The
groundes
of
the
Longitude
,
with
an
Admonition
to
all
those
that
are
incredulous
and
beleeue
not
the
trueth
of
the
same
.
FOrasmuch
as
there
hath
beene
diuerse
Bookes
written
heretofore
,
by
diuerse
and
sundrie
learned
men
of
the
arte
of
Nauigation
and
Cosmografical
science
,
the
inuention
&
helpe
of
the
Compasse
:
the
making
and
vse
of
the
Astralabie
,
the
practise
of
the
Crosse
staffe
,
and
Ballestile
,
and
diuers
other
instruments
aswell
profitable
as
necessarie
for
those
that
vse
and
practise
the
arte
of
Nauigation
,
sometimes
to
take
the
height
of
the
Sunne
,
sometimes
to
take
the
height
,
Longitude
and
Latitude
of
the
Starres
,
to
know
the
height
of
countries
,
and
the
Latitude
of
places
,
Ilandes
,
and
cities
from
the
Equinoctiall
,
that
thereby
they
may
the
better
know
in
what
place
they
bee
,
and
howe
and
whether
to
direct
their
voiage
and
their
ship
,
that
thereby
they
may
also
attaine
more
espeedily
and
safely
to
the
expected
and
wished
place
,
and
come
to
the
hauen
they
long
for
.
And
in
asmuch
as
the
good
Mariner
wanteth
yet
one
thing
as
one
of
the
chiefe
pillers
of
his
Arte
,
that
is
,
some
meane
,
or
waie
to
finde
aswell
the
Longitude
which
they
most
desire
,
as
the
Latitude
which
they
perfectly
haue
:
the
which
Longitude
many
men
haue
shot
at
,
and
none
vnto
this
daie
could
perfectly
find
by
any
instrument
,
or
by
any
other
reason
then
Ptolomy
setteth
downe
,
which
is
by
the
Ecclipses
of
the
Sunne
and
Moone
,
which
Mariners
and
trauailers
cannot
haue
at
all
times
to
helpe
themselues
after
they
are
beaten
and
driuen
with
foule
weather
,
or
with
some
vncoth
storme
or
raging
Sea
vnexpected
,
or
else
being
in
some
straunge
countrie
or
place
,
to
know
whether
they
are
gone
so
farre
as
they
would
bee
,
where
they
suppose
some
vnknowen
Ilande
or
lande
lieth
:
or
where
they
are
short
of
the
same
,
which
is
not
to
bee
done
by
any
of
the
instruments
or
meanes
aforesaide
.
But
by
a
more
secreete
meane
and
way
as
yet
vnknowen
vnto
all
the
world
,
except
to
those
to
whom
my selfe
here
before
haue
shewed
it
vpon
the
request
of
some
which
were
very
incredulous
thereof
,
and
yet
remaine
because
themselues
as
yet
do
not
know
the
waie
of
dooing
it
:
because
they
that
doe
know
it
are
sworne
by
a
sacred
othe
not
to
manifest
or
teach
the
same
to
any
without
leaue
before
had
of
the
Author
.
And
now
because
I
knowe
on
the
one
side
that
men
are
as
desirous
of
the
knowledge
hereof
as
my selfe
haue
beene
sometimes
of
greater
matters
.
And
on
the
other
side
,
they
will
still
remaine
incredulous
of
the
trueth
vntill
they
heare
some
reason
for
it
,
or
see
the
experience
thereof
:
as
S.
