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A71305	Purchas his pilgrimes. part 3 In fiue bookes. The first, contayning the voyages and peregrinations made by ancient kings, patriarkes, apostles, philosophers, and others, to and thorow the remoter parts of the knowne world: enquiries also of languages and religions, especially of the moderne diuersified professions of Christianitie. The second, a description of all the circum-nauigations of the globe. The third, nauigations and voyages of English-men, alongst the coasts of Africa ... The fourth, English voyages beyond the East Indies, to the ilands of Iapan, China, Cauchinchina, the Philippinæ with others ... The fifth, nauigations, voyages, traffiques, discoueries, of the English nation in the easterne parts of the world ... The first part.	Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.	1625 (1625)	STC 20509_pt3; ESTC S111862	2,393,864	1,207

degrees and ten minutes and is from Inger sound East and to the North-wards fifteene leagues And being at this North Cape the second day of Iuly wee had the Sunne at North foure degrees aboue the Horizon The third day we came to Wardhouse hauing such mists that wee could not see the Land This Wardhouse is a Castle standing in an Iland two miles from the mayne of Finland subject to the King of Denmarke and the Eastermost Land that he hath There are two other Ilands neere adjoyning vnto that whereon the Castle of Wardhouse standeth The Inhabitants of those three Ilands liue onely by fishing and make much Stock-fish which they dry with Frost their most feeding is fish bread and drinke they haue none but such as is brought them from other places They haue small store of Cattle which are also fed with fish From Wardhouse we sayled South South-east ten leagues and fell with a Cape of Land called Kegor the Northermost part of the Land of Lappia And betweene Wardhouse and the said Cape is a great Bay called Dommes haff in the South part whereof is a Monastery of Monkes of the Russes Religion called Pechinchow Thus proceeding forward and sayling along the Coast of the said Land of Lappia winding South-east the fourth day through great mists and darknesse we lost the company of the other three ships and met not with them againe vntill the seuenth day when we fell with a Cape or head-land called Swetinoz which is the entring into the Bay of Saint Nicholas At this Cape lyeth a great s●one to the which the Barkes that passed thereby were wont to make Offerings of Butter Meale and other Victuals thinking that vnlesse they did so their Barkes or Vessels should there perish as it hath beene oftentimes seene and there it is very darke and mystie Note that the sixt day wee passed by the place where Sir Hugh Willoughby with all his company perished which is called Arzina reca that is to say the Riuer Arzina The Land of Lappia is an high Land hauing snow lying on it commonly all the yeere The people of the Countrey are halfe Gentiles they liue in the Summer time neere the Sea side and vse to take fish of the which they make bread and in the Winter they remoue vp into the Countrey into the Woods where they vse hunting and kill Deere Beares Wolues Foxes and other beasts with whose flesh they be nourished and with their skins apparelled in such strange fashion that there is nothing seene of them bare but their eyes They haue none other habitation but only in Tents remouing from place to place according to the season of the yeere They know no arte nor facultie but onely shooting which they exercise daily as well men as women and kill such beasts as serue them for their food Thus proceeding along the coast from Swetinoz aforesaid the ninth day of Iuly wee came to Cape Grace being in the latitude of 66. degrees and 45. minutes and is at the entring in of the Bay of Saint Nicolas Aboard this Land there is twentie or thirtie fathoms water and sundry grounds good to anchor in The current at this Cape runneth South-west and North-east From this Cape wee proceeded along vntill we came to Crosse Iland which is seuen leagues from the said Cape South-west and from this Iland wee set ouer to the other side of the Bay and went South-west and fell with an Head-land called Foxenose which is from the said Iland fiue and twentie leagues The entring of this Bay from Crosse Iland to the neerest Land on the other side is seuen leagues ouer From Foxenose proceeding forward the twelfth day of the said moneth of Iuly all our foure ships arriued in safety at the Road of Saint Nicolas in the Land of Russia where we anchored and had sayled from London vnto the said Road seuen hundred and fiftie leagues The Russian Ambassadour and his companie with great ioy got to shoare and our ships heere forthwith discharged themselues and being laden againe and hauing a faire winde departed toward England the first of August The third of the said moneth I with other of my companie came vnto the Citie of Colmogro being an hundred verstes from the Bay of Saint Nicolas and in the latitude of 64. degrees 25. minutes I tarried at the said Colmogro vntill the fifteenth day and then I departed in a l●ttle Boat vp the Riuer of Duina which runneth very swiftly and the selfe same day passed by the mouth of a Riuer called Pinego leauing it on our left hand fifteene verstes from Colmogro On both sides of the mouth of this Riuer Pinego is high Land great Rockes of Alabaster great Woods and Pine-apple trees lying along within the ground which by report haue lyen there since No●s flood And thus proceeding forward the nineteenth day in the morning I came into a Towne called Yemps an hundred verstes from Colmogro All this way along they make much Tarre Pitch and ashes of Aspen trees From thence I came to a place called Vstiug an ancient Citie the last day of August At this Citie meet two Riuers the one called Iug and the other Sucana both which fall into the aforesaid Riuer of Duina The Riuer Iug hath his spring in the Land of the Tartars called Cheremizzi ioyning to the Countrey of Permia and Sucana hath his head from a Lake not farre from the Citie of Vologda Thus departing from Vstiug and passing by the Riuer Sucana we came to a Towne called Totma About this place the water is very shallow and stonie and troublesome for Barkes and Boats of that Countrey which they call Nassades and Dosneckes to passe that way wherein merchandise are transported from the aforesaid Colmogro to the Citie of Vologda These vessels called Nassades are very long builded broad made and close aboue flat bottomed and draw not aboue foure foot water and will carrie two hundred tunnes they haue no Iron appertayning to them but all of Timber and when the winde serueth they are made to sayle Otherwise they haue many men some to hale and draw by the neckes with long small ropes made fast to the said Boats and some set with long poles There are many of these Barkes vpon the Riuer of Duina And the most part of them belongeth vnto the Citie of Vologda for there dwell many Merchants and they occupie the said Boats with carrying of Salt from the Sea side vnto the said Vologda The twentieth of September I came vnto Vologda which is a great Citie and the Riuer passeth through the midst of the same The houses are builded with wood of Firre trees ioyned one with another and round without the houses are foure square without any Iron or stone worke couered with Birch barkes and wood ouer the same Their Churches are all of wood two for euery Parish one to be heated for Winter and the other for Summer

