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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The life and travailes of Baldwinus Devonius ,
sometime Archbishop of Canterbury . (search)
The life and travailes of Baldwinus Devonius,
sometime Archbishop of Canterbury.
BALDWINE a Devonshire
man borne in Exceter of mean
parentage, was a very eloquent man, an exact Philosopher,
and in those dayes very excellent in all kind of studies.
He was first of all a Schoolemaster: afterwards he became
an Archdeacon, very famous for his learning & wisdom
in all his doings. He was also a Cistercian Monke and
Abbot of Foord Monasterie, and the chiefe of all those
that were of his order: he grew after this to be bishop
of Worcester
, and at last after the death of Archb.
Richard he was promoted & made Archbishop of Canterbury, and Primate of all England. In the discharge of
which place he being very vigilant, shewed himselfe a
worthy Pastor, sowing the seed of Gods word in every
place as farre foorth as the iniquitie of that time permitted.
In his time king Richard with all indevour prepared a
Fleet and all things necessary for waging of warre against
the Infidels at Jerusa
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Remembrances for master S. to give him the better occasion to informe himselfe of some things in England , and after of some other things in Turkie , to the great profite of the Common weale of this Countrey . Written by the foresayd master Richard Hakluyt , for a principall English Factor at Constantinople 1582 . (search)
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Other some things to be remembred. (search)
Other some things to be remembred.
IF you can finde out at Tripoly in Syria
or elsewhere a
vent for the Cappes called in Barbarie, Bonettos colorados
rugios, which is a red Scottish cap as it were without
brims, you should do your countrey much good: for as
a sacke of wooll turned into fine Devonshire
kersies doth
set many more people on worke then a sacke spunne for
broad cloth in a grosser threed, so a sacke of wooll turned
into those Bonets doth set many more poore people on
worke, then a sacke turned into Kersies, by reason of the
knitting. And therefore if you can indevour that, you
worke great effect. And no doubt that a marvellous vent
may be found out of them into Afrike by the way of
Alexandria, and by Alcayer Southeast and Southwest
thence.
2 And by the vent of our knit hose of Woollen yarne,
Woorsted yarne, and of Linnen thred, great benefit to
our people may arise, and a great value in fine Kersies
and in those knit wares may be couched in a smal
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The voyage made to Tripolis in Barbarie , in the yeere 1583 . with a ship called the Jesus , wherein the adventures and distresses of some Englishmen are truely reported, and other necessary circumstances observed. Written by Thomas Sanders . (search)
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, A description of a Voiage to Constantinople and Syria
,
begun the 21. of March 1593 . and ended the 9. of
August , 1595 . wherein is shewed the order of delivering
the second Present by Master Edward Barton her
majesties Ambassador, which was sent from her
Majestie to Sultan Murad Can , Emperour of Turkie . (search)
A description of a Voiage to Constantinople and Syria
,
begun the 21. of March 1593. and ended the 9. of
August, 1595. wherein is shewed the order of delivering
the second Present by Master Edward Barton her
majesties Ambassador, which was sent from her
Majestie to Sultan Murad Can, Emperour of Turkie.
To the Worshipfull and his very loving Uncle M.
Rowland Hewish Esquier, at Sand in Devonshire
.
SIR, considering the goodnesse of your Nature which is
woont kindely to accept from a friend, even of meane
things being given with a good heart, I have presumed
to trouble you with the reading of this rude discourse of
my travailes into Turkie, and of the deliverie of the
present with such other occurrents as there happened
woorthie the observation: of all which proceedings I was
an eie-witnesse, it pleasing the Ambassadour to take mee
in with him to the Grand Signior. If for lacke of time
to put it in order I have not performed it so well as it
ought, I crave pardon, assuring you that to
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, A Patent granted to certaine Marchants of Exeter
, and
others of the West parts, and of London , for a trade
to the River of Senega and Gambra in Guinea, 1588 . (search)
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The voiage of the right honorable George Erle of
Cumberland to the Azores
, &c. Written by the
excellent Mathematician and Enginier master Edward
Wright . (search)
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, A true report of the honourable service at Sea perfourmed
by Sir John Burrough Knight , Lieutenant generall of
the fleet prepared by the honor. Sir Walter Ralegh
Knight , Lord warden of the Stanneries of Cornwall
and Devon
. Wherin chiefly the Santa Clara of Biscay ,
a ship of 600 tunnes was taken, and the two East
Indian caraks, the Santa Cruz and the Madre de Dios
were forced, the one burnt, and the other taken and
brought into Dartmouth
the seventh of September ,
1592 . (search)
A true report of the honourable service at Sea perfourmed
by Sir John Burrough Knight, Lieutenant generall of
the fleet prepared by the honor. Sir Walter Ralegh
Knight, Lord warden of the Stanneries of Cornwall
and Devon
. Wherin chiefly the Santa Clara of Biscay,
a ship of 600 tunnes was taken, and the two East
Indian caraks, the Santa Cruz and the Madre de Dios
were forced, the one burnt, and the other taken and
brought into Dartmouth
the seventh of September,
1592.SIR WALTER RALEGH upon commission received from her
Majesty for an expedition to be made to the West Indies,
slacked not his uttermost diligence to make full provision
of all things necessary, as both in his choise of good
ships, and sufficient men to performe the action evidently
appeared. For his shippes which were in number 14
or 15, those two of her Majesties, the Garland & the
Foresight were the chiefest; the rest either his owne
or his good friends or adventurers of London. For the
gentlemen his consorts and officer
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The English Voyages , Navigations , and Discoveries
(intended for the finding of a North-west passage) to
the North parts of America , to Meta incognita , and
the backeside of Gronland
, as farre as 72 degrees and
12 minuts: performed first by Sebastian Cabota , and
since by Sir Martin Frobisher , and M. John Davis ,
with the Patents, Discourses, and Advertisements
thereto belonging. (search)
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, A true discourse of the three Voyages of discoverie, for
the finding of a passage to Cathaya , by the Northwest,
under the conduct of Martin Frobisher Generall :
Before which, as a necessary Preface is prefixed a
twofolde discourse, conteining certaine reasons to prove
all partes of the World habitable. Penned by Master
George Best , a Gentleman employed in the same
voyages. (search)