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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09213	A true reporte, of the late discoueries, and possession, taken in the right of the Crowne of Englande, of the new-found landes: by that valiaunt and worthye gentleman, Sir Humfrey Gilbert Knight Wherein is also breefely sette downe, her highnesse lawfull tytle therevnto, and the great and manifolde commodities, that is likely to grow thereby, to the whole realme in generall, and to the aduenturers in particular. Together with the easines and shortnes of the voyage. Seene and allowed.	[Peckham, George], Sir.	1583 (1583)	STC 19523; ESTC S110356	38,496	74

Ale Beholde heere good Countreimen the manifolde benefites commodities and pleasures heeretofore vnknowne by Gods especiall blessing not onelie reuealed vnto vs but also as it were infused into our bosomes who though hetherto like Dormise haue slumbered in ignoraunce thereof beeing like the Cattes that are lothe for theyr praye to wette their feete yet if now therefore at the last we would awake and with willing mindes setting friuolous imaginations aside become industrious instruments to our selues Questionles we shoulde not onely heereby setfoorth the glorie of our heauenlie Father but also easily attaine to the ende of all good purposes that may be wished or desired And may it not much encourage vs to hope for good successe in the countrey of these Sauages beeing a naked kinde of people voyde of the knowledge of the discipline of warre seeing that a Noble man beeing but a subiecte in this Realme in the time of our King Henrie the second by name Strangbowe thē Earle of Chepstowe in South VVales by himselfe and his Alleis and assistaunts at their owne proper charges passed ouer into Ireland and there made conquest of the nowe Countrey and then kingdom of Ly●●ster at which time it was verie populous strong which historie our owne Chronicles doo witnes And why should we be dismaide more then were the Spaniardes who haue beene able within these fewe yeeres to conquer possesse and enioy so large a tracte at the earth in the west Indies as is betweene the two Tropicks of Cācer and Capricorne not onely in the maine firme lande of America which is 47. degrees in latitude frō South to North doth cōtain 2820. English miles at the least that the King of Spayne hath there in actual possession besides many goodly rich Islands as Hispaniola now called Sa Domingo Cuba Iamica and diuers other which are bothe beautifull and full of treasure not speaking anie whitt at all how large the saide Lande is from East to VVest which in some places is accounted to be 1500. English miles at the least from East to VVest betweene the one Sea and the other Or why should our Noble nation be dismaide more then was Vasques Numes de Balboa 2. D●cad lib. 5. fo 77. of the West Indes in English Cano●s is a kinde of boate 3. Decad. lib. 1. fol. ●7 a priuate Gentleman of Spayne who with the number of 70. Spaniardes at Tich●ri gaue an ouerthrow vnto that mightie King Chemacchus hauing an Armie of an hundred Canoas 5000. men and the say de Vasques Numes not long after with his small number did put to flight King Chiapes his whole Armie Likewise Hernando Cortese beeing also but a priuate Gentleman of Spayne About the yeere of our Lord 1511. after his departure from the Islands of Cuba and Acusamill and entring into the firme of America had many most victorious triumphant conquests as that at Cyntla where beeing accompanied with lesse thē 500. Spanish footemen Conquest of the West Indes fol. 43 and 45. in English thirteene Horsemen and sixe peeces of Ordenaunce onely he ouerthrewe 40000 Indians The same Cortese with his sayde number of Spaniardes tooke prisoner that mightie Emperour Meter●ma in his most cheefe and famous Cittie of Mexico which at that instant had in it aboue the number of 500000 Indians at the least and in short time after obteyned not onelie the quiet possession of the saide Cittie But also of his whole Empire And in like manner in the Country of Peru which the King of Spayne hath nowe in actual possession Francisco Pysare with the onelie ayde of Diego de Almagro and Hernando Luche beeing all three but priuate Gentlemen was the principall person that first attempted the discouerie and conquest of the large and rich Countrye of Peru which through the ayde of the almighty he brought to passe and atchiued in the Tambo of Cassiamalcha which is a large place of ground enclosed with walles in which place he tooke the great and mightye Prince Attabalipa prisoner A meruelous victorie amidest the number of 60000 Indians his subiectes which were euer before that day accounted to bee a warlike