Thomas
did
of
the
resurrection
of
Christ
:
which
afterwarde
said
vnto
him
,
come
hether
Thomas
and
see
the
printe
of
the
nayles
in
my
handes
,
and
thrust
thy
hande
into
my
side
,
and
be
not
faithlesse
but
belieue
:
So
doe
I
say
vnto
all
that
be
incredulous
,
and
to
those
that
thorough
endlesse
trauaile
,
and
hardinesse
of
heart
and
foolish
persuasions
are
perswaded
,
that
there
is
no
true
way
or
means
to
finde
and
know
the
true
Longitude
of
Countries
,
Citties
,
and
places
,
and
to
all
those
curious
carpers
,
whose
wittes
are
intangled
in
vanitie
,
that
are
euer
searching
and
neuer
finde
,
reatching
vp
vnto
the
starres
,
&
yet
cannot
attaine
to
the
orbe
of
the
Moone
,
who
thinkes
none
like
vnto
themselues
,
and
because
they
cannot
themselues
comprehend
the
mysterie
of
hidden
and
vnknowen
things
,
none
else
should
doe
it
nor
assay
it
.
As
who
should
say
,
that
the
omnipotent
God
,
the
great
Creator
of
all
thinges
,
the
giuer
of
all
wisdome
and
knowledge
were
tied
vnto
them
,
that
they
should
haue
the
preferment
in
things
before
others
,
or
that
he
should
bestow
his
guiftes
according
to
their
direction
,
and
not
according
to
his
owne
will
:
But
as
he
made
not
all
things
at
one
time
:
so
he
ordeyned
the
knowledge
of
all
things
not
to
be
found
at
one
time
,
nor
by
one
man
:
for
if
one
man
could
doe
euery
thing
,
and
that
his
witte
were
so
apte
and
prompt
that
he
could
finde
out
the
knowledge
of
euery
thing
,
what
neede
had
we
then
to
seeke
diuers
men
.
for
diuers
causes
,
as
Carpentars
to
build
houses
,
Smiths
to
make
yron
worke
,
Coblers
to
mende
shooes
,
&c.
Therefore
,
seeing
that
the
great
creator
of
all
thinges
disposeth
his
giftes
of
knowledge
to
euery
man
according
to
his
will
and
the
measure
of
faith
,
as
saith
S.
Paul
,
and
maketh
vessels
for
honor
and
vessels
for
dishonor
,
some
for
the
chamber
,
&
some
for
the
kitching
,
and
maketh
some
poore
,
and
some
rich
,
and
some
wise
,
and
some
foolish
:
and
pu●teth
downe
the
mightie
,
and
setteth
vp
the
humble
and
meeke
:
making
the
foolish
to
confound
the
wise
:
and
giueth
to
one
man
the
knowledge
of
one
thing
,
and
to
another
the
knowledge
of
another
thing
:
to
some
the
gifte
of
prophecie
,
to
some
the
gift
of
healing
,
to
some
of
doing
of
wonders
and
miracle
,
to
some
the
interpretation
of
thinges
,
and
finding
of
hidden
misteries
,
yet
al
is
the
administration
of
one
spirit
,
and
power
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
as
S.
Paul
saith
,
of
his
free
grace
powred
out
vpon
euery
creature
,
according
to
his
diuine
will
and
fore
knowledge
.
And
if
it
be
so
,
why
maruell
you
so
at
me
,
that
I
should
receiue
so
bountifull
a
gifte
at
the
hande
of
God
,
or
by
him
to
be
indued
with
the
knowledge
hereof
.
Am
I
a
monster
degenerated
from
kind
,
or
am
I
not
a
creature
,
made
and
formed
by
his
diuine
wil
,
and
borne
into
the
world
,
and
do
liue
to
shewe
forth
and
speake
of
his
glorie
and
power
as
well
as
others
.
Do
not
all
the
creatures
of
God
manifest
his
power
and
glory
,
each
one
in
his
kinde
and
nature
,
as
the
birdes
of
the
ayre
the
fishes
of
the
Seas
,
the
beasts
and
wormes
that
feede
on
the
ground
,
and
the
hearbes
and
trees
that
grow
therof
,
doth
not
Rubarbe
purge
coller
,
and
is
not
Selledony
good
for
the
eies
,
is
there
not
fire
in
a
flint
stone
,
and
doth
not
the
Sallamander
liue
in
the
fier
:
did
not
Mercurie
Tristnegistus
,
find
the
Tables
wherein
was
ingrauen
the
7.
liberal
Sciences
,
&
other
secreet
Artes
in
the
valley
of
Hebron
after
the
floud
:
and
talked
he
not
with
the
holy
Ghost
,
as
it
is
recorded
in
his
booke
Intituled
by
the
name
of
Pymander
.
