Leo Santifaller: Ergänzungsband 2/1. Festschrift zur Feier des 200 jährigen Bestandes des HHStA 2 Bände (1949)
IV. Quellen und Quellenkunde - 24. Geoffrey Barraclough (Liverpool): Briefe aus dem Reiche und andere Mitteilungen aus englischen Landesarchiven
Briefe aus dem Reiche. 397 and servant, George Waymouth 1), being y8 principali pylott of this present voyage, a man for his knowledge and experience in navigáción specially chosen by us to this attempte. Whom, if it shall please God so to prosper in his passage, yl either hee or any of his company shall aryve in any port of your Kingdome, wee pray your Majestie in favour of us, who have soe desired ye attayning this meanes of accesse unto you, and in regard of an enterprize performed by hym and his company with so great difficulty and danger, y* you will use them with that regard, yi may gyve them encouragement to make this their newe discovered passage, which hetherto hath not byn frequented or knowne by any, to become a usuall frequented trade from theis parts of yc world to your Majestie. By which meanes your contrey may hereafter be served with the natyve commodityes of theis parts of speciali service and use both for your Majestie and subiects, and by returne and enterchange of your contrey comodities wee and our subiects may be furnished with thinges of lyke service and use; out of which mutuall benefitt amity and frendshipe may growe and be established between us, which wee for our part will not lett hereby to offer unto you, for the honorable report which wee have heard of your Majestie. And because in yiS first discovery of the waye to your contrey it seemed to us not convenient to ymploy shipps of that burthen, which might bring in them any great quantity of our natyve commodities, wherby they might be pestered, wee did resolve to use small shipps as fittest for an unknowen passage, laden for ye most part with such necessaries as were of use for their discovery. It may please your Majestie, by the particulers of such things as are brought in theis shipps, to understand yl of goods of those kyndes our kingdome is able to furnish your Majestie most amply, and also of sundry other kynds of merchandize of like use, whereof it may please your Majestie to be more particulerly enformed by the said George Waymouth and his company. Of all which, upon significacion unto us by your Majesties lettres to be returned by our said subiect, y* our visiting of your Kingdomes with our shipps and merchandize shalbe acceptable and kyndly received, wee will in the next fleet, which wee shall send unto you, make it more fully appeare what use and benefitt our amity and entercourse may bring to your Majestie and contrey, and in the meane tyme do commend your Majestie to the protection of the Eternall God, whose providence guideth and preserveth all kinges and kingdomes. From our Royall Pallace of Greenwiche the fourthe of May anno Domini 1602 and of our raigne 44°. Ill (8. M.) ELIZABETH R (1619) Juni 22, Heidelberg. Kurfürstin Elizabeth von der Pfalz teilt Ihrem Vater, König James I. von England, mit, daß sie dem Botschafter, Sir Henry Wotton, die dem König zugedachten Bildnisse Ihrer drei Kinder nach England mitgegeben hat. Orig.: Lancashire Record Office, Preston, DDSh. 15/4. Auf die Rückseite: Au Roy. Sire, Mons. Wotton2) Ambassadeur de V. M. passant par icy, ie penseroy trop manquer a mon devoir, si ie ne l’accompagnoit de cestecy pour me ramentevoir au bonnes graces de V. M. *) Vgl. Dictionary of National Biography XX, 1304, wonach Waymouth 'concluded an agreement with the East India Company in September 1601 to make a voyage to the north-west for the discovery of a passage to India . .. He sailed from Ratcliffe on 2 May 1602 with two small vessels of 70- and 60- tons burden respectively and thirty-five men and boys all told . . . After penetrating some way into Hudson's Strait a mutiny of his men, instigated by John Cartwright, the chaplain, compelled Weymouth to return. He got back to Dartmouth in September. Wenn aber nicht die Urkunde Elisabeths nachdatiert worden ist, bedarf die Angabe, daß Waymouth schon am 2. Mai 1602 segelte, der Berichtigung. 2) Sir Henry Wotton (1568—1639) besuchte den Kurfürsten von der Pfalz im Juni 1619 auf der Rückreise nach England.
