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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09429	A true discourse of the late voyages of discouerie, for the finding of a passage to Cathaya, by the Northvveast, vnder the conduct of Martin Frobisher Generall deuided into three bookes. In the first wherof is shewed, his first voyage ... Also, there are annexed certayne reasons, to proue all partes of the worlde habitable, with a generall mappe adioyned. In the second, is set out his second voyage ... In the thirde, is declared the strange fortunes which hapned in the third voyage ... VVith a particular card therevnto adioyned of Meta Incognita ...	Best, George, d. 1584.	1578 (1578)	STC 1972; ESTC S104566	113,756	182

there was afterwardes renowmed by title of Piloto Maggiore that is Graund Pylote and constituted chiefe officer of the Contractation house of Siuilla in whiche house are handled all matters concerning the Weast Indies and the reuenues therof and further that no Pylot shoulde be admitted for any discouerie but by his direction But there hath bin two speciall causes in former age that haue greatly hindered the English nation in their attempts The one hath bin lacke of liberalitie in the Nobilitie the other wāt of skill in Cosmographie and the A●t of Nauigation Whiche kinde of knowledge is verye necessary for all our noble men for that wee being Ilanders oure chiefest strength consisteth by Sea. But these twoo causes are nowe in this present age God be thanked verye well reformed for not only hir maiestie now but all the nobilitie also hauing perfect knowledge in Cosmographie doe not onely with good wordes countenaunce the forward mindes of men but also with their purses do liberally and bountifully contribute vnto the same whereby it commeth to passe that Nauigation whiche in the time of King Henrie the .7 was very rawe toke as it were but beginning and euer since hath had by little and little continuall increase is now in hir Maiesties raigne growen to his highest perfection Thus right Honorable as I haue in these my first trauels in these late voyages vppon such occasions as passed there nowe rendered your honour this bare and true accompte So being further resolued to offer my self a continual sacrifice with the first for hir Maiestie and my country in thys or any other like seruice I intend God willing according to this beginning if any thing hereafter fall out worth the memorie to present your honoure therewithall and from time to time to aduertise you of euery particular And in all these things which I deliuer now or shal hereafter aduertise I humbly praye your honour woulde vouchsafe to giue some credite therevnto and rather to thinke I may be deceiued than that I meane to deceiue colour or conceale any thing for I neither can nor wil vse any flourish in the matter but a bare truth in all And therevpon I giue my poore credite vnto your honour in pawnne And herein I humbly pray pardon for my rude order of writing which proceedeth from the barren brayne of a souldiour and one professing armes who desireth rather to be wel thought of with your honour for his well meaning than for anye hys cunning writing at all And thus hauing presumed to present these vnt●mely and vnripe fruites to your honoures beste and fauourable construction I humbly take my leaue beseeching God to blesse you as I do faithfully serue and will honor you euer The handie worke of your Honours handes and faithfully to serue you euer GEORGE BEST THE PRINTER to the Reader FOrasmuch as gētle Reader these three voyages lately by our Countreymen performed do both for the matter of discouerie for the strange and vnknovven accidentes for the rare and hard aduentures and also for the good and discrete order of gouernement appeare aboue all others most notable and famous I haue bin especially desirous by all meanes possible I could to procure the publication thereof thinking it too great an iniurie to our common vvealth to burie in obliuion so vvorthy attemptes of our ovvne nation and to hide the ensample of so good and so vvell a gouerned seruice And for that as I vnderstād many trifling Pamphlets haue bin secretly thrust out not only vvithout the consent of the Captaynes and executioners of the same but also rather to the greate disgrace of the vvorthy voyage than othervvise I hauing intelligence of a substantiall discourse vvhiche vvas diligently vvritten thereof and priuately dedicated to my very Honourable Mayster Sir Christopher Hatton Knight by a Gentleman of his ovvne vvho vvas personally present a Captain in all the same seruice I haue vvithout first making priuie the Authour procured his Coppie out of the handes of a friende of mine vvho had the vvriting and perusing therof and haue presumed to publish and imprint the same to the ende that thereby I mighte gentle Reader as vvell satisfye thy greedy expectation by vnfolding these nevve and vnknovven matters vvhereof the nature of man is most desirous as also to performe that duetie vvhiche I ovve vnto my sayde Honourable Mayster in publishing such things as are directed vnto him And for that the mater is vvorthy to passe vnder the protection of his honourable name I haue heerein bin vvilling rather to beare the burthen of the Authoures priuate displeasure if therevvith he shoulde aftervvards be offended than not by publishing that same seeme not only to do a publike iniurie vnto my natiue Countrey but also shevv a lighte regarde of my duetie in obscuring the doyngs and trauels of him or anye of his vvhose honour as I am chiefely boūd I tēder more than my ovvne safetie And albeit I haue in a fevve p●aces somevvhat altered from my Coppie and vvronged therby the Authoure and haue sought to conceale vpon good causes some secretes not fitte to be published or reuealed to the vvorld as the degrees of Longitude and Latitude the distance and true position of places and the variation of the compasse c vvhiche neuerthelesse by a generall and particular Mappe concerning the same heerevnto annexed is so sufficiently explaned that easilie any thing apperteyning vnto the voyage or in this discourse mentioned may sensibly be vnderstode And though the matter be entirelie the Authours ovvne yet am I contented for thy sake rather than the same shoulde not be published to beare the burthē of blame and to abide the reprofe of the faultes escaped taking vpon me that reproche of presumption and hazarding my name to the vvorld al vvhich things the Author peraduenture taketh for so great disgraces as vvillingly he vvould not aduēture in his ovvne name the publishing thereof But specially for that the commendation of a Historie consisteth in truth and playnenesse I haue desired to bring forth prefer before other Pamphlets the same knovving that the Authoure thereof in nothing more than in truth desireth to maynteyne credite vvith this honourable personage vnto vvhome vvith his ovvne hand vvritten he hath priuately dedicated the same as by the Epistle Dedicatorie may appeare If therefore thou shalte accept my vvell meaning in good parte and yeelde but deserued prayse to the Authoure for doing and thankes to me for publishing the same it shall suffice to make me thinke my trauell vvell therein employed And so fare you vvell ¶ The fyrst Booke of the first voyage of Martin Frobisher Esquier Captayne Generall for the discouerie of the passage to Cataya and the East India by the Northweast first attempted in Anno Dom. 1576. the .15 of May. MAN is borne not only to serue his owne turne as Tullie sayeth but hys kinsfolke s●●eds the commō wealth especially loke for some furtherance at hys handes