Was
not
Salomon
endued
by
God
with
such
excellent
wisedome
,
as
none
had
greater
before
his
time
.
Did
not
God
shewe
his
wonders
by
his
seruant
Moyses
in
the
land
of
Egipt
,
and
did
not
Moyses
and
the
children
of
Israell
passe
through
the
red
Seat
and
was
not
Pharao
and
his
hostes
drowned
.
Did
not
Iosua
commande
the
Sunne
to
stand
still
on
Gybeon
,
&
the
Moone
on
Aalon
,
vntill
he
was
auenged
on
the
enimies
of
the
Lord
and
of
Israel
.
Did
he
not
giue
power
vnto
Elias
to
shut
the
heauens
,
so
that
it
rained
not
in
3.
yeeres
and
sixe
moneths
.
And
then
he
prayed
againe
,
and
it
did
rayne
.
I
speake
now
of
the
power
of
the
Lord
&
of
his
wonders
done
in
the
old
world
:
which
also
ceaseth
not
to
shew
wonders
vnto
this
day
,
and
to
giue
power
to
some
to
beare
his
name
before
the
rest
.
Maruaile
not
therefore
at
me
,
that
I
should
finde
out
the
knowledge
hereof
,
neither
think
it
a
thing
impossible
to
be
done
,
for
it
is
not
I
,
but
the
grace
of
God
which
is
in
me
,
as
Paul
saith
,
for
all
good
giftes
and
the
true
knowledge
of
things
commeth
from
God
,
according
as
it
is
written
:
And
in
the
latter
daies
I
will
powre
out
my
spirite
vpon
all
flesh
,
and
your
yoong
men
shall
dreame
dreames
,
and
your
old
men
shall
see
visions
,
and
your
children
shall
tell
of
things
to
come
.
And
therefore
all
though
the
Lorde
did
hide
the
knowledge
here
of
from
all
the
learned
men
that
euer
haue
written
vnto
this
day
,
as
from
Ptolomeus
,
Pithagoras
,
Plato
,
Beed
,
Aristotle
,
Alkindus
,
Lergis
,
Aomar
,
Albenoyt
Zael
,
Guido
bonatus
,
Haly
,
Iohn
de
sacrobosco
,
Alfonsus
,
Amoaz
,
Dorotheus
,
Frier
Bacon
,
Petrus
de
Medina
,
Purbaicus
,
Regiomontanus
,
Alfraganus
,
Strabo
,
Stadius
,
Leouitius
,
and
an
infinite
number
moe
of
great
and
learned
clearkes
which
haue
written
,
aswell
of
Astronomie
as
Cosmographie
,
it
was
not
for
want
of
wisedome
or
learning
in
them
,
or
great
diligence
to
search
the
secreete
misterie
of
things
:
neither
was
it
for
that
there
should
be
borne
into
the
world
a
greater
clarke
then
they
to
finde
it
.
But
it
was
decreed
so
by
his
diuine
powre
before
that
when
the
time
thereof
was
come
,
it
should
be
found
by
him
whom
he
would
to
shewe
his
glory
and
powre
euen
by
the
simple
and
least
made
account
of
,
to
confound
the
wisdome
of
the
wise
and
mightie
.
Euen
by
him
that
neuer
thought
of
such
a
thing
,
nor
neuer
had
indeuoured
himselfe
there
abouts
,
nor
applied
any
parte
of
his
studie
to
that
intent
,
had
not
Maister
Robert
Parker
marchant
of
London
,
putting
the
same
into
his
head
,
and
intreated
me
to
take
some
paines
therein
,
at
whose
earnest
request
I
bestowed
some
part
of
my
studie
&
endeuour
therein
.
