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A19937	The seamans secrets deuided into 2. partes, wherein is taught the three kindes of sayling, horizontall, peradoxall [sic], and sayling vpon a great circle : also an horizontall tyde table for the easie finding of the ebbing and flowing of the tydes, with a regiment newly calculated for the finding of the declination of the sunne, and many other most necessary rules and instruments, not heeretofore set foorth by any / newly published by Iohn Dauis of Sandrudge ...	Davis, John, 1550?-1605.	1595 (1595)	STC 6368.4; ESTC S319	62,822	93

THE SEAMANS SECRETS Deuided into 2. partes wherein is taught the three kindes of Sayling Horizontall Peradoxall and sayling vpon a great Circle also an Horizontall Tyde Table for the easie finding of the ebbing and flowing of the Tydes with a Regiment newly calculated for the finding of the Declination of the Sunne and many other most necessary rules and Instruments not heeretofore set foorth by any Newly published by Iohn Dauis of Sandrudge neere Dartmouth in the County of Deuon Gent. ¶ Imprinted at London by Thomas Dawson dwelling at the three Cranes in the Vinetree and are these to be solde 1595. To the right honorable Lord Charles Haward Baron of Effingham Knight of the noble order of the Garter Liuetenant of her Maiesties Counties of Sussex and Surrey Constable of her Maiesties Honor and Castle of Winsor Lord high Admirall of England Ireland and VVales and of the Dominions and Isles of the same of the Towne of Callis and marches thereof Normandy Gascony and Geynes Captaine generall of her Maiesties Seas and Nauie royall and one of her Maiesties most honorable priuie Counsell Iohn Dauis wisheth increase of honour and perfect felicitie RIght Honourable and my especiall good Lord as by the instinct of nature all men are desirous of knowledge and take pleasure in the varieties of vnderstanding so it is likewise ingraffed by the same benefit of nature in the harts of true nobilitie not onely to excell the vulgare sort but also to cherrish support and countenance all such as shall in due course prosecute their vocation and as such practises either speculatiue or mecanicall shall receiue sauourable place in the honourable opinion of nobilitie by so much the more shall the practiser be esteemed which is the cause that at this time imboldneth me to present vnto your most honourable fauour this smal treatise of Nauigation being a breefe collection of such practises as in my seuerall voyages I haue from experience collected Among which in my three seuerall attempts for the discouery of the Northwest passage thereby to finde a shorte and nauigable course vnto the riche and famous Countries of Cathayo China Pegu the Isles of Molucan and Phillipina that thereby to the great and inestimable benefite of our Countrie there might be a rich and plentifull trade procured betweene vs and the said nations in short time to be perfourmed and with great safetie in regarde of the course which action and discouery by meanes of that honourable Counseller Sir Frauncis Walsingham Knight principall Secretary to her Maiestie was with good resolution accepted by the Merchants of London but in the decay of his honourable life the attempt was likewise quailed but howsoeuer mens mindes alter yet vndoubtedly there is a passage nauigable and easie to be perfourmed by that course whensoeuer it shall please God to reueale the same by inuincible reasons and sufficient experience to be proued and although before I entred into that discouery I was sufficiently perswaded of the certaintie thereof by historicall relation substantially confirmed whereof to the aduentures I made sufficient proofe but especially to my worshipfull good freend Master William Sanderson the onely Merchant that to his great charges with most constant trauaile did labour for the finishing thereof yet I thanke God that of late it hath beene my very good chaunce to receiue better assurance then euer before of the certaintie of that passage and such was my vehement desire for the perfourmance thereof that thereby I was onely induced to goe with M. Candishe in his second attempt for the South Seas vpon his constant promise vnto me that when we came to the Callifornia I should there haue his Pinnice with my owne Barck which for that purpose went with me to my great charges to search that North west discouery vpon those backe partes of America but God hath otherwise disposed our purposes in his deuine Iudgements for M. Candishe being halfe way through the straights of Magilane and impatient of the tempestious furiousnes of that place hauing all his Ships and company with him returned for Brasill by the authoritie of his commaund whē with a leading winde we might haue passed the same and returning more then 80. leages toward Brasill my selfe being in his Ship named the Desire without