Art of Navigation, The., 1561,
Cortés,  Martin

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Dedication Transcription:

| To the ryght wor∫hypfull ∫yr VVyllyam Garrerd | knyght, and Master Thomas Lodge, | Aldermen of the Cittie of London, and Gouer= | nours of the honorable felow∫hyp or ∫ocietie, | a∫ well of certeine of the Nobilitie, as of | Marchauntes aduenturers, for the di∫co= | uery of Landes, Territories, Ilan= | des, and Seignories unknowen, | and not before their fir∫t aduen= | ture or enterpri∫e by Seas or | Nauigations commonly | frequented: | And to the right wor∫hypfull the Con∫ulles, | A∫∫i∫tentes, and communaltie of the | ∫ame ∫ocietie, Richarde Eden | wy∫∫heth health and | pro∫peritie. |

Notes on Dedication/Dedicatee:  
Dedicatee: Garerd, William
Title: Sir. Alderman of the City of London.
2nd Dedicatee: Lodge, Thomas
Title: Alderman of the City of London.
Preliminary Material Sequence: Sigs. ¶ ii - ¶¶ iv - Dedication. Sigs. Ai r - Aiv r - Translation of Martin Cortés' dedication to the Emperor Charles V.
Preliminary Material Notes: Eden commends the efforts of explorers: "what great charges you haue susteyned, and how lyberall and constant you haue ben in furtherynge the same, doth well delcare that hytherto you are rather losers than gayners therby. The which thyng doubtelesse is the more to your commendation, in that it maye hereby appeare that you haue atttempted the ame rather for knowledge and vertues sake, then for couetousnes of gaynes: as is furthermore well knowen by your fyrste viages of discouerye attempted to Cathaye by the Northeast seas, upon certen losse and detriment". His translation is response to how "inidgent and desitute this Realm is of excellent and expert Pilottes". The translation was commissioned by 'Sir William Garrerd, Maister William Mericke, Maister Blase Sanders, and Maister Edwarde Castlen'. Sir Thomas Smith was "sometyme my Tutor", when Eden was at Cambridge.