. The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compass of these 1600 yeeres . ichael Locke, whichAldaie professeth himselfe to have bene thefirst inventer of this trade. Orshipful Sir, having lately bene ac-quainted with your intent to prosecutethe olde intermitted discoverie for Catai,if therein with my knowledge, travell orindustrie I may doe you service, I amreadie to doe it, and therein to adven-ture my life to the uttermost it is, tha
. The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compass of these 1600 yeeres . ichael Locke, whichAldaie professeth himselfe to have bene thefirst inventer of this trade. Orshipful Sir, having lately bene ac-quainted with your intent to prosecutethe olde intermitted discoverie for Catai,if therein with my knowledge, travell orindustrie I may doe you service, I amreadie to doe it, and therein to adven-ture my life to the uttermost it is, that I have bene by some men (not myfriends) evill spoken of at London, saying that althoughI be a man of knowledge in the Arte of Navigation andCosmographie, and that I have bene the inventer of somevoyages that be now growen to great effect; yet saythey maliciously and without just cause, that I have notbene willing at any season to proceed in those voyagesthat I have taken in hand, taking example especially oftwo voyages. The one was when I was master in thegreat Barke Aucher for the Levant, in which voyage Iwent not, but the causes they did not know of my letfrom the same, nor of the other. But first the very 136. A LETTER FROM JAMES ALDAY ad. 1551. trueth is, that I was from the same voyage letted by the [II. ii. 8.] Princes letters, which my Master Sebastian Gabota had obtained for that purpose, to my great griefe. And as touching the second voyage which I invented for the trade of Barbarie, the living God knoweth that I say most true, that when the great sweate was, (whereon the chiefe of those with whom I joyned in that voyage died, that is to say, Sir John Lutterell, John Fletcher, Henry Ostrich and others) I my selfe was also taken with the same sweate in London, and after it, whether with evill diet in keeping, or how I know not, I was cast into such an extreame fever, as I was neither able to ride nor goe: and the shippe being at Portesmouth, Thomas Windam had her away
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