Boate Oares Sayles Cables cordage victuals or health of my companye sufficient for that attempt was seperated in a frette of weather and forced to seeke the nex shorte for my releefe and recouering a harborow by vs named Port Desire being in the lati of 48. deg did there repaire my most miserable wantes and there staying foure moneths in most lamentable distresse did againe conclude with my company to giue an other attempt to passe the straights as my best meane to gaine releefe And three times I was in the South Seas but still by furious weather forced back againe yet notwithstanding all this my labour to perfourme the voyage for his profite and to saue my selfe for I did aduenture and my good freends for my sake 1100. pounds in the action M. Candishe was content to account me to be the authour of his ouerthrowe and to write with his dying hand that I ranne from him when as his owne Ship was returned many moneths before me I am bolde to make this relation vnto your Lordship onelye to satisfie your Honour of my conuersation for were I faultie of so foule a crime I were worthy of tenne thousand tormentes in presuming to present this Treatise to your honourable Lordship and now referring my cause to your Lordships consideration I will again returne to my purpose In those Northwest voyages where Nauigation must be executed in most exquite sorte in those attempts I was enforced to search all possible meanes required in sayling by which occasion I haue gathered together this breefe treatise which with my selfe I doe dedicate to your most honourable protection being desirous if it lay in my power to doe farre greater matter in your Lordships seruice hoping of your honourable pardon because it is onely done to shew my dutifull affection and not for any singularitie that the worke containeth For I thinke there be many hundreds in England that can in a farre greater measure and more excellent methode expresse the noble arte of Nauigation and I am fully perswaded that our Countrie is not inferiour to any for men of rare knowledge singuler application and exquisite execution of the Artes Mathematick for what Strangers may be compared with M. Thomas Digges Esquire our Countryman the great master of Archmastrie and for Thericall speculations and most cunning calculation M. Dee and M. Thomas Heriotts are hardly to be matched and for the mecanicall practises drawnefrom the Artes Mathematick our Countrie doth yeelde men of principall excellencie as M. Emery Mulleneux for the exquisite making of Globus bodies and M. Nicholas Hellyar for the singularitie of portrature hath the praise of Europe M. Baker for his skill and surpassing grounded knowledge for the building

of Ships aduantageable to all purpose hath not in any nation his equall And now that I may returne to the painefull Seaman it is not vnknowne to all nations of the earth that the English goeth before all others in the practises of sayling as appeareth by the excellent discouery of Sir Franncis Drake in his passage through the straights of Magilane which being then so rawly knowne he could not haue passed vnlesse he had beene a man of great practise and rare resolution so much I may boldely say because I haue seene and tasted the frowardnes of the place with the great vnlikelyhoode of any passage to be that way I might heere repeate the most valiant and excellent attemps of Sir Hugh Willougbie Sir Iohn Hawkins Sir Humfry Gilbert and your Lordships seruant M. George Raymond with diuers others that haue giuen most resolute attempts in the practises of Nauigation as well for the discouery as other execution whereby good proofe is made that not onely in the skill of Nauigation but also in the mecanicall execution of the practises of sayling we are not to be matched by any nation of the earth And sith Nauigation is the meane whereby Countries are discouered and comunitie drawne betweene nation and nation the word of God published to the blessed recouery of the forraine of castes from whome it hath pleased his deuine Maiestie as yet to detaine the brightnes of his glory and that by nauigation common weales through mutuall trade are not onely susteined but mightily enriched by whole hard aduentures such excellent benefites are atchieued for by his exceeding great hazzards the forme of the earth the quantities of Countries the diuersitie of nations and the natures of Zones Climats countries and people are apparantly made known vnto vs Besides the great benefites mutually interchanged betweene nations of such fruites commodities and artificiall practises wherewith God hath blessed eche perticular Countrie coast and nation according to the nature and scituation of the place For what hath made the Spaniard to be so great a Monarch the Commaunder of both Indias to abound in wealth and all natures benefites but onely the painefull industrie of his Subiects by Nauigation