truly and make Reckening with me Christianlike and like a good Member of this Common-Wealth And as a true Subiect to our Souerayn What may be the The true Cause of Dearth true cause of Dearth whensoeuer it pleaseth God to vse that his skourge Any other thing but Want of Corne or Vittayles That Want yf God send yt is eyther by the Ordinary Causes Naturall taking effect according to the Predestined Plat of this whole wordls aeconomie and contynuance Or it is by Extraordinary Means of Gods sending And that Diuersly and in diuers tymes and States of the Corne or Cattayle c. These be true Dearths vpon great wants of Corn or Cattayle to be had Or at the least to be had so good as is behoofull for Mans bodily Sustenance All other Dearths that come not of Want by Diuine means are either by 1. Fraudulent Want As through Corne and Vittayles stolne and Priuily conueyed to our Enemyes or Fickle freends for Priuate gayn only to the hinderance of the Wealth-publik Or by falsly .2 Pretended Want As the Vnchristianlike Practise of such Caterpillers and Rauening Wolues Deuouring Come and Cattell wold make the Commons beleue And when Abundance and Sufficiency is to make and Wrast a Dearth by selling Three Quarters of Wheat of the very value then of fowr And Three Oxen of the very value of fowr and so of Shepe c. What a Deuouting and Rauening is this Of eueâ—y â—owr to Devoure and consume one and the same neuer more to be hard of in this Common-Wealth And this only for his most Priuate Gaynes sake to be Bagged or Chested vp for his Idoll to behold or Delight in As in his strength and furniture ready to mainteyn hym in other wicked purposes And as God knoweth foolish Intentsâ— Pereâ—ance with some of that pâ—â—â— so miserably and diuelishly scraped together or violently in manner wrasted out of the poore Commons hands and mouthes to be at Charges to enclose some parte of the Commons Commons Enclosing from a poore Village or Township With some to buy his neighbours House or Farme ouer his hed and so to make him freends of the Mammon of Iniquity Nay Nay make himself the Carefull â—reend and doting louer of wicked Mammon The Diuell Infernall and not of God nor his Members Nor the members of the Common-wealth Yea many at Thousand of such as eche one of them is more profitable and Comfortable to the Weal-Publik of England than a Thousand such Mammons dearlings are I mean the Maryner the Soldyer the Ientleman Esquyer and Knight yea and Baron now Tost and Turmoyled at Seas being the Publik Watchmen Garde and Champions for the most Blessed State of TraÌ„quillity publik in this Sacred Monarchy preseruing And no les is the Error and disorder vsed in this Kingdom of Dardâ—narie Trade and Monopolie two greuous hindrances to the Weale-Publik Iacobus Simanâ—as Episcopus Pacensis sayd very well in his book De Republica A â— 1570. Against our English To To many Dardanaâ—ies dedicated to the King of Spayn Ne oneretâ—â— Annona adâ—ò râ—rum Vaenalium Praeâ—ià iniqua sint animaduertere oportet in DARDANARIOS qui omâ—ia praeemunt vt ea postea Carius vendant Hi quidem perniciosissâ—â—m Rebu-publicis esse sâ—lâ—nt â— Vtpoâ—e genus auarum iniusti Lucri Cupid sâ—iâ—ian And agayn You may also in Vlpian Lib. 47. ff Tit. 11 Finde Consideration against Dardinaries Multis quoque lâ—gibus Regijs Occuâ—sum est Dardanarijs Sed illa omniumest opâ—iâ—â— Râ—bus-publicis vâ—â—lissima quae vetat Ne quisquam vnquam frumenâ—â—m emaâ— vt vendat Ea enim esseâ—tum est vt res frumentaria iustis praeâ—ijs vendatur vilitas Annonae Consecutaâ—it Quamobrem plurimùm Reâ—publicae interest vt ea Lex Conseruetur qui secus fecerit acerrimè coerceatur And as for MONOPOLIE this had the same Simancas Noted out of Zâ—no his Constitutions Iubemus ne quis cuiuscunque Vestis vel Piscis vel cuiuslibet alterius ad victum Lib. 4. C Tit. 59. vel al quemcunque vsum pertinentis Speciei Monopolium audeat exercere Neue quis illicitis habitis Conuentionibus Coniâ—rare aut pacisci vt Species diuersâ—ram Corporam negociationis non minoris quà m inter se statuerint vaenundentur AEdisâ—ciorum quoque artifices aliorumque diâ—ersorum Operum professâ—res penitus arceantur pacta inter se Componere vt ne quis quod alteâ— Commissum sit Opus impleat ant iniunctam alteri solicitudinem alter intercipiut Si quis autem MONOPOLIVM ausus fuerit exercere bonis proprijs expoliatus perpetuitate damnetur Exilij Agayn what Reason hath any Man to go about by raysing pryce of vittayles to brede opinion in some simple heds that this Nauy is occasion therof And so to cause misliking of that by one mean which by his former Publik Contribution he pretendeth to be glad and desirous that it should continually be well mainteyned What dubble and hypocriticall dealing were that Prouerbium Altera mann fert Lapidem Panem ostentat altera With one hand to offer Bread and in the other to hold a Stone ready to geue a blow therwith to the Receiuer of that bread All such sorts of Fraudulently or Violently caused Dearths as they are very much against the Common-wealth and Common Comfort to be receiued of Gods mercifull Plenty or Sufficiency of Corn and Vittayles sent vs So will they now as the poore Commons are in good hope either for very Conscience sake Or for good zeales sake to the due and Reasonable maintenance of the foresayd Pety-Nauy-Royall be vtterly abhorred eschewed and very well left 1. And here also the poore Commons wold yf they Durst make Supplication The Supplication of the Commons All kneeling on Knees Man Woman and Childe and ioyntly with one most humble Voyce Request the Higher Powers That No more Vittayles Corn or other might vnder Licence or cullor therof be Transported to Forreyners or otherwise in this Realme by Priuilege to be vsed Than as may be best to the Publik-behoof of all them at home and for the sufficient and more easy Mayntenance of those Valiant worthy Publik Watchmen lying owt at Seas 2. ¶ And furdermore that in tyme of Excellent Plenty and good cheap the Ouerplus of Corn and other vittayles may be brought to the next Publik Garners and Stoarhowses The 20 Publik Garnars and Stoarhowses being at or nere vnto the foresayd Twenty Ports to the Pety-Nauy-Royall assigned And there with Publik Mony of the Pety Nauy his Threasor to be payd for presently 3. And from those 20 Garners or Stoarhouses only to be to places conuenient This Transportation is not Contrary to the first Petition Vide Infra Pag 41. Transportable vnder the Generall * The Queenes Maiesties Generall Licence For Transporting of Vittailes by Humble Sute to be obteyned Licence from her Maiesty before graunted vnto the Body of the Pety Counsaill of chief Officers