And
by
the
grace
and
helpe
of
God
haue
brought
it
to
that
passe
,
which
any
man
that
is
desirous
of
the
knowledge
thereof
,
may
learne
the
trueth
thereof
at
the
Authors
handes
if
he
repayre
vnto
him
,
or
else
if
he
or
they
repaire
to
Master
Robart
Parkes
in
pudding
lane
.
Therefore
returning
to
our
former
discourse
,
againe
to
speake
of
the
vnbeleeuing
sorte
,
and
those
that
stand
so
stifly
vpon
impossibilities
,
saying
it
is
impossible
to
finde
any
true
and
direct
way
for
the
knowledge
thereof
,
because
so
many
learned
men
aforesaid
could
neuer
finde
it
:
and
some
againe
make
it
impossible
,
because
themselues
haue
trauailed
therin
with
much
studie
,
counting
themselues
great
and
cunning
Clarkes
,
hauing
found
and
prooued
twentie
waies
at
the
least
,
and
could
not
happen
on
the
right
way
as
themselues
haue
reported
.
And
thereupon
some
haue
beene
about
to
write
a
booke
against
it
,
and
of
the
impossibilitie
and
vncertaintie
thereof
:
some
againe
are
of
another
mind
,
and
they
say
if
he
haue
found
out
the
true
way
thereof
,
hee
neuer
founde
it
by
God
,
but
by
some
sinister
meanes
by
the
Diuell
,
as
who
should
saie
that
the
cunning
of
the
diuell
,
is
greater
then
the
knowledge
and
power
of
God
,
or
that
God
was
not
able
to
giue
the
knowledge
thereof
,
except
the
diuell
will
,
or
that
he
be
made
pryuie
thereof
,
or
that
the
diuell
can
do
any
thing
without
the
permission
or
sufferance
or
commaundement
of
God
.
If
you
doubt
thereof
goe
aske
of
Iob
,
and
of
the
booke
of
the
Kings
:
how
the
diuell
came
before
God
,
&c.
and
how
God
gaue
him
leaue
and
powre
,
and
how
God
made
the
diuell
and
instrument
to
do
his
will
.
But
these
and
such
like
are
not
euill
speakers
,
but
impairers
of
the
powre
of
God
,
dishonorers
of
his
persone
,
presumptuous
in
their
owne
conceipt
,
enuiors
of
others
,
hinderers
of
the
benefite
of
the
common-wealth
,
negligent
to
do
good
,
and
as
hard
of
beleefe
as
S.
Thomas
was
.
Therefore
I
say
vnto
them
as
Christ
said
vnto
S.
Thomas
,
Come
hether
all
you
vnbeleeuers
,
all
you
that
seeke
and
neuer
find
,
all
you
cunning
Sophisters
,
all
you
studentes
of
Astronomie
&
Cosmographie
,
all
you
also
that
account
things
impossible
,
and
all
you
that
will
write
Bookes
against
it
and
all
you
that
haue
so
many
waies
and
none
true
,
and
you
also
that
seeke
by
subtiltie
of
Arguments
to
enter
into
the
secreet
knowledge
thereof
,
that
thereby
you
might
take
away
another
mans
glorie
:
that
seeke
I
say
to
haue
the
gaine
and
prayse
of
another
mans
trauaile
.
Come
hether
also
all
you
that
stand
vpon
the
iudgement
of
the
learned
:
and
all
you
also
that
are
desirous
to
learne
and
to
augment
your
knowledge
.
Come
hether
also
you
Masters
and
Sailers
,
that
entend
any
long
voyages
,
here
shall
you
finde
one
of
the
chiefe
pillers
of
your
Arte
,
here
shall
you
find
a
Pilate
to
direct
you
in
a
dangerous
passage
,
being
driuen
with
a
storme
be
it
neuer
so
long
,
here
shall
you
finde
a
Load
starre
,
that
shall
shewe
you
where
you
shall
goe
forth
or
backe
,
East
or
West
.
