Marginal note. Euseb. in his
Ecclesiasticall historie, testifieth how that
Constantine the great did enlarge his dominions by subduing of Infidels and
Idolatrous nations. Eusebius lib. I. de vita Constant. cap. 4. et cap. 9.
Euseb. cod. lib. cap. 39.
Louis Cadamosto, a Venetian,
born about 1422, sailed from Madeira in
1455. under the auspices of Dom Henry, son of King John of Portugal. He
discovered Senegal, Cape Verd, and Gambia River. In a second voyage, in
1456, he pushed as far as the Saint Dominic River. On his return to his
native land in 1464, he published an account of his travels.
Alonzo, Duke of Albuquerque, an
illegitimate descendant of the Kings of
Portugal, established the Portuguese power on the East Coast of Africa, in
Arabia, the Persian Gulf, further India, the Moluccas, etc. As Viceroy of
the East Indies, his justice and chivalrous nature won the love and respect of
all, and many years after his death, which happened in 1515, the natives used
to make pilgrimages to his tomb to pray for justice against his cruel successors.
Marginal note.—The ewer
of metal brought by M. Fromisher, caused two
seuerall supplies, the two yeeres next following; whereof the latter was of
thirteene tall ships.
The name Norumbega
had a different meaning at different periods. First,
there was the fabulous city of Norumbega, situated on the Penobucot.
Secondly, there was the country of Norumbega, embracing Nova Scotia and
New England, and at one time reaching from Cape Breton to 30 deg. in
Florida. Subsequently it receded to narrower limits and embraced only the
region on both sides of the river above named. (Woods, Introduction to
Western Planting, p. lii.)
Public
Record Office. Dom. Eliz. Addenda, Vol. xxix., No. 9. This letter
was printed in full in the Maine Historical Society's
Documentary History of the State
of Maine, Vol. ii.
This “last edition” is
evidently the limited one of Hakluyt's Collection of
Voyages of 1809-12, 5 vols. 4to, edited by R. H. Evans and printed by Woodfall.
Estavan Gomes, a Portuguese pilot, sailed
with Magellan on his famous voyage in 1519, but deserted with his ship and crew.
In 1525 (not 1524) he
sailed from Corunna. He coasted Newfoundland as far south as 40 deg.
Here he took on board certain Indians and carried them to Spain. (C.D.)
It
appears from a passage in Chapter xvii. of this Discourse that Hakluyt
had seen an original manuscript account of Cartier's second voyage in the
Royal Library at Paris.
This title was conferred on
Henry VIII. by Leo X. by a bull dated the
fifth of the Ides of October 1521, for his book “Assertio Septem Sacramentorum
adversus Martin Lutherum,” etc., printed by Pynson, 1521.
Friar Luys Cancel
of Balvastro was, with other friars, sent to Florida by
Philip II. in 1549, where they were massacred and eaten. (See Eden's
version of Gomara's Historia general, cap. xiv. Woods.)
For an account of this
earliest colony of Protestantism in America,
consult Bayle's Dictionnaire, Art.
Villegagnon and Ricker;
Cotton Mather, Magnalia, Book I., Southey's History
of Brazil; De Thou, Maimbourg, etc.
Dr. Woods thinks Hakluyt is mistaken in
saying ministers went out with Ribault to Florida. It is indeed hardly
likely that Coligny would have thus alienated the sympathy of Charles IX.
Master Wolfall was the name
of the minister who accompanied Frobisher, (see vol. xii. of this edition, p.
81), and Master Francis Fletcher was with Drake in his voyage round the world
in 1577-80. His notes of the voyage were republished by the Hakluyt Society
in 1854.
When
Hakluyt speaks of Florida, he means not only the peninsula so
called now, but as far north as 36 degrees. The most northerly European
colony in 1584 was situated south of the present town of Savannah. It was
probably St. Augustine.
The work alluded to is Ribault's “The
whole and true discoverye of Terra Florida.... Prynted at London by
Rouland Hall for Thomas Hacket. 1563.” A copy is in the British
Museum. The French version is one of the lost books of the world.
This
“Joyfull Newes” was a translation by Frampton of the “Historia
Medicinal ... de nuestras Indias,” (1574), of Nicholas Monardes, a
learned Spaniard, who died in 1578. The English version was published in
1577. (C.D.) A copy is in my library.
Not improbably the old seaport of
Brouage, near La Rochelle, now
deserted. This appears to be the only notice extant of an expedition by de La
Roche in 1584. For an account of his later expedition, consult Parkman,
Pioneers of France, pp. 210-212.—C.D.
The full account in English of de
Coronado's travels is given by Hakluyt in this collection. Hakluyt
probably was ignorant of Spanish, as be always quotes the French
or Italian versions.
Captain Richard
Whitbourne, of Exmouth, in his Preface to "A Discourse and Discovery
of Newfoundland," London, 1620, says he was an eye-witness to Sir H.
Gilbert's taking possession of the countrey—C.D.
In a “True Discourse of the late
voyages of discoverie,” written by George Best,
who accompanied Frobisher, London, 1578, and reprinted by
the Hakluyt Society.
This
is a lost book. Emden was the capital of East Friseland. With
reference to the removal of the English merchants at Antwerp to Emden,
consult Strype's Life of Grindall, Oxford, cap, ix.
No less than
seven editions of Sleidan's De quatuor monarchiis were
printed by the Elzeviers alone, a proof of the popularity of the work. An
English translation by John Daus was published in London in 1560.
These baseless
assertions of complicity on the part of Phillip in the
attempts on the life of William of Nassau, only prove the bitter prejudices of
the Protestant party. I am surprised to find Dr. Deane, in a note on this
passage, endorsing Hakluyt's unfounded charges.
Marnix de Sainte Aldegonde was born at
Brussels in 1538. Died 1598. He was at one time Ambassador to
England.—See Motley's United Netherlands, I. 145.—C.D.
It is strange the Hakluyt
should omit St. Vincent, Dominica, Guadeloupe,
etc., and mention such small islands as Marigalante. The other two islands
named are probably Urala and Curasoa.
Marginal note.—The
chiefe things worthie obseruation in Florida are
drawen in colours by Iames Morgues painter sometime liuing in the Black
fryers in London.
Marginal note.—The
pillar set vp before by Ribault crowned with garlands of Laurell
and inuironed with small paniers full of corne, worshipped by the Sauages.
“Pez
muy comun en los mares setentrionales de Espana, de un pie de
largo, comprimido, de color por el lomo azul claro, y por el vientre bianco.”
(Diccionario de la Academia.)—Probably the
Sparus of Pliny.