kinde of people which his great victory it pleased God to graunt vnto him in the yeere of our Lorde 1533. he not hauing in his company aboue the number of 210. Spaniardes whereof there was not past 60 horsemen in all After the taking of which Prince Attabalipa he offered vnto Pyzare for his raunsome to fill a great large Hall ful of Golde and Siluer and such Gold and Siluer vessels as they then vsed euen as hie as a man might reache with his arme And the sayd Prince caused the same Hall to bee marked rounde about at the sayde height which raunsome Pyzara graunted to accept And after when as thys mightie Prince had sent to his vassals subiects to bring in Golde and Siluer for the filling of the Hal as aforesaid as namelie to the Citties or Townes of Quito Pacyacama and Cusco as also to the Caloa of Lyma in which Towne as their owne writers doo affyrme they founde a large and fayre house all s●ated and couered with ●olde and when as the said Hal was not yet a quarter full a mutenye arose amongst the Spaniardes in which it was commonly giuen out that the said Prince had politiquely offered this great raunsome vnder pretence to rayse a much more mightie power whereby the Spaniardes should bee taken slayne and ouerthrowne wherevppon they grewe to this resolution to put the sayd Prince to death and to make particion of the gold and siluer already brought in which they presently put in execution And comming to make perfect Inuentory of the same as well for the Emperor then King of Spayne his fift parte as otherwise there was founde to be already brought in into the sayde Hall the number of 132425. pounde weight of siluer and in golde the number of 1828125. pezos A pezo is worth vii s. vi d. English which was a ritches neuer before that nor since seene of any man together of which there did appertaine to the Emperor for his fyft parte of Golde 365625. pezos for his fift parte of siluer 26485. pound weight to euery Horseman 8000. pezos of gold and 67 pounde weight of siluer Euery Soldier had 4550. pezos of golde and 280. pounde weight of siluer Enety Captain had some 30000. some 20000. pezos of golde and of siluer propottionally aunswerable to theyr degrees and calling according to the rate agreed vpon amongst them Se the History of the West Indies in French the xiii booke fol. 138. some part whereof is translated into English Fraunces Pizare as their General according to his degree and calling proportionally had more then any of the rest ouer and besides the Massie table of gold which Attahalipa had in his Lyttier which wayed 25000. pezos of Golde neuer was there before that day Soldiers so riche in so small a time

and with so little danger And in this iourney for want of Iron they did shoe theyr Horsses some with Gold and some with siluer This is to be seene in the generall Historye of the west Indies whereas the dooings of Pizare and the conquest of the Peru is more at large set foorth To this may I adde the great discoueries conquestes which the Princes of Portingall haue made rounde about the West the South and the East partes of Africa and also at Calicute and in the East Indies and in America at Brasilia and elswhere in sundry Islandes in fortefying peopling and planting all along the sayd Coastes Islandes euer as they discouered which beeing rightly wayed and considered dooth minister iust cause of incouragement to our country men not to account it so harde and difficult athing for the subiectes of this noble Realme of Englande to discouer people plant and possesse the like goodly lands and rich Countries not farre from vs but neere adioyning and offering it selfe vnto vs as is aforesayde which haue neuer yet heeretofore beene in the actuall possession of any other Christian Prince then the Princes of this realm All which as I thinke shoulde not a little animate and encourage vs to looke out and to aduenture abroade vnderstanding what large Countries and Islandes the Portingals with theyr small number haue within these fewe yeeres discouered peopled and planted some part wherof I haue thought it not amisse breefely in perticuler to name bothe the Townes Countries and Islandes so neere as I coulde vppon the suddaine call them to remembraunce for the rest I doo referre this Reader to the Histories where more at large the same is to be seene Fyrste they did winne and conquere from the Princes of Barbary the Island of Geysera towne of Arzilla not past 140 myle distaunt from their Metrapolitane and cheefe Cittie of Fesse and after that they wunne also from the sayde Princes the Townes of Tangier Seuta Mazigam Azamore and Azaffie all alongst the Sea Coastes And in the yeere of our Lorde 1455. Alouis de Cademost● a gentleman