XXXVIII.  A letter of the learned Hungarian Stephanus Parmenius Budeius to
          master Richard Hakluyt the collectour of these voyages

XXXIX.  A relation Of Richard Clarke of Weymouth master of the ship called
        the Delight.  Part I.

XL.  Appendices

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FOOTNOTES: 

1.  Son of William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, minister of Elizabeth, and himself
   minister to the same queen and to James I. A clever but unscrupulous
   man, he was never popular, and his share in the fate of Essex and
   Raleigh has obscured his fame.  He was created Earl of Salisbury.  His
   secret correspondence is to be found in Goldsmid’s Collectanea
   Adamantaea.  Born 1565.  Died 1612.

2.  Hakluyt here merely condenses the researches of Grotius, who had
   published, in 1542, his famous but rare Tract “On the Origin of the
   Native American Races,” a translation of which the present Editor issued
   in his “Bibliotheca Curiosa,” Edinburgh, 1884.  Hakluyt was evidently
   ignorant of Gunnbjorn’s glimpse of a Western land in 876, of Eric the
   Red’s discovery of Greenland about 985, of Bjarni’s and Leif’s
   discoveries, or indeed of any of the traditions of the Voyages of the
   Northmen, or he would certainly have included them in his Collection. 
   Those who are interested in these matters should consult Wheaton’s
   History of the Northmen, London, 1831; Antiquitates Americanae, edited by
   the Royal Society of Northern Antiquarians, Hafniae, 1837; The Discovery
   of America by the Northmen, by N. L. Beamish, London, 1841; Historia
   Vinlandiae Antiquae, by Thermodus Torfoeus, Hafniae, 1705; and the edition
   of the Flateyan MSS., lately published at Copenhagen.

3.  I have, to the best of my ability, in Vols.  I. to XI. of this edition,
   arranged the contents of Hakluyt’s first two volumes in the order he
   would have desired, had he not “lacked sufficient store.”

4.  The History of Wales, written by Caradoc of Llancarvan, Glamorganshire,
   in the British Language, translated into English by Humphrey Llwyd, and
   edited by Dr. David Powel in 1584, is the book here quoted.  It is very
   rare.

5.  If Madoc ever existed, it seems more probable that the land he
   discovered was Madeira or the Azores.  Such at least is the view taken by
   Robertson, and also by Jeremiah Belknap (American Biography, 8vo,
   Boston, 1774).  Southey founded one of his poems on this tradition.

6.  In Welsh, Meridith ap Rhees.

7.  Marginal note.—­These verses I receiued of my learned friend M. William
   Camden.

8.  The most interesting life of Columbus is that by Lamartine, a
   translation of which appeared in the “Bibliotheca Curiosa.”