The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation. [vols. 1-3] made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600. yeres: deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. The first volume containeth the worthy discoueries, &c. of the English ... The second volume comprehendeth the principall nauigations ... to the south and south-east parts of the world ... By Richard Hakluyt preacher, and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford.

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Title: The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation. [vols. 1-3] made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600. yeres: deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. The first volume containeth the worthy discoueries, &c. of the English ... The second volume comprehendeth the principall nauigations ... to the south and south-east parts of the world ... By Richard Hakluyt preacher, and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: By George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker,; Anno 1599[-1600]
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That the Brittons were in Italie and Greece with the Cimbrians and Gaules, before the incarnation of Christ. M. Wil. Camden, pag. 33.

BRitannos autem cum Cimbris & Gallis permistos fuisse in expeditionibus illis in Italiam & Graeciam videtur. Nam praeter nomen commune in Britannico Triadum libro vetustissimo,* 1.1 vbi tres maximi exercitus, qui è Britannis con∣scripti erant, memorantur, proditum est, exterum quendam ducem longè maximum exercitum hinc contraxisse, qui, po∣pulata magna Europae parte, tandem ad Graecum mare (forsi∣tan Gallatiam innuit) confederit.

Britomarum item ducem inter illos militarem, cuius me∣minit Florus & Appianus, Britonem fuisse nomē euincit, quod Britonem magnum significat. Nec torquebo illud Strabonis, qui Brennum natione Pra••sum fuisse scribit, vt natione Bri∣tonem faciam.

The same in English.

IT is not vnlike that the Britons accompanied the Cimbrians and Gaules in those expeditions to Italy and Greece. For besides the common name, it is recorded in that most ancient Bri∣tish booke called Liber Triadum, (wherein also mention is made of three huge armies that were leuied out of Britaine) that a certaine outlandish Captaine gathered from hence a mightie armie; who hauing wasted a great part of Europe, at length tooke vp his abode (perhaps the Author mea∣neth in Gallatia) neere vnto the sea of Greece.

Likewise, that the warrelike captaine Britomarus (of whom Florus and Appian doe make report) was himselfe a Briton, his very name doeth testifie, which signi••ieth A great Briton. Nei∣ther will I wrest that testimonie of Strabo (who reporteth Brennus to haue bene a Prause by birth) that I may prooue him also to haue bene a Briton borne.

Notes

* 1.1

Triadum liber.

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