Certaine briefe, and speciall instructions for gentlemen, merchants, students, souldiers, marriners, &c. employed in seruices abrode, or anie way occasioned to conuerse in the kingdomes, and gouernementes of forren princes

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Certaine briefe, and speciall instructions for gentlemen, merchants, students, souldiers, marriners, &c. employed in seruices abrode, or anie way occasioned to conuerse in the kingdomes, and gouernementes of forren princes

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Meyer, Albrecht, 1528-1603.

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London :: Printed by Iohn VVoolfe,

1589.

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Contents

• title page
• To the most valiant, and renowned Knight, Sir Francis Drake, the ornament of his Country, the terror of the enimie, the Achilles of this age, P. I. wisheth, in al his honorable actions, the continuance of Gods former blessings, and in his now intended seruice the best successe.
• Ad eundem clarissimum, & fortunatissimum Equi∣tem, D. Franciscum Dracum, eiusdem Philippi Iones, de conscripto exercitu carmen conscendens.
• Ad P. I. huius opellae T. H. Medicinae Doctoris Hexasticon.
• Ad eundem M. B. Oxoniensis aliud Hexasticon.
• The general sections, or places of this discourse are in number twelue: to some one whereof, what∣soeuer particular thing shall be seene, learned, offered, obserued and described in any Region, may very fitly, and orderly be referred. Viz.
• The first Section. Cosmographie, or the description of the worlde: wherein is to bee noted.
• The second Section. Astronomie, or the art of skill in the course of the starres, and pla∣nets, wherein is to be obserued.
• The third Section. Geographie, or the drawing and proportioning of the earth: wherein is to be marked.
• The fourth section. Chorographie, or the demonstration of Regions, and Citties: where∣in is to be regarded.
• The fift Section. Topographie, or the portraiture of particular places, wherein is to bee noted.
• The sixt Section. Husbandrie: wherein is to be obserued.
• The seuenth Section. Nauigation: wherein it is to be obserued.
• The eight Section. The politicall state, wherein is to be marked.
• The ninth Section. The state Ecclesiasticall, wherein is to be respected.
• The tenth Section. Literature wherein is to be noted.
• The eleuenth Section. Histories: wherein is to be searched.
• The twelfth Section. Chronicles, wherein is to be learned.
• The opinion of Abrahamus Ortelius, the notable Geographer, concerning the vse of notes and obser∣uations in trauell, written by himselfe in his Itinerarium Belgiae.