The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, vol. 11

The Principal Navigations

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Title: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries
of The English Nation, Vol. 11
Author: Richard Hakluyt
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** Transcriber's Notes **
The printed edition from which this e-text has been produced retains
the spelling and abbreviations of Hakluyt's 16th-century original. In
this version, the spelling has been retained, but the following
manuscript abbreviations have been silently expanded:
- vowels with macrons = vowel + 'n' or 'm' - q; = -que (in the Latin) -
y'e = the; y't = that; w't = with
This edition contains footnotes and two types of sidenotes. Most

footnotes are added by the editor. They follow modern (19th-century)
spelling conventions. Those that don't are Hakluyt's (and are not always
systematically marked as such by the editor). The sidenotes are
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placed before the sentence to which they apply. Sidenotes that are
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point of the symbol, except in poetry, where they are placed at a
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THE PRINCIPAL NAVIGATIONS, VOYAGES, TRAFFIQUES AND
DISCOVERIES OF THE ENGLISH NATION, VOLUME XI
AFRICA
Collected by
RICHARD HAKLUYT, PREACHER.
AND
Edited by
EDMUND GOLDSMID, F.R.H.S.

Nauigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoueries
OF THE
ENGLISH NATION IN AFRICA.
* * * * *
The voyage of Henrie Eatle of Derbie, after Duke of Hereford, and
lastly Henry the fourth King of England, to Tunis in Barbarie, with an
army of Englishmen mitten by Polidore Virgill. pag. 1389.
Franci interim per inducias nacti ocium, ac simul Genuensium precibus
defatigati, bellum in Afros, qui omnem oram insulásque Italiae
latiocinijs infestas reddebant, suscipiunt. Richardus quoque rex Angliæ
rogatus auxilium, mittit Henricum comitem Derbiensem cum electa
Anglicæ pubis manu ad id bellum faciendum. Igitur Franci Anglíque
viribus et animis consociatis in Africam traijciunt, qui vbi littus attigere,
eatenus à Barbaris descensione prohibiti sunt, quoad Anglorum
sagittariorum virtute factum est, vt aditus pateret: in terram egressi
recta Tunetam vrbem regiam petunt, ac obsident. Barbari timore affecti
de pace ad eos legates mittunt, quam nostris dare placuit, vt soluta certa

pecuniae summa ab omni deinceps Italiae, Galliaeque ora mamis
abstinerent. Ita peractis rebus post paucos menses, quàm eo itum erat,
domum repediatum est.
The same in English.
The French in the meane season hauing gotten some leasure by meanes
of their truce, and being sollicited and vrged by the intreaties of the
Genuois vndertooke to wage warre against the Moores, who robbed and
spoyled all the coasts of Italy, and of the Ilandes adiacent. Likewise
Richard the second, king of England, being sued vnto for ayde, sent
Henry the Earle of Derbie with a choice armie of English souldiers vnto
the same warfare. Wherefore the English and French, with forces and
mindes vnited, sayled ouer into Africa, who when they approached
vnto the shore were repelled by the Barbarians from landing, vntill such
time as they had passage made them by the valour of the English
archers. Thus hauing landed their forces, they foorthwith marched vnto
the royall citie of Tunis, and besieged it. Whereat the Barbarians being
dismayed, sent Ambassadours vnto our Christian Chieftaines to treat of
peace, which our men graunted vnto them, vpon condition that they
should pay a certaine summe of money, and that they should from
thencefoorth abstaine from piracies vpon all the coasts of Italy and
France. And so hauing dispatched their businesse, within a fewe
moneths after their departure they returned home.
This Historie is somewhat otherwise recorded by Froysard and
Holenshed in manner following, pag 473.
In the thirteenth yeere of the reigne of King Richard the second, the
Christians tooke in hand a iourney against the Saracens of Barbarie
through sute of the Genouois, so that there went a great number of
Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen of France and England, the Duke of
Burbon being their Generall. Out of England there went Iohn de
Beaufort bastarde sonne to