And likewise though not then likely to amount in the whole Quantity yerely to so many loads Yet at the tyme of their being Market-able of the Myddle * This Phrase of Myddle-Sort Markat-able is to be vnderstood neither of them which hard and scant are to be iudged Markat-able Nor of the ouer growen Fish and in the Superlatiue Growth as a Man might term them But only of them which most commodiously are Seruisable in respect of Profit Publik sort they wold euidently appere so to be rated or rather far aboue And neither any more Charges nor yet any greater trauaile of Man is to be employed for the same sorts of Fish hauing and enioying both when they wold be as is sayd Markat-able And also when the foresayd great haboundance of Vittayles by them might be enioyed Than is when so abhominably they are destroyed and vtterly spoyled And that this brief and very needfull Aduertisement may be found the more manifestly true and duly geuen You may vnderstand That in the Riuer of Thames only as my Instructor by Worshipfull Ientlemen and other Men of experience heretofore hath tryed out most commonly euery yere by the Fishermen belonging to some one small Town or within a little Circuit about it there is destroyed aboue a Thousand Busshels of the yong Fry of diuers kindes of good Fish which in due tyme of their growth and by lawfull order being taken wold haue byn â—able to satisfie Two Hundred Thousand Men one day Or Twenty Thousand Men ten dayes or Two Thousand Men an Hundred dayes or Fowr Thousand Men Fifty dayes c. Which Account dependeth vpon the Rating of euery kynde of Myddle Markat-able Fish Note these Hypoâ—heses to be one with an other of Ten tymes so much meat as when they are destroyed in such Small Fry as we mean of And also that a Bushell of such Markat-able Fish is hable to satisfie 20 English-men One day for their sufficient Repaste and Sustenance the Bread and drinke requisite thereto being excepted What is then I pray you to be rekened of the Publik Dammage of 500. Cart loads of Fish yerely thus destroyed How may it reasonably any longer remayn vnreformed Which 500 Cartload according to the former Rate of Myddle Markat-able Fish do amount and ryse of only 2400 Bushels of Fry yerely destroyed But yf you suppose to be only 30 Trink-Boats and that euery one of the sayd 30 Trink-Boat Nets euery day only for 300 dayes in euery whole yere destroy but one Bushell of very small Fry The Somme therof doth amount to Nyne Thousand Bushels of Fry so destroyed yerely Which Fry when it should be Myddle Markat-able wold be one with an other of Ten tymes more Meat and Fish than when it is so destroyed Therefore the Crafts-men of the Trink-Boats on the Thames may very probably be accused conuicted iudged and condemned as the most abhominable yerely Destructioners of Nynety Thousand Bushels of Markat-able Fish. And if you abridge me in the number of the dayes of their Labor yerely I will then charge eche of their Nets with destroying dayly more than a Bushell of Fry one day with an other euery day of their Labor And I know notwithstanding how much I kepe me within my Bounds yet How Horrible and Intollerable so euer this Fact doth sound in your eares who haue not listened to this matter before now nor know the Verity therof yet Of this Nynety Thousand Bushels of Fish if you will account but euery 48 Bushels which make six Quarters to be a Cart loade the Somme will be 1875 Cart loads of fresh Fish which is destroyed yerely by the Trink-Nets only And that in the Noble Riuer of Thames only Whereby it is most euident that my first Assertion of 500 Cart Loads of fresh Fish destroyed in the whole Realm of England is most vndoutedly true So is it now also Probable that in all England by the manifold disorder vsed about Fry and Spawn destroying there is yerely Spoyled or Hyndred ☞ the Broode of Two Thousand Cart Loads of fresh Fish of myddle Markat-able skantlyn The Publik Los yerely caused by the Trink-Boats Kiddels c. is vncredible to them that know not the Tâ—uthe Or will â—ot Search and Examine to the quick what Vâ—olent or rather Frauâ—ulent Disorder is therin Practised The Value of the foresayd Nynety Thousand Bushels of fresh Fish one with an other being rated at fiue Shillings a Bushell is Two and Twenty Thousand and Fiue Hundred Pounds of Current Mony of England Which quantity of Fish also according to our former Hypotheses wold mainteyn for one day a Thousand Thousand and Eight Hundred Thousand Men. Or Nyne Hundred Thousand Men two dayes Or Three Hundred Thousand Men six dayes Or a Hundred Thousand Men 18 dayes Or Fifty Thousand Men 36 dayes Or 25 Thousand Men 72 dayes c. And yf in the Riuer of Thames Trinker-men only do not in your Opinion or in the estimation and knowlege of them who are somwhat expert in these Cases seme duly charged with this Incredible Spoyle and Dammage Publik I will allow vnto you and them into this Reckening to make vp the full and heaped vp measure of this abhominable Iniquity all the Destruction of Fry and yong Fish which the 18 or 19 Tymber-Nets do yerely make who are fayn euery two howrs of the Flud or Tyde to discharge their Nets for feare of breaking I will geue you inâ— also the Spoyle which is yerely made with the Engynes called Kyddels And they are in the Thames aboue an Hundred and Forty And now you can not dout but I haue good reason to warrant you that the Destruction and Spoyle of Fry and yong Fish made yerely and that * For by many other meanes the Fry and Spawne of Fish is destroyed as Partely by the Statute made Anno 4 Henrici Sepâ—i Cap. 15 may appere and Partly by our dayly Experience may be peâ—ceyued only by the Three former vnlawfull Engynes occupyed in the Thames doth amount yerely to the foresayd Publik los of 90000 Bushels of Myddle Markat-able good Fish in the Totall Somme I mean when the same should come to be of Myddle Markat-able growth Though at the tyme of their Spoyling them they are in Measure but Nyne Thousand Bushels And bycause the 30 or 31 Trinker-Men not 1. only are the chiefest Cause of the foresayd exceeding great Destruction of FRY and yong Fish to the Intollerable Dammage Publik but 2. also lye in the Riuer of Thames to the great Annoyance and Cumber many tymes of the Ships and Boats passing betwene London and Grauesend and farder And otherwhile to the losse both of Goods and Liues of many of her Maiesties Louing and Faythfull Subiects What discrete Subiect or true Member of the Brytish or English Monarchie is there who in his hart Doth not abhorre this Haynous Enormity and will not with his Voyce Hartily Cry owt and Say Fy on them Fy on
