Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes
Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others

A 20-volume seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 1905–7 edition) which follows Hakluyt in recording voyages of exploration.

Samuel Purchas (Author)

9781108080033, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 November 2014

582 pages, 1 map
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.84 kg

Richard Hakluyt's 12-volume Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, originally published at the end of the sixteenth century, and reissued by the Cambridge Library Collection in the edition of 1903–5, was followed in 1625 by Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes, now reissued in a 20-volume edition published in 1905–7. When first published in four folio volumes, the work was the largest ever printed in England. An Anglican priest, Samuel Purchas (1577–1626) was a friend of Hakluyt, and based his great work in part on papers not published by Hakluyt before his death. As well as being a wide-ranging survey of world exploration, it is notable as an anti-Catholic polemic, and a justification of British settlement in North America. Volume 19 continues with British exploration and settlement in North America, including Newfoundland and the colonies of Jamestown and Plymouth.

5. Letter of Master Gabriel Archer on the Virginia voyage
6. The wrack and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates
7. The voyage of Samuell Argal from Virginia to the ile of Bermuda
8. Relation of the Counsell of Virginia
9. Letter of Sir Samuell Argoll touching his voyage to Virginia
10. Notes of Virginian affairs
11. Letter from James Towne in Virginia
12. Of the lotterie
13. The estate of the colonie, anno 1620
14. A sea-fight
15. Viginian affaires since the yeere 1620
16. English voyages to the Summer Ilands
17. Relations of Summer Ilands
18. Captaine John Smith's historie of Bermudas
19. Briefe intelligence from Virginia by letters
20. Virginia's verger
Part X: 1. The discoverie and plantation of New England
2. The voyage of Master Henrie Challons
3. Extracts of a book of Captaine John Smith
4. Journal of a plantation setled at Plimoth
5. Good newes from New England
6. Nova Scotia
7. The beginning of a patent for New-found-land
8. Captaine Richard Whitbournes voyages to New-found-land
9. His majesties plantation in the New-found-land
10. Fleets set forth to sea against the Spaniards
11. Plans for the invasion of England
12. A discourse of the Portugall voyage, anno 1589.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]