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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01749	A discourse of a discouerie for a new passage to Cataia. VVritten by Sir Humfrey Gilbert, Knight	Gilbert, Humphrey, Sir, 1539?-1583.; Gascoigne, George, 1542?-1577.	1576 (1576)	STC 11881; ESTC S105732	27,387	91

thing that were worthie misliking 4 Furthermore it treateth of a matter whereof no man hath heretofore written particularly nor shewed ani approued reason for the same So that not onely his trauaile and paine are very commendable who out of sundrie Authorities woulde gather one reasonable coniecture but also the worke is not to be thought bareine although it doe not fully prooue somuch as may be expected since he that plougheth in a flintie fielde speedeth well if he reape but an indifferent crop 5 And last of all it is to bee considered that of thinges vncertaine the greatest Clerke that euer was could write but probably Herewithall as I haue preposterously answered such obiections as might be made against it So now let mee say that a great learned man euen M. Dee doth seeme very well to like of this Discouerie and doth much commende the Authour the which he declareth in his Mathematical preface to th'english Euclide I. refer thee Reader to peruse the same and thinke it not strange though I be encouraged by so learned a fore leader to set forth a thing whiche hee so well liked of To conclude whereas other Cosmographical workes doe but shew vs things already knowen treated of this Discouerie doeth tend to a very profitable and commendable practise of a thing to bee discouered So that I thought it my part both for great good will to the authour and for publike perfourmance of a common duetie to commend a little Bee somuch commeÌ„dable to defend it from the stormes of obiections with boords and clay of direct answers To set it in the sunshine as you see and to ring it out with my best basons for the better expressing of such ioye comfort as I haue therein conceiued All whiche together with the frendly coÌ„structions of th'authours trauaile and my boldnes I coÌ„mend gentle reader vnto thy curteous consideration wishinge vnto thee much profite by perusing this treatise vnto the authour much prayse according to his deserts to my kinsman who nowe atteÌ„pteth to proue the same discouery happy returne and to my selfe some thankes and none ill will for my presumption So that the Authour being therby incouraged may be the more willing hereafter to publishe some other well worthy which he hath in readinesse and whereof hee hath made me alreadie an eyedwitnes Farewell From my lodging where I march amongst the Muses for lacke of exercise in martiall exploytes this 12. of April 1576. A friend to all well willing Readers George Gascoine A PROPHETICAL SOnet of the same George Gascoine vpon the commendable trauaile which Sir Humfrey Gilbert hath disclosed in this worke Men praise Columbus for the passing skil Which he declared in Cosmographie And nam'd him first as yet we cal him stil The 2. Neptune dubd by dignity Americus Vesputius for his paine Neptune the 3. ful worthely was named And Magellanus by good right did gaine Neptune the 4. ful fitly to be famed But al those three and al the world beside Discouered not a thing of more emprice Then in this booke is learnedly descride By vertue of my worthie friendes deuice Yf such successe to him as them then fall Neptune the 5. we iustly may him call Tam Marti quam Mercurio Â¶ A LETTER OF SIR Humfrey Gilbert Knight sent to his Brother Sir IOHN GILBERT of Compton in the Countie of Deuon Knight concerning the discourse of this Discouerie SIR YOV might iustly haue charged mee with an vnsetled head if I had at any time taken in hand to discouer Vtopia or any countrey fained by imagination But Cataia is none such it is a countrey well knowen to be described and set foorth by all moderne Geographers whose authoritie in this art contrarie to all other beareth most credit and the passage thereunto by the Northwest from vs through a sea which lieth on the Northside of Labrador mencioned prooued by no smal number of the most expert and best learned amongst them By whose authoritie if I amongest others haue beene moued to hope of that passage who can iustly blame me sith euerie man is best to be credited and beleeued in his owne professed art and science wherin he doth most excell And if I would not giue that credit to those authours which they deserue but were so wedded vnto my owne ignorance that neither the authoritie of learned Geographers the reasons of wise Philosophers nor the experience of painfull Trauellers might