SECOND EDITION 1598 



Next after the conclusion of the last mentioned dis- 

 course, the Reader may in some sort take a vieu of our 

 state of merchandise under K. Edward the fourth, as 

 likewise of the establishing of an English company in the 

 Netherlands, and of all the discreet provisoes, just ordina- 

 tions, & gratious privileges conteined in the large Charter 

 which was granted for the same purpose. 



Now besides our voyages and trades of late yeeres 

 to the North and Northeast regions of the world, and 

 our ancient traffique also to those parts ; I have not 

 bene unmindefull (so farre as the histories of England 

 and of other Countreys would give me direction) to 

 place in the fore-front of this booke those forren con- 

 quests, exploits, and travels of our English nation, 

 which have bene atchieved of old. Where in the first 

 place (as I am credibly informed out of Galfridus 

 Monumetensis, and out of M. Lambert his Apxc^^ovo/mla) 

 I have published unto the world the noble actes of 

 Arthur and Malgo two British Kings. Then followeth 

 in the Saxons time K. Edwin his conquest of Man 

 and Anglesey, and the expedition of Bertus into Ireland. 

 Next succeedeth Octher making relation of his doings, 

 and describing the North Countreys, unto his soveraigne 

 Lord K. Ecfrid. After whom Wolstans Navigation 

 within the Sound of Denmark is mentioned, the 

 voyage of the yong Princes Edmund and Edward into 

 Sweden and Hungarie is recorded, as likewise the 

 mariage of Harald his daughter unto the Russian duke 

 Jeruslaus. Neither is that Englishman forgotten, who 

 was forced to traveile with the cruel Tartars into their 

 Countrey, and from thence to beare them company into 

 Hungary and Poland. And because those North- 

 eastern e Regions beyond Volga, by reason of the huge 

 deserts, the colde climate, and the barbarous incivilitie 

 of the people there inhabiting, were never yet 

 throughly traveiled by any of our Nation, nor suffi- 

 ciently knowen unto us ; I have here annexed unto 

 the said Englishmans traveile, the rare & memorable 



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