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English Explorations and Settlements in North America 1497-1689

NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA

Edited by

JUSTIN WINSOR

Librarian of Harvard University Corresponding Secretary Massachusetts Historical Society

VOL. III

Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge

Copyright, 1884, by James R. Osgood and Company. All rights reserved.

CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

[_The English arms on the title are copied from the Molineaux map,
dated 1600._]

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CHAPTER I.

THE VOYAGES OF THE CABOTS. _Charles Deane_ 1

ILLUSTRATION: Sebastian Cabot, 5.

AUTOGRAPHS: Henry VII., 1; Henry VIII., 4; Edward VI., 6; Queen
Mary, 7.

CRITICAL ESSAY 7

ILLUSTRATIONS: La Cosa map (1500), _phototype_, 8, 8; Ruysch’s
map (1508), 9; Orontius Fine’s map (1531), 11; Stobnicza’s map
(1512), 13; Page of Peter Martyr in fac-simile, 15; Thorne’s
map (1527), 17; Sebastian Cabot’s map (1544), 22; Lok’s map
(1582), 40; Hakluyt-Martyr map (1587), 42; Portuguese Portolano
(1514-1520), 56.

CHAPTER II.

HAWKINS AND DRAKE. _Edward E. Hale_ 59

ILLUSTRATIONS: John Hawkins, 61; Zaltieri’s map (1566), 67;
Furlano’s map (1574), 68.

AUTOGRAPHS: John Hawkins, 61; Francis Drake, 65.

CRITICAL ESSAY ON DRAKE’S BAY 74

ILLUSTRATIONS: Modern map of California coast, 74; Viscaino’s
map (1602), 75; Dudley’s map (1646), 76, 77; Jeffreys’
sketch-map (1753), 77.

NOTES ON THE SOURCES OF INFORMATION. _The Editor_ 78

ILLUSTRATIONS: Hondius’s map, 79; Portus Novæ Albionis, 80;
Molineaux’s map (1600), 80; Sir Francis Drake, 81, 84; Thomas
Cavendish, 83.

CHAPTER III.

EXPLORATIONS TO THE NORTH-WEST. _Charles C. Smith_ 85

ILLUSTRATIONS: Martin Frobisher, 87; Molineaux globe (1592),
90; Molineaux map (1600), 91; Sir Thomas Smith, 94; James’s map
of Hudson Bay (1632), 96.

AUTOGRAPHS: Martin Frobisher, 87; John Davis, 89; George
Waymouth, 91; William Baffin, 94.

CRITICAL ESSAY 97

ILLUSTRATION: Luke Fox’s map of Baffin’s Bay (1635), 98.

THE ZENO INFLUENCE ON EARLY CARTOGRAPHY; FROBISHER’S AND
HUDSON’S VOYAGES. _The Editor_ 100

ILLUSTRATIONS: The Zeno map (_circa_ 1400), 100; map in Wolfe’s
_Linschoten_ (1598), 101; Beste’s map (1578), 102; Frobisher’s
Strait, 103.

CHAPTER IV.

SIR WALTER RALEGH: SETTLEMENTS AT ROANOKE AND VOYAGES TO
GUIANA. _William Wirt Henry_ 105

AUTOGRAPHS: Walter Ralegh, 105; Queen Elizabeth, 106; Ralph
Lane, 110.

CRITICAL ESSAY 121

ILLUSTRATIONS: White’s map in Hariot (1587), 124; De Laet’s map
(1630), 125.

AUTOGRAPH: Francis Bacon, 121.

CHAPTER V.

VIRGINIA, 1606-1689. _Robert A. Brock_ 127

ILLUSTRATIONS: Jamestown, 130; George Percy, 134; Seal of the
Virginia Company, 140; Lord Delaware, 142.

AUTOGRAPHS: King James, 127; Delaware, 133; Thomas Gates, 133;
George Percy, 134; George Calvert, 146; William Berkeley, 147.

CRITICAL ESSAY 153

AUTOGRAPHS: William Strachey, 156; Delaware, 156; John Harvey,
156; John West, 164.

NOTES ON THE MAPS OF VIRGINIA, ETC. _The Editor_ 167

ILLUSTRATION: Smith’s map of Virginia or the Chesapeake,
_phototype_, 167.