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Note: Earl of Warwick. "Another drain on Medici finances was Sit Robert Dudley, a questionable English adventurer on the run (with his mistress) from a second wife and numerous daughters back home. Where, he claimed, if it hadn't been for family infighting and accusations of illegitimacy, he would have been Earl of Warwick. In Italy he reclaimed marshland between Pisa and the sea, built canals, practically invented the city of Livorno and introduced English shipbuilding to the Midici navy. In 1647 Dudley produced "Concerning the secret of the Sea", the first complete collection of charts based on Mercator's projection." [Burke, op cit, p.116]
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