Talk:Humphrey Gilbert
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[edit] Decapitation
The statement in this article that 'the practice of decapitating slain enemies was common in Gaelic Ireland at this time' is simply wrong. It should be removed. Has anybody got any evidence to support this assertion? If evidence is not forthcoming I am going to remopve it.
What is not in dispute is the Crown's practice of decapitating those they considered traitors and prominently displaying their heads on spikes or poles in public places. ~~
[edit] Sea monster?
I think the last paragraph is extremely misleading. The closest report to this one is http://www.mun.ca/sgs/science/july1483.html. I think we say that they claim to have seen a monster rather than agreeing that they did. Also was there really any debate about whether this monster sank them? All sources agree that it was a storm that did that job?
The summaries of two novels using Gilbert as protagonist are interesting, but shouldn't they have their own articles linking to here? They sound mad - might check them out.--shtove 20:38, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A member of the Davies-Gilbert Family
As I understand it, a possible descendent of Gilbert, Mary Ann married Davies Giddy, who changed his name to "Gilbert".
Their son was named John Davies Gilbert and subsequent generations inserted a hyphen: Davies-Gilbert.
Humphrey Gilbert was NOT a member of theDavies Gilbert family as he was not related to the Davies Giddy/Gilbert line.
I have removed the verbless statement "A member of the Davies-Gilbert Family".
=== Vernon White (talk) 15:02, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
