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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00709	An exact and curious suruey of all the East Indies, euen to Canton, the chiefe cittie of China all duly performed by land, by Monsieur de Monfart, the like whereof was neuer hetherto, brought to an end. VVherein also are described the huge dominions of the great Mogor, to whom that honorable knight, Sir Thomas Roe, was lately sent ambassador from the King. Newly translated out of the trauailers manuscript.	Feynes, Henri de.; Loiseau de Tourval, Jean.	1615 (1615)	STC 10840; ESTC S102015	23,945	52

AN EXACT AND CVRIOVS SVRVEY Of all the East Indies euen to Canton the chiefe Cittie of China All duly performed by land by Monsieur de Monfart the like whereof was neuer hetherto brought to an end VVherein also are described the huge Dominions of the great Mogor to whom that honorable Knight Sir Thomas Roe was lately sent Ambassador from the KING Newly translated out of the Trauailers Manuscript LONDON Printed by Thomas Dawson for VVilliam Arondell in Pauls Church-yard at the Angell 1615. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARLE OF PEMBROKE one of the Lords of his Maiesties most honorable priuie Counsell and Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter RIGHT HONORABLE THis euery way so meane a Booke and so vnmeasurably disproportioned to your HONORS eminent ranke and merite I durst neuer haue presumed to haue cast no not so high as your feete for the first publike token of my wholly deouted seruice and humble dutie but that my selfe being totally truely and most deseruedly yours any thing that is in me or shall euer come from me little or much and of what nature soeuer must needs acknowledge that dependance And when I remembred the Earnest is euer the least part yea often no part of the Payment neyther do I here intend more I had some hope your true Noblenes would not altogether reiect it Vouchsafe then my most noble Lord to suffer it to passe as a meere Earnest or rather an Entayle to your Lord-ship of whatsoeuer I shall at any time hereafter be able more happily to bring forth for your seruice and pleasure Which regardles as it is if it may but escape the imputation of an offence it is the highest ayme of him that neyther desires nor is worthy longer to liue then he shall giue the world notice to his vtmost how much he is Your Lord-ships most humble and bounden in all duties A Preface of the Translator YET WAS I NOT SO much the Translator as the Fashioner of this worke It was my good hap in my last iourney into Fraunce to bee acquainted with that braue Spirit the right Author and performer therof who a right French Gentleman withall howsoeuer indowed with Courage and other Martiall qualities yet as though learning were a staine to a Noble blood with vs the truth is he cannot very well write strongly possessed with that actiue humor of ours so much bent to Doing as can little curbe it selfe to Musing and with that preiudicat opinion the Ship-wracke of all our young Nobilitie that it is onely for a Gentleman to ride not to reade and rather handle a bad sword then a good booke but a Pen least of all Which hath euer beene the vnluckie cause that our worthiest counsels and most generous exployts in peace or warre would lye for euer buryed vnder the dust of forgetfulnesse with the same bodyes that performed them If euen they who haue felt most smart by vs had not set them downe to our owne knowledge and of all nations to diminish their shame by the valor of their Enemies So then this Gentleman hauing onely taken some notes of his iourneyes still as hee went not able to make a right treatise of them for want of a fit writer in those barbarous Countries being as he thought at his trauels end and happilie landed in Christendome hee found it in this case farre more Barbarous For there he was taken himselfe and in one of the most rich and famous Sea-citties of the world kept foure yeeres in pryson watching him carefully with an intent so to keepe him all his lifetyme least by a full discourse he should make other Nations acquainted with these his obseruations thereby to giue them an entrance into that Earthly Paradise which they so enuiously barre from all notice and entercourse of the whole world by the flaming Mouth of so manie Cannons and the Sun-burnt Garisons of their blacke Angels the dearer to sell vnto vs those delightfull fruits of life which we could fetch our selues at a better rate In that plight our Traueller was faine to commend all his knowledge to his best memorie a qualitie wherewith God hath largely requited his not being a great Rethoritiā principally to his notes which yet in the middest of all his troubles and no small losses he was more careful to keepe then his treasure So as soone as by a very extraordinary and much vnlooked-for fauour from Heauen hee had made meanes in fauour of two great mariages intended to get out and finally being arriued at Paris I was chosen for the framing and setting together this dis-ioynted Treatise enlarging his notes from his owne mouth as sometimes one doth after a Sermon and was allowed my owne Coppie for my labour The like whereof I may safely auouch is but in three hands besides through all the world the one in the Closet of our most Noble and hopefull young King whom God for euer blesse the other with a great Prince the third with the Author himselfe Now the truth is that as soone as I had but the first sight thereof I immediatly according to my former resolution and profession whollie to applie my selfe my studies my life and best endeuours to the seruice and benefit as farre as I can of this noble Kingdome my second and substitute Country after that which nature first binds me vnto purposed with my selfe to publish it here as a witnesse of my true and auncient loue A loue indeed not humorous nor new but trulie bred euenwith nature in my childhood before my knowledge vnder the tender care of an English mother now of late in my riper and best yeeres vppon good triall iust reasons or such at least as I doe flatter my selfe to be so growne by habitude to such a poynt of bewitching as euen I content my selfe to forbeare my right Countrie and Kindred with all my hopes perhaps not altogether vnlikelie or but meere hopes vnbegun of higher preferment in the multitude of so many friends great and small and of both Religions as I dare say and withall prayse God for it I haue yonder Neyther is that loue of mine hid or vnknowne to the world There are bookes extant in more then one Language to testifie it which I might very well haue kept back if it had beene otherwise since euen many of mine owne Country-men haue taken some exceptions at it as though God forbia I would in some sort dissolue the bands of nature farre farre from my meaning and which scarce can be effected at my very dissolution Yet did not my loue so much carry me away as that I would witnesse it in superfluous things Therefore least I should runne amisse I was carefull both to recouer and peruse all such Bookes and Pamflets as are to be found in English concerning Asia-Trauailes which in all doe not amount to fiue or sixe And finding the most part speakes of nothing els then of Graecia Arabia Syria with some stale tales of