the Master in vnlading of his Ship brought her so light that vnfortunatly hee ouer-set her hauing goods in her worth seuen hundred pounds This ill chance happening vnto the two London Ships the Captayne of them agreed with Thomas Marmaduke Master of the Hull Ship to take in the goods which was saued at the rate of fiue pounds the Tun●e which was a great rate notwithstanding they had beene a meanes to get him goods worth fiue hundred pounds for the Hull Ship and vpon the one and twentieth of August 1611. they departed from Greenland in the Hope-well being ninetie nine men in all and arriued at Hull the sixth of September where the sayd Edge tooke out the Companies goods and Shipped them for London by order from the Companie This yeere Edge in coasting in the Shallops discouered all the Harbours on the West side of Greenland §. II. Dutch Spanish Danish disturbance also by Hull men and by a new Patent with the succeeding Successe and further Discoueries till this present IN the yeere 1612. the Companie set forth two Ships viz. The Whale burthen one hundred and sixtie Tunnes and the Sea-horse burthen one hundred and eightie tunnes vnder the Command of Iohn Russell and Thomas Edge for discouering and killing of the Whale They discouered that yeere nothing worth writing of by reason of some falling out betwixt Russell and Edge yet they killed that yeere seuenteene Whales and some Sea-horses of which they made one hundred and eightie Tunnes of Oyle with much difficultie as not being experimented in the businesse This yeere the Hollanders to keepe their wont in following of the English steps came to Greenland with one Ship being brought thither by an English man and not out of any knowledge of their owne Discoueries but by the direction of one Allen Sallowes a man imployed by the Muscouia Companie in the Northerne Seas for the space of twentie yeeres before who leauing his Countrey for Debt was entertayned by the Hollanders and imployed by them to bring them to Greenland for their Pylot At which time being met withall by the Companies Ships they were commanded to depart and forbidden to haunt or frequent those parts any more by mee Thomas Edge There was also a Spanish Ship brought thither by one Nicholas Woodcocke this yeere a man formerly imployed by the sayd Companie which Spanish Ship made a full Voyage in Green-harbour But Woodcocke at his returne into England being complained of by the Companie was Imprisoned in the Gatehouse and Tower sixteene Moneths for carrying the Spanish Ship thither In the yeere 1613. the Companie set out for Greenland seuen sayle of Ships vnder the Command of Beniamin Ioseph and Thomas Edge the Ships departed from Graues●nd the s●x and twentieth of Aprill and arriued in Greenland the fourteenth of May. This yeere the English had the Kings Patent vnder the broad Seale of England to forbid all Strangers and others but the Muscouia Companie to vse the Coast of Greenland The English met with fifteene sayle of great Ships two of them were Dutch Ships the rest were French Spanish and of the Archdukes besides foure English Interlop●rs The Companies Ships forced them all from the Coast of Greenland not suffering any of them to make a Voyage they tooke from the two Dutch Ships certayne goods bu● in g●ing to take it they neglected their owne voyage which was damnified thereby to the value of three or foure thousand pounds For their Ships came home dead Fraight two or three hundred Tunnes by that meanes This yeere was Hope Iland and other Ilands discouered to the Eastward by the Companie In the yeere following which was 1614. the Companie set out for Greenland thirteene great Ships and two Pinnasses vnder the Command of Beniamin Ioseph and Thomas Edge all which Ships were well appointed with all manner of Artillerie for defence and other necessaries for the making of their Voyage and for Discouerie This yeere the Hollanders set out for Greenland eighteene great Ships whereof foure of them were of the States men of Warre Ships with thirtie pieces of Ordnance a piece This yeere the Dutch stayed and fished for the Whale perforce they were farre stronger then the English which was a cause that the English Ships came home halfe laden and the Dutch with a poore Voyage This yeere the Companie Discouered vnto the Northwards of Greenland as farre as 80. Degrees odde Minuts in the Ship Thomazen as by her daily Iournall doth appeare at large in which Ship was imployed Thomas Sherwin and William Baffin being the second Voyage they were imployed into those parts And some Ilands to the Eastwards of Greenland were Discouered by foure Ships imployed in that seruice as by their Iournall more at large appeareth In the yeere 1615. the Companie set out for Greenland two sayle of great Ships and two Pinnasses vnder the Command of Beniamin Ioseph and Thomas Edge who following their Instructions arriued vpon the Coast of Greenland the sixth of Iune which they found to bee much pestered with Ice and being foggie weather they runne into the Ice so farre that they were fast in it fourteene dayes before they could cleare themselues of it This yeere also the Hollanders set out fourteene sayle of ships whereof three of them were States Men of warre of great force they killed Whales in Horn-sound Bel-sound and Faire-hauen and stayed vpon the coast of Greenland perforce as they did the former yeere whereby the English came home halfe laden This yeere also the King of Denmarke sent vnto Greenland three of his ships Men of warre to demand a toll of the English but they had none payd them for they fell with the Fore-land in 79. degrees where Captaine Edge was and he denyed payment of any toll alledging that the Countrey of Greenland belonged to the King of England These were the first Danish ships that euer came to Greenland who had for their Pilot one Iames Vaden an Englishman to bring them thither In the yeere 1616. the Company set out for Greenland eight Sayle of great ships and two Pinnasses vnder the command of Thomas Edge who following his course arriued in Greenland about the fourth of Iune hauing formerly appointed all his ships for their seuerall Harbours for their making of their Voyage vpon the Whale and hauing in euery Harbour a sufficient number of expert men and all prouisions fitting for such a Voyage This yeere it pleased God to blesse them by their labours that they full laded all their ships with Oyle and left an ouer-pl●s in the Countrey which their ships could not take in They imployed this yeere a small Pinnasse vnto the East-ward which discouered the East-ward part of Greenland Namely the Iland called now Edges Iland and other Ilands lying to the North-wards as farre as seuentie eight degrees this Pinnasse was some twentie tunnes and had twelue men in

her who killed one thousand Sea-horses on Edges Iland and brought all their Teeth home for London This was the first yeere that euer the Company full laded all their ships sent to Greenland and this yeere they made twelue or thirteene hundred tunnes of Oyle in Greenland by the fourteenth of August All the ships arriued in safety in the Riuer of Thames in the moneth of September The Hollanders had this yeere in Greenland foure ships and those kept together in odde places not easily to bee found and made a poore Voyage In the yeare 1617. the Company set out for Greenland fourteene Sayle of ships and their two Pinnasses furnished and manned with a sufficient number of men and all other prouisions fitting for that Voyage vnder the command of Thomas Edge They departed from Grauesend about the foure and twentieth of Aprill and arriued vpon the Coast of Greenland the eight and twentieth of May all in safety At our first comming vpon the Coast this yeere I met with a Dutch shippe of two hundred tunnes which I commanded aboard the Captaynes name was Cocke who told mee there were ten Sayle of Dutch vpon the Coast and two men of Warre and that he came to make a Voyage vpon the Whale I shewed him the Kings Commission and commanded him by vertue thereof to depart from the Coast willing him to acquaint the rest of his Countrey-men with it And further I told him that if I met with him or any Dutch ships heereafter I would take from them what they had gotten and thus hauing entertayned him aboord with me courteously I let him goe without taking any prouisions from him At his departure from mee hee promised hee would but stay to meet with two of his Consorts which hee had lost company with the day before and then hee would directly goe for Flushing and acquaint his Merchants that the English Captayne would not suffer him to stay vpon the Coast of Greenland but it seemeth at his meeting with his Consorts they agreed altogether to goe into Horne-sound and there they killed some few Whales which they saued in Blubber I vnderstanding of it gaue order to my Vice-admirall when he was laden that he should goe into Horne-sound and put the Flemmings from thence and take what they had gotten which he did accordingly but the goods he tooke from the Dutch ships were not worth to the English twentie pounds for it was but Blubber and Finnes which they had no need of in regard they had killed as many Whales as would lade their ships and more then they could carry or saue This yeere the English made nineteene hundred tunnes of Oyle in Greenland and all their ships