their former trade was onely figs Orenges and Oyle but now through Nauigation it is brought to be golde siluer pearles silkes and spice by long and painefull trade recouered Which great benefites onely by her Maiesties louing clemencie and mercifull fauour he doth possesse for if her highnes and her most honourable Lords would but regarde the small distance betweene her dominions and those famous rich kingdomes the easines of the passage being once discouered the Northwest I meane with the full sufficiencie of her highnes Subiects to effect the same there could then be no do doubt but her stately seate of London should be the storehouse of Europe and a nursse to all nations in yeelding all Indian commodities in a farre better condition and at a more easie rate then now brought vnto vs exchanging commodities of our owne store with a plentifull returne at the firste hand which now by many exchanges are brought vnto vs. Then should the Spaniard againe returne to his olde trade and our sacred Soueraigne be seated the Commaunder of the earth which trade and most fortunate discouery we aboue all nations ought most principally to regarde because of the singularitie and inviolable force of our Shipping which is not onely the commaunding fortresse of our Countrie but also the dread of our aduersary and glory of our nation wherein we doe in no sorte flatter our selues for it was made apparant to all nations of the earth by the late most famous conquest that her Maiestie had against the huge supposed inuincible fleete of the Spaniard being by her Nauie vnder the commaund of your Lordship who there in person and in place of her Maiestie to your eternall glorious same did disgrace their glory and confound their force and manifest their weakenes by their dastardly flight through Gods prouidence and your Lordships stately resolution Then sith Nauigation is a matter of so great moment I suppose that euery man is bound in dutie to giue his best furtherance thereunto among whome as the most vnmeete of all yet wishing all good to the painefull traueller I haue published this shorte treatise naming it the Seamans Secrets because by certaine questions demaunded and answered I haue not omitted any thing that appertaineth to the secret of Nauigation whereby if there may growe any increase of knowledge or ease in practise it is the thing which I cheefely desire To manifest the necessary conclusions of Nauigation in breefe and shorte tearmes is my onely intent and therefore I omit to declare the causes of tearmes and diffinition of artificiall wordes as matters superfluous to my purpose neither haue I laide downe the cunning conclusions apt for Schollers to practise vpon the shore but onely those things that are needfullye required in a sufficient Seaman beseeching your honourable Lordship to pardon my boldenesse and with your fauourable countenance to regarde my dutifull affection I most humblye commit your good Lordship to the mercies of God who long preserue your health with continuall increase of honour From Sandrudge by Darthmouth the 20. of August 1594. Your Lordships in all dutifull seruice to commaund Iohn Dauis Imperiall The first mouable Cristalin The firmamēt Saturnus Iupiter Mars Sol Venus Mercurius Luna THE FIRSTE BOOKE OF THE SEAMANS SECRETS What is Nauigation NAuigation is that excellent Arte which demonstrateth by infallible conclusion how a sufficient Ship may be conducted the shortest good way from place to place by Corse and trauers What are those infallible conclusions NAuigation consisteth of three partes which being well vnderstood and practised are conclusions infallible wherby the skilfull Pilote is void of all doubt to effett the thing purposed Of which the first is Horizontall Nauigation which manifesteth all the varieties of the Ships motion within the Horizontall plaine superficies where euery line drawne is supposed a parallell The second is a peradoxall or Cosmographicall Nauigation which demonstrateth the true motion of the Ship vpon any course assigned in longitude latitude and distance either perticular or general and is the skilfull gathering together of many Horizontall Corses into one infallible and true motion peradoxall The third is great Circle Nauigation which teacheth how vpon a great Circle drawn betweene any 2. places assigned being the only shortest way betweene place and place the Ship may be conducted and is perfourmed by the skilfull application of Horizontall and peradoxall Nauigation What is a Corse A Corse is that peradoxall line which passeth betweene place and place according to the true Horizontall position of the Magnet vpon which line the Ship prosecuting her motion shal be conducted betweene the saide places What is a Trauers A Trauers is the varietie or alteration of the Ships motion vpon the shift of windes within any Horizontall plaine superficies by the good