Amongst the lost ballads are a certain number relating to piracy, and recording the punishment of some Englishmen who practised that trade. On December 19, 1579, there was licensed _The Fatal Farewell of Captain Gilbert Horseley_, who managed to escape from the Counter, the prison in which he was confined, ‘in a cloakbag,’ but was recaptured and executed. Another, licensed March 16, 1580, was entitled-- ‘A Passport for Pirates wherein they may mark And shun their abuse by the death of Tom Clarke.’ A third, published in August 1583, was styled _Clinton’s Lamentation_ and a fourth, in 1586, called _The Confession of Nine Rovers_ (Arber, _Stationers’ Registers_, ii. 165, 167, 197, 210). As a substitute for these ballads, however, there has been preserved an elaborate poem purporting to be the confession of Clinton and two others, which is to be found in the Bodleian and Lambeth libraries. It is headed _Clinton, Purser and Arnold, to their countrymen, wheresoever. Wherein is described by their own hands their unfeigned penitence for their offences past, their patience in welcoming their death, and their dutiful minds towards her Majesty._ Their apology for their acts is that they only attacked foreign ships and ‘never made one English prey.’ Comparatively few of the ballads of the Elizabethan period relate to voyages of discovery; plunder and fighting were more attractive subjects to the audience for which they were intended. There is, however, _A Commendation of the adventurous Viage of the worthy Captain M. Thomas Stutely Esquire and others towards the land called Terra Florida_, which appeared in 1563 (Collier, _Old Ballads from Early Printed Copies_, Percy Society, 1840, p. 72). Of another on the same subject, dated two years earlier, _made by one beynge greatly impoverished by the viage prepared for Terra Floryday_, only a fragment has survived. Thomas Cavendish’s circumnavigation of the world was too remarkable a feat to escape attention, and in November 1583 two ballads upon the subject appeared. One was entitled _A ballad of Master Cavendish his voyage, who by travel compassed the globe of the world arriving in England with abundance of treasure_; the other _Of the famous and honourable coming of Master Cavendish’s ship called the Desire before the Queen’s Majestie and her court at Greenwich the 12 of November 1588_ (Arber, _Stationers’ Registers_, ii. 236). Neither of these is now in existence. By a singular contrast Ralegh, whose explorations and exploits deserved celebration, is only commemorated by the ballad _Sir Walter Raleigh Sailing in the Lowlands_, a romantic story about a little ship-boy of which several traditional versions exist. To a version of this which was printed in the reign of Charles II., accident, or perhaps the craftiness of the printer, attached the name of Ralegh (Child, _English and Scottish Popular Ballads_, v. 135, reprinted by Stone, _Sea Songs and Ballads_, p. 74). In much the