one extraordinary Studious Ientleman of this land within his Clawes that diuers his mere Malitious and wilfull Enemies do verily hope that it is impossible that this Ientleman shall with this English or Brytish State either during his life be counted a good Subiect or a Commendable nay scarse a Tolerable Christian or any his Acts or Trauailes all ready past or other his intended exploits of great Importance shall be in this Land acceptable or of the people of this kingdome receyued as by the fauour light and Ayde of the Blessed Trinitie vndertaken inuented Compassed and atchieued but rather by wicked and vngodly Arte to be framed and by the help of Sathan or Beelzebub to be finished vnleast the wise or the peculiarly chief Authorized will vse due Carefull and Charitable Discretion From henceforth to repres abolish and vtterly extinguish this very Iniurious Report for these xx yeres last past and somwhat longer Spred Credited all this Realm ouer it is to wete That the Forsaid Ientleman is or was Not onely a 1. Coniurer or Caller of Diuels but 2. A Great doer therin Yea The Great Coniurer so as some would say 3. The Arche Coniurer of this whole kingdom Before that the mentioned Diuelish Cosening was vsed this sklanderous vntruthe was recorded publisâ—ed and Credited But by these new deuised Cosening forgeries the same may with some seeme to be vndoutedly confirmed Oh Lord with how tickle and strong Snares and with how wily Laberinthes hath the most enuious Traytor to the honor of our God and Christ bewrapped and Daunted many a thousand of simple honest Mens fantazies inducing them to Credit this Infamous Report To Credit it I say in respect of the honorable Seat wherin it was very vnaduisedly set downe In dede euen he who at the beginning sayd Ascendam in Coelum similis ero Altissimo euen he hath setled this intolerable sklander of the vertuous among the glorious Renown of the Righteous to so great hurt and dammage of the Ientleman who to all other Men is harmles as neuer to him by any one Mortall Man the iust Amends can duly be made I would to God this foresaid sklander and other Disgracing Reports to to rashly and euen then recorded when this Courteous Ientleman was also a prisoner himself bedfellow with one Maister Barthelet Greene had bin in due tyme espyed and vtterly cancelled and razed out of all Records wherin they were vnduly and vnaduisedly first admitted Nerer to pres this Matter in particular it is nedeles But by this and such like foule ouersight of Man Cruell despite of the hellish Enemy it is come to pas among many other great Inconueniences that wheras the said Studious Ientleman hath at God his most mercifull handes receyued a great Talent of knowledge and Sciences after his long painfull and Costly Trauails susteyned for the same and both by God being warned and of his owne disposition desirous not onely to enlarge and multiply the same but also to communicate to other He findeth himself now at length partly forced somwhat to yelde to the wickednes of these tymes being not possible to sayl against the windes eye And partly demeth himself in Gods Iudgement excusable not to bestow any more of his Talent Carefull Trauailes vpon the Ingratefull and Thankles Nay vpon the skorners and Disdainers of such his faythfull enterprises vndertaken chiefly for the Aduancement of the wonderfull Veritie Philosophicall And also for the State Publik of this BRYTISH MONARCHIE to become florishing in HONOR WEALTH and STRENGTH as much as any thing in him mought haue bin therto by any means found seruisable But who would haue thought that they who are in dede of the honester sort and more charitable yea of the wiser and by Office mightier some of them taken for his especial great freends would so many yeres haue bin so Careles or slack to Ayde and procure the Innocent to be deliuered from the greuous and most Iniurious spoyle of his good Name and Fame and all the inconueniences depending theron Or who would haue thought that so great so vncharitable Vntruthes should so vndiscretely haue bin published by those Men especially who otherwise in woord and life were very modest and Circumspect I thought it good Therfore my honest freend and Cuntryman to aduertise thee of some parte of the Cause of the strange maner of this Treatise comming to thy sight or reading As without the Name of any certain Author therof And without the Name of the zealous Artificer who first did sollicite and collect such matter by Dicâ—ata as it were from this Ientleman And Thirdly without my own Name into whose hands the sayd Artificer hath deliuered all the matter that he could get of this Brytish Ientleman to the Title of this booke answerable yea and other rare Instructions also For vndowtedly this BRYTISH PHILOSOPHER is not 1. only discouraged to labor or * pen any more Treatises or bookes him self in ARTIFICIALL METHOD for his vnkinde vnthankful disdainfull and sklanderous Cuntrymen to vse nay abuse but 2. also is loth and hath great reason so to be to haue his Name any more prefixed or subscribed to any Treatises passing from him either by writing or by speech And both these Inconueniences are purposely committed to auoyd or somwhat to preuent hensforward the farther grief and offence that might grow to him and his true freends to perceiue the former sundry sorts of Caterpillers and great hinderers of the prosperous Estate of any Common-Wealth to knaw vpon the leaf or flower of his Commendable Fame who would take very quickly an Occasion by the forefronts of bookes garnished with his BRYTISH NAME to fall to a fresh pang of enuious busiosity impudent arrogancy and dogged malicious speeches vsing and vttring against the Ientleman who vndoutedly wisheth euill to none And perhaps though it were very good matter that should by him be contriued and written and vnder his Name be published yet they would in perusing it either peruert their own Iudgements of it through their vnquieted and mere malicious fantazie wilfully bent against him or rather in dede through their own great Ignorance would verify the Prouerb Scientia non habet Inimicum nisi Ignorantem as they did by his Monas Hieroglyphica dedicated to the late Emperor Maximilian wherein the Queene her most Excellent Maiesty can be a sacred witnes as I haue heard of the Strange and vndue speeches deuised of that Hieroglyphicall writing Or if they liked the matter then they would say that such a Treatise vnder his Name published is not or was not of his owne compiling and ordring as Author therof but that some other Man now liuing or long since dead was the only and first Author of such a good Treatise And that mâ—nâ—r of malicious Iniury hath bin very notably dâ—nâ— vnto him for these many yeres past about his Booke Intituled Propaedâ—umata
