Transcription of what is now Folger G.b.10, which contains copies of documents taken from Richard Hakluyt's Principal navigations, 1598-1600, and of others relating to Irish affairs from Part II of Fynes Moryson's An itinerary ..., 1617. Also, copies of Sir Ralph Winwood's papers when principal secretary of state, 1614-1617, with a few from an earlier and a later date, as well as many petitions; letters of recommendation; letters to and from envoys and agents in Spain, Savoy, Venice, Turkey, the Netherlands (one of 1617 mentions [Hugo] Grotius), Belgium, France, the county Palatine and Portugal; several letters from the lords-deputy of Ireland, Sir Edward Coke, Sir Tobie Matthew, Sir Thomas Smith, and Sir William Monson; two letters to Sir Walter Raleigh, one about a debt claimed by Peter Frobisher in right of his uncle, Captain Frobisher, and Raleigh's proposal for his last voyage to Guiana, [1616?]; a letter from Dr. Thomas Lodge and another discussing a debt owing to him; a letter and petition of Dr. William Fulke's daughter relating to her right to print his books; a copy of the French king's edict, January 1607, for drawing certain makers of tapestry from the Low Countries into France and Sir Francis Crane's proposal for a similar undertaking in England.
Note
This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It contains unverified data from catalog cards and may contain incorrect or incomplete information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. A note of certain items in a household sale, ca. 1825, in envelope at end.
Source of acquisition
Sotheby's10 June 1896, lot 463.
Includes
Moryson, Fynes, 1566-1630. Itinerary. Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation.
