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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42948	The man in the moone, or, A discourse of a voyage thither by F.G., B. of H. ; to which is added Nuncius inanimatus, written in Latin by the same author, and now Englished by a person of worth.	Godwin, Francis, 1562-1633.	1657 (1657)	Wing G970; ESTC R35701	46,142	175

setting up But fearing I would spend it as lightly as I got it they did never leave importuning me till I must needs marry the daughter of a Portugais a Merchant of Lisbon a man of great wealth and dealings called John Figueres Therein I satisfied their desire and putting ●ot onely my marriage money but also a good part of mine own Stock into the hands of my Father in Law or such as he wished me unto I lived in good sort even like a Gentleman with great content for divers years At last it fell out that some disagreement happened between me and one Pedro Delgades a Gentleman of my kin the causes whereof are needless to be related but so farr this dissention grew between us as when no mediation of friends could appease the s●me into the field we went together alone with our Rapiers where my chance was to kill him being a man of great strength and tall stature But what I wan●ed of him in strength I supplyed with courage and my nimbleness more than countervailed his stature This fact being committed in Carmona I fled with all the speed I could to Lisbone thinking to lurk with some friend of my Father in laws till the matter might be compounded and a course taken for a sentence of Acquittall by consent of the prosecutors This matter fell out in the Year 1596. even at that time that a certain great Count of ours came home from the West Indies in triumphant manner boasting and sending out his declarations in print of a great victory he had obtained against the English near the Isle of Pines Whereas the truth is he got of the English nothing at all in that Voyage but blowes and a great loss Would to God that lying and Vanit●e had been all the faults he had his convetousness was like to by my utter undoing although since it hath proved a means of eternizing my name for ever with all Posterity I verily hope and to the unspeakable good of all mortall men that in succeeding ages the World shall have if at the leastwise it may please God that I do return safe home a●●●● into my Countrie to give perfect instructions how those admirable devices and past all credit of possibility which I have light upon may be imparted unto publique use You shall then see men to flie from place to place in the ayre you shall be able without moving or travelling of any creature to send messages in an instant many Miles off and receive answer again imediately you shall be able to declare your minde presently unto your friend being in some private and remote place of a populous Citie with a number of such like things but that which far surpasseth all the rest you shall have notice of a new World of many most rare and incredible secrets of Nature that all the Philosophers of former ages could never so much as dream off But I must be adv●sed how I be over liberall in publishing these wonderfull mysteryes till the Sages of our State have considered how farr the use of these things may stand with the Policy and good government of our Countrey as also with the Fathers of the Church how the publication of them may not prove prejudiciall to the affairs of the Catholique Faith and Religion which I am taught by those wonders I have seen above any mortall man that hath lived in many ages past with all my best endeavours to advance without all respect of temporall good and so I hope I shall But to go forward with my narration so it was that the bragging Captain above named made shew of great discontentment for the death of the said Delgades who was indeed some kin unto him Howbeit he would have been intreated so that I would have given him no less than 1000. Ducats for his share to have put up his Pipes and surceased all suit in his Kinsmans behalfe I had by this time besides a wife two sonns whom I liked not to beggar by satisfying the desire of this covetous br●ggart and the rest and therefore constrained of necessity to take another course I put my self in a good Carick that went for the East Indies taking with me the worth of 2000. Ducats to traffique withall being yet able to leave so much more for the estate of my wife and children whatsoever might become of me and the goods I carried with me In the Indies I prospered exceeding well bestowing my stock in Jewells namely for the most part in Diamonds Emeraulds and great Pearl of which I had such peniworths as my stock being safely returned into Spain so I heard it was must needs yield ten for one But my self upon my way homeward soone after we had doubled the East of Buena Speranza fell grievously sick for many dayes making account by the same sickness to end my life as undoubtedly I had done had we no even then as we did recovered th● same blessed Isle of S. Hellen the only paradice I think that the Earth yieldeth of the healthfullness of the Aire there the fruitfullness of the soile and the abundance of all manner of things necessary for sustaining the life of man what should I speak seeing there is scant a boy in all Spain that hath not heard of the same I cannot but wonder that our King in his wisdome hath not thought fit to plant a Colony and to fortifie in it being a place so necessary