Yea
you
shall
finde
such
a
practise
and
knowledge
that
shall
proue
,
or
disproue
all
your
Maps
,
Cardes
,
Globes
,
and
Bookes
that
here
before
haue
beene
written
thereof
,
and
further
it
resolueth
and
discouereth
all
the
doubts
here
before
had
in
Nauigation
.
And
the
trueth
and
certaintie
hereof
is
so
sure
,
as
the
Latitude
,
and
as
easie
to
be
done
to
euery
wise
man
.
And
for
because
you
shall
not
thinke
that
I
make
a
great
preambulation
or
circumstanticall
discourse
therof
,
to
perswade
men
without
some
ground
or
reason
,
I
will
here
set
downe
certaine
groundes
and
pillers
thereof
,
the
which
if
any
can
absolutely
disproue
,
then
may
he
well
say
that
it
is
a
fallible
rule
and
not
true
:
the
which
I
knowe
none
can
disproue
except
he
will
denie
both
reason
and
learning
.
And
the
groundes
are
these
,
viz.
God
in
the
beginning
created
all
thinges
in
number
,
waight
and
measure
,
in
order
,
place
,
and
forme
,
and
appointed
man
to
haue
dominion
ouer
his
creatures
,
and
to
search
and
seeke
out
the
secreet
and
hidden
vertues
in
them
conteyned
,
giuen
vnto
them
by
by
God
their
creator
,
seuerally
,
by
measure
,
&c.
God
created
two
lights
,
a
greater
light
to
rule
the
daie
,
as
the
Sunne
,
and
a
lesse
to
rule
the
night
,
as
the
Moone
and
the
Starres
.
God
placed
the
Starres
in
the
firmament
of
Heauen
,
to
giue
light
vpon
the
Earth
.
The
first
mouer
doth
giue
a
turne
once
euery
24.
howers
or
there
abouts
,
about
the
Earth
,
whereby
the
Sunne
,
the
Moone
,
and
Starres
,
are
carried
from
the
East
vnto
the
West
,
and
so
about
.
The
Earth
is
quiet
and
vnmoueable
,
and
is
accounted
the
Center
of
the
worlde
.
Doe
not
the
Earth
and
the
Waters
make
one
rounde
bodie
.
There
are
two
poles
,
the
Arcticke
and
Antarcticke
,
the
one
in
the
North
,
the
other
in
the
South
,
and
the
Line
Equinoctiall
in
the
middest
.
8
There
is
a
Latitude
,
which
is
taken
from
the
Equinoctiall
to
the
Pooles
,
either
to
the
South
or
the
North
,
9
There
is
no
Latitude
without
his
Longitude
.
The
Latitude
is
opposite
to
the
Longitude
,
in
respect
that
the
Latitude
is
taken
from
the
South
to
the
North.
And
the
Longitude
from
the
West
vnto
the
East
.
11
The
Sunne
doth
rise
and
fall
in
his
course
,
and
neuer
continue
at
one
staie
.
12
It
is
Omne
oppositum
.
13
There
is
fire
in
a
flint-stone
.
14
Diuers
places
haue
diuers
Latitudes
in
respect
of
the
South
and
North.
And
diuers
Longitudes
in
respect
of
East
and
Weast
.
15
A
man
may
see
farther
on
a
plaine
ground
,
or
on
a
hill
,
then
he
can
among
trees
or
in
a
bottome
,
and
as
farre
by
Sea
as
by
Lande
.
Too
Groundes
more
I
haue
left
out
,
because
as
they
are
most
true
,
so
they
giue
too
plain
euidence
,
and
too
much
vnderstanding
to
a
subtill
witte
.
Now
if
any
can
disproue
absolutely
these
grounds
aforesayd
viz.