persuade me to belieue a trueth Then might I iustly be accompted selfe willed which a learner ought chiefly to eschewe holding for a Maxime that Discentem oportet credere And knowing you to be one that may easily be induced to hearken and yeelde to reason I will briefly opeÌ„ vnto you some fewe of the grounds of mine opinion to the ende you may the better vnderstaÌ„d that my hope of this discouerie and passage was not so rashe or foolishe as you heretofore haue deemed but contrariwise grounded vpon a very sure foundation and that not vnaduisedly but after long consideration great confereÌ„ce had with such as I knew to be both wise learned and of great experience as well touching this passage as the wonderfull welth and commodities which might and would ensue thereby it being once discouered whose abundance of riches treasure no man of learning and iudgement doubteth for that the countreys themselues and their commodities are apparantly knowen by sundrie mens experience But as it is one thing to speak and an other by reason to confirme so I wil briefly do my indeuour to proue the same And haue herewithall sent you for your better vnderstandinge a rough draught of a vniuersall Map in the end of the boke sufficieÌ„t to explane the matter with those names only in effect which are mencioned in this discourse to the ende that by resorting to this general Mappe c. finding without difficultie euerie particular place mencioned herein you may the better gather my meaning and conceiue my reasons alledged for the proofe of this passage nowe in question which I wil proue three wayes Al which I haue diuided into seuerall chapters which may fully deliuer vnto you the whol contents of this worke by their seuerall titles as followeth Fare you well from my lodging the last of Iune Anno D. 1566. Your louing Brother Humfrey Gilbert The Table of the matters conteyned in euerie Chapter of this Booke Capitulo 1. TO prooue by authoritie a passage to be on the Northside of America to goe to Cataia China and to the East India Capitulo 2. To prooue by reason a passage to be on the North-side of America to goe to Cataia the Mulluccae c Capitulo 3 To prooue by experience of sundrie mens trauails the opening of some parte of this Northwest passage whereby good hope remaineth of the rest Capitulo 4. To prooue by Circumstance that the Northwest passage hath bene sayled through out Capitulo 5. To prooue that suche Indians as haue bene

A DISCOVRSE Of a Discouerie for a new Passage to Cataia VVritten by Sir HVMFREY GILBERT Knight Quid non Imprinted at London by Henry Middleton for Richarde Ihones ANNO. DOMINI 1576. Aprilis 12. GEORGE GASCOIGNE Esquire to the Reader EVery maÌ„ that is of iudgment hath a reasonable disposition to the atteining of anie vertue together with a discretion to vse the benefites of nature will confesse that we are by as great reason bounde to encourage and commend the industrie of the diligent as to dispraise and punish the slouth or abuse of the negligent For if princes doe not aswell rewarde and cherish the well deseruing subiecte as their Iudges and Magistrates are readie to correct the offendour the Common Wealth might then quickly be depriued both of the one and the other I meane that as fast as the sword of Iustice should weede out the one so fast the scourg of ingratitude woulde chase out the other And so thereby their dominions might in the end become naked and altogether vnfurnished We see the good huswife is no lesse curious to decke her bees hiue to rub and perfume it with sweete herbes to couer and defend it from raine with clay and boordes and to place it in the warme Sunshine safe from the Northerly blastes then Shee is readie to wreck her malice on the drones to smoke and smoulder them with Bunte and Brimstone to fray and chase them out by soudain noyse and to kill them and caste them away as vnprofitable members in her Microcosmos Yea and with melodie of Basons and Timbrils will shee welcome home her swarme if at anye time they doe waspishly goe astray yet at last retourne to their former abyding Thus muche gentle reader I haue thought good Allegorically to write in the behalfe of the right worshipful my very frend S. Humfrey Gilbert Knight the true authour of this little yet profitable Pamphlet intituled A Discourse of a Discouerie for a newe passage to Cataia c. In whose Commendation I woulde fayne write asmuche as hee deserueth were I not afrayde to bee condemned by him of flatterie which blame with my friendes I vse not to deserue But surely ouer and besides that hee is a gentleman wel and worshipfully borne and bredde and well tryed to bee valiant in