for refreshing of all ●●● vellers out of the Indies so as it ●●● hardly possible to make a Voyage thence without touching there It is situate in the Altitude of 16. degrees to the South and is about 3. leagues in compass having no firm land or continent within 300. leagues nay not so much as an Island within 100. leagues of the same so that it may seeme a miracle of Nature that out of so huge and tempestuous an Ocean such a little piece of ground should arise and discover it self● Upon ●he South side there is a very good harbo●ough and near unto the same divers edifices built by the Portingals to entertain passengers amongst the which there is a pretty Chappell handsomly beautifyed with a Tower having a fair Bell in the same Near unto this housing there is a pretty Brook of excellent fresh water divers faire walkes made b● hand and set along upon both sides with fruit-Trees especially Oranges Limmons Pomgranats Almonds and the like which bear Fruit all the year long as do also the Fig-Trees Vines Pear-Trees whereof there are divers sorts Palmitos Cocos Olives Plumms also I have seen there such as we call Damaxaelas but few as for Apples I dare say there are none at all of garden Hearbs there is good store as of Parsly Cole-worts Rosemary Mellons Gourds Lettice and the like Corn likewise growing of it self incredible plenty as Wheate Pease Barley and almost all kind of Pulse but chiefly it aboundeth with Cattle and Fowle as Goates Swine Sheepe and Horses Partridges wild

means we finde sometimes a thing may be made known in a short space but it is allwaies done by Birds who are the Carriers whereas we promise to exhibit an Inter-Nuncio who is not a Bird neither is he winged no not so much as a living Creature and yet notwithstanding by many degrees goes beyond any creature whatsoever though never so swift in celerity of motion 9 That invention of theirs cometh somewhat nigh to our purpose who by fires that were kindled in the night and by smoke in the day which may be perceived in a short space of time did declare their intents to their friends that were far distant Thus did the Grecians when they were at Chios to their Confederates who pitched their Tents at Artemisium and Mardonius the Persian from Athens even to Asia as it is asserted by Herodotus 10 Yet they as much as I perceive could not shew by these signes every thing which was expedient but onely that one thing about which they had agreed before among themselves that Athens was taken in that moment of time or that there was a marching down into the Enemies Quarters just then when in those places they had either kindled a fire or raised a smoke 11 For my part I think that to be a more ingenuous exploit of the Tybereans related by Suetonius who at the same time when this wicked Monster rioted in the Island of Caprea and then chiefely when he endeavoured to curbe the haughty spirit of Sejanus commanded signalls to be erected afar off lest the Messengers should slack their speed to be lifted up higher that he might understand before-hand what was done whose words seem to intimate thus much that Tyberius devised this way that he himself dwelling in the Island might understand all things nedful to be known by these Signes that were then lifted up in the Continent or Main land 12 In which particular if I am not much mistaken it is easily to be admired how it comes to pass that this kind of art thus declaring the very secrets of our minde without the help of any Messenger to those that are absent a great way from us should alltogether decay in this our Europe or at least should from that time to this never be used as I finde in reading Classick Histories 13 I say in this our Europe for it is most certain that even to this day it is in great perfection among the Cathayans as appears by the testimony of Augerius Busbequius to doubt of whose fidellity would be allmost Piacular unless he leaned on another mans credit hear himself thus speaking 14 After the travell of many a month we came at last to the very straights and skirts of the Kingdom of Cathay for a good part of the Dominions of the King of Cathay is Mediterranean encompassed with sleep and untractable Mountains and dangerous Rocks neither can any one enter into it but by the narrow passages thereof which are kept by the Kings Garrison there the Merchants are questioned what they bring from whence they come and how many there are of them which being known the Watchmen appointed by the King shew it in the day time by smoke in the night by fire to the next high hill that in like manner to the next and so one after another so that in the space of a few houres which a Messenger could not do in many daies newes is brought to the King of Cathay of the arivall of those Merchants who answers with the like swiftness and in the same manner whether it stands with his good pleasure that all should be admitted or that they should partly be excluded or deferred 15 Our Ancestors were not ignorant that from high Hills of this kind which we in England call Beacons a thing might be made manifest from whom also we have derived this custome that by their help we give notice of the invasion of a forein Enemy But by by this means onely particularly to relate the exact number of Men and Beasts Nation Merchandize and things needfull to be known seems to be a more abstruse and difficult work than as I think to be performed by the subtilty of a barbarous Nation alltogether ignorant of Philosophy