rare in any Studious Ientleman of this Kingdom els Yet neither the same nor ten tymes as great sownding lowd about his eares for these many yeres past haue at any tyme or yet doo any one pyns point puf vp his hart vayngloriously but haue and doo make him more Ioyfully thankfull to the kingly and free giuer of such his great Talent So great as Quibus Res notae sunt qui illi benè volunt existimant orationem non esse parem Magnitudini Rerum gestarum As that prudent Atheniensien Gouernor Pericles sayd In oratione Funebri Commending them that manfully had spent their liues in the late warres then Thucidides Lib. 2. Alij ignari iudicant laudes esse immodicas quia inuident excellenti virtuti Laudes enim eò vsque tolerabiles sunt donec ea dicuntur quae Auditores se quoque facere posse arbitrantur Si Maiora dicuntur Inuident non credunt Therfore pardon me I beseech your worship Yf in rehearsing here and there glaunsingly some points of his due Commendation I speak far short of that which farder your worship and other doo or may know and more aptly can expres to Gods glory for his graces on that Ientleman so abundantly bestowed Who I know right well doth make no les account of your Worship then the Iustice of dutifull and perfect Amitie requireth Which is a thing very rare now a dayes any where to be found And for better proof of the Premisses by your leaue and with your patience I will here truly and briefly Note such matter vnto you as neither Withall is impertinent to this Paradoxall Instrument now first published nor mete to be let pas in a manner vnknown and vtterly vnrecorded For whereas about 3. or 4. monthes last past a vertuous M.M. Lok Ientleman and Marchant with zealous Intent for the Auauncement of God his glory and the great Commoditie and honor of this kingdom procured vnto him Worshipfull yea and Honorable Ayde also to set furth Ships for a Northwest Discouery And shortly after there came abrode in Print a little English book containing some probable reasons tending to the perswasion of the same Cours and voyage In the Epistle of which little book no small pece of Credit for the Attempt to be liked of was ascribed to M. â—ee his Iudgement as there is to be sene set down in his Mathematicall Praeface with the English Euclide published So it came to pas that it was his wurshipfull freend M. Edward Dyer his fortune First to Aduertise him as he told me both of the sayd book by the Title therof and of his Name in the foresayd Epistle to good purpose vsed Whereupon he calling to Remembrance his old Atlanticall Discourses to the self same purpose at the sayd M. Dyer his request almost ten yeres sins set down in writyng And perusing throughly all reasons and allegations both Pro and Contra now in the sayd Pamphlet expressed did furthwith by euery Article therof in the Margent Note their value or imperfection And straight way after that made a new Collection for the same voyage very probable And thirdly the same day writ 18. new Considerations of his own very pleasant in probabilitie for an other voyage of Discouery in respect of Safetie Nerenes and Commoditie nothing inferior to that which they * They did sâ—t furth the 12. of Iune last now haue vndertaken God send them good spede And M. d ee being thus furnished aswell to maintein probably his former Iudgement by M. Gascoyn recited in the foresayd Epistle and intending to geue those his 18. new and very straunge Articles of Consideration to him or them whom he should dâ—me apt and desirous to furder the sayd Discouery no les then this was by a discrete carefull diligent and constant Procurer follower and furderer brought to the present execution And also purposing freendly to examin and faithfully to Instruct M. Capitain Frobisher and M. Christopher Hall and other that should haue the chardge about the sayd Northwest Discouery As he was partly by the right worshipfull Sir Leonell Ducket Knight and partly by M. Frobisher him self before that requested to doo made then no delay to repayr to the Moschouy house Where he found him self courteously and very worshipfully enterteined And at that tyme of his abode there and after that at sundry other tymes of his Resort thither and to their Ships he proceded so with them according to his Intent and pleasured them so much according to their desire That he finding them quick of apprehension and likely to remaine * As besides many other thinges this letter may seeme to be a sufficient witnes To the worshipfull and our approoued good freend M. Dee gâ—ue these with speed This 26. of Iune 1576. I ariued in Shotland in the Bay of Saint Tronioâ—s in the Latitude of 59 degrees 46 Minutes I with M. Hall make our dutiâ—â—ll Commendations to you with as many thâ—nkes as we can wish till we be better furnished of farder matters to satisfy our duties for your â—rendly Instructionâ— which when we vse we dâ—o remember you and hold our selues bound to you as your poure disciples not able to be Scholers but in good will â—or want of lerning and that we will furnish with good will and diligence to the vttermost of our powers Tâ—e cause of our stay here was to stop a leake which I had in the Michaâ—ll and withall â—illed certayne fresh water and by Gods â—race this night according to my Commission I wil depart This present â—ight I haue a says winde God be praysed I haue had sharp weather â—nd â—ogâ— But all my company continuâ— with a good courage aâ— they began at the first Newes I haue â—one but my â—arkes sayle very well all â—ut the Gaâ—riâ—ll hath no fellow she spaâ—dâ— halâ—e her Sayles to all men â—â—uâ— I commit you to god In last this present afternoone ready to set â—aile Your louing frend to vse and commaund Martin Frobisher Yours to commaund Christopher Hall. Thankfull for his pithy instructing of them And they finding him aboue their expectation skilfull And more then could be wished for Carefull for their well doing in this their commendable and honorable Attempt both the one and the other became very sorry of their so late acquaintance and conference for these their waighty affaires furdering And greatly misliked their want of tyme The Complement of the perfect Art of Nauigation sufficient for the ComplemeÌ„t and principall pointes of the Perfect Art of Nauigation learning at his hands Such pointes I meane as needed either great knowledge in the Sciences Mathematicall and Arts Mechanicall or expert Skill of many Causes and effects Naturall â— Such points I say to their affaires and the Perfect Art of Nauigation incidentâ— he very aptly could right willingly wold haue dealt with them in Yf that pinch of tyme wold haue so permitted For it is very euident by his description of the