That
God
in
the
beginning
,
did
not
create
all
thinges
as
is
aforesaid
,
and
set
the
Sunne
,
the
Moone
,
and
Starres
to
distinguish
times
and
seasons
,
or
that
the
Sunne
,
the
Moone
and
Starres
doe
not
giue
light
vnto
the
earth
,
or
that
the
first
moouer
doeth
not
turne
,
or
can
gaine
say
the
stabilitie
of
the
earth
,
the
scituation
of
the
Pole
starres
,
or
Equinoctiall
line
,
or
can
denie
the
Latitude
,
or
say
there
is
a
Latitude
without
Longitude
,
or
that
can
say
they
are
not
opposite
,
or
that
it
is
not
Omne
oppositum
,
&c.
or
that
there
is
no
fire
in
aflint-stone
,
or
that
all
places
haue
one
Latitude
and
Longitude
,
&c.
or
that
a
man
can
see
farther
generally
in
a
bottome
,
then
on
a
high
hill
,
&c.
Then
in
disprouing
absolutely
these
generally
,
then
hee
may
generally
disproue
our
Arte
,
and
finding
of
our
Longitude
,
and
so
manie
of
these
posisions
as
hee
can
absolutely
disproue
,
so
many
of
the
pillers
of
our
Arte
doth
fayle
,
for
these
positions
which
I
haue
here
set
downe
,
eyther
they
are
the
opinions
of
the
Auncient
writers
,
or
confirmed
by
holy
Scripture
,
or
are
such
as
daylie
experience
doth
confirme
or
reason
wholy
allowe
.
But
if
these
may
not
be
disproued
generally
and
absolutely
without
caueling
:
then
it
is
but
a
folly
for
any
to
stande
incontention
or
deniall
hereof
,
for
whosoeuer
shall
denie
it
by
wordes
,
the
experience
and
deed
shal
shewe
it
to
be
true
.
Cease
therefore
,
all
such
as
carpe
against
the
trueth
:
and
you
also
that
wonder
at
the
power
and
giftes
of
God
,
and
you
also
that
say
you
haue
so
many
waies
,
and
you
also
that
will
write
Bookes
against
the
trueth
hereof
,
cease
also
you
that
say
it
was
found
by
some
sinister
meanes
:
cease
also
you
that
stumble
at
a
strawe
and
fall
ouer
a
house
,
and
you
also
that
be
like
vnto
S.
Thomas
in
vnbeleeuing
,
and
know
you
that
whatsoeuer
is
not
possible
with
man
,
is
possible
with
God
:
and
God
will
reueale
the
knowledge
of
hidden
things
at
times
appointed
to
those
whom
it
please
him
to
the
great
admiration
of
the
worlde
:
and
there
is
nothing
so
secreete
among
men
,
but
it
shall
be
made
manifest
.
Tell
me
,
was
the
knowledge
of
all
Artes
and
Sciences
found
out
in
one
day
,
was
Roome
builte
in
a
day
,
or
stately
Troy
ouerthrowne
in
an
houre
,
hath
not
God
measured
the
heauens
,
and
wayed
the
earth
in
the
ballance
,
hath
hee
not
sounded
the
deapth
of
the
sea
:
and
numbred
the
haires
of
our
heads
,
gaue
he
not
boldnes
and
eloquence
of
speach
to
Moses
&
Aron
,
gaue
he
not
wisdom
to
Salomon
,
faithfulnesse
to
Abraham
,
to
his
twelue
Apostles
knowledge
of
tongues
,
and
powre
to
cast
out
Diuels
,
and
gaue
hee
not
to
his
Prophetes
,
Martirs
,
Virgins
,
and
Confessers
constancie
:
is
not
he
the
onely
well
and
fountaine
of
all
goodnesse
and
grace
,
from
whom
all
knowledge
springs
.
Did
not
one
,
finde
out
the
Latitude
,
another
the
height
of
the
Sunne
,
another
the
Astralabie
,
another
the
Compasse
,
another
the
Crosse
staffe
,
another
the
Ballestille
,
all
was
not
found
at
one
time
,
nor
by
one
man
.
