GEORGE R. 
GEORGE the Second , by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, 
Defender of the Faith , &c. To All to whom thefe Href hits Jhall come , Greeting . 
W HEREAS Our tritfty and well-beloved Thomas Woodward , Ward, Samuel Birt, Daniel Browne , 
Thomas Longman , Henry Whitridge, James Hodges , and Benjamin Dod, Citizens and Bookfellers of 
London , have, by their Petition, humbly reprefented unto Us, that they have been at very great 
Expence and Labour in procuring and purchaling Books in all Languages, and in having the fame 
tranflated, and properly digefted, for Improving and Continuing a moil Ufeful and Comprehenfive Work, intituled, 
Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca : Or, A Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels : 
Confuting of above Six hundred of the mofi authentic Writers , beginning with Hackluit, Purchass, &c. in Englifh; 
Ramusio, Alamandini, Carreri, &c. in Italian; Thevenot, Renaudot, Labat, &c. in French; De Brye, 
Grynzeus, Maffeus, &c. in Latin; Herrera, Oviedo, Coreal, &c. in Spanifh; and the V oy ages under the 
Direction of the East-India Company in Holland, in Dutch ; Together with fuch other Hiftories, Voyages, Travels, 
or Difcoveries, as are in General EJleem , whether publifhed in Englifh, Latin, French, Italian, Spanifh, Portuguefe, 
High and Low Dutch, or in any other European Language ; Containing whatever has been obferved Worthy of Notice in 
Europe, Afia, Africa, and America, in refpeci to the Extent and Situation of Empires , Kingdoms , Provinces , &c. the 
Climate , Soil , and Produce, whether Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral, of each Country ; Likewife the Religion, Manners , 
and Cufloms of the feveral Inhabitants , their Government, Arts and Sciences, publick Buildings, Mountains , Rivers , 
Harbours, &c. illujlrated by proper Charts, Maps, and Cuts: To which is prefixed a Copious INTRODUCTION, 
comprehending the Rife and Progrefs of the Art of Navigation, and its fuccejfve Improvements , together with the Invention 
and life of the Loadstone, and its Variation: Originally publifhed in Two Volumes in Folio , by John Harris, D. D. 
F.R.S. Now carefully Revifed, with Large ADDITIONS, and Continued down to the Prefent Time ; including 
particular Accounts of the Manufactures and Commerce of each Country : Which Work the Petitioners, with the utmoft 
Submiffion, apprehend will be a Complete Body of Voyages and Travels, tending to promote the Manufactures 
and Commerce of thefe Kingdoms, by fhewing the vaft Advantages of Trade and Navigation in general, and the Means 
of Improving and Extending our own in particular: And, being defirous of reaping the Fruits of their very great 
Expence and Labour, and of enjoying the full Profit and Benefit that may arife from Printing and Vending the fame, 
without any other Perfon interfering in their juft Property, which they cannot prevent without Our Licence and Pro- 
tection; the Petitioners have therefore moft humbly prayed Us to grant them Our Royal Licence and Protection, for 
the foie Printing, Publifhing, and Vending the faid Work, in as ample Manner and Form as has been done in Cafes 
of the like Nature : We, taking the Premifes into our Princely Confideration, and being gracioufly inclined to give 
Encouragement to all Works that may be of publick Ufe and Benefit, are pleafed to condefcend to their Requeft ; 
and do by thefe Prefents (as far as may be agreeable to the Statute in that Cafe made and provided) grant to the faid 
Thomas Woodward, Aaron Ward, Samuel Birt, Daniel Browne, Thomas Longman , Henry Whitridge , James Hodges , 
and Benjamin Dod, their Heirs, Executors, Adminiftrators, and Afiigns, Our Royal Privilege and Licence, For 
the foie Printing, Publifhing, and Vending the faid Work, during the Term of Fourteen Years, to be computed 
from the Date hereof; ftriCtly forbidding and prohibiting all Our SubjeCts within Our Kingdoms and Dominions, to 
Reprint or Abridge the fame, either in the like, or any other Volume or Volumes whatfoever ; or to Import, Buy, 
Vend, Utter, or Diftribute any Copy thereof reprinted beyond the Seas, during the aforefaid Term of Fourteen Years, 
without the Confent or Approbation of them the faid Thomas Woodward, Aaron Ward, Samuel Birt, Daniel Browne, Tho- 
mas Longman, Henry Whitridge , James Hodges, and Benjamin Dod, their Heirs, Executors, Adminiftrators, or Affigns, 
by Writing under their Hands and Seals firft had and obtained, as they will anfwer the contrary at their Peril: Whereof 
the Commiffioners and other Officers of Our Cuftoms, the Matter, Wardens, and Company of Stationers of London, and 
all other Officers and Minifters, whom it may concern, are to take notice, that ftriCt Obedience be given to Our Pleafure 
herein fignified. 
Given at Our Court at St. James’s, the By His Majtfly* s Command, 
2,3 d Day of February 1743-4, in the ^ j 
Seventeenth Year of Our Reign. CART E R E T, 
