Right Honourable and my especial good Lord, as by the instinct of nature all men are desirous of understanding, so it is likewise ingraffed by the same benefite of nature, in the hearts of true nobilitie, not only- to excell the vulgare sort, but also to cherish, support, and countenance all such as shall in due course prosecute their vocation: and as such practises either speculative or mechanicall shall receive fauourable place in the honourable opinion of nobilitie, by so much the more shall the practiser bee esteemed: which is the cause that at this time imboldeneth me to present vnto your most honourable fauour this small treatise of Navigation, being a breefe collection of such practises as in my seuerall voyages I have from experience collected. Among which in three seuerall attempts for the discouerie of the Northwest passage, thereby to finde a short and Nauigable course vnto the rich and famous Countries of Cathayo, China, Pegu, the Isles of Molucan and Phillipina, that thereby to the great and inestimable benefite of our country, there might be a rich and plentifull trade procured betweene vs and the sayd nations in short time to be performed, and with great saftie in regarde of the course : which action and discouery (by meanes of that honourable Counseller Sir Fraunces Walsingham Knight, principall Secretary to her Maiestie) was with good resolution accepted by the Merchants of London, but in the decay of his honourable life, the attempt was likewise quaild: but howsoeuer mens mindes alter, yet vndoubtedly, there is a passage nauigable, and easie to be performed by that course (whensoeuer it shall please God to reueale the same) by inuincible reasons, and sufficient experience to be proued […]