The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher Book contents
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- SIR MARTIN FROBISHER, KNT
- STATE PAPERS PREVIOUS TO THE FIRST VOYAGE
- WHAT COMMODITIES AND INSTRUCTIONS MAY BE REAPED BY DILIGENT READING THIS DISCOURSE
- TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, MY SINGULAR GOOD MAYSTER, SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON, KNIGHT, CAPTAINE OF THE QUEENES MAJESTIES GARDE, VIZCHAMBERLAINE TO HIR HIGHNESSE, AND ONE OF HIR MAJESTIES MOST HONOURABLE PRIVIE COUNSALE
- THE PRINTER TO THE READER
- THE FYRST BOOKE OF THE FIRST VOYAGE OF MARTIN FROBISHER, ESQUIER, CAPTAYNE GENERALL FOR THE DISCOVERIE OF THE PASSAGE TO CATAYA AND THE EAST INDIA, BY THE NORTHWEAST, FIRST ATTEMPTED IN ANNO DOM. 1576, THE 15. OF MAY
- STATE PAPERS SUBSEQUENT TO THE FIRST VOYAGE
- ACCOUNT OF THE SECOND VOYAGE, WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO MARTYNE FURBISHER
- A TRUE REPORTE OF SUCH THINGS AS HAPNED IN THE SECOND VOYAGE OF CAPTAYNE FROBYSHER, PRETENDED FOR THE DISCOVERIE OF A NEW PASSAGE TO CATAYA, CHINA, AND THE EAST INDIA, BY THE NORTH WEST. ANNO DO. 1577
- STATE PAPERS SUBSEQUENT TO THE SECOND VOYAGE
- STATE PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE TRIAL OF THE ORE SUBSEQUENT TO THE SECOND VOYAGE
- STATE PAPERS CONCERNING THE TRIALL OF THE EWR PREVIOUS TO THE THIRD VOYAGE
- STATE PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE OUTFIT FOR THE THIRD VOYAGE
- THE THIRDE VOYAGE OF CAPTAINE FROBISHER, PRETENDED FOR THE DISCOVERIE OF CATAYA, BY META INCOGNITA. ANNO DO. 1578
- ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE THIRD VOYAGE, BY EDWARD SELLMAN
- STATE PAPERS SUBSEQUENT TO THE THIRD VOYAGE
- A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF RELICS OF FROBISHER'S EXPEDITIONS TO THE ARCTIC REGIONS IN THE YEARS 1576-7-8
- INDEX
- Plate section
STATE PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE TRIAL OF THE ORE SUBSEQUENT TO THE SECOND VOYAGE
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- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- SIR MARTIN FROBISHER, KNT
- STATE PAPERS PREVIOUS TO THE FIRST VOYAGE
- WHAT COMMODITIES AND INSTRUCTIONS MAY BE REAPED BY DILIGENT READING THIS DISCOURSE
- TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, MY SINGULAR GOOD MAYSTER, SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON, KNIGHT, CAPTAINE OF THE QUEENES MAJESTIES GARDE, VIZCHAMBERLAINE TO HIR HIGHNESSE, AND ONE OF HIR MAJESTIES MOST HONOURABLE PRIVIE COUNSALE
- THE PRINTER TO THE READER
- THE FYRST BOOKE OF THE FIRST VOYAGE OF MARTIN FROBISHER, ESQUIER, CAPTAYNE GENERALL FOR THE DISCOVERIE OF THE PASSAGE TO CATAYA AND THE EAST INDIA, BY THE NORTHWEAST, FIRST ATTEMPTED IN ANNO DOM. 1576, THE 15. OF MAY
- STATE PAPERS SUBSEQUENT TO THE FIRST VOYAGE
- ACCOUNT OF THE SECOND VOYAGE, WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO MARTYNE FURBISHER
- A TRUE REPORTE OF SUCH THINGS AS HAPNED IN THE SECOND VOYAGE OF CAPTAYNE FROBYSHER, PRETENDED FOR THE DISCOVERIE OF A NEW PASSAGE TO CATAYA, CHINA, AND THE EAST INDIA, BY THE NORTH WEST. ANNO DO. 1577
- STATE PAPERS SUBSEQUENT TO THE SECOND VOYAGE
- STATE PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE TRIAL OF THE ORE SUBSEQUENT TO THE SECOND VOYAGE
- STATE PAPERS CONCERNING THE TRIALL OF THE EWR PREVIOUS TO THE THIRD VOYAGE
- STATE PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE OUTFIT FOR THE THIRD VOYAGE
- THE THIRDE VOYAGE OF CAPTAINE FROBISHER, PRETENDED FOR THE DISCOVERIE OF CATAYA, BY META INCOGNITA. ANNO DO. 1578
- ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE THIRD VOYAGE, BY EDWARD SELLMAN
- STATE PAPERS SUBSEQUENT TO THE THIRD VOYAGE
- A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF RELICS OF FROBISHER'S EXPEDITIONS TO THE ARCTIC REGIONS IN THE YEARS 1576-7-8
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
JANUARY 6TH, 1577. FROM DR. BURCOTT OF HIS PROCEEDYNGE IN THE TRIALL OF THE OWRE
My humble commendacions Sir Walsingame I gyve you most hartie thankes for your laboure and delygence for the performinge of your promysse and the sendinge of my pattane and, I hope by Godes grace to performe my promysse towardes you I had or this sertefied your Honore the trewe matter off this ower and my proves butt God hathe towched me so hard wth the gowte that I have kept my bed this thre wekes and do yett, and I sertefie your Honore off a trothe that I have mayd a hundred dyvers sayes of sondry owers out of that lande, and I fynde not such goodnes in yt as I thought to have founde not prosedinge half an ounce, as the blacke ower ys and I have prepared and rosted accordinge as I promyssed you, and I cane bringe yt to no clay but I have moltine doune a pounde, and hathe founde in yt fouer graynes as by this prove I have sent you dothe appere that will come in a houndred weight almoste thre quarters of an ounce that is nere xiiii ounces in a tonne and I dout not when yt is right prepared yt will faule out in the great fyere very well and I am mynded as sone as I am able wth my bodye I will melte doune a hundred weight and send you that prove accordinglye.
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- The Three Voyages of Martin FrobisherIn Search of a Passage to Cathaia and India by the North-West, A.D. 1576–8, pp. 170 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1867