hollow harted or Hypocriticall freend is worse ten tymes than an open Enemy And in very dede is not to be counted a freend And so may the outward repugnancy of these two sayings aptly be reconciled But proceding in my former purpose you may vnderstand this moreouer that the Second Booke or Volume to this Preface apperteyning will be of more hundred pounds Charges to be prepared for the print in respect of the Tables and Figures therto requisite than you would easily beleue Therfore though there were no warning of Attendance to be giuen to vnderstand the issue of liking or misliking the foresaid zealously collected and as humbly presented Politicall Aduertisement yet this matter of Charges so far passeth my slender hability and withall is so dreadfull to the Printers for feare of great los therby susteining So rare and few mens Studies are in such matters employed that delay on my part is rather that way Constrained And therfore no Order is to be thought vpon by me for the printing therof TYLL A COMFORTABLE AND SVFFICIENT OPPORTVNITY OF SVPPLY DOTH VERY VVELL SERVE THERTO And before I bid thee Farewell my Cuntryman I may yet aduertise thee of one point more whither the sayd Second Volume be euer printed or no That therin is one parcell conteined so contriued and Dedicated vnto the AEternall Royall and Heroicall Honor and Renowm of our Incomparable Gracious QVEENE ELIZABETH that all the whole world ouer yea among the Heathen as well as Christen what language so euer they speake that haue to deale with Hydrography or Dangerous and long voyages by Sea euen they will most thankfully and for euer sing and extoll her marueilous Princely Benefit herein as to them chiefly for her Maiesties sake and Merits imparted who hath bin so constantly fauorable and so gracious a Soueraign Lady vnto the Inuentor therof her most faythfull and obedient Subiect The richest Pyramis at Memphis did neuer so far and so durably spred the Fame and Commendation of the Builders therof as these TABLES GVBERNAVTIKE will win and procure the large loue and good liking of our Elizabeth all the world ouer and while the world endureth to florish The English Title therof is THE BRYTISH QVEENE ELIZABETH HER TABLES GVBERNAVTIK And the same is of many Quires of Paper conteining Now haue I sufficiently for this place tyme giuen vnto you my courteous Cuntryman Aduertisements which I trust you will take in good part thankfully yf in your own Conscience you plainly perceiue◠that all my zealous speech herein bestowed tendeth to the Aduancement of vertue and to the great Benefit and Commodity Publik At an other tyme I hope to haue Comfort and conuenient Opportunitie to impart vnto you other matter for your exceeding good Contentation and great delight also And in the mean space I trust that this my syncere blunt and simple Aduise shall be some Occasion that hensforward this honest Ientleman shal be fully restored to the Integrity of his duly deserued honest Name and Fame And also receyue great Publik Thanks Comfort Ayde of the Whole Brytish State. To the Honor Welfare and Preseruation wherof next vnto his duty doing vnto God he hath directed all the course of his manifold Studies great Trauailes and incredible Costes As both by these his Hexameron Lessons First here for Security of the same spedily Dictated and also by very many other his wordes workes and writings els both in England and other where spoken done communicated and published will or may abundantly be testified And so Fare you well in Christ my Courteous and vnpartiall Cuntryman And for a Remembrance at this our most freendly Farewel take this heauenly Counsail with thee Omnia quaecunque volueritis vt faciant vobis homines sic vos facite illis haec enim est Lex Prophetae Which kinde of skantlin and Measure diuine being before hand and in due tyme layd vnto all our thoughts wordes and dedes may be as a good and familiar Angell vnto vs to help vs to shonne and flie from all sklandrous speeches vsing all malicious or seditious Libels skattring and all other vniust vncharitable dealings yea and from consenting or suffring of the same where we can or ought to redres the Cause And Then the Glory and Peace of God will florish in this BRYTAN MONARCHIE Ouer which so reformed that our most Gracious and Soueraign QVEENE ELIZABETH may very many yeres most prosperously and Triumphantly Raigne it is vndowtedly our bounden duty feruently and full oft by Prayer to request at his hands who is the King of Kings Almighty To whose Protection furderance also most hartily and dutifully I commende the very waighty Case of this Common Wealth not vtterly vnduly or yet out of season I hope in this first booke ensuing somewhat Considered of as in a Preface very nedefull to the BRYTISH COMPLEMENT OF THE PERFECT ARTE OF NAVIGATION And herewith once more I say Adieu and well motest thou Fare my Christian Brother and syncerely beloued Cuntryman Anno Stellae Coelo Demissae rectaque Reuersae Quinto Iulij verò Die. 4. ET Anno Mundi 5540. TO THE RIGHT WORshipfull discrete and singuler fauorer of all good Artes and Sciences M. Christopher Hatton Esquier Capitain of her Maiesties Garde and Ientleman of her priuy Chamber NOt onely my dutifull good will toward your Worship and my great desire to doo some thing beneficiall to this my Natiue Cuntry But allso a certain stinging Indignation agaynst the Impudent Attempt of such as vse wrongfully to challendge to them selues other mens Trauailes and not hable to yeld any Ingenious Inuention of their own haue at this * An. 1576 Augusti 1. present forced me to doo my Indeuor for the publishing of this strange Instrument with the name of the true Inuentor therof annexed And humbly to dedicate my simple Industry herein to your worships protection Trustyng you will the rather accept the same beyng as it were a Crum to my great Contentation faln from his plentifull Table whom I am assured you doo derely and sincerely both loue and esteme as well of your own most curteous disposition toward all men with whom your worship hath to doo as also for sundry his vertues and excellent Skill in many Arts and Sciences Wherewith the highest hath very graciously blessed him For which his habilitie and Talent he is all wayes most humbly thankfull to the onely Author and giuer of all goodnes and wisedome Verely for these 24. yeres at the least I haue had the Ientleman in great admiration As well for his foresayd excellencie in good learning so iudged of long sins by the learned in sundry Nations As for his most ready Curtesie in Communicating or conferring to and with such as duly require his Aduise Opinion or Iudgement in any Science Arte or Practise wherein he hath had any speculation or exercise Such Commendations as these allthough they be great and