martiall affayres wherby hee hath worthely beene constituted a Coronell and generall in places requisite and hath with sufficiencie discharged the same both in this Realme and in forreigne Nations hee is also indued with sundrie great gyftes of the minde and generally well giuen to th' aduauncemente of knowledge and vertue All whiche good partes I rather set downe constrained by the present occasion then prompted by any vaine desire to currie fanoure with my friende For his vertues are sufficient to praise themselues And it shal be a sufficient conclusion for my prayses to wishe that our realme had store of suche Gentlemen But as the good Gardener doth couer his tender herbes in winter and cherishe them also in summer so haue I thought my selfe bounden somewhat to say in the commendation of this present Treatise and somewhat to answere vnto the obiections that might bee made by such as list to cauill at euerie commendable enterprise And surely I cannot chuse but highly prayse the noble minde and courage of the Authour who more respectinge the publique profit that might ensue by this Discouerie then the delicate life of a Courtier well countenanced and fauoured both by his Prince and all the Nobilitie had prepared his owne bodie to abide the malice of the windes and waues and was euen ready to haue perfourmed the voyage in proper person if he had not beene by her Maiestie otherwise commanded and imployed in martiall affaires aswell in Ireland as sithence in other places You must herewith vnderstand good Reader that the authour hauinge a worshipfull Knight to his brother who abashed at this enterprise aswell for that he himselfe had none issue nor other heier whome he ment to bestow his lands vpon but onely this Authour and that this voyage then seemed straÌ„g and had not beene commonly spoken of before as also because it seemed vnpossible vnto the common capacities did seeme partly to mislike his resolutions to disuade him from the same thereupon he wrote this Treatise vnto his saide Brother both to excuse and cleare himselfe from the note of rashnesse and also to set downe such Authorities reasons and experiences as had chiefly encouraged him vnto the same as may appeare by the letter next following the which I haue here inserted for that purpose And this was done about vij yeares now past sithence which time the originall copies of the same haue lien by the authour as one rather dreading to hazarde the Iudgements of curious perusers then greedie of glorie by hasty publication Now it happened that my self being one amongst manie beholding to the said S. Humfrey Gilbert for sundrie curtesies did come to visit him in Winter last passed at his house in Limehowse and beeing verie bolde to demaunde of him howe he spente his time in this loytering vacation from martiall stratagemes he curteously tooke me vp into his Studie and there shewed me sundrie profitable and verie coÌ„mendable exercises which he had perfected painefully with his owne penne And amongst the rest this present Discouerie The which as well because it was not long as also because I vnderstoode that M. Fourboiser a kinsman of mine did pretend to trauaile in the same Discouerie I craued at the saide S. Humfreyes handes for two or three dayes to reade and to peruse And bee verie friendly granted my request but stil seming to doubt that thereby the same might contrarie to his former determination be Imprinted And to be plaine when I had at good leasure perused it therwithall conferred his allegations by the Tables of Ortelius and by sundrie other Cosmographicall Mappes and Charts I seemed in my simple iudgement not onely to like it singularly but also thought it very meete as the present occasion serueth to giue it out in publike Wherupon I haue as you see caused my friendes great trauaile and mine owne greater presumption to be registred in print But since I haue thus aduentured both his rebuke and mine owne reproofe let me thus muche alledge in both our defences 1 First it is but a Pamphlet no large discourse therefore the more to be borne withall since the faults if any be shal be the fewer because the volume is not great 2 Also it was ment by th'autour but as a priuate Letter vnto his Brother for his better satisfaction and therefore his imperfections therein if any were are to be pardoned since it is very likely that if he had ment to publish the same he would with greater heede haue obserued and perused the worke in euerie parte 3 Againe it commeth foorth without his consent So that he had neither warning nor time to examine nor yet to amende anie

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