Did
not
another
finde
the
Arte
of
making
of
Glasses
another
the
making
of
Guns
,
and
gunne
powder
,
another
the
Arte
of
Printing
,
others
the
making
of
globes
Celestial
&
Terrestrial
&
innumerable
other
things
very
needfull
and
necessary
which
are
now
vsed
.
I
demaund
also
whether
all
Countries
,
Prouinces
,
and
Ilandes
scituated
in
the
seas
,
were
found
all
at
one
time
or
by
one
man
,
was
not
the
Canarie
Ilands
found
by
a
French
man
called
Betanchor
,
in
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
God
1405.
viz.
Lancelotus
,
and
the
Iland
Fortis
ventura
.
And
after
this
did
not
Farnandus
Peraria
inuade
the
Ilandes
Ferrea
,
and
Gomera
.
And
did
not
Petrus
de
Vera
,
citizen
of
the
noble
cittie
of
Xeuicium
,
and
Michael
of
Moxica
subdue
the
Ilands
Grancanaria
,
and
Palma
.
And
Alphonsus
Lugo
that
which
is
now
called
Teneryfen
,
of
latter
daies
.
And
further
was
not
Hispaniola
and
Cuba
discouered
by
Colonus
,
&
diuers
other
Ilands
,
in
the
yeare
of
Christ
1493.
and
1494.
And
did
not
Iohn
Dias
Solis
sayle
first
into
the
riuer
of
Plate
in
the
daies
of
Ferdinandus
king
of
Spaine
,
&c.
What
need
I
speake
of
China
,
of
Giapan
,
of
Persia
,
of
Ginnea
,
and
of
diuers
other
places
late
founde
out
,
by
running
as
it
were
at
aduenture
:
If
these
countries
and
Ilandes
were
found
as
is
said
by
great
aduenture
,
there
is
no
doubt
now
,
but
many
notable
trauailers
hauing
the
helpe
of
so
good
and
profitable
a
rule
as
the
Longitude
,
will
attempt
to
sayle
and
discouer
yet
diuers
Ilands
and
Countries
vnknowen
to
their
perpetuall
memorie
and
euerlasting
prayse
.
Now
therfore
,
you
that
are
men
among
men
,
and
would
be
accounted
wise
on
the
one
side
:
and
that
desire
to
be
instructed
in
greater
knowledge
on
the
other
side
,
consider
with
your selues
,
what
God
is
,
what
his
power
conteyneth
:
what
his
giftes
are
,
what
his
will
is
.
Consider
also
what
time
bringeth
to
light
,
what
Arte
and
cunning
skill
is
:
and
to
what
industrie
and
trauaile
attaineth
:
Lay
all
maliciousnes
aparte
,
and
enuie
nor
infame
none
,
nor
condemne
them
that
trauaile
in
any
Arte
or
Science
for
his
countries
wealth
,
pursue
them
not
with
euill
wordes
that
seeke
to
doo
you
good
,
and
to
encrease
,
both
your
wealth
and
knowledge
.
Be
not
vnthankefull
to
God
for
his
giftes
:
for
whatsoeuer
is
done
to
good
,
it
is
the
will
of
God
either
to
suffer
it
or
commaund
it
:
euill
is
well
done
,
where
good
commeth
thereof
to
a
multitude
,
and
where
God
is
glorified
by
it
,
praise
God
highly
,
that
it
hath
pleased
him
,
to
giue
the
knowledge
hereof
to
your
Countriman
,
who
meaneth
to
make
you
partakers
of
it
,
his
paynes
considered
.
For
I
dare
to
say
if
the
knowledge
hereof
had
beene
founde
by
the
Spaniardes
or
by
any
other
Nation
,
he
should
be
so
well
rewarded
in
his
Countrey
for
his
paines
,
and
so
highly
honoured
for
the
knowledge
hereof
:
that
hee
should
haue
no
neede
to
seeke
any
forraine
Prince
or
Countrie
for
recompence
,
neyther
should
any
other
nation
bee
made
priuie
thereof
they
would
keepe
it
so
secreete
.