herein which by any Letters Patents of the Queenes Maiestie or of her most Noble Progenitors otherwise haue Exemption Priuilege Immunities from paying any Tax or Subsidy c. And likewise of the Inhabitants of the Fiue Ports and euery of their Members And also of the present Inhabitants within the Liberties of Romney Marsh. And therupon good and sufficient Prouiso A Prouiso to be made and established to all and euery of the foresayd extraordinary Ayders that this their discrete and voluntary Contribution shall in no case hereafter be vnto them any thing praeiudiciall or dammageable to their Charter or Priuilege of Immunitie ¶ And this Request with no little Reason The Reason why of those Exempted and Priuileged Places an Extraordinary Ayde is to be requested only this once may be offred to their Courtesies to Consider of Seeing not onely it is for the better and more assured Peace and Tranquillitie enioying ouer all these Kingdomes of England and Ireland and for a marueilous and Incredible wealth and no les Strength procuring to the same But also forasmuch as all the former ordinarily exempted of all Taxes and Subsidies c. shall or may by the continuall Seruice of this Nauy and also by the Threasory therof hereafter be greatly ayded and that peculiarly to the lessening both of their ☜ Charges and also of their ☜ Danger many wayes In respect wherof such Priuileges Immunities and Exemptions were first granted vnto them and continually haue bin and are confirmed So that such their extraordinary Beneuolence shall not seeme merely giuen no nor so chargeable vnto them as lent Good But to be Mony most commodiously for their peculiar Causes and behoof somwhat before hand disbursed ¶ Also yf it were presently known that this Pety-Nauy-Royall vndoutedly should for the foresayd exceeding waighty Respects very shortly be consydered of And with conueniency and Opportunity furdered to the setting furth and vse therof vpon that True and sufficiently warrented Assertion and declaration How many godly Aldermen and other well disposed Marchants of the City of London How many a Marchant Venturer owner Yea how many great Wooll-Maisters Staplers and Clothyers throughout the whole Realm Yea and how many other of all States and Professions wold very charitably in their Legacies Legacies Remember or be contented to be put in mynde of deuout Contribution or Legacy toward the Threasory augmenting for due mayntenance of the foresayd Pety-Nauy-Royall ¶ How many a Bishop Dean and Archdeacon c. With their own hands wold Extraordinarily be example to the Layity of turning Liberally the Mammon of Iniquitie to the preseruation of Publik Tranquillity and the mayntenance of the Politik Security therof against Forreyn fraude and force and all Homish possible Rebellions ¶ But and if the Incredible great and manifold Commodities ensuing therof were but had a yere two or three in proof O Lord What lode wold be layd on then among the Godly wise and hable Subiects to the better mayntenance of a bigger Nauy And of new deuised more warlik Ships How many wold contend with other vertuously to excell herein as zealous Benefactors to the Weale-Publik And so for euer to remayn recorded not in boke onely with pen and Ink marked but in the harts of all Brytish and English Posterity and in their thankfull memories deeply Imprinted Could the deuout zeale and Intent of our forefathers be so Beneficiall to Thousands And without any Commaundement or Request Publik they being then in darknes and beclogged with Superstition most gladly be so liberall to the building of so many fayr Monasteries c. Their decking and Threasory within and enduing with Landes abrode far and nere to their charge of so many Hundred Thousand pownds as now in manner are inestimable And shall we now in the clere Sunne shyne of the pure Truthe and Gospell in the tyme of true Religion ☞ known and obserued As we will be cownted of Shall we I say be either so ignorant how to vse our Liberality Or so colde in Charity or so blynde in foresight Or so priuatly scraping and miserably hoording vp or so thankles and vnfreendly to the Common State of this kingdom Where both our Ancestors haue receyued their life mayntenance and wealth And we our selues no les and are most desyrous that our Childern Wiues freends and Posterity should enioy as great Commodities by means of the Publik Society and the Ciuill Communalty being preserued in Secure Tranquillity Shall we I pray you in vertuous zeale and Liberality and chiefly in these our Respects of very needfull and certayn very Godly and great Commodities enioying be far Inferior to them in their Respects such as they were We being in wealth and Reuenues also far Richer now than they then were God forbyd that so great disorder and lack of discretion should be to be suspected now or to be douted of in the people and Subiects of this Godly wise and rich Kingdom ¶ And How can any Man reasonably doubt of the Hability of so mighty a kingdom to set furth and maynteyn most easily only Three or Fowrscore Tall and Warlik Ships Where so many Thowsand Thousands of folks are Contrybuters to the Charges requisite Seeing only Forty or Fifty worthy Subiects of their own pryuate Hability doo very easily and in manner contynually Maynteyn in trade at Sea so many and more such tall Ships And the same well Appoynted well vittayled well Manned and they Duly payd And chiefly Seeing Such a Pety-Nauy-Royall of Threescore Tall Ships The Pety-Nauy-Royall and eche of them betwene eightscore and two hundred Tun of Burden And Twenty other smaller Barks betwene 20 and 50 Tun may be new made very strong and Warlike and all well vittayled for Six Thowsand Six hundred and Sixty Men and those Men Liberally waged And both Ships and Men to all needfull purposes sufficiently appoynted and so maynteyned continually and that very Royally FOR EVER for les then Two Hundred Thowsand Pownds Charges YERELY sustayned The yeerely Charges of the Pety-Nauy-Royall Will be les than 200000. Pownds Yerely ¶ Moreouer In Respect of farder by-help toward the Charges maintayning Yt is not to be forgotten or neglected that for a while at the first and perchance now and then afterward this Nauy is likely to mete with and to Sease vpon Diuers Pyrats and Rouers Pyrats Goods who either at broader Seas you may ges where or els nerer hand haue made Rauening hauock And now they and their Goods Threasor Ships and all will fall into the hands of Our Pety-Nauy-Royall or some parte therof Mary herein my Instructor wisheth some Iust and needfull Order to be prouided and kept inuiolably That such Ships Goods Threasor c should not rashly greedily or disorderly be dealt withall As though we our selues also would be come Parteners with Theeues where now we are BY GOD AND OVR GOOD QVEENE constituted as Discrete Iusticers faithfull Reformers of manifold Wrongs at
