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 . principal navigations,voyages, traffiques & discov-eries of the English nation PLEASE DO NOT REMOVESLIPS FROM THIS POCKET UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOLIBRARY ^mP^^PliPii tO^H. 6 THE TABLE PAGE Publishers Note, xiii The English Voyages of the Sixteenth Century, by Walter Raleigh, ...••• i General Index, . . • • • .121 Index to Ships, ....••• 4^4 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Plan of Westminster,
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 . principal navigations,voyages, traffiques & discov-eries of the English nation PLEASE DO NOT REMOVESLIPS FROM THIS POCKET UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOLIBRARY ^mP^^PliPii tO^H. 6 THE TABLE PAGE Publishers Note, xiii The English Voyages of the Sixteenth Century, by Walter Raleigh, ...••• i General Index, . . • • • .121 Index to Ships, ....••• 4^4 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Plan of Westminster, 1593, ... 32 Reproduced from a copy in the British Museum of theSpeculum Britaniae, The first parte by The travaileand veu of John Norden, Anno 1593. Letter from Richard Hakluyt to Sir Francis Walsingham, ist Apri], 1584. ... 80 In the first part of this letter Hakluyt urges on SirFrancis Walsingham the foundation of a lectureon Mathematics in Oxford, and another, on * theArte of Navigation in London, at a yearly stipendof Fifty pounds each. In my simple judgment,writes Hakluyt, the money so spent wold bethe best hundred pounds bestowed, that wasbestowed these five hundred yeares in remainder of the letter gives various itemsof news which may be of political interest toWalsingham. The letter was written when Hak-luyt was chaplain to the Embaprincipalnavigat12hakluoft
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