The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 541 pages of information about The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I..

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 541 pages of information about The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I..
and protection, and that from and after such time of putting out of our protection the saide Sir Humfrey, and his heires, assignes, adherents and others so to be put out, and the said places within their habitation, possession and rule, shal be out of our protection and allegiance, and free for all princes and others to pursue with hostilitie as being not our Subiects, nor by vs any way to bee aduowed, maintained or defended, nor to be holden as any of ours, nor to our protection, dominion or allegiance any way belonging, for that expresse mention &c.  In witness whereof, &c.  Witnesse ourselfe at Westminster the 11. day of Iune, the twentieth yeere of our raigne.  Anno Dom. 1578.

Per ipsam Reginam, &c.

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De Nauigatione Illustris et Magnanimi Equiris aurati Humfredi Gilberti, ad
  deducendam in nomun Orbem coloniam suscepta, Carmen hepizatikou Stephani
  Parmenii Bvdeii.

Ad eundem illustrem equitem autoris praefatio.

Reddenda est, quam fieri potest breuissime, in hoc vestibulo, ratio facti mei, et cur ita homo nouus et exterus, in tanta literatissimorum hominum copia, quibus Anglia beat est, versandum in hoc argumento mihi putanerim:  ita enim tu, fortissime Gilberte, foetum hunc nostrom in lucem exire voluisti.  In seruitute et barbarie Turcica, Christianis tamen, magno immortalis Dei beneficio, parentibus natus, aliquam etiam aetatis partem educatus; postquam doctissimorum hominum opera, quibus tum Pannoniae nostrae, tum imprimis saluae adhuc earum reliquiae florescunt, in literis adoleuissem, more nostrorum hominum, ad inuisendas Christiani orbis Academias ablegatus fui.  Qua in peregrinatione, non solum complura Musarum hospitia, sed multas etiam sapienter institutas respublicas, multarum Ecclesiarum probatissimas administrationes introspeximus, iam ferme triennio ea in re posito.  Fuerat haec nostra, profectio ita a nobis comparata, vt non tantum mores et vrbes gentium videndum, sed in familiaritatem, aut saltem notitiam illustriorum hominum introeundum nobis putaremus, Caeterum, vt hoc a nobis sine inuidia dici possit, (certe enim taceri absque malicia nullo modo protest) non locus, non natio, non respublica vlla nobis aeque ac tua Britannia complacuit, quamcunque in partem euentum consilij mei considerem.  Accedit, quod praeter omnem expectationem meam ab omnibus tuis ciuibus, quibus comaliqua consuetudo mihi contigit, tanta passim humanitate acceptus essem, vt iam (sit hoc saluo pietate a me dictum) suauissimae Anglorum amicitiae ferme aboleuerint desiderium et Pannoniarum et Budae meae, quibus patriae nomen debeo.  Quas ab caussas cum saepenumero animus fuisset significationem aliquam nostrae huius voluntatis et existimationis edendi; accidit vtique secundum sententiam, vt dum salutandis et cognoscendis excellentibus viris Londini operam do, ornatissimus ac doctissimus amicas meus Richardus Hakluytus ad te me deduxerit, explicato mihi praeclarissimo tuo de ducenda propediem colonia

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