them Away with them Away with them Who so abhominably conuert Mans Meat to the Feeding of * Much lyke Disorders haue heretofore byn vsed about Oâ—sord Hauen in the County of Suffolk Read the Statute made Annâ— 4 Henriâ—â— 7. Cap. 21. 1. Swyne And Otherwhile 2. Bury some of their vnlawfull Spoyle of Fry and young Fish in the Shores of the Thames and Otherwhere God of his infinite Goodnes sendeth vs Yerely Euident Tokens of the great Habundance of this kynde of good Vittailes prepared purposely for this parte of this Brytish Albion But these Trynker-Men Cast Incredible Much of such a Threasor before their Swyne to Battle them withall And are by that meanes great Hynderers botâ— to the Wealth and Reliefe Publik and also to the Glory of God Who wold be Duly Glorifyed and Praysed of many a Thowsand of the Rich and Poore who should be Serued Pleasured and Relieued with the great Habundance of the Dyuers sorts of good and wholesome Fish Swarming in this Incomparable Riuer of Thames from the one end therof to the other in very mayn Skulls Yf these Publik Enemies of God and Man did not more than Barbarously and les than Christianlike vtterly spoyle and wickedly tred vnder their feet such a Blessing and liberall Gift of our GOD and most louing heauenly father profered vnto vs and in manner put into our hands Very much more abhominable and more vnreasonable is the wickednes of these Trinker-men than was the Disorder heretofore and till of late committed in Ireland where the Inhabitants of diuers Cities and Towns adioyning nere to Riuers that do Eb and Flow in which Riuers the Fry of Salmon Ele and other Commodious Fish are bred and nourished did kepe great heards and numbers of Swyne which at low water they do or till of late did lead of suffer to fede vpon the Strands of the sayd Riuers where they do or did destroy great Quantity of Salmon and Ele Fry and of diuers other good Fishes to the great hurt and hindrance of Fishing and the exceeding great dammage of the Common-Wealth As by the Act made against the same at Dublyn Anno vndecimo of our most Gracious Souerayn Lady Queene Elizabeth more at large may appere And at this present I am the bolder to expres my Instructor his feruency against the Trinker-Men their haynous endammaging of the Publik-wealth of this Kingdom Seeing for abowt an Hundred and Fifty yeres ago the whole Body of this Realm by their Parlement Senators left vnto vs worthy Record of their vigilant Eye to finde out such Offences and their Politik Prouiso by very good Iustice either to Cut of the Cause of so greuous hindrance to the Common-wealth or discreetly to punish the fact so often as it should be Committed with a Hundred Shillings to be Forfetted to the King. In the Second yere of King Henry the Sixth these are the wordes of the Statute to our purpose prudently established CAP. XV. The Statute against Trinker-Men for Euer enduring ITem it is Ordeined that the Standing of Nets and Engins called Trinks and all other manner of Nets which be and were wont to be fastened and hanged continually day and night by a certayn tyme in the yere to great Posts Boats and Anchors ouerthwart the Riuer of Thames and other Riuers of the Realm which Standing is a Cause and an Occasion of as great and more destruction of the Broode and Fry of Fish and Disturbance of the Common Passage of vessels as be the Weares Kyddels or any other Engins be wholy defended for EVER And that euery Person that so setteth or fastneth them from henceforth to such Posts Boats and Anchors or like thing continually to Stand as afore is sayd and be duly therof by the Cours of the Law conuict he shall forfait to the king C.S. at euery tyme that he is so proued in Default Prouided alwayes that it shall be lawfull to the Possessors of the sayd Trinks if they be of * Which comonly are so vnlawfull that of a Bushell of Wheat thrown into the Stream nere before the Net Three Pecks of the same or the half may be stayed in the Hose or Cod therof as Honest Men full many will Auouche Assise to Fish with them in all seasonable tymes Drawing and conueying them by Hand as other Fishers do other Netts and not fastning or tacking the sayd Netts to the Posts Boats and Anchors continually to Stand as afore is sayd Sauing alwayes to euery of the Kings liege People their Right Title and Enheritance in their Fishings in the sayd Water But what shall any Zealous Louer of Iustice and good Publik Policy say or think herein Seeing so long ago so Iust sufficient and easy a Remedy was prouided against these Trink-Boats 1. aswell for the manifold Cumber Danger and Dammage happening by them to such as should and did pas Vp or Down vpon the Thames by Day and chiefly in the Dark Nights and Foggy Weather As also against the exceeding great Publik-Dammage to the Naturall and Ordinary Encrease of very good Fish of diuers sorts wilfully and very vngodly procured by the sayd Trinker-men hath byn no better regarded And seeing 2. Sutes in the Law haue byn in our dayes commenced and followed by vertue of the sayd Act against the sayd Trinker-men And they therupon Condemned And yet that notwithstanding their vnlawfull Practises still are continued And Thirdly Seeing before our Eyes the Dammage to the Common-wealth and the incredible hinderance to that plenty of Vittailes finding and enioying which God hath prepared for vs is by these Trinker-men procured more now than euer before most vnlawfully and fraudulently etiam cum Calumnia quadam to the Pitifull Clemency and the very great Lenity vsed toward them Therfore Seeing I saye that Neither the foresayd very good Law can feare them Nor the Amercements as they are vsed do sufficiently pinch thâ—m Nor the manifold iust Complaynts besides Costly Sutes made and had against these Trinker-Men are yet of sufficient effect to the poore Commons to be vsed herein according to the Lawes of this Realm But that they remayn remedyles yet and are euidently Spoyled yerely of an incredible great Publik Benefit by these Trinkerly disordred and vnlawfull Fishings as before is declared How can I hope that vpon this very brief and simple Aduertisement of my Instructor These Trink-Nets shall vtterly and speedily be cut of ☜ without any longer sinister means to be vsed by any Subiects to beard check-mate or to deface so commendable and needfull a Statute as that is which before is expressed against the Standing of any Trink-Nets But yet for all that such is my Confidence in the goodnes of her most excellent Maiesty and so assured I am her Maiesties hart to be fraught with pitifull Compassion on the Lamentable and due Complaynts made of the great and excessiue hynderance and dammage to her Commons and Subiects wealth and relief And likewise so well are we