arriued at home in the moneths of August and September in safetie They also employed a ship of sixtie tunnes with twenty men in her who discouered to the Eastward of Greenland as faire to the North-wards as seuentie nine degrees and an Iland which he named Witches Iland and diuers other Ilands as by the Map appeareth and killed store of Sea-horses there and then came into Bel-sound where hee found his lading of Oyle left by the Captayne which he tooke in This yeere the Hull men set a small ship or two to the East-wards of Greenland for the Hull men still followed the steps of the Londoners and in a yeere or two called it their Discouery which is false and vntrue as by Oath in the Admiraltie doth appeare The Dutch likewise practise the same course In the yeere 1618. some difference hauing passed betweene the English and some Zelanders the yeere before in King Iames his Newland alias Greenland which Zelanders were neuer in those parts before and vpon promise of the present departure were permitted to passe else-where with their prouisions which they had and comming to Cherrie Iland and meeting with one English Interloper of Hull namely Marmaduke he animated the said Zelanders to returne back for Greenland alleaging vnto them that the Companies ships were in each seuerall Harbour busied about their Voyage and that none would stirre from his Harbours to molest them and that they being three ships of force might returne to a Harbour in that Countrey called Hornsound and there make a Voyage perforce which the said Zelanders did attempt and there manned out diuers Shallops hauing many Biskainers and killed store of Whales setting those English at nought Whereupon Captayne Thomas Edge chiefe Commander of the English Fleet hauing laden those ships that were in Harbour with him and presently sent for William H●ly his Vice-admirall giuing him order who was not then full laden but in good forwardnesse to fit the ship he was in and goe to Horne-sound afore-said and put the said Zelanders from thence which the said H●ly presently put in execution But before his comming thither the Zelanders had notice by an English Surgeon that if they did not depart the English Vice-admiral would come presently and force them from thence Whereupon the Zelanders laded all the goods they had in two ships and sent them away before the comming of the English Vice-admirall leauing one ship behind with certaine caske of Blubber and two Whales and an halfe vncut vp in a brauado to trye if the English would meddle with them or not which said ship and goods there left were surprized by the said English Vice-admirall the goods detayned to the Companies vse and the ship restored there to the Zelanders which ship hauing in her ten cast Peeces and sixtie men and hauing intelligence of one of the Companies ships at that time laden in the Countrey with one hundred and eightie tunnes of Oyle the Zelander gaue out he would lie in waite and take that ship of the Companies and her lading and carrie her to Zeland For preuention whereof the said Vice-admirall tooke sixe Peeces of Ordnance and some Powder from the ship of Zeland which were in England restored to the owners In which said yeere 1618. the Zelanders sending ouer for restitution of the goods taken from them A new Company commixt of English Scottish and Zelanders through the meanes of one Sir Iohn Conningham Knight procured a grant for setting forth of shipping to those parts which might vtterly haue ouerthrowne and spoiled the trade of the first discoueries thereof and to that end diuers of the chiefe men were hired by the new Company that had been seruants to the first discouerie and much shipping and prouisions agreed for Whereupon there was an agreement that the East India Aduenturers should ioyne stocke with the Moscouia Aduenturers and be one ioynt Companie for that trade of King Iames his Newland The Scottish Companies Patent thereupon dissolued to the Moscouia Companies great trouble and cost in taking of all the prouisions they had bespoken and paying ready money for the same hauing no vse thereof but great part spoyled and came to little good and in ioyning vnfortunately with the East India Companie in which yeere

and that the secret Counsels and waylesse wayes of the Tartars were fraught with Imperiall Counsels For they conceale their Language varie their Armes and if one be taken knowledge of them or their purpose can by no tortures be extorted from him And where say they should they lurke in which of the Climats till this time whence their so secret and fraudulent Conspiracie They are Hircans and Scythians sauage bloud-suckers who with the confederate Cumani through the Emperours deuise haue ouerthrowne the King of Hungarie to make him seeke shelter vnder the Imperi●ll wings and doe him homage c. Needs must they goe whom the Deuill driues or how else but by mad malice and furious faction or an Antichristian mist could such impossibilities haue beene conceiued Of their driuing the Turkes and the Choerosmines out of Persia is else-where spoken Of the Popes entertainment of the Tartarian Messengers Anno 1248. close Conferences with them and gifts to them with diuers other discourses in the said author or Authors I omit Onely this Epistle following as containing both the strange aduentures of an Englishman and his relations of the Tartars from better experience I could not but adde heere making so much to the Readers purpose and ours It was written by one Yuo of Narbone a Clergie man which being accused of Heresie to Robert de Curzun the Popes Legat fled and liued one while with the Patarines another with the Beguines and at last writ this Letter containing a discourse of his trauels amongst them in Italie and G●rmanie He begins Giraldo Dei gratia Burdegalensi Archiepiscopo Yuo dictus Narbonensis suorum olim●ouissimus Clericorum salutem c. and after some premisses of the Patarines and Beguines too long for this place hee proceeds Hoc igitur multis alijs peccatis inter nos Christianos emergentib●s iratus Dominus c. In English Our Lord therefore being angry with this and other sinnes falling out amongst vs Christians is become as it were a destroying enemie Part of an Epistle written by one YVO of Narbona vnto the Archbishop of Burdeaux containing the confession of an Englishman as touching the barbarous demeanour of the Tartars which had liued long among them and was drawne along perforce with them in their expedition against Hungarie Recorded by Matthew Paris in the yeare our Lord 1243. THe Lord therefore being prouoked to indignation by reason of this and other sinnes committed among vs Christians is become as it were a destroying enemy and a dreadfull auenger This I may iustly affirme to bee true because an huge Nation and a barbarous and inhumane people whose Law is lawlesse whose wrath is furious euen the rod of Gods anger ouerrunneth and vtterly wasteth infinit● Countries cruelly abolishing all things where they come with fire and sword And this present Summer the foresaid Nation being called Tartars departing out of Hungarie which they had surprised by treason layd siege vnto the very same Towne wherein I my selfe abode with many thousands of Souldiers neither were there in the said Towne on our part aboue Fifty men of warre whom together with twenty Corsse-bowes the Captaine had left in Garrison All these out of certaine high places beholding the enemies vaste Armie and abhorring the beastly cruelty of Antichrist his complices signified forthwith vnto their Gouernour the hideous lamentations of his Christian subiects who suddenly being surprised in all the Prouince adioyning without any difference or respect of condition Fortune sexe or age were by manifold cruelties all of them destroyed with whose carkesses the Tartarian chieftaines and their brutish and sauage followers glutting themselues as With delicious cates left nothing for vultures but the bare bones And a strange thing it is to consider that the greedy and rauenous vultures disdained to pray vpon any of the reliques which remained Old and deformed Women they gaue as it were for daylie sustenance vnto their Canibals the beautifull deuoured they not but smothered them lamenting and scritching with forced and vnnaturall rauishments Like barbarous miscreants they quelled Virgins vnto death and cutting off their tender paps to present for dainties vnto their Magistrates they engorged themselues with their