Venetian was he that first discouered for theyr vse Cape Verd with the Islandes adioyning of which hee then peopled and planted those of Bonanista and Santiago discouering also the Riuer Senega otherwise called Niger and Cape Rouge and Sere Leone and in a fewe yeeres after they did discouer the Coast of Ginea and there peopled built the Castell of Myne then discouered they further to the countreys of Melegettes Benyn and Manicongo with the Islandes of Principe Anobon Saint Mathew and S. Thomas vnder the Equynoctial lyne which they peopled and built in the sayd Island of S. Thomas the Hauen Towne or Port of Pauosan After that about the yeere of our Lorde 1494. one Bartholomew Dias was sent foorth who was the first man that discouered and dobled that great and large Cape called Bon Esperance and passing the Curraunts that runne vppon the sayd coast on the Southest parte of Affrica betweene the sayde maine Land and the Island of S. Lawrence otherwise called of the auncients Madagascar he discouered to the harbor named the Riuer of Infants After that since the yeere of our Lorde God 1497. and before the full accomplishment of the yeere of Christ 1510 through the trauails and discoueries of Vasques de Game Peeter Aluares Thomas Lopes Andrew Corsale Iohn de Empolie Peeter Sinter Sancho Detoar Ceffala is accounted to be the place where the Noble and wise King Salomon did fetch his golde and that noble and woorthy Gentleman Alonso de Alburqueque they did discouer people and plant at Ceffala beeing vpon the East side of Affrica in 20. degrees of latitude of the South pole and direct West from the Islande of S. Lawrence at which Port of Ceffala diuers doo afirme that King Salomon did fetch his golde As also vpon the sayd East side of Affrica they did afterwarde discouer people and plant at M●nzanbique Quil●● Monbaz● and Melinde 2. degrees of sotherly latitude and so vppe to the streight of Bubell Mandell at the entring of the Redde sea all vppon the East coast of Affrica from whence they put off at the Cape of Garda Funi and past the great gulfe of Arabia or Indian Sea East to Sinus Persicus and the Island of Ormus and so passing the large and great Riuet Indus where he hath his fall into the mayne Occean in 23. degrees di vnder the tropick of Cancer of Septentrionall latitude they made theyr course againe directly towards the South and began to discouer people and plant vpon the west side of the hether India at Goa Mangallor Canan●r Calecute and Chochyn and the Island of Zeylam And heere I thinke good to remember to you that after theyr planting vpon this coaste their forces grewe so great that they were able to compell all the Mores the subiectes of the mighty Emperor of the Turks to pay tribute vnto them euer as they passed the Gulfe of Arabia from the porte of Mecca in Arabia filice where Mahomet lyeth buried or any of the other portes of the sayd Land euer as they passed to and from the Hauens of Cochyn Calecute and Cananor and by theyr martiall manner of discipline practised in those partes the great and mightye Prince the Sophie Emperor of the Persians professed enemie to the Turck came to the knowledge and vse of the Caliuer shotte and to enterlace and ioine footemen with his Horsemen sithence which time the Persians haue growen to that strength and force that they haue giuen many mighty and great ouerthrowes to the Turke to the great quiet of all Christendome And from the Island of Zeylam aforesayde they also discouered more East in passing the Gulfe of Bengala and so passed the notable and famous Riuer of Ganges where he hath his fall into the maine Occean vnder the tropicke of Cancer and to the Cape of Malaca and vnto the great large Islands of Sumatro These are the furthest parts of the world from Englande At these Islands hath Sir Fraunces Drake beene wher the fame of the Qu. most excellent Maiestie was renowmed Iaua maior Iaua minor Mindano Palobane Celebes Gilolo Tydore Mathin Borneio Machian Terranette and all other the Islandes of Molucques and Spiceries and so East alongst the coasts of Cataia to the Ports of China Zayton and Quinsay and to the Islandes of Zipango and Iapan situate in the East in 37. degrees of septentrionall latitude and in 195. of longitude Their noble and woorthy discoueries heere also is not to be forgotten that in the yeere of our Lorde 1501. that famous and woorthy gentleman Americus Vespusue did discouer people and plant to theyr vse the Holdes and fortes which they haue in Brasillia of whom hee beeing but a priuate Gentleman the whole Country or firme Land of the VVest Indies is commonly called and knowne by the name of America I do greatlie doubt least I seeme ouertedious in the recitall