lUGIIT WORSTIIPFULI. SIR HUGH HAM- 



mcrsly, Knight, Aklorniaii of the (Jitic of London, 



Governour of the WorshijifuU Company 



of the Miiscovia Merchants : 



And to the Worshipfull Mr. Alderman Freeman, 



Captaine William Goodlcr ; and to all the rest of 



the Worshipfull Assistants and Adventurers in 



the said fatuous Company ; Edward Pellham 



cledioatetli both this and his future Labours. 



Hight AVorshipiull and most famons Merchants : 



THE hard adventure my poore selfe and felloioes 

 underwent in yoiir Worships service, is a great dcale plea- 

 santer for others to reade, than it ivas for us to endure. Hoiv 

 ever hard, wee have notv endured it ; and if ever after ages 

 shall speahe of it {as the worhl still doth of the Dutchmens 

 hard Winter in ISova Zembla), thus much of the Voyage shall 

 redound to your honours, — that it was done hy your servants. 

 This may cdso returne to our countreys good ; that if the first 

 inhabiting of a Countrey hy a Princes Suhiects {which is the 

 King of Spaines best title to his Indyes) doth take ^^ossession 

 of it for their Soveraigne : then is Green-land hy a second 

 right taken livery and Seisin of for his majesties vse,his Suh- 

 iects bei?ig the first that ever did {and I hclieve the last that 

 ever ivill) inhahite there. Many a rich returne may your 

 Worships in genercdl, and the brave adventurers in particular , 

 receive from this and other places : and may your servants 

 he ever hereafter teamed to take htede hy our harnics. God 

 send your toorships long life, and much honour, and sufficient 

 loealth, to maintaine both. This is the hearty prayer of your 



toorships poore servant, 



Edwarh Pi-;iJ;HA]m. 