Bodies Howbeit their spials in the meane time discrying from the top of an high mountaine the Duke of Austria the King of Bohemia the Patriarch of Aquileia the Duke of Carinthia and as some report the Earle of Baden with a mighty power and in battell aray approching towards them that accursed crew immediatly vanished and all those Tartarian Vagabonds retired themselues into the distressed and vanquished land of Hungarie who as they came suddenly so they departed also on the sudden which their celeritie caused all men to stand in horrour and astonishment of them But of the said fugitiues the Prince of Dalmatia tooke eight one of which number the Duke of Austria knew to bee an Englishman who was perpetually banished out of the Realme of England in regard of certaine notorious crimes by him comm●tted This fellow on the behalfe of the most tyrannicall King of the Tartars had beene twise as a messenger and Interpreter with the King of Hungarie menacing and plainely foretelling those michiefes which afterward happened vnlesse he would submit himselfe and his Kingdome vnto the Tartars yoke Well being allured by our Princes to confesse the truth he made such oathes and protestations as I thinke the Deuill himselfe would haue beene trusted for First therefore hee reported of himselfe that presently after the time of his banishment namely about the thirtieth yeare of his age hauing lost all that he had in the Citie of Acon at Dice euen in the midst of Winter being compelled by ignominious hunger wearing nothing about him but a shirt of sacke a paire of shooes and a haire cap onely being shauen like a foole and vttering an vncoth noyse as if hee had beene dumbe he tooke his iourney and so trauelling many Countries and finding in diuers places friendly entertainment he prolonged his life in this manner for a season albeit euery day by rashnes of speech and inconstancy of heart hee endangered himselfe to the Deuill At length by reason of extreame trauaile and continuall change of ayre and of meates in Caldea hee fell into a grieuous sicknesse insomuch that he was weary of his life Not being able therefore to goe forward or backward and staying there a while to refresh himselfe hee began being somewhat learned to commend to writing those wordes which he heard spoken and within a short space so aptly to pronounce and to vtter them himselfe that he was reputed for a natiue member of that Countrie and by the same dexteritie he attained to manie Languages The man the Tartars hauing intelligence of by their spies drew him perforce into their societie and being admonished by an oracle or vision to challenge dominion ouer the whole earth they allured him by many rewards to their faithfull seruice by reason that they wanted Interpreters

Mare Caspium and on the North side there is a base Towne the which hath also a Bricke wall about it and so it ioyneth with the Castle wall The Emperour lieth in the Castle wherein are nine faire Churches and therein are Religious men Also there is a Metropolitan with diuers Bishops I will not stand in description of their buildings nor of the strength thereof because we haue better in all points in England They be well furnished with Ordnance of all sorts The Emperours or Dukes house neither in building nor in the outward shew nor yet within the house is so sumptuous as I haue seene It is very lowe built in eight square much like the old building of England with small windowes and so in other points Now to declare my comming before his Maiestie After I had remayned twelue dayes the Secretarie which hath the hearing of strangers did send for mee aduertising me that the Dukes pleasure was to haue me to come before his Maiestie with the King my Masters Letters whereof I was right glad and so I gaue mine attendance And when the Duke was in his place appointed the Interpreter came for mee into the outer Chamber where sate one hundred or moe Gentlemen all in cloth of Gold very sumptuous and from thence I came into the Counsell-chamber where sate the Duke himselfe with his Nobles which were a faire companie they sate round about the Chamber on high yet so that he himselfe sate much higher then any of his Nobles in a Chaire gilt and in a long garment of beaten Gold with an Imperiall Crowne vpon his head and a Staffe of Crystall and Gold in his right hand and his other hand halfe le●ning on his Chaire The Chancellour stood vp with the Secretarie before the Duke After my dutie done and my Letter deliuered he bade me welcome and enquired of mee the health of the King my Master and I answered that he was in good health at my departure from his Court and that my trust was that he was now in the same Vpon the which he bade me to dinner The Chancellor presented my Present vnto his Grace bare-headed for before they were all couered and when his Grace had receiued my Letter I was required to depart for I had charge not to speake to the Duke but when he spake to mee So I departed vnto the Secretaries Chamber where I remayned two houres and then I was sent for againe vnto another Palace which is called The golden Palace but I saw no cause why it should be so called for I haue seene many fairer then it in all points and so I came into the Hall which was small and not great as is the Kings Maiesties of England and the Table was couered with a Table-cloth and the Marshall sate at the end of the Table with a little white rod in his hand which Boord was full of vessell of Gold and on the other side of the Hall did stand a faire Cupboord of Plate From thence I came into the dining Chamber where the Duke himselfe sate at his Table without Cloth of estate in a Gowne of Siluer with a Crowne Imperiall vpon his head he sate in a Chaire somewhat high there sate none neere him by a great way There were long tables set round about the chamber which were full set with such as the Duke had at dinner they were all in white Also the places where the tables stood were higher by two steps then the rest of the house In the middest of the chamber stood a Table or Cupboord to set Plate on which stood full of Cups of Gold and amongst all the rest there stood foure maruellous great Pots or Crudences as they call them of Gold and Siluer I thinke they were a good yard and a halfe high By the Cupboard stood two Gentlemen with Napkins on their shoulders and in their hands each of them had a Cup of Gold set with Pearles and Precious Stones which were the Dukes owne drinking Cups when hee was disposed hee drunke them off at a draught And for his seruice at meate it came in without order yet it was very rich seruice for all were serued in Gold not onely be himselfe but also all the rest of vs and it was very massie the Cups also were of Gold and very massie The number that dined there that day was two hundred persons and all were serued in Golden Vessell The Gentlemen that wayted were all in Cloth of Gold and they serued him with their Caps on their heads Before the seruice came in the Duke sent to euery man a great shiuer of Bread and the Bearer called the party so sent to by his name aloude and said Iohn Basiliuich Emperour of Russia and great Duke of Moscouia doth reward thee with Bread then must all men stand vp and doe at all times when those words are spoken And then last of all hee giueth the Marshall Bread whereof he eateth before the Dukes Grace and so doth reuerence and departeth Then commeth the Dukes seruice of the Swans all in pieces and euery one in a seuerall dish the which the Duke sendeth as he did the Bread and the Bearer saith the same words as hee said before And as I said before the seruice of his meate is in no order but commeth in Dish by Dish and then after that the Duke sendeth drinke with the like saying as before is told Also before Dinner he changed his Crowne and in Dinner time two Crownes so that I saw three seuerall Crownes vpon his head in one day And thus when his seruice was all come in hee gaue to euery one of his Gentlemen Wayters meate with his owne hand and so likewise drinke His intent thereby is as I haue heard that euery man shall know perfectly his seruants Thus when Dinner is done hee calleth his Nobles before him name by name that it is wonder to heare how he could name them hauing so many as hee hath Thus when Dinner was done I departed to my Lodging which was an houre within night I will leaue this and speake no more of him nor his Houshold but I will somewhat declare of his Land and people with their nature and power in the Warres This Duke is Lord and Emperour of many Countries and his power is maruellous great For hee is able to bring into the field two or three hundred thousand men he neuer goeth into the field himselfe with vnder two hundred thousand men And when hee goeth himselfe hee furnisheth his Borders all with men of Warre which are no small number He leaueth on the Borders of Liefland fortie thousand men and vpon the borders of Letto sixtie thousand men and toward the Nagayan Tartars sixtie thousand which is wonder to heare of yet doth hee neuer take to his Warres neither Husbandman nor Merchant All his men are Horse-men hee vseth no Foot-men but such as goe with the Ordnance and Labourers which are thirtie

