To his Most
Excellent Ma-
jestje,
Charles
By the Grace
of God, King of
Great Brittaine, France and
Ireland, Defender of the
Faith, &c.

Our Maieſties goodneſſe hath inuited this boldnes, in accepting my late Voluminous Twinnes of Pilgrimes; then alſo vouchſaſing to aske of this my Pilgrimage, whether it were there annexed, and wherefore it was not (a ſufficient prouocation to This Edition and Dedication;) that I mention not your Pietie, which cannot denie hereditarie reſpect, where your Royall Father (of euer bleſſed memorie, the King of learned and Learnings kings) maniſeſted ſo much ſaouour, as to make it Ordinarie of his Bed chamber; where vpon occaſion of thoſe later Volumes then preſented, he queſtioned the difference, and pofeſſed freely that he had read this worke ſeuen times, giuing thereof a preſent teſtimonie in his learned diſourſe and cenſure. No leſſe did hee promiſe touching the Pilgrimes, which he made his Nightly taske, till God called him by fatall ſickneſſe to a better Pilgrimage and of a more enduring Kingdome; euen the laſt day in which that Sunne yeelded his preſent rayes to this Citie, fending an Honourable meſſenger with a fauourable meſſage of his gentle approbation and incouragement. Such a teſtimonie is a King of Teſtimonies, and no leſſe reward to the Author, then commendation of the Worke to his worthy Heire, and to all Engliſh Readers. Once; it hath produced this my preſent eduentrue on your Maieſtie, being otherwiſe ambitious, that as my ſelfe, ſo all mine may there acknowledge ſubiection and reference. I might adde alſo that ſome Additions here inſerted, had more fitly beene ranked in thoſe Pilgrime files, which in more ſpeciall proprietie attended your Royall ſtanderd. And although theſe times ſeeme more to fauour of Armed then to fauyour Arts (inter arma ſilent Muſæ) yet Our Muſe is not of the ſofter ſocke, but more Maſculine, and armed Pallas, not bred in Poeticall myſterie, but borne a reall Hiſtorie, containing actions, factions, fractions of Religions and States through the whole World of Place and Time; not nicer effeminate fictions of idle-buſie fancifull braines.

Howeuer, may it pleaſe your Maieſtie to accept his wel-intended indeuours, who hath borrowed of thouſands to furniſh this one Worke of and to the World, and to admit the Pilgrimes heartie acclamation of ioy, ioy, to Your happie Inauguration, with prayers that the veruous goodneſſe of King Iames may be ſucceeded and exceeded in the greatneſſe and vertues of Great Britaines Great Charles.

Your unworthy

Subject,

Samuel

Purchas.

To the most
Reverend Fa-
ther in God,
George
By the Divine
Providence, Lord
Archbiſhop of Canterbvrie, Pri-
mate of all England and Metropolitane,
one of his Maieſties moſt Honourable
Priuie Councell.

Boue thirteen yeers are paſſed ſince firſt your Graces auſpicious name graced the Frontiſpice of this Pilgrimage, which promiſing the World and her Religions in foure Parts, hath (onely and that foure times) performed One. And as a late Queene ambitious of Souereigntie to all her Sonnes, found the Mathematicians which had foretold it, true, but her hopes falſe, that falling out by fatall ſucceßion in one Kingdom which ſhee had exſpected and indeuored in diuers: ſo hath this our First borne with ſucceßive improuements beene ſo often the ſole heire and ſucceſſor to himſelfe. Now the Fourth time doth this Pilgrimage glory in your Graces benefiction, and although my trauelling braine hath not beene deliuered of thoſe promiſed Pilgrimages, yet hath it by a ſtrange ſuperſætation procreated & lately preſented to kiſſe your Graces hand, foure twins of Pilgrimes, which did not indeede formally pay the former debt, yet preſumed to yeeld that which ſhould bee as uſefull to the World in the knowledge of her remoter parts. Theſe iſſues exhausting their Parents procreatiue powers, his haſtned age expects & exacts Rest for the reſt; and now for This, hauing been often quarelled forr forcing men by frequent Additions in later Editions to renew their purchaſe of Purchas his renewed Pilgrimage, though he durst not beſtow a Childs portion on it, yet would he not ſend it forth without a Fathers bleßing, The Three Treatiſes annexed had found fitter place with my Pilgrimes, had they then comne to my hands: but their rarities merit a place, yea a welcome, in what place ſoeuer.

