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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50610	The voyages and adventures of Fernand Mendez Pinto, a Portugal, during his travels for the space of one and twenty years in the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East-Indiaes with a relation and description of most of the places thereof, their religion, laws, riches, customs, and government in time of peace and war : where he five times suffered shipwrack, was sixteen times sold, and thirteen times made a slave / written originally by himself in the Portugal tongue and dedicated to the Majesty of Philip King of Spain ; done into English by H.C. Gent.; Peregrina cam. English	Pinto, Fernão Mendes, d. 1583.; Cogan, Henry.	1653 (1653)	Wing M1705; ESTC R18200	581,181	334

THE VOYAGES AND ADVENTURES OF Fernand Mendez Pinto A Portugal During his TRAVELS for the space of one and twenty years in The Kingdoms of Ethiopia China Tartaria Cauchinchina Calaminham Siam Pegu Japan and a great part of the East-Indiaes With a Relation and Description of most of the Places thereof their Religion Laws Riches Customs and Government in time of Peace and War Where he five times suffered Shipwrack was sixteen times sold and thirteen times made a Slave Written Originally by himself in the Portugal Tongue and Dedicated to the Majesty of Philip King of Spain Done into English by H. C. Gent. LONDON Printed by I. Macock for Henry Cripps and Lodowick Lloyd and are to be sold at their shop in Popes head Alley neer Lumbar-street 1653. TO THE Right Noble Lord and worthy of all Honor William Earl of Strafford Vicount Wentworth Baron Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse Newmarsh Oversley and Raby My Lord PVrchas a Writer of good credit here in England gives this testimony of my Author that no man before him to his knowledg hath spoken so much and so truly of those Oriental parts of the World which are so little known to us as he hath done And that too not upon hearsay and report but for the most part as an ocular Witness and personal Actor of and in all that he hath related which is so full of Variety and strange Occurrences that as another Writer affirms the like will hardly be met withall elsewhere So that the most curious Wits which delight in reading of rare Books will I beleeve find all the satisfaction they can desire in this same of his where without so much as stirring out of their Studies or running the danger of Shipwrack they may traverse the Seas view the goodliest Provinces of the World entertain themselves with stupendious and unheard●of things consider in the manner of those peoples living whom we term Barbarians their Laws their Riches their Government in time of Peace and War and in a word represent unto themselves as in a picture all that is most exquisite and of greatest marvel in the extent of Europe Affrica and Asia These together with many other remarkable matters are contained in this Work which I have taken the presumption to present unto your Honor being invited thereunto by the example of two Translators of it into the Spanish and French Tongues whereof the one dedicated it to the Archbishop of Toledo in Spain and the other to the Cardinal Richelieu of France both of them the most eminent persons of their time in those Kingdoms And with whom your Honor may justly be ranked especially in respect of the Nobility of your Birth as well as for the great Hope which your many present Vertues and Abilities do give unto the World of your future Worth and Estimation Be pleased then my Lord to receive it favorably as a tender of the great desire I have to appear in all occasions Your Honors most humble and devoted Servant HENRY COGAN AN Apologetical Defence OF FERNAND MENDEZ PINTO HIS HISTORY IF it be true that Authors do render themselvs commendable by their Works there is no doubt but that Fernand Mendez Pinto hath by this same of his justly acquired such reputation as will make him be esteemed for ever He was a man of a strong wit and sound judgment and indued with a most rare and extraordinary memory as appears in the Relation of his Voyages and Adventures which sufficiently testifie how far he excelled therein retaining in his remembrance an infinitie of such strange and wonderful things whereof to his cost he was for the most part an eye witness as many great Personages of Asia and Europe took no little delight in hearing him recount them especially Philip the second King of Spain who at several times spent many houres in discoursing with him there about which questionless he would never have done being a Prince in the opinion of all the world of a most exact and profound judgment had he not been verily perswaded that what he delivered was true Nevertheless since there may be some who in regard of the stupendious things which he delivers wil seem to give no credit thereunto I have held it very necessary to cite here many several authentick Authors that in their writings have confirmed the verity of his Narrations as followeth Of the Riches and Grandeurs of these Orientall Countries and perticularly of the Kingdome of China Nicholas Trigault the Iesuite treates diffusedly in his book intituled De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas in the first part thereof principally in the 6 th Chapter Gasper de la Cruz in his book of China the third fourth fifth and nineteen Chapters John de Lucena in the life of Francis Xavier the Iesuite in the tenth Book from the seventeenth to the twenty fourth Chapter Anthony Galuan in his Treatise of the Discovery of those Parts fol. 39. and in his History of Florida Mendoza in his History of China the second Chapter of the third Book Trigault in his first Book the seventh Chapter Palatii Regis Doctor Babia in the third part of his Pontifical History the 18 Chapter in the life of Sixtus Quintus Boterus in his Relations John de Sanctis in his Orientall Aethiopian History Chap. 8. and in the Ecclesiastical History of Rebullosa Ribadeneyra Mathew and Lewes Gusman in divers Chapters of the Orientall Histories Josephus de Acosta Peter of Leon Zarate Michael Vazquez de Padilla Peter Martyr Cefas Bishop of Chiapa Francesco Lopez de Gomorra Hierosme du Pré Ferdinand de Cordoua Hierosme Romain Illescas Antonio de Herrera Pineda Prudentius de Sandobal and Garcilasso in divers places of his Royal Commentaries and in the 20 th Chapter of his third Book Touching that which Fernand Mendez writes of the Governors of those Kingdomes of the strict observation of Iustice of the Names of the Iudges Vice-Royes Magistrates Captains Governours and Ministers of the State Boterus in his universal Relations sayes the same Trigault in divers places particularly in the sixth Chapter of the first book de Senensis Reipublicae administratione Gaspar de la Cruz in the 16.17.18 and 19. Chapters Babia in the third page of his Ponticall book in the life of Sixtus Quintus Lucena in the life of Francis Xavier the tenth book Mendoza in the ninth and tenth chapters of his third Book and in many other Chapters of his new world Mafeus in his Oriental History and in the Letters of China written by Guerrier the Iesuit Concerning the great number of prisons and other particularities the same may be seen at large in the History of China Mendoza in the twelfth Chapter of his first book Gaspar de la Cruz Chapter ninth and twenty second Trigault in divers places of his History Lucena in the twenty first Chapter of his tenth book and Alexander Valignario in his Letters missive That which he speaks of the great multitudes of people that are in those Countries