Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 134, May 22, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 134, May 22, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
Some time ago I made the following Notes, which, though they throw some
light on the subject of Molineux's globe, yet they do not bear out MR.
EASTWOOD'S conjecture. The first is from Richard Hakluyt's Address to
the Reader in _The Principal Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of
the English Nation_, folio, 1589:
"Nowe, because peraduenture it would bee expected as necessarie,
that the descriptions of so many parts of the world would farre
more easily be conceiued of the Reader, by adding Geographicall
and Hydrographicall tables thereunto, thou art by the way to be
admonished that I haue contented myselfe with inserting into the
worke one of the best generall mappes of the world onely, vntill
the comming out of a very large and most exact terrestriall Globe,
collected and reformed according to the newest, secretest, and
latest discoueries, both Spanish, Portugall, and English, composed
by M. _Emmerie Mollineux_ of Lambeth, a rare Gentleman in his
profession, being therein for divers yeeres greatly supported by
the purse and liberalitie of the worshipfull marchant M. _William
Sanderson_."
My second Note is from the rare little volume by John Davis, entitled,
_The Worlde's Hydrographical Discription_, 12mo., London, 1595:
"The cause why I vse this particular relation of all my
proceedinges for this discouery, is to stay this obiection, why
hath not _Dauis_ discouered this passage [the North-west] being
thrise that waies imploied, and how far I proceeded, and in what
fourme this discouery lyeth, doth appeare vpon the Globe which
Master _Sanderson_ to his verye great charge hath published, whose
labouring indevour for the good of his countrie deserueth great
fauour and commendations, made by Master _Emery Mullineux_, a man
wel qualited, of a good iudgement and verye expert in many
excellent practises, in myselfe being the onely meane with Master
_Sanderson_ to imploy Master Mullineux therein, whereby he is nowe
growne to a most exquisite perfection."
P. 25.
And here a Query may not be out of place. Whose account of Iceland does
Nash refer to?
In the writings of our early navigators, there is frequent allusion to
terrestrial globes. This of Mollineux's, for instance, contains Davis's
own discoveries, and should therefore be of some importance. In the
tract just quoted, Davis says:
"It is wel knowne that we haue globes in the most excellent
perfection of arte, and haue the vse of them in as exquisite sort,
as Master _Robert Hues_ in his book of the globes vse, lately
published, hath at large made known."
P. 41.
And in an unpublished MS. relating to Sir Thomas Button's voyage,
addressed to King James I. in 1610, the writer says:
"I haue left wth Mr. Wright in yor librarie att St James, _a hand
globe terrestriall_ for demonstra[=c]on of these."
Do any of the globes exist, and where?
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