ticenfy-Jivc Bt-oadicay Corp. SEBASTIAN CABOT SETTING OUT FROM ENGLAND TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC. X tji- JOHN WHITE S MAP OF VIRGINIA This map made by John White, Governor of Sir Walter Raleighs second colonyon Roanoke Island, is the first known map of the Virginia coast. The originalmade in 1585, is now in the British Museum. PERILOUS BEGINNINGS 23 the home-land. Yet Elizabeth was willing to lether people go. The reason was a queer one. It lay in the oneword—Sheep! During the fourteenth century, the wool tradeof England had grown enormous. One of thecauses of this was the closing of the trade routesto the Orient. English wool rose to a high price. The lords and owners of vast estates foundthat they could make more money by rais-ing sheep than by renting their land to tenantfarmers. This caused enormous suffering. A stretchof land large enough to pasture a good-sized flockof sheep would provide employment only for oneor two shepherds, whereas, if it were used forgrowing grain, it would support fifteen or twentyfamilies. The sheep industry, therefore, threw thousandsof farmers ou
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