from Rustene wee found certaine Relikes of the plankes and ribs of our Skiffe whereby we plainly knew that our companions which were in it were perished and drowned the first night that they departed from vs. The nine and twentieth of May 1432. we arriued with the said Barke at Trondon vpon the Coast of Norway the Princely Seate of the King of Denmarke where the Honourable bodie of glorious Saint Olaus resteth There wee stayed ten dayes to waite for passage and a fit time for our Voyage but not finding it because we would lose no more time wee tooke leaue of our beloued Host his Sonnes and the rest to proceed on our journey by Land The ninth of Iune we departed from Trondon trauelling on foot going towards Vastena a place subject to the King of Denmarke within the Prouince of Sweden where the cheek-bone and part of the bone of the head of Saint Bridget remayneth Being there wee vnderstood by the Venetians that the Inhabitants for the reuerence of their glorious King Saint Olaus vnto whom as they well knew our Signiorie of Venice did great fauour in his going and returning from his Voyage to Hierusalem were disposed with deeds to prouide for vs by their counsell helpe and money And first they aduised vs not to goe the direct way into Dacia by reason of the dangers of wilde beasts which might befall vs but to addresse our selues to goe directly to Stichimborgi to find out a valiant Venetian Knight called M. Giouan Francho from whom wee should receue fauour and helpe in plentifull manner for loue of our Countrey although the way were thirtie dayes iourney quite contrary to our direct way On the eighteenth day we came to the Court of the said Cauallier M. Giouan Francho an Honourable Baron and highly esteemed of the Crowne of Dacia where with great joy we found our two straggling companions The valorous Knight being now informed of our comming with a cheereful conntenance declared well vnto vs how great the loue of his Countrey was and especially knowing the calamitie and penurie of vs his Countrey-men and being easily able to releeue it And therefore he could not sufficiently satisfie himselfe in honouring clothing and feeding vs but gaue vs money for our necessities and furnishing vs afterward with good Horses in his owne proper person together with his only Sonne M. Mapheo with an hundred and twentie Horses of his owne Seruants he accompanied vs many dayes journeyes through his Territories trauelling alwayes at his owne charge Afterward vpon his limits and bounds wee tooke our leaue to depart thanking him with the most reuerent and kind speeches that possibly we could Whereupon he being departed left vs for our Guide his said sonne M. Mapheo with twentie seruants on Horse-backe who kept vs company vnto Vastena the place from whence about fortie dayes before we had departed vnto the which place for the auoyding of two monethes trauell wee were faine to returne so that on the thirtieth day of Iuly wee entred into Vastena where wee abode vntill the second of August being alwayes accompanied and our charges borne by the said M. Mapheo On the second of August we tooke our leaue of the foresaid M. Mapheo yeelding him such thankes as we could And being departed from him wee went to Lodese where wee arriued the eleuenth of the said moneth in which place we found two passages the one for England and the other for the Low Countries and there we voluntarily diuided our selues into two parts The two and twentieth of August 1432. we Christophoro Fiorauante one of the Councell of the vnfortunate ship together with Girardo da Lione the Sewer and Nicolo di Michiel of Venice the Notarie now Writer of this present Discourse departed from the other eight of our companions they going towards London and we to Venice by the way of Rostoch pretending to goe to Rome for a Pardon and after many troubles and molestations passing ouer Mountaynes Valleyes Riuers sometimes on foot and sometimes on Horse-backe through the helpe of the Omnipotent God we came vnto our so much desired Countrey of Venice on the twelfth of October 1432. safe and sound leauing the said Girardo da Lion at Vasen●ch who from thence went vnto his Countrey and those that went into England were these Master Francesco Quirini Sonne of Master Iacomo a Venetian Gentleman being Merchant of the vnhappie ship Master Piero Gradenico Sonne of Master Andrea of the age of eighteene yeeres a young Merchant Bernardo da Caghire Pilot of the ship whose Wife being young aswell through the long delay of time passed as for that it was many times certainly reported that the said ship with all them that were therein were in great danger and no token at all appearing to the contrary being aduised more hastily then vpon mature consideration as is the manner of needie women she married her selfe at Tri●iso But hearing of our comming and the certayne newes of her liuing and true Husband she presently separated the bond of the second Marriage and shut her selfe vp in an honest Monasterie aswell to declare the Integritie of her minde as to expect the returne of her true Husband who about some three moneths after came to Venice safe and sound and tooke her againe vnto him c. CHAP. XIX Ancient Commerce betwixt ENGLAND and NORWAY and other Northerne Regions GReat Alexander is said in ●earing a Flatterers Historie of his conquest● making them how great soe●er in themselues farre greater the● they were to haue caused that booke to bee throwne into the Sea with iust indignation exclaiming that those incredibilities would make that which hee had indeed done seeme incredible to posteritie And a Liar said Alexanders Master Aristotle gets this by lying that when he speakes truth he cannot be beleeued So hath it fared with that Brittish worthy King Arthur whose Great Acts by great Flatterers seeking to light candles to the Sunne haue made others suppose it to be night and his worth to be a worke of darknesse and lyes Neither doth the later posteritie know how to distinguish the one from the other and the Writers for and against the truth of three British storie as Ieffery of Moumouth and William of Newbridge of old and others since haue seemed to me to let the truth as in altercation is vsuall to fall downe betwixt them for others more moderate spirits to take vp Although therefore many things related of Art●●● are absurd 〈◊〉 so are not all nor that altogether which is spoken of his Northerne conquests eleuen hundred yeeres since and of commerce a 〈…〉 not some kind of 〈◊〉 acknowledgment of 〈◊〉 the King of Ireland 〈◊〉 of the Orcades Malu●sius of Island Dolda●i● of Got●and Asc●il●● of the Danes and Lo● King of Norway Some adde that King Arthur left people to inhabite the Ilands and that the Norwegian Nobles tooke them Brittish wiues and that the Norwegians 〈◊〉 their Brittish 〈◊〉 and

