Frobisher Bay for the English navigator Sir Martin Frobisher, who, during his search for the Northwest Passage in 1576, became the first European to visit it. Until Hall's voyage in 1861, the Bay was thought by Europeans to be a strait separating Baffin Island from another island. The first Church of England service recorded on North American soil was a celebration of Holy Communion at Frobisher Bay in the last days of August or early September 1578. The Anglican Church of Canada's Prayer Book fixes the day of commemoration as September 3. The chaplain on Frobisher's voyage was " 'Maister Wolfall (probably
John Morley (died 1622) John Morley (died 1622) Sir John Morley (c. 1572 – December 1622) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1622. Morley was the son of John Morley of Halnaker and London. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1586 and entered Inner Temple in 1587. He succeeded to the estates of Halneker on the death of his father in 1587 and added to these estates by purchase. In 1601, he was elected Member of Parliament for New Shoreham. He was knighted on 23 July 1603. In 1604 he was