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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

same To whom we owe the titles that to Vertues Nimpes are due So good a Knight whom English men in vertue should persue No doubt but God will blesse th'atempt succeed him roundly then And in this Voyage follow fast you that bee English men VVith such supplie from time to time as what is well begonne Bee not for want of men and aide through slackfulnes vndoone So shall you harbour in your hartes the seedes of magnanimitie A vertue where with all the Romaines did enlarge their Empery Be you prepared for euery foe and be couragious then For that you slippe through negligence will fall to other men Enuie hath eyes to see afarre your new attempt will whet A number more to seeke therefore if you your selues forget Send foorth with speede get footing there and make prouision T is ill for vs to linger thus and talke thereof so longe Iohn Achelley ❧ The firste Chapiter wherein the Argument of the ` Booke is Contayned IT was my fortune good Reader not many dayes past to meete with a right honest and discrete Gentleman who accompanied that valiāt worthy Knight Sir Humfry Gilbert Maister Edward Hay in this last iourney for the Westerne discoueries And is owner and Captaine of the onelie Vessell which is as yet returned from thence By him I did vnderstande that Sir Humfrey departed the coaste of Englande the eleuenth of Iune last past with fiue sayle of Shippes from Caushenbay neere Plimmouth wherof one of the best forfooke his companie the thirtenth day of the same moneth and returned into England The other foure through the assistaunce of almightye GOD did arriue at Saint Iohns Hauen Sir Humfrey Gilbert did arriue at S. Iohn● hauen in Newfounde Land the 3. of August Anno. Do. 1583. in Newfounde Lande the thyrd of August last Vpon whose arriuall all the Maisters and cheefe Mariners of the English Flete which were in the sayd Hauen before endeuouring to fraughte themselues with Fysh repayred vnto Sir Humfrey whom he made acquainted with the effect of his cōmission which being doone he promised to intreate them and their goods well and honourably as dyd become her maiesties Lieftennaunt They did all welcome him in the best sorte that they coulde and shewed him and his all such courtesies as that place coulde affoorde or yeelde Then he went to viewe the Countrey being wel accompanied with most of his Captaines Soldiers They found the same very temperate Among these there was founde the tract of a beast of ● inches and a halfe ouer but somewhat warmer then Englande at that season of the yeere replenished with Beastes great store of Fowle of diuers kindes And Fish of sundry so●tes both in the salte water and in the fresh in so greate plentie as might suffice to victuall an Armie and they are verie easilie taken VVhat sundrie other commodities for this Realme right necessarie the same dooth yeelde you shall vnderstande in this treatise heereafter in place more conuenient On munday being the fift of August the Generall caused his Tent to be set vpon the side of an hill in the viewe of all the Flete of Englishmen and Straungers which were in number betweene thirty and fortie sayle then being accompanied with all his Captaines Maisters Gentlemen other Soldiers he caused all the Maisters and principall Officers of the Shippes as well Englishmen as Spaniardes Portingals and of other nations to repayre vnto his Tent And then and there in the presence of them all he did cause hys commission vnder the great seale of England to bee openlie and solempnlie reade vnto them whereby were graunted vnto him his heyres assignes by the Queenes most excellent Maiestie manie great and large royalties liberties and priuiledges Sir Humfrey tooke possession of the N●w found l●●de in the right of the crowne of Englande The effect whereof being signified vnto the Straungers by an Interpretor he tooke possession of the sayd land in the right of the Crowne of England by digging of a Turfe and receiuing the same with an Hasell wande deliuered vnto him after the manner of the lawe and custome of England Then he signified vnto the cōpany both strangers others that frō thence forth they were to liue in that Land as the Territories appertayning to the Crowne of England Three lawes established there by Sir Humfrey and to be gouerned by such Lawes as by good aduise shoulde bee set downe which in all poyntes so neere as might be shold be agreeable to the Lawes of England And for to put the same in execution presentlie he ordeined and established three Lawes Fyrst that Religion publiquely exercised should be such and none other then is vsed in the Church of England The seconde that if any person should bee lawfully conuicted of any practise against her Maiestie her crowne and dignity to be adiudged as traytors according to the Lawes of Englande The thyrd if any shoulde speake dishonourably of her Maiestie the partie so offending to loose his eares hys Shippe and goods to be confiscate to the vse of the Generall All men did verie willingly submit themselues to these Lawes Sundry persons be came Tennants to Sir Humfrey doo maintaine possession for him in diver● places there Then he caused the Queenes maiesties Armes to be engraued sett vppe and erected with great solempnity After this diuers English men made sute vnto Sir Humfrey to haue of him by inheritaunce they accustomed Stages standinges and drying places in sundry partes of that Land for theyr Fish as a thing that they doo make great accōpte off which he graunted vnto them in fee farme And by thys meanes he hath possession mayntained for him in many partes of that Country To be briefe he dyd lette sette giue and dispose of many thinges as absolute gouernour there by vertue of her maiesties letters pattents And after theyr Shippes were repayred whereof one hee was driuen to leaue behinde bothe for want of men sufficient to furnish her as also to carrie home such sicke persons as were not able to proceede any further He departed from thence the 20 of August with the other three namelie the Delight wherein was appointed Captaine in Maister VVilliam VVinters place that thence returned immediatlie for Englande Maister Morries Browne the Golden Hynde in which was Captaine and owner Maister Edwarde Hay and the little Frigat where the Generall himselfe did goe seeming to him most fitt to discouer and approche the Shoare The 21. day they came to Cape Rase towarde the South partes whereof lying a while becalmed they tooke Codd in largenes and quantitie exceeding the other parts of New-found Lande where any of them had beene And frō thence trending the Coast West towarde the Bay of Placencia The Generall sent certain men a Shoare to view the countrey which to them as they sayled along seemed pleasaunt VVhereof his men at theyr returne gaue great commendation likeing so well of the place as

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