per suas literas intima●it vobis mandamus quatenus si cundem Regem vel ipsius Nauigium per mare co●tiguum terrae nostra tran●ir● contingat vel in Terram nostram vel in fe●da nostra alicubi applicar● ipsum suos benignè honorificè recipiatis permittentes eosdem in terra nostra a victualia 〈◊〉 sibi p●r forum legitimum de sibi necessarijs prouidere Actum apud Sanctum Germanum in Laia A. D. 1248. When the King of Norway had read this for hee is a discreet and modest and well learned man hee reioyced much and was gratefull to the bearer respecting him with Royall and bountifull gifts Thus writeth Matthew Paris of himselfe and his employment The cause of his going into Norway he further relateth that King Cnuto or Canutus hauing founded a famous Monastery of Saint Bennet of Holm in Norway of which title and order hee had founded another in England it happened that the said Abbie with the appurtenances was almost ruined by an impious Abbat who forsaking his Order and stealing away priuily the Seale of the Chapiter either sold or by forged writings fraudulently engaged almost all the possessions thereof wherein hee had the Sacrist the keeper of the Seale his copartner both in this fugitiue apostacie and treacherie Heereupon the Archbishop of Nidrosia in whose Diocesse the said Abbie was situate seised the same and the appurtenances into his hands alledging that the Monkes had only the habite but were altogether ignorant of Monastike order and Saint Bennets rule some of them also theeues and fugitiues The Monkes appealed to the Pope which caused the Archbishop to suspend his proceedings and the Prior recouering somewhat and gathering together a summe of money went to the Roman Court where the Abbat had beene a little before and intangled by writings the said house in fiue hundred markes which caused the Prior to returne frustrate and full of griefe But in his way hearing that the said Abbat was dead in the Abby of Saint Alban in Selio in Norway he and the Couent made choice of an Abbat and this Prior with another Monke and three hundred markes in mony together with the Kings letter being sent to Matthew Paris to take paines for their freedome it was procured happily that the temporalties of the said house were freed from the Caursines the Popes Vsurers then residing at London within one yeeres space But their Spiritualities were much maimed they by bribes purchasing delayes lest the Archbishop should take possession of the Iland which wholly belonged to the Abby and of it also expelling the Monkes Now the Cardinall Bishop of Sabine then comming Legate into Norway the Monkes sought to him for succour and hee counselled them to go and petition the Pope to prouide them of an Instructor and Reformer and he would write in their behalfe The Abbat therefore and Prior went with Letters from the King and Legate to the Pope who gaue them leaue to chuse any man of whatsoeuer Region or Monasterie to be their Instructer They answered the next day that all the World had not Monkes of that Order liuing in more composed order then England nor England any comparable by report to Saint Albans of which House they desired Matthew to be their Reformer of whose wisdome and faithfulnes they had had experience a man also almost familiar and friendly to their King and able by his meanes to order the rebellious and vnruly Hereupon the Pope gaue them this Briefe to the Abbat of Saint Albans Innocentius c. Dilecto Filio Abbati Sancti Albani in Anglia Ordinis S. Benedicti c. Cum sicut ex parte dilecti filij Abbatis Monasterij de Hol●s Ordinis S. Benedicti Nistorsiensis Diocesis fuit propositum coram nobis idem Monasterium propter Pradecessorum suorum negligentiam sit in his quae ad Monasticum Ordinem pertinent deformatum nec inueniator in illis partibus aliquis qui statuta obseruantias eiusdem Ordinis bene sciat Nos ad supplicationem eiusdem Abbatis discretionem tuam rogamus attentius hortamur per Apostolica tibi scripta mandantes quatenus dilectum filium Fratrem Mattheum Monachum tuum qui dicitur probeta vitae ac religionis expertae ad idem Monasterium vt dictum Abbatem Monachos suos in regularibus disciplinis statutis quae ad eundem ordinem pertinent informet instruat transmittere pro diuina Apostolicae sedis ac nostra reuerentia non postponas Datum Lugduni c. Hereto the Abbat obeying and Matthew to his Abbat the businesse luckily succeeded and Monkerie both in that of Hol●s and other Norwegian Monasteries was reformed I might here shew the great stirres which in the first Ages after the Conquest the Norwegians haue caused in Ireland Wales Man Anglesey the Hebrides and Orcades as also of Harald whom the Conquerour slue his two sonnes and daughter fleeing to Sueno King of Denmarke who gaue the daughter in Marriage to Ieruslaus or Waldemarus King of Russia and of Nicolas de Lynna a Franciscan Frier and Mathematician of Oxford before mentioned of whom Iacobus Cuoyen saith in his Iournall that he learned of a Priest who had descended of those which King Arthur had left to people the Ilands of Norway Anno 1364. that in the yeere 1360. the said Frier had comne into those Ilands and proceeding further by Art Magicke had described those A●●ike parts as the Map presents with foure Whirl-pooles or In-draughts Yea as Master Dee addeth at the Northerne Ilands the Record whereof at his returne he gaue to the King of England the Booke being called Inuentio fortunata or fortunae contayning a description from fiftie foure degrees to the Pole I might also adde out of Th●mas of Walsingham the Trauels of Henrie Earle of Darbie afterwards Henrie the Fourth King of England into Prussia and Lettow or Lithuania where by his helpe especially was taken Vilna the chiefe Citie Sk●rgalle the King of Lettow hauing fled thither for refuge his Colours being first aduanced on the walls foure thousand slaine of which the King of Polands Brother and three thousand captiued Also I might adde the Voyage of Thomas of Woodstocke Duke of Glocester sonne to King Edward the Third along the Coasts of Denmarke Norway and Scotland Other Letters likewise of King Edward the Second to Haquin or Hacon King of Norway in behalfe of English Merchants there arrested with Entercourses betwixt the English and the Dutch Knights in Liefland But hauing only briefe mentions of these and them or the most of them recorded by Master Hakluyts industrie before I doe here but Index-wise referre the Reader thither I rather choose to giue new things and rare and such may seeme these Notes which Anno 1605. I writ from the mouth of Master George Barkeley HONDIVS his Map of the Arctike Pole or Northerne World POLUS ARCTICUS cum vicinis regionibus CHAP.

to that end we doe set you downe here vnder the seuerall sorts of Whales together with the differences of goodnesse betweene the one and the other as we haue gathered the same by information from men of excellencie in that businesse who make knowne vnto vs that there are eight seuerall kindes of Whales all differing the one from the other in quantitie and qualitie Which for your better instruction we haue thought good to set downe in this our Commission The first sort of Whales is called the Bearded Whale which is black in colour with a smooth skinne and white vnder the chops which Whales is the best of all the rest and the elder it is the more it doth yeelde This sort of Whale doth yeelde vsually foure hundred and sometimes fiue hundred finnes and betweene one hundred and one hundred and twentie Hogsheads of Oyle The second sort of Whale is called Sarda of the same colour and fashion as the former but somewhat lesse and the finnes not aboue one fathom long and yeeldeth in Oyle according to his bignesse sometimes eightie sometimes a hundred Hogsheads The third sort of Whale is called Trumpa being as long as the first but not so thicke of colour Grey hauing but one Trunke in his head whereas the former haue two He hath in his mouth teeth of a span long and as thicke as a mans wrist but no sins whose head is bigger then either of the two former and in proportion farre bigger then his body In the head of this Whale is the Spermaceti which you are to keepe in Caske apart from your other Oyle you may put the Oyle you finde in the head and the Spermaceti altogether and marke it from the other Oyle and at your comming home we will separate the Oyle from the Spermeceti The like is to be done with the Oyle of this sort of Whale which is to be kept apart from the Oyle of the other Whales The reason is that the Oyle of this sort of Whale being boyled will be as hard and white as Tallow which to be mingled with the other Oyle being liquid would make the same to shew as footie Oyle and so consequently spoyle both and be of little value you are therefore to be very carefull to keepe the Oyle of this sort of Whale apart as well of the head as of the body for the reasons before mentioned In this sort of Whale is likewise found the Ambergreese lying in the entrals and guts of the same being of shape and colour like vnto Kowes dung We would haue you therefore your selfe to be present at the opening of this sort of Whale and cause the residue of the said entrals to be put into small Caske and bring them with you into England We would haue the Master also to be by at the opening of this Whale and to be made priuie