aswell Humane as Divine And let this suffice to be spoken about Sight which not without just cause the Prince of Orators stiles the sharpest of all the Senses 16 That now we may pass from the eys the ears by reading hitherto I have not yet found any way either invented by the Ancients or put in practise by any of our time whereby a man that is a far distant may receive notice of any business by the benefit of this sense unless by the speech of the Messenger that goes to each 17 Yet to this belongeth that which Mr. Cambden the Son of all Antiquity especially of our British hath exposed to publick view in these words The Inhabitants of the Picts Wall which Severus built at the Northerne part of England do report that there was a brazen Pipe put into the wall with that rare artifice that it run through each Tower and Castell Pieces whereof they now and then find that if any one did but sound his voyce into it let him be in what Tower soever presently the sound went into the next and so to the third so that the sound passed through each of them without any interruption to signify where about they feared the assault of the enemy Xiphiline in the life of Severus relates a wonder of the same kind in the Towers of Constantinople but whereas saith he the Wall is now demolished and the Pipe is not to be found many here on every side hold their Lands of our Kings successively in Cornage as the Lawyers phrase is that by the sound of a Horne they should signifie to their neighbours the irruptions of an Enemic which some think to be borrowed from the old Roman custome thus far Cambden who in these words hath comprised all the inventions of the Ancients tending to this end 18 Perchance it will not be altogether impertinent that after we have spoken somewhat about seeing and hearing we should say a little about touching by the help of which sense that any thing should be signified to them that are afar off especially without a Messenger is not yet asserted of any one as I think neither doth it seem credible but for my part I dare say that it may be done and that with ease at the distance of a mile or perchance two although I have not tryed the verity thereof by any experiment and I list not to say whether it wil be worth our labour for the future 19 But that which concernes those senses to wit of seeing and hearing I dare say and do confidently assert that a man skilfull in this art may tell whatsoever he pleases or thinks may conduce to his good to another that is afar off if a like skilfull if he be within a quarter of a

mile though besieged or lying hid or perchance detained in any place which is not directly knowne to him that sends the tydings and if knowne yet not to be gone to Let nobody come near him secure the body in a prison let the hands be bound hoodwink the face but be not trouble some any other way and he shall understand the words of his absent friends if this liberty be not taken away from him that he may be able to do those things which are wont sometimes to be done by Freemen or may do them without fear or danger 20 I say moreover that if the place be known where a friend resides to whom our message should be brought and if both enjoy a full liberty the causes being before agreed upon which conduce to the disposition of the meanes any thing may be told to such a friend without any Messenger going between each or any living creature though he be a hundred nay perchance a thousand miles off and that in a short space of time perchance an hour or it may be somewhat less 21 These things some whisperingly say are strange and wonderfull but they are not so soone to be believed but doth this seeme so wonderfull and uncredible You have yet but this only in the Genus and Species behold an individuall is presented to thy eyes which thou wilt less believe Tell unto this my Nuncio at London in as few words as may be what you desire may be told to me dwelling at Bristol Wells or if you will rather at Exeter for I do not much regard the length of the way so it is but passable I say tell him at London and that just about noone any one whole verse of the sacred Scripture I will see that he shall perform our commands in the designed place marke what I say before the high noone of the same day 22 Do not rashly pronounce this proposall impossible for the course of the Sun makes the noone later by some minutes at Bristol than at London this it is you may wonder at that this Messenger should exceed the heavenly motion thereof in swiftness This he will do will do it I say if there be need or else I am the vainest person of all that know how either to speake or write 23 What speak I of Towers or Cities that are besieged our inanimate Nuncio not fearing any thing will pass through whole troops of enemies A trench digg'd almost as low as hell or a wall though higher than those of Babylon shall not hinder his journey but he will faithfully performe the message so it be in as concise termes as may be of him that sent him though besieged or whether he would have it told to him that is besieged and that with such an incredible swiftnes if he be to be found within 5. or 7. miles though I doubt not but it may be done effectually within 20. miles 24 You have here 3. promises of this my Nuncio presented to your consideration perchance it will be worth our while to shew how they differ among themselv's for perspicuities sake 25 In the first I set forth the subtlety of deceiving in the 2 d. the swiftness