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indifferent men of lerninge chosen out of purpose 

 to be judges, that then the unworthier shal give 

 place to the more sufficient : who so being placed 

 is bound in three yeares space to read through the 

 course of the mathematicks. Yf by yo"" honors in- 

 stigation Her Majestic might be enduced to erect 

 such a lecture in Oxford, and the like for the Arte 

 of navigation might by some other meanes be estab- 

 lished at London, allowing to ech of them fiftie 

 pounds yearly with the same conditions, in my 

 simple judgment yt wold be the best hundred pounds 

 bestowed, that was bestowed these five hundred 

 yeares in England. Ffor yt is not unknowne unto 

 yo"" wisedome, howe necessarie for service of warres 

 arithmeticke and geometric are, and for our newe 

 discoveries and longe voyages by sea the arte of 

 navigation is, wch is compounded of many partes 

 of the aforesayd sciences. Understanding heareto- 

 fore of your honours greate aboundance of business, 

 and yo' dangerouse sicknes, I thought yt not meet 

 to trouble yo"" honor with such things as I had 

 carefully sought out here in Ffrance concerning the 

 furtherance of the westerne discoveries, but chose 

 rather to imparte the same wth M^- Carlile, wch 

 thing I also did. But being lately advertised of 

 yo' recovery (for wch I humbly thanke almightie 

 God) 1 was bold to signifie unto yo" honor my 

 dealing with Horatio Palavicini to become an 

 adventurer in those westerne voyages, and among 

 other talke alleadged yo' good disposition to the 

 same, wch he hearing of replyed very cheerfully, 

 that yf he were moved^ thereto by the lest word 

 from yo"^ honor, he wold put in his hundred pound 

 adventure, or more, Yf Mr. Carlile bee gon, yet 

 yt might come in good tyme to serve M*"' Ffrobisher's 

 turne, yf yo' wisedome shold like wel of yt, seing 

 he setteth not foorth as I understand until the 

 beginning of May. 



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