NICHOLAS DE LYNNA 



under king John) in his booke of the miracles of Ireland, 

 hath certaine words altogether alike with these, videlicet : 



Not farre from these Islands (namely the Hebrides, 

 Island &c.) towards the North there is a certaine 

 woonderful whirlpoole of the sea, whereinto all the waves 

 of the sea from farre have their course and recourse, as it 

 were without stoppe : which, there conveying themselves 

 into the secret receptacles of nature, are swallowed up, as 

 it were, into a bottomlesse pit, and if it chance that any 

 shippe doe passe this way, it is pulled, and drawen with 

 such a violence of the waves, that eftsoones without 

 remedy, the force of the whirlepoole devoureth the same. 



The Philosophers describe foure indraughts of this 

 Ocean sea, in the foure opposite quarters of the world, 

 from whence many doe conjecture that as well the flowing 

 of the sea, as the blasts of the winde, have their first 

 originall. 



A.D. 



1360. 



There Is a no- 

 table whirle- 

 poole on the 

 coast ofNor- 

 zvay, called 

 Malestrande^ 

 about the lati- 

 tude of 6^. 



A Testimonie of the learned Mathematician 

 master John Dee, touching the foresaid 

 voyage of Nicholas De Linna. 



Nno 1360. (that is to wit, in the 34. yeere 

 of the reigne of the triumphant king 

 Edward the third) a frier of Oxford, being 

 a good Astronomer, went in companie 

 with others to the most Northren Islands 

 of the world, and there leaving his com- 

 pany together, hee travailed alone, and 

 purposely described all the Northerne Islands, with the 

 indrawing seas : and the record thereof at his returne he 

 delivered to the king of England. The name of which 

 booke is Inventio Fortunata (aliter fortunae) qui liber Inventlo 

 incipit a gradu 54. usque ad polum. Which frier for fortunata. 

 sundry purposes after that did five times passe from 

 England thither, and home againe. 



It is to be noted, that from the haven of Linne in 

 Norfolke (whereof the foresaid Francisan frier tooke his 



