1st Edition

The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies With Abstracts of Journals of Voyages to the East Indies, during the Seventeenth Century, preserved in the India Office. And the Voyage of Captain John Knight (1606), to seek the North-West Passage

Edited By Clements R. Markham Copyright 2010
    352 Pages
    by Hakluyt Society

    The abstracts relate to the voyages of Keeling and Hawkins, Sharpie, Sir Henry Middleton, Thomas Love, Nicholas Downton, and Ralph Cross. With a calendar of ships' journals of the seventeenth century and a list of ships employed by the East India Company in the same period. For a revised edition of the Lancaster voyages, see Second Series 85. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1877.

    Narrative of the First Voyage of Sir James Lancaster; Narrative of the First Voyage of Sir James Lancaster; The Voyage of Captain James Lancaster to Pernambuco; The First Voyage made to East India (now Knight), for the Merchants of London, Anno 1600, with Foure Tall Ships, (to wit) The Hector, the Ascension, and Susan, and A Victualler Called the Guest; The Voyage of Captains Keeling 1 and Hawkins, 1607-1609. Being the Third Voyage Set Forth by the East India Company; The Voyage of Captain Sharpeigh, 1608-1609. Beoing the Fourth Voyage Set Forth by the East India 1 Company; The Voyage of Captain Sharpeigh, 1608-1609. Being the Fourth Voyage Set Forth by the East India Company; Sixth Voyage bet Forth by Instructions given by the Governor and Committee of the Company of Merchants Trading to the East Indies to Lawrence Femell, 1 the Principal Factor, and the Other Factors Employed in the Sixth Voyage. 2; The Second Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton, 1610-1611. Being the Sixth Sit Foeth bt the East India Company. 1; Journal of the Sixth Voyage, Kept bt Nicholas Downton, 1610-1613. 1; Journal of Ralphe Crosse, Purser of the “Hosjeander” in the Tenth Voyage. A.D. 1612.; A Calendar of XHB Ships’ Journals Preserved in the India Office 1 (Written Within the Seventeenth Century).; Jouenal the Voyage of John Knight so Sbsk the North-West Passage, 1 1606.; The Journal of the Voyage of Captain John Knight 1 to seek the North-west Passage, 1606. 2; Death of Captain Knight. [Postscript. 1 ]; A List of Ships of the East India Company 1 (employed during the Seventeenth Century).

    Biography

    Clements R. Markham