of the packing of those Barils And although it be said that the Ambergreese is onely in this Whale and in none other yet we would not haue you be absent at the opening of any other but if you see cause to make a reseruation of the entrals of euery Whale that you shall perceiue to be cause of the least suspect to haue any of the said Ambergreese being a matter as you know of good worth and therefore not slightly to be regarded The Teeth likewise of this sort of Whale we would haue you cause to be reserued for a triall as also any other matter extraordinarie that you shall obserue in the same This Whale is said to yeelde in Oyle fortie Hogsheads besides the Spermaceti The fourth sort c. as sup 471.472 And in as much as industrie and diligence are two principall steps to atchieue great enterprises and negligence and idlenesse are enemies to the same we would haue you in this charge committed vnto you to imbrace the one and to auoide the other and to shew that example of paines taking to the rest of the company of your Ship in your owne person as well in setting them on worke as in putting your owne hand to the businesse when neede requireth as that there be no idle time spent but that euery one be imployed in some businesse or other in helping to kill the Whale or in searching the Bayes along the coast for Whales Ambergreese Morses teeth or any other strange thing that may be found vpon that coast or in killing the Morses Beares or any thing that may make profit toward our great charges Touching directions for your keeping company together with the Elizabeth and of the course we thinke fitting for the Master of that Ship to obserue we haue set the same downe at large in our Commission deliuered to Ionas Poole a Copie whereof we deliuer you herewith for your better instructions to obserue what is to be done on both your behalfes for the good of the Voyage which our Commission we would haue you strictly obserue vnlesse vpon some speciall occasion to vs vnknowne and by the consent of the principall Officers in both the Ships you shall see iust cause to the contrary You haue with you an order set downe by the Lords of his Maiesties priuie Counsell for the maintaining of our Charter which we would haue you make knowne to any of our Nation that you may chance to meete withall either at Cherie Iland or vpon any of those coasts And if any stranger doe offer you violence or doe disturbe you in your trade you may both defend your selues and maintaine your trade to the vttermost of your powers c. CHAP. III. A briefe Declaration of this my Voyage of discouery to Greeneland and towards the West of it as followeth being set forth by the right Worshipfull Sir THOMAS SMITH Gouernour of the right Worshipfull Company of new Trades c. written by IONAS POOLE WEE set sayle at Blacke-wall the eleauenth of Aprill 1611. with foure Shippes The one called the Mary-margaret of burthen one hundred and fiftie Tuns with nine and fortie Men and Boyes The next the Elizabeth of burthen sixtie Tuns with eighteene Men and Boyes The third was called the Amitie of burthen seauentie Tunnes with foure and twentie Men and Boyes The fourth was called the Resolution with about sixteene Men and Boyes the Resolution was appointed to goe to Saint Nicholas in Russia in hope to make two Voyages thither this yeare The Amitie was to goe to Pich●ra or Nouazembla there to see if they could make a Voyage by way of trade or by killing of Mohorses c. The Mary-margaret was appointed to keepe the Elizabeth companie to Greeneland abouesaid there to kill the Whale for which purpose we had sixe men of Saint Iohn de Luz with all things fitting for that purpose The Elizabeth was appointed to see if it weare possible to passe from Greeneland towards the Pole and to search in those Stas what likelihood of a passage that way c. But before we were as farre to the

arriued at the East Indies especially the English seated commodiously for that discouerie and to reigne ouer the Northerne and Westerne Ocean haue herein beene more then industrious Doctor Powell in his historie of Wales saith that Madoc sonne of Owen Guyneth left the Land in contention betwixt his brethren and prepared certaine ships with men and munition and sought aduentures by Sea sayling West and leauing the Coast of Ireland so farre North that hee came vnto a Land vnknowne where he saw many strange things There hee left many of his people An. 1170. and returned for more of his owne Nation and Friends to inhabite that large Countrie going the second time thither with ten sailes This westerne Land is like to be some part of the West Indies though the vniuersall sauagenes of those parts make it questionable where But he which seeth how some of our English in small time haue growne wilde in Ireland and become in language and qualities Irish few of whom doe in exchange become ciuilized and English euen as healthfull men are easier infected in a contagious aire then sicke men recouered in that which is wholsome and sound will not wonder that in so many Ages the halfe ciuilized Welsh amongst Barbarians without succession of Priests and entercourse of these parts might wholly put on feritie Meredith ap Rise a Welsh Poet which liued before Columbus had begun his discouerie hath these verses Madoc wyf myedic wedd Iawn Genau Owyn Guynedd Ni finnum dir fy enaid oedd Na da Mawr ond y moroedd that is Madoc I am the sonne of Owen Gwynedd With stature large and comely grace adorned No lands at home nor store of wealth me please My mind was whole to search the Ocean seas Columbus also sent his brother Bartholomew to King Henrie the seuenth to make offer of his seruice in the New-Worlds discouerie which fell by the way into the hands of Pirats whereupon pouertie assaulted him with sicknesse in a forraine Countrie so that hee was forced to get somewhat about him by making of Maps one whereof had this more ancient then elegant inscription Ianua cui patria est nomen cui Bartholomaeus Columbus de Terra Rubra opus edidit istud Londonijs An. Domini 1480. atque insuper anno Octauo decimaque die cum tertia mensis Februarij Laudes Christo cantentur abundè Whose Countrie Genua is whose name Bartholomew Colon de Terra Rubra this worke set forth new At London A thousand foure hundred eightie Februarie thirteenth sing praise to Christ on height One of these Maps hee presented to King Henrie with the said offer who cheerfully accepted the same and sent to call his brother into England who before he could effect it was imployed by the Kings of Castile Columbus his fortunes awakned others industrie amongst the rest Iohn Cabota a Venetian and his three sonnes Lewis Sebastian and Sancius who obtayned a Patent of King Henrie the seuenth for discouerie with fiue ships with English Masters Mariners and Colours also the same to erect in whatsoeuer Lands vnknowne before to Christians to hold the same to them and their Heires as Vassals and Lieutenants to the Crowne of England paying the fifth part of their gaine at Bristoll c. In the yeere 1497. Iohn Cabot a Venetian and Sebastian his sonne these are the wordes of the great Map in his Maiesties priuie Gallerie of which Sebastian Cabot is often therein called the Authour and his Picture is therein drawne with this Title Effigies Sebast. Caboti Angli filij Io. Ca. Venetiani Militis Aurati c. discouered that Land which no man before had attempted Iun. 24. about fiue in the morning This Land he called Prima vista primum visam or first seene because that was first descried from Sea That Iland which lyeth out before the land he called Saint Iohns Iland because on that feast day it was discouered The Inhabitants weare beasts skins and as much esteeme them as we doe garments most precious In their warres they vse Bowes Arrowes Pikes Darts Clubs of wood and Slings The soile is barren in some places and yeeldeth little fruit but it is full of white Beares and Stags of vnusuall greatnesse It aboundeth with Fishes and those great as Seales and Salmons Soles also an elle long Especially there is great store of those fishes which they call commonly Bacallaos There breede also Hawkes as blacke as Rauens Partridges and blacke Eagles Thus wee see New-found Land discouered by English Ships Mariners and iurisdiction Sir Sebastian Cabot for his English breeding conditions affection and aduancement termed an English man thus reported of this voyage That vpon occasion of the admiration of Columbus