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Rick, I seem to remember reading a page on your site that described Bartholomew's childhood and relatives. I am specifically interested in anything you have that refers to a relationship through marriage between the Gosnolds and the de Veres of Oxford.
The Shakespeare Oxford Society - website at http://www.shakespeare-oxford.com/index.htm - seeks to document and establish Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), as the universally recognized author of the works of William Shakespeare. Links between this man and Bartholomew Gosnold add credibility to the society's argument that Shakespeare was not a commoner from Stratford, but a noble with connections in common with Bartholomew to Richard Hakluyt (famous geographer-cartographer) and the 3rd Earl of Southampton who funded Bartholomew's 1602 voyage and is addressed in the following terms in the following terms in Shakespeare's sonnet 69:
"But why thy odour matcheth not thy show
The soil is this: that thou dost common grow."
This would lead one to believe that Elizabeth's England was a democracy in which freedom of speech was a cherished right: in which a commoner (and a mere scribbler at that) could tell a nobleman in print that he was growing common. No such thing!
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