A Catalogue of the Voyages-Continued.

The Charter of Lubeck granted for seven yeeres in the
time of Henry the third, .

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324

A Charter of the Merchants of Almaine, or the Stilyard-
merchants, .

326

A mandate of King Edward the first concerning outlandish
Merchants, .

327

King Edw. the first his great Charter granted to forreine
Merchants, Anno Dom. 1303,

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The letters of Edward the second unto Haquinus King of
Norway, concerning certain English Merchants arrested
in Norway, .

Another letter of Edw. the second unto the said Haquinus
for the merchants aforesaid,

A third letter of King Edward the second to the said
Haquinus in the behalfe of our English merchants,

An Ordinance for the Staple to be holden at one certaine
place,

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ILLUSTRATIONS

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Queen Elizabeth,

Frontispiece

From the engraving published by Joannes Woutnelius,
1596. The name of the engraver of this plate is
unknown. Sir William Stirling Maxwell assigns it
to Crispin van de Passe, while Henry Bromley, in
his Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits, believes
it to be the work of one of the brothers Wierix.

Facsimile of the Title Page to the First Volume of the Second Edition, 1598,

Facsimile of the Title Page to the Second Volume of the Second Edition, 1599,

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xxxii

lxiv

Facsimile of the Title Page to the Third Volume

of the Second Edition, 1600,

lxxiv

This Map, which first appeared in the Theatrum Orbis
Terrarum of Abraham Ortelius, Antwerp, 1570,
was inserted in the First Edition of The Principall
Navigations, 1589. It is referred to by Hakluyt
in the preface (p. xxx) as 'one of the best generall
mappes of the world.' The map here reproduced
in facsimile is taken from the original in the First
Edition of The Principall Navigations.

Map of the World,

This is a facsimile of the Map sometimes, but rarely, found
in copies of the Second Edition of The Principall
Navigations; it is now believed to be the Map alluded
to by Shakespeare in Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene 2.
in the passage 'He does smile his face into more
lines than is in the new map with the augmen-
tation of the Indies.' It is also held to be the first
map engraved in England upon the projection
called Mercator's, but which was really the work of
Edward Wright, mathematician and hydrographer,
and author of Certaine Errors in Navigation, 1599.

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PUBLISHERS' NOTE

THE first edition of The Principal

Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English nation, made by Sea or ouer Land, to the most remote and farthest distant Quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500. yeeres... By Richard Hakluyt Master of Artes, and Student sometime of ChristChurch in Oxford' was imprinted at London by George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, Deputies to Christopher Barker, Printer to Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie in the year 1589, in one volume foolscap folio. Some copies of this first edition contain a cancel of pp. 491-501, substituting for 'The Ambassage of Sir Hierome Bowes to the Emperour of Moscouie 1583' a different account entitled 'A briefe discourse of the voyage of Sir Ierome Bowes knight, her Maiesties ambassador to the Emperour of Muscouia, in the yeere 1582: and printed this second time, according to the true copie I receiued of a gentleman that went in the same voyage, for the correction of the errours in the former impression.' It was, of course, this amended account which appeared in the second edition, but for the purposes of comparison the original account will be printed as an appendix in the third volume.