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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04334	The nauigators supply Conteining many things of principall importance belonging to nauigation, with the description and vse of diuerse instruments framed chiefly for that purpose; but seruing also for sundry other of cosmography in generall: the particular instruments are specified on the next page.	Barlow, William, d. 1625.	1597 (1597)	STC 1445; ESTC S100864	53,601	102

THE NAVIGATORS SVPPLY Conteining many things of principall importance belonging to Nauigation with the description and vse of diuerse Instruments framed chiefly for that purpose but seruing also for sundry other of Cosmography in generall the particular Instruments are specified on the next Page They that goe downe to the Sea in Ships and employ their labour in the great waters They see the workes of the Lord and his wonders in the deepe Psal. 107. Imprinted at London by G. Bishop R. Newbery and R. Barker 1597. The Contents 1. Of the Compasse in generall 2. Of the Compasse of Variation 3. Of the Trauailors Iewell 4. Of the Pantometer 5. Of the Hemisphere 6. Of the Trauerse-boorde 7. A friendly Aduertisement to the Nauigators of England To the Right Honorable for all partes of true Christian Nobilitie worthily renowmed and my singular good Lord Rob. Earle of Essex and Ewe Vicount Hereford and Bourgcher Lord Ferrers of Chartley Bourgcher and Louayn Master of her Matesties Ordinance Horse Knight of the Honorable Order of the Garter of her Highnesse priuie Councell Long life with encrease of Honor. PLutarch in a Treatise wherein he sheweth how a man may winne profite by the malice of his enemies doeth manifest his drift and purpose with this conuenient similitude That men of olde in their encounters with saluage and wilde beasts thought to haue made a great hand if they coulde but saue and defende themselues from their iniuries and violence But the succeeding ages proceeded further conuerting the flesh of them vnto foode their haire to the vse of garments and their very gall and other partes of them to sundry most wholesome medicines Yea the whole outward proportion of their fearefull shape I meane their skinnes which before had threatned man nothing but death he afterward addressed to be conuenient Armour to saue him from harmes and defend him from destruction So that the life of man which to the foregoing Ages seemed to be miserable by hauing wilde beastes to their Posteritie following should haue appeared in part miserable if they had wanted wilde beastes And Plutarch alleageth Xenophon to haue beene of this iudgement That although some man can content him to escape the iniuries of his enemies yet is it the part of the wise and valiant minded to make profite of their malice by vsing such industrie in attending his owne wayes and marking his aduersaries that the whole course of his life shoulde seeme nothing so happy and commendable were it so in deede that vtterly he had none enemies at all Much in like sort my very honorable good Lord fareth it with our Nauigators who at the first aduentured to forsake the maine land betaking themselues to the wide Ocean Sea vpon the credit and fidelitie which they reposed on the Sailing Compasse constantly beleeuing that it had euery where shewed the true North and South and semblably all the other windes But dangerous and dolefull experience within short time made it plaine and manifest that where they reposed greatest trust there was some treacherie For the vpholder of their life and safetie did sometimes misleade them into destruction and caried them in the proceeding of their course farre distant they knew not whither from that he in the beginning pretended This vncertaintie therefore being so dangerous an enemie of their new practised arte with might and maine they encountered And hauing at length found out some tolerable meanes to auoide it they thought them selues to haue done ynough and rested therewith contented But in this pregnant Age wherein we liue the expert and skilfull Nauigators haue proceeded yet further and made of that as it were venimous qualitie of misleading an Antidote against it selfe yea they vse it in steade of an armour and defence against error and perils So that though in the rude beginnings of former times men were drawen by it into many perplexities yet in the setled experience of these our dayes they reioyce therein being vsed and ordered accordingly as in a thing greatly concerning their good and welfare But this is a principall secret onely knowen vnto those that are of greatest skill among them A memorable example hereof fell out Anno 1586. when Sir Frances Drake a Gentleman of famous memorie in his VVest Indian victorious voyage departing from the harbour of Cartagena arriued some small time after at the VVestermost point of Cuba called Cape S. Antony and hauing stayed there some fewe dayes put to Sea for Virginia for the reliefe of our Countreymen that were there in great danger and distresse Hauing continued at the Sea sixteene dayes tossed with variable windes they came at last within sight of land but by no meanes could they discerne or giue any probable ghesse what lande it should be So it was that one of Southhampton being an expert and skilfull Nauigator though of other conditions not so good but better might haue bin wished for his frowardnesse hauing receaued disgrace before was notwithstanding vpon this necessitie called vnto conference where after Sir Francis had bestowed on him some part of his eloquent perswasions and faire promises at length he vndertaketh to doe his best And hauing made his obseruations according vnto Arte he pronounced in laughing and disdainefull maner because his aduise was not taken in the setting of their course that looke what land they had bin at sixteene dayes before the very same precisely was the land that now they were at againe VVhich assertion of his being reiected as a thing impossible by all those of skill in the company and especially by Sir Francis himselfe not without reprochfull wordes he still perseuered therein and assured them that vpon his life they should finde it so like as in the ende they did This coulde he neuer haue done without his knowledge of the Variation of the Compasse as the partie himselfe more then once with great earnestnesse hath protested vnto me in conference that I haue had with him concerning those matters Yea besides the particular knowledge of Places the expert Nauigator standeth in great hope hereby to attaine vnto good helpes for the finding of Longitudes and according vnto the Poet Non fumum ex fulgore sed ex fumo dare lucem Cogitat vt speciosa dehinc miracula promat But this is a matter somewhat daintie among the chiefest of them As for the rest in all their conclusions about the Variation they may as yet for all their faire shewes be well likened vnto Chapmen that are merchandizing for the skinne of a wilde beast before the beast be taken The great necessitie hereof and the singular loue that for many yeres I haue borne to that laudable facultie and to the industrious practisers thereof hath at length perswaded me not onely to contriue certaine Instruments fitted for sundry their purposes and especially for taking the Variation of the Compasse but also to set foorth diuers other principall vses of them together with the Descriptions of the Instruments themselues All which