Consider
hereof
all
you
that
shall
reade
this
my
writing
,
for
herein
is
a
misterie
:
and
if
rewarde
be
giuen
accordingly
:
I
shall
hereafter
perhaps
make
declaration
,
of
the
principles
of
another
science
,
as
much
desired
as
this
,
of
some
other
sortes
of
men
,
who
labour
continually
for
the
knowledge
thereof
,
and
wander
in
darkenesse
,
in
a
thing
more
mysticall
and
of
greater
importaunce
then
this
which
I
haue
spoken
of
,
and
is
thought
as
impossible
too
,
as
euer
this
was
,
but
yet
not
so
impossible
,
because
of
some
it
hath
beene
done
in
the
olde
worlde
,
and
so
was
neuer
this
.
And
as
there
hath
beene
heretofore
diuers
proffers
made
in
the
absence
and
behalfe
of
the
Author
,
by
Maister
Emery
Mulleneux
&
others
,
for
the
trueth
and
triall
hereof
and
hath
not
beene
accepted
hetherto
:
because
some
haue
thought
it
eyther
to
be
doone
vpon
presumption
,
or
on
a
Brauado
,
&c.
But
whatsoeuer
they
before
haue
offered
in
the
premises
,
I
the
Author
hereof
am
ready
at
all
times
to
performe
the
same
God
willing
.
Furthermore
,
if
it
please
God
I
liue
in
peace
,
and
be
once
able
to
maintaine
my
studie
without
let
and
interruption
:
I
will
God
willing
rectifie
the
heauens
for
the
true
places
of
the
fixed
starres
,
according
to
the
Signe
,
Degrees
and
Minutes
,
that
they
now
stande
in
,
vpon
experience
and
iuste
obseruation
,
and
not
vpon
supposition
&
calculation
after
other
mens
Tables
,
for
we
do
see
,
that
all
the
Tables
for
the
most
parte
,
late
set
out
of
the
fixed
starres
bee
false
and
very
erronious
,
and
do
differ
among
themselues
very
much
,
yea
it
seemeth
,
that
our
Ephimerides
is
false
also
in
many
places
,
as
touching
the
mouing
of
the
Planets
,
in
some
,
a
degree
to
much
,
in
some
,
too
degrees
and
more
too
little
,
and
also
the
very
motion
of
the
Moone
is
not
direct
,
which
if
it
bee
not
farther
looked
into
and
amended
,
will
cause
great
errour
in
time
.
Manie
other
things
I
haue
to
say
,
which
now
I
omitte
,
but
hereafter
I
will
write
hereof
more
largely
by
proofe
of
the
present
time
,
and
not
vpon
supposition
.
In
the
meane
time
I
leaue
the
vewe
hereof
and
consideration
to
your
discretion
,
giuing
prayse
to
God
that
gaue
vs
the
vnderstanding
and
knowledge
hereof
,
to
whom
be
prayse
for
euermore
.
Amen
.
THe
Tables
hereto
belonging
shall
follow
,
and
be
Printed
shortly
,
with
certaine
other
Bookes
of
Astronomie
and
Astrologie
,
as
the
Booke
of
the
three
sortes
of
houres
,
Naturall
,
Artificiall
and
Magicall
,
with
all
the
doubtes
of
Astronomie
,
and
alterations
and
significations
of
the
Planets
,
the
moouing
of
the
eight
Sphere
,
and
the
way
to
errect
a
figure
both
by
the
Eccliptike
line
,
as
also
by
the
oblique
ascention
,
wherein
the
misterie
of
Arte
lieth
hid
,
with
diuers
other
Bookes
God
willing
if
they
may
be
permitted
.
Finis
.
Per
me
Simon
Forman
.
1591.