Mense Veritas vt fertur Odium parit Aâ—l â—antùm id fit apud Veritatis â—sores ipsi etiam Omnipotenti exâ—sos Deo. * Cur quidem â—ide◠〈…〉 quae esâ—â—n oculo fratris tui Trabâ—m aâ—tem quae esâ— in oculo â—â—o non aâ—â—madâ—â—â—tis Math. 7 * Legas relegas librum Quintum Politicorum Aristotelis As 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â— Cooâ— câ— * A good Name is more to be desired than great riches Prouerb 22. A good Name is moâ—e worth then precious oyntment Eccles. 7. If you will Read his Digression Apologeticall conâ—eyned in his Mathematical Preface to the English Euclide Imprinted Aâ—â— 1570. you may the better vnderstand this point of this brief Aduertisement Oh A damnable sklaunder vtterly vntrue in the whole in euery worde and part therof as before the King of Kings will appere at the dreadfull day * Esaiae 14. * Esaiae 14. Solomon in Ecclesiasâ—es cap. 4. So I turned me and considered all the viâ—lent wrong that is done vnâ—er the Sunne â—nd Behold the teareâ— of such as were oppressed and there was No Man to comfort them Or that would deliuer defend them from the violence of their Oppressours Solomon in Ecclesiasâ—es cap. 4. So I turned me and considered all the viâ—lent wrong that is done vnâ—er the Sunne â—nd Behold the teareâ— of such as were oppressed and there was No Man to comfort them Or that would deliuer defend them from the violence of their Oppressours Solomon in Ecclesiasâ—es cap. 4. So I turned me and considered all the viâ—lent wrong that is done vnâ—er the Sunne â—nd Behold the teareâ— of such as were oppressed and there was No Man to comfort them Or that would deliuer defend them from the violence of their Oppressours The chiâ—f occasiâ—â— of thiâ— Aduâ—â—tisement giuing * Aº 1564. * Aº 1558. In Iuly First printed * Aº 1574. In August At Mortlack * Aº 1575. In march At Mortlack * The true Copy of these Letters sent to D. Boner Bishop of London AFter our harty Commendations to your good L. the King and Queenes Maiesties pleasures is you shall cause Iohn Dee committed to your L. Custody to be brought before some Master of the Chauncery and there bound to be of good abearing and forth comming when he shall be called for betwixt this and Christmas nextâ— And therupon to set him at libertie Wherof we pray you not to faile And so we bid the same hartily Farewell From Grenewich the xxix of August 1555. Your L. louing frendes Ste. Winton Cancell W. Rochester Thomas Ely. Io. Bourn Iohn Baker Francis E. Waldegraue Engerfeld * As may sufficiently appeare by these few places taken out of some of his letters Doctissimo probaeque Indolis Dnº. Ioanni Deeo suo Intimo OCcupatiuncula me hactenus domidetinuere c. Quas de Aeris mutatione concepisti causas ne relinquas ore c. Ex Diuersorio raptim 30. Octob. 1553. Tuus si suâ—s I-F van Offhuysen And agayne Suo charissimo Dnº. Ioanni Deeo Hâ—is proximis diebus c. Hypothesibus ad Astrologiam confirmandam quaso seriò Des vt caepists operam Syderum sedes spero te vteunque certas à me accepturum saltem eorum qua per nos obseruata fuere quandoque c. Vale. 6. Nouemb. 1553. Tuus Offhuysius And agayne DOmine si non queas incommodè carere Ephemeridibus prasentis anni obsecro mitte Et de tuis intelligamus studijs Ego diligenter planto sydera Spero dum tuae creuerint quas concepisti Hypotheses aliquid boni seminis nos collecturos Vale fâ—elix Tuus Offhuysius * M. Steuen and M. William Borowgh two of the chief Moscouy Pilots after the incomparable M. Richard Chancelor his death can be sufficient witnesses alsoâ— * An Iniurious Brag. The volumes of Rare Memorials by what â—ccasion they became to be written first * The brief Argument of the Pâ—efâ—ce or first booke of the Geneâ—al Raâ—e Memorials Perpetuall Politik Securitie is to be soâ—ght for but not â—luggiâ—h and râ—chleâ— Securitie which is the ouerthrow of many a noble Kingdom ☜ The Title and brief Argument of the Second Volume The Third Booke suppressed The Fourth Volume ☞ * In which space of tyme he hath aduisedly spent aboue Thirty Hundred pounds for learning of worthy Knowledges Sciences to the Honor of God aduancing far and nere and the better enhabling of himself to pleasure his Natiue CuÌ„try aboue all otherâ— The Fruit and end of Naturall Philosophy being vsed as Christen men ought to vse it ☞ Alexander Aristotle * The wordes of a sklanderâ—r are very woundâ— and go through vnto the innermost partes of the Body Prouerb 18. A PETY NAVY ROYALL continually to be mainteyned without the Queenes Maiestie Charges or any vnpleasant Burden to the Commons * Exceptis Excipiendis aâ—t illis quidem paâ—cissimis * Exceptis Excipiendis aâ—t illis quidem paâ—cissimis ☞ * Till than A strange Monument Dedicated to the AEternall and Heroical Renowm of our Queene her most Excellent Maiestie A Treasor incomparable for the Arte Gubernaâ—tik and for very many other Experiences * Da operam vt Famatua integra sit Haec enim durabilior quà m Mille Thesauri Vita quam vis bona ad breue exiguunique teÌ„pus durat Bonum ver Nomen ad perpetuitatem stabile est Iesus Sirâ—cida cap. 41. Math. 7. * The first Book here following is but as it were a Preface To the Second conteyning in it the Art to this kingdome most beneficiall if it might be duely vsed PRINTED AT LONDON BY IOHN Daye Anno 1577. In Septemb. Cum Priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVL M. CHRISTOPHER Hatton Esquyer Capitayn of her Maiesties Garde and Ientleman of her Priuy Chamber YF Priuat wealth be leef and deere To any VVight of Brytish Soyl Ought Publik Weale haue any peere To that is due all Wealth and Toyl Wherof such Lore as I of Anno. 1576. late Haue lernd and for Security By Godly means to Garde this State To you I send now carefully Vnto the Gardians most wise And Sacred Senat or Chief Powr I durst not offer this Aduise So homely writ for fear of Lowr But at your will and discreet choyce To keep by you or to imparte I leaue this zealous Publik voyce You will accept so simple parte M'Instructors freend did warrant me You would so do as he did his That E. D. Esq. Redy freend can witnes be For Higher States what written is Of Gratefulnes due Argument Yf greeuous wound of sklandrous Darte At length to cure they will be bent M'Instructor then will doo his parte In ernest wise I know right well No Merit shall forgotten ly Thus much I thought was good to tell God graunt you Blis aboue the Sky