Contents

pp iii-viii

ILLUSTRATIONS

pp ix-x

Publishers' Note

pp xi-xiv

Dedications & Prefaces

pp xv-xvi

The Epistle Dedicatorie to Sir Francis Walsingham, in the First Edition, 1589

pp xvii-xxii

Richard Hakluyt to the Favourable Reader

pp xxiii-xxx

The Epistle Dedicatorie to Lord Charles Howard, in the First Volume of the Second Edition, 1598

pp xxxi-xxxviii

A Preface to the Reader as touching the principall Voyages and discourses in the first part of the Second Edition, 1598

pp xxxix-lix

Panegyrick Verses on the Author & his Booke

pp lx-lxxii

The Epistle Dedicatorie to Sir Robert Cecil, in the Second Volume of the Second Edition, 1599

pp lxiii-lxxiii

The Epistle Dedicatorie to Sir Robert Cecil, in the Third Volume of the Second Edition, 1600

pp lxxiv-xcvi

THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE Principall Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

pp 1-2

The voyage of Arthur K. of Britaine to Island and the most Northeastern parts of Europe, Anno 517

pp 3-4

Two testimonies of Galfridus Monumetensis in his history of the Kings of Brittaine, concerning the conquests of King Arthur

pp 4-4

A testimony of M. Lambard in his Αρχαιονομία, touching the right and appendances of the Crowne of the kingdome of Britaine

pp 5-7

The voyage of Malgo king of Britaine to Island, Gotland, Orkney, Denmark and Norway, Anno 580

pp 7-8

The conquest of the Isles of Anglesey and Man by Edwin the Saxon king of Northumberland, Anno 624

pp 8-10

The voyage of Bertus into Ireland, Anno 684

pp 10-10

The voyage of Octher to the North parts beyond Norway about the yeere 890

pp 11-14

The second voyage of Octher into the Sound of Denmarke

pp 14-15

Wolstans Navigation into the East sea, or the Sound of Denmarke

pp 15-16

The voyage of King Edgar with 4000. shippes round about his large Monarchie, Anno 973

pp 16-23

The voyage of Edmund and Edward the sonnes of King Edmund Ironside, into Hungary, Anno 1017

pp 24-25

A Chronicle of the Kings of Man, taken out of M. Camdens Chorographie

pp 25-41

The mariage of the daughter of Harald unto Jeruslaus duke of Russia in his owne Countrey, Anno 1067

pp 42-42

The ancient state of the shipping of the Cinque Ports

pp 42-50

The voyage of a certaine Englishman into Tartaria, and from thence into Poland and Hungary, Anno 1243

pp 50-54

Libellus historicus Johannis de Plano Carpini

pp 55-94

The long and wonderfull voyage of Frier John de Plano Carpini, Anno 1246

pp 94-179