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Title: The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Subjects: Discoveries in geography Voyages and travels
Publisher: Glasgow : James MacLehose and Sons
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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particulars doe most evidently appeare out of certaineauncient Ligier bookes of the R. W. Sir WilliamLocke Mercer of London, of Sir William BowyerAlderman of London, of master John Gresham, and ofothers ; which I Richard Hakluyt have diligently per-used and copied out. And here for authorities sake Idoe annexe, as a thing not impertinent to this purpose,a letter of king Henry the eight, unto Don John thethird, king of Portugale. A letter of the king of England Henry the eight,to John king of Portugale, for a Portingaleship with the goods of John Gresham andWil. Locke with others, unladen in Portu-gale from Chio. Erenissimo Principi, domino Joanni Deigratia Regi Portugallise, & Algarbiorumcitra & ultra mare in Africa, ac dominoGuineae, & conquistae, navigationis, &commercii ^thiopiae, Arabiae, Persiae,atque Indiae, &c. Fratri, & amico nostrocharissimo. Henricus Dei gratia. Rex Anglias & Franciae, fideidefensor, ac dominus Hiberniae, Serenissimo Principi ; 63
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AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 1531- domino Joanni eadem gratia Regi Portugalliae, & Algar-biorum citra & ultra mare in Africa, ac domino Guineas,& conquistas navigationis, & commercii jSlthiopias,Arabiae, Persiae, atque Indiae, &c. Fratri, & amiconostro charissimo, salutem. Tanto libentius, promptius-que justas omnes causas vestrae Serenitati commendandassuscipimus, quanto apertiori indies nostrorum, qui inejusdem vestrae Serenitatis regno ac ditione negotiantur,subditorum testimonio cognoscimus, ipsam ex optimiprincipis officio ita accurate, exacteque jus suum cuiquepraebere, ut ad earn nemo justitiae consequendae gratiafrustra unquam confugiat. Cum itaque dilectus ac fidelissubditus noster Joannes Gresham mercator Londoniensisnuper nobis humiliter exposuerit, quod quidam Williel-mus Heith ipsius Factor, & negotiorum gestor navimquandam Portugallensem, cui nomen erat Sancto(II. i. 97.) Antonio, praeeratque Diego Peres Portugallensis superi-oribus mensibus in Can

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