his voyage into the East where Spices grew by the West so rife then in the Court of King Henrie the seuenth there arose in his heart a great desire to attempt some notable thing And vnderstanding by the Sphere saith he that if I should saile by the North-west I should by a shorter Tract come into India I thereupon caused the King to be aduertised of my deuise who immediately commanded two Caruels to bee furnished with all things appertayning to the Voyage which was as farre as I remember in the yeere 1496. in the beginning of Summer I beganne therefore to saile toward the North-west not thinking to find any other Land then that of Cathay and from thence to turne toward India But after certaine dayes I found that the Land turned toward the North which was to me a great displeasure Neuerthelesse sayling along by the Coast to see if I could finde any Gulfe that turned I found the Land still continent to the 56. degree vnder our Pole And seeing that there the Coast turned toward the East despayring to finde the passage I turned backe againe and sayled downe by the Coast of that Land toward the Equinoctiall euer with intent to finde the said passage to India and came to that part of this firme land which is now called Florida where my victuals fayling I returned towards England the tumults and preparations of warres against Scotland caused that then no more consideration was had to this voyage Whereupon I went into Spaine c. By the King and Queene there he was set forth and discouered the Riuer of Plate and sayled into it more then sixe score leagues After this he made many other voyages c. Sir Seb. Cabot was after by King Edward the sixt constituted grand Pilot of England with the annuall stipend of one hundred and sixtie six pounds thirteene shillings and foure pence and was Author of the Russian and North-easterne discoueries Fabian in his Chronicle A. R. Hen. 7.14 hath this testimonie This yeere also were brought vnto the King three men taken in the New-found Land in William Purchas time being Major These were clothed in beasts skins and did eate raw flesh and spake such speech that none could vnderstand them and in their

was sent to doe and that hee not being armed to resist the force of the Saluage people that might happen hee therefore set sayle and returned homewards againe towards Noua Spania where hee arriued at Acapulco Anno 1592. hoping to be rewarded greatly of the Viceroy for this seruice done in this said Voyage Also he said that after his comming to Mexico hee was greatly welcommed by the Viceroy and had great promises of great reward but that hauing sued there two yeares time and obtained nothing to his content the Viceroy told him that he should be rewarded in Spaine of the King himselfe very greatly and willed him therefore to goe into Spaine which Voyage hee did performe Also he said that when he was come into Spaine he was greatly welcommed there at the Kings Court in wordes after the Spanish manner but after long time of suite there also hee could not get any reward there neither to his content And that therefore at the length he stole away out of Spaine and came into Italie to goe home againe and liue among his owne Kindred and Countrimen he being very old Also he said that hee thought the cause of his ill reward had of the Spaniards to bee for that they did vnderstand very well that the English Nation had now giuen ouer all their voyages for discouerie of the North-west passage wherefore they need not feare them any more to come that way into the South Sea and therefore they needed not his seruice therein any more Also he said that in regard of this ill reward had of the Spaniards and vnderstanding of the noble minde of the Queene of England and of her warres maintayned so valiantly against the Spaniards and hoping that her Maiestie would doe him iustice for his goods lost by Captaine Candish he would bee content to goe into England and serue her Maiestie in that voyage for the discouerie perfectly of the North-west passage into the South Sea and would put his life into her Maiesties hands to performe the same if shee would furnish him with onely one ship of fortie 〈◊〉 burden and a Pinnasse and that he would performe it in thirtie dayes time from one end to the other of the Streights And he willed me so to write into England And vpon this conference had twise with the said Greeke Pilot I did write thereof accordingly into England vnto the right honourable the old Lord Treasurer Cecill and to Sir Walter Raleigh and to Master Richard Hakluyt that famous Cosmographer certifying them hereof by my Letters And in the behalfe of the said Greeke Pilot I prayed them to disburse one hundred pounds of money to bring him into England with my selfe for that my owne purse would not stretch so wide at that time And I had answere hereof by Letters of friends that this action was very well liked and greatly desired in England to bee effected but the money was not readie and therefore this action dyed at that time though the said Greeke Pilot perchance liueth still this day at home in his owne Countrie in Cefalonia towards the which place he went from me within a fortnight after this conference had at Venice And in the meane time while I followed my owne businesse in Venice being in Law suit against the Companie of Merchants of Turkie and Sir Iohn Spencer their Gouernour in London to recouer my pension due for my office of being their Consull at Aleppo in Turkie which they held from me wrongfully And when I was as I thought in a readinesse to returne home into England for that it pleased the Lords of her Maiesties honourable Priuie Counsell in England to looke into this Cause of my Law suit for my reliefe I thought that I should be able of my owne pu●se to take with me into England the said Greeke Pilot. And therefore I wrote vnto him from Venice a Letter dated in Iuly 1596. which is copied here-vnder Al Mag co Sig or Capitan IVAN DE FVCA Piloto de Indias amigo mio char mo en Zefalonia MVy honrado Sennor fiendo yo para bueluerme en Inglatierra dentre de pocas mezes y accuerdandome de lo trattado entre my y V. M. en Venesia sobre el viagio de las Indias me ha parescido bien de scriuir esta carta à V. M. paraque si tengais animo de andar con migo puedais escribirme presto en que maniera quereis consertaros Y puedais embiarmi vuestra carta con esta nao Ingles que sta al Zante sino hallais otra coientura meier con el sobrescritto que diga en casa del Sennor Eleazar Hycman Mercader Ingles al tragetto de San Thomas en Venisia Y Dios guarde la persona de V. M. Fecha en Venesia al primer dia de Iulio 1596. annos Amigo de V. M. Michael Lok Ingles And I sent the said Letter from Venice to Zante in the ship Cherubin And shortly after I sent a copie thereof in the ship Mynyon And also a third copie thereof by Manea Orlando Patron de Naue Venetian And vnto my said Letters he wrote mee answere to Venice by one Letter which came not to my hands And also by another Letter which came to my hands which is copied here-vnder Al Ill mo Sig or MICHAL LOCH Ingles in casa del Sig or LASARO Merca. der Ingles al tragetto de San THOMAS en Venesia MVy Illustre Seg or la carta de V. M. receui à 20. dias del Mese di Settembre por loqual veo Loche V. M. me manda io tengho animo de complir Loche tengo promettido à V. M. y no solo yo mas tengo vinte hombres para lieuar con migo porche son hombres vaglientes y assi estoi esperando por otra carta che auise à V. M. parache me embiais los dinieros che tengo escritto à V. M. Porche bien saue V. M. como io vine pouer porche me glieuo Capitan Candis mas de sessanta mille ducados come V. M. bien sane embiandome lo dicho ire à seruir à V. M. con todos mis compagneros I no spero otra cossa mas de la voluntad è carta de V. M. I con tanto nostro Sig or Dios guarda la Illustre persona de V. M. muchos annos De Ceffalonia à 24. de Settembre del 1596. Amigo seruitor de V. M. Iuan Fuca. And the said Letter came to my hands in Venice the 16. day of Nouember 1596. but my Law suite with the Companie of Turkie was not yet ended by reason of Sir Iohn Spencers suite made in England at the Queenes Court to the contrarie seeking onely to haue his money discharged which I had attached in Venice for my said pension and thereby my owne purse was not yet readie for the Greeke Pilot. And neuerthelesse hoping that my said suite would haue shortly a good end I wrote another Letter to this Greeke