11. The Voyage of Edmund and Edward, the Sonnes of King Edmund Ironside,
into Hungarie, from Florence of Worcester
12. A Chronicle of the Kings of Man from Camden's Chorographia
13. The Marriage of the Daughter of Harold to Jeruslaus, Duke of Russia,
from Saxo Grammaticus
14. The State of the Shipping of the Cinque Ports from Edward the
Confessour and William the Conqueror, and so downe to Edward I., from
Lambert's Perambulations of Kent
15. The roll of the huge Fleete of Edward III. before Calice, from
Thomas Walsingham
16. The Voyage of Nicholas de Linna, a Franciscan Frier, and an
excellent Mathetician, of Oxford, to all the regions situate under
the North Pole, in the yeere 1360
17. A Testimonie of the learned Mathematician Master John Dee, touching
the foresaid Voyage of Nicholas de Linna
18. The Voyage of Henry, Earle of Derbie, after Duke of Hereford, and
lastly King of England, by the name of Henry IV., into Prussia and
Lettowe, against the Infidels, from Thomas of Walsmgham
19. The Voyage of Thomas of Woodstocke, Duke of Gloucester, into
Prussia, written by Thomas Walsingham
20. The verses of Geoffrey Chaucer, showing that the English Knights
were wont in his time to travaile into Prussia and other heathen
lands
The original proceedings and successe of the northren, domestical, and
forren trades and traffiques of this Isle of Britain, from the time of
Nero the Emperor, who deceased in the yeere of our Lord 70, under the
Romans, Britons, Saxons, and Danes, till the Conquest; and from the
Conquest untill this present time, gathered out of the most authenticall
histories and records of this Nation, viz.:
21. A Testimonie out of Cornelius Tacitus, proving London to have bene
a famous Mart Town in the Reigne of Nero the Enperour
22. A Testimome out of Venerable Beda, proving London to have bene a
citie of great Trafficke, not long after the beginning of the
Saxons Reigne
23. The League betweene Carolus Magnus and Offa, concerning safe trade
of English Merchants
24. An ancient Testimonie as to the rank of Merchants, from Lambert's
Perambulation of Kent
25. A Testimonie of certaine privileges obtained for English and Danish
Merchants, of Conrad the Emperor, and John, Bishop of Rome, by
Canutus the Kinmg, extracted out of a Letter of his
26. The flourishing state of the citie of London, in the Reigne of King
Stephen, from William of Malmsbury
27. The Traffike of Bristow with Norway and Ireland, from William of
Malmsbury
28. The League betwecne Henry II., and Frederick Barbarossa, from
Radevicus and Otto Frisingenses
29. A generall safe-conduct granted to all forreine Marchants by King
John, from the Records of the Tower
30. The Letters of King Henry III., unto Haquinus, King of Norway,
concerning a Treaty of Peace
31. A Mandate for the King of Norway, his ship called The Cog
31. A charter granted to the Merchants of Colen, by Edward I.
33. The Charter of Lubeck, graunted by Henry III.
34. A Charter for the Marchants of Almaine, graunted by Edward I.
35. A Mandate of King Edward I., concerning outlandish Marchants
36. The Great Charter granted unto forreine Marchants by Edward I.
37. The Letters of Edward II., unto Haquinus, King of Norway,
concerning the English Marchants arrested in Germany
38. An Ordinance of the Staple to be holden at one certaine place
39. A Charter of King Henry IV., to English Merchants resident in
Prussia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Germany
40. A note touching the mighty ships of King Henry V., from a Chronicle
in the Trinity Church of Winchester
41. A branch of a Statute made in the Reigne of Henry VI., for the
trade to Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finmark
42. Another branch of a Statute made in the Reigne of Henry VI.,
concerning the English Marchants in Denmark
43. The Process or the Libel of English Policie, exhorting all England to
Keepe the Sea
44. A brief Commentarie of Island: wherein the errors of such as have
written concerning this island are detected, and the Slanders and
Reproches of certaine strangers, which they have used over boldly
against the People of Island are confuted by Arngrimus Ionas
BOOK I.
SECTION 1.
The Isle of Island, being severed from other countries, an infinite
distance standeth farre into the ocean, etc.
SECTION 2.
In this Island at the Summer Solstitum there is no night, etc.
SECTION 3.
It is named of the ice, which continually cleaveth unto the north part
thereof.
SECTION 4.
The Island is so great that it containeth many people, etc.
SECTION 5.
The Island, the most part thereof, is mountainous and untilled.
SECTION 6.
There be in this Island mountaines lift up to the skies, whose tops
being white with perpetual snowe, their roots boile with everlasting
fire, etc.
SECTION 7.
The flame of Mount Hecla will not burne towe, neither is it quenched
with water.... This place is thought by some to be the prison of
uncleane soules, etc.
SECTION 8.
Neare unto the mountaines there be three vast holes, the depth thereof
cannot be discerned by any man; but there appeare to the beholders
thereof certaine men at that instant plunged in, who answere their
friends, exhorting them, with deepe sighs, to returne home, and, with
that, they suddenly vanish away
SECTION 9.
But round about the Island there floateth ice. The inhabitants are of
opinion that in Mount Hecla and in the ice there are places wherein
the soules of their countrymen are tormented,
SECTION 10.
If any man shall take a great quantity of this ice, and shall keepe it
never so warily in a coffer or vessel, it wil, at the time when the
ice thaweth about the Island, utterly vanish away, etc.
SECTION 11.
Not far from the Mountains there be four fountaines of a most contrary
nature betweene themselves.