of its passage in the 3 d. it s unconquered power and strength in penetrating all things 26 That in the first place will easily be performed without any cost or labour of any one save him that sends but it hath this inconvenience that its frequent use will not be free from suspition 27 That in the second place is very often effected without any help from others and in some places almost without any charge but for the most part it will do little or nothing without preparation and that such that for each mile it will cost five pounds more or less if it be designed for perpetual use and nothing can be done without the countenance and authority of the Magistrate who can easily if he please hinder our Nuncios journey 28 As concerning the third truely it requireth no great charge but it must be observed that he that doth act be setled in a place without danger and that not too far distant where he may resist his enemies force untill he hath perfected his work and here we must not deny that the condition of him that sends in than of him that sends out is the worst 29 You seem to me O Reader to ask by what sense a friend may perceive those things that are to be told for the senses are the guard Interpreters and Messengers of the Understanding so Cicero by which alone we come to understand I answer somtimes by hearing and sometimes by sight You ask a reason how you shall have it in few terms and perchance not so clearly but that you require examples 30 If you desire to represent any thing to the eyes of your absent friend I say absent and at a great distance sooner than any sublunary body can come to the place that is separated by so long an intervall for I undertake that we must see that the Idaeas or visible forms be increased in quantity multiplyed in number and be varied according to the variety of the things to be signified in quality quantity position or order 31 There is none but knowes that nothing can be perceived by the eares without a sound it is therefore necessary that he to whom any thing is to be declared by the mediation of hearing should heare those sounds and those must be distinguished according to the number of the things to be heard which because they are infinite the variety of sounds that are to be echoed forth must be infinite also nevertheless it will be sufficient that they be distinguished either in the kind or time manner and number 32 He that shall rightly understand and by examples they are more clear than the Sun in its meridian splendor how sounds of this nature are reported to a place far distant will never question the verity hereof 33 And here lest any one should timerously suspect these things to be effected by unlawfull and condemned arts in the presence of that God who is both the greatest and the best I protest and openly denounce that this discipline contains in it nothing that is unlawfull or that is contrary to the Laws either of God or man and that many things are done by the help of Arithmetick Geometry and Musick the rest if not by usuall yet by lawfull means and that at a very small cost I had almost said none at all for certainly many things may be performed in this kind without the least expence or loss that can be imagined 34 And seeing that it is so I leave it to the judgment of those that are judicious to consider how much and how far these our inventions may be profitable to the Common-wealth for the future if they are defective let them dye and as untimely birth let them not see the light or if they chance to see the light let them not enjoy a little but forthwith let them vanish into nothing 35 Yet I my self think the use of this art to be very great as well in times of Peace as War and I thought it my duty to bestow some pains in the delivery thereof which I will not do so willingly lest that when it shall be made known to many we cannot use or practise these things in their due time FINIS These Books are lately printed and are sold at the Kings Arms in Pauls Church-yard The Administration of Cardinall Richelieu containing the History of the most important Affairs of Christendom more particularly of England from A●no 1624. to 1634. A Collection out of the best approved Authors containing near six hundred severall Histories of Visions Apparitions Prophecies Sp●its Divinations and other wonderfull Illusions of the Devill also of dive●s Astrological Predictions The Man in the Moon or a discourse of a Voyage into the Moon by Domingo Gonsales Also Nuncius Inanimatus Englished A Restitution of decayed intelligence in Antiquities concerning the English Nation by the Study and Travell of Richard Verstegan The History and Character of the Bishops in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James written by Sir John Harrington The Magistrates Authority in matters of Religion O● the right of the State in the Church ● Discourse written by the learned Hugo Grotius Of Government and Obedience as they stand directed and determined by Scripture and Reason Four Books by John Hall of Richmond Two Play 's of Mr. James Sbirley The ' constant Maid a Comedy and St. Patrick for Ireland That Excellent Tragedy of Bussie D● Ambois written by M● George Chapman The Philosophy commonly called the Morals written by the learned Philosopher Plutarch The Indian History of Anaxander and Orazia ' written in French by Monsicur de Bois Robert and translated by W. G. Esq Nat. Hist. lib. 10. Cap. 24. Pl. lbid Pl. lib. ●● Cap. 37. Itin. ter S. moct 28. 1483