 Why Molyneux left England for Holland is unclear . The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography suggests it was to be able to personally distribute his globes to European princes , since Amsterdam was then quickly establishing itself as the centre of <unk> and map @-@ making . However , this could not have been his intention if he had sold the globes ' plates to Hondius . It is possible that he had decided to concentrate on manufacturing ordnance . On 26 January 1598 , the States @-@ General , the parliament of the United Provinces , showed interest in Molyneux 's cannon and granted him a 12 @-@ year privilege on an invention . On 6 June he lodged a second application , but he died in Amsterdam almost immediately afterwards . His wife was granted administration of his estate in England later that month . It seems that Molyneux died in poverty , because Anne was granted a Dutch compassionate pension of 50 florins on 9 April 1599 . Molyneux apparently had no surviving family , and the English globe @-@ making industry died with him . No other globes appear to have been manufactured in England until the appearance in the 1670s of globes by Robert Morden and William Berry , and by Joseph Moxon . However , over 40 years after Molyneux 's death , William Sanderson the younger wrote that his globes were " yet in being , great and small ones , Celestiall and Terrestriall , in both our Universities and severall Libraries ( here , and beyond Seas ) " . 
