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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