I.KTTKIJS ON sriKNTIKH BUDJECTI, L'l 



orees soNvtherlv di' the said river mouth : or els, that you 

 shall trend about the \ ery nortlien and in rly poynt 



of all Asia, passing by the provinee Auia, and then in the la- 

 titude of HI, kepin^r still the land in veue on your ri;:ht hand 

 (as nere as yon may \vith safety) you may enter into Uuinsay 

 haven, being the chief city in the northen China, as I terrne 

 yt, for distinction sake, from the other better known. 



And in, or about eyther, or both of these two warmc places, 

 you may (to great good purpose) be occupyed the whole 

 \\ynter after your aryvali in those quarters : as, sometyme by 

 sea, sometyme in notable fresh ryvers, sometymes in discrete 

 ve\v, and noting down the situation of cities within land, &c.: 

 and ever assaying to come by some chartes, or maps, of the 

 cuntry, made and printed in Cathay or China ; and by some 

 of their bookes likewise, for language, &c. 



You may have opportunity allso to sayle over to Japan 

 Hand, where you shall fynde Christen men, Jesuites of many 

 euntries of Christendom, and perhaps some Englishemen ; 

 at whose hands you may have great instruction and advise 

 for our aiFayres in hand. God be favorable to these attempts, 

 greatly tending to his glory, and the great honour of this 

 kingdome ! Amen*. 



Anno 1580. A. Maij. 15. 



By me JOHN DEE. 



STEPHEN POWLE TO MR. WEST. 



[MS. Lansd. No. 100. Art. 19.] 



The coppie of my letter to Mr. West whearin is the tower 



andfabricke of the horologe in Strasbourg described. 

 Right worshipfull Sir, and my moste especiall good frend ; 

 Whereas it pleased you in your letter dated the 8. of No- 

 vember, moste courteously to request that of me which your 

 manifowld desertes of right might have commaunded, I have 

 endeavored, accordinge to the utmoste of my power, which 

 doth shewe the smalnes of my skill, to satisne your request 

 therein, and have noted the particular poinctes of the tower 

 and clocke of Strasbourge ; wherein, because I finde many 

 thinges fair to exceed the reporte, therefore I feare to under- 

 take this bould enterprice, to send them put downe in wri- 

 tinge. For as Allexander, which was the only monarch was 



* Among the Harleian charters, EE. xix., is " the counterfet of Mr. Fernando 

 Simon his sea chart e, whiche he lent unto ray master at Mortlake, anuo 1580." 

 In the same collection, EE. xvii., is Dr. Dee's own chart. 