For the Author, if his reiterated paines; if his here borrowing of aboue thirteene hundred Authors of one or other kind, in J know not how many handreths of their Epistles, Treatiſes and Relations; if his weekly redoubled cares of the Pulpit, daily and howerly of a weak body and not ſtrong family; if the Argument is ſelfe being of Religions (though irreligious) to a moſt Reuerend and religious Prelate; if the worlds approbation preßing it to ſo often view and cenſure; if None of theſe, if All of them may not excuſe ſo often reſumed preſumption on your Grace, yet it he forced by neceſſarie dutie, and the ſum of all duties. Thankefulnes. Yea this I am ſure will be full execuſe, if not commendation, of that which I haue foure times obtruded, the teſtimonie of our late deceaſſed Soueraine of happie memorie (the King of literature alſo) King Iames, who ſhewing me it by him in his Bed-chamber, ſaid, that he had read it ſeuen times: Whereto if I ſhould adde his indicious questions of diuers particulars therein, his ready and milde ſatisfaction, his ample commendation, copious diſourſe, piercing wit, admirable memory, gentle affabilitie, I might ſeeme to ſome emulous carpers to magnifie my ſelf, in relating that truth which rather indeede doth illuſtrate to all poſteritie his worth then my worhtineſſe, God and Gods greatest Vicegerents, delighting rather to ſhew Grace then to admit Plea of Merit. Jt pleaſed his Maieſtie to enquire further of the different ſcope of my Pilgrimage, & my then preſented Pilgrims, which here alſo for the Readers ſake I think fit to anſwer; that Theſe Brethren holding much reſemblance in name, nature and feature, yet differ both in the obiect and ſubiect: This being mine own in matter (though borrowed) and in forme of words and method: Whereas my Pilgrims are the Authors themſelues, acting their owne parts in their owne words, onely furniſhed by me with ſuch neceſſaries as that ſtage further requried, and ordered according to my rules; here is a Pilgrimage to the Temples of the Worlds Citie, religionis ergo, with obuious and occaſionall view of other things; there is a full Voyage, and in a method if Voyages, the whole Citie of the World, propounded together the the Temples; here the ſoule and ſome acceſſories, there the body and the ſoule of the remoter World, with ( ὁτȣ͂ χδσμγ χοσμός ) her rarer furniture; this from the eare, that from the eye; this briefer notes, that the Text it ſelfe. How euer, ſuch was his Maieſties fauour as to adde for my further encouragement; his promiſe to heare at large all thoſe Pilgrims, which was nightly alſo performed, until his fatall ſickneſſe called him to enjoy a nightleſſe day in the heauenly Kingdome.

Even the laſt day on which this Citie ſaw him, it pleaſed him with gracious approbation of the former, to impoſe another taske on me, by an Honourable meſſenger, with promiſe of reward, which had almoſt in a dangerous ſickeneſſe buried me, and was buried (with thoſe hopes) in his Maieſties graue; whoſe Funerals this Citie hath beene forced euer ſince to ſolemniſe, with armies of Mourners preſſed by Peſtilence, to attend & follow His Corps with their owne: And if ſome liuing remaines of him had not ſhined in his Sonne King Charles, in that Sun-ſet, what a Chaos of darkeneſſe had befalne us, which loſt that day, and yet ſaw no night? And long may your Grace ſhine as a Starre of greateſt magnitude, attending neere our happy Charles-waine, and euer may that Royall Race bee the Load-ſtarre of our Church and State vnder the Sunne of righteouſneſſe, euen ſo long as Bootes ſhall attend on that bright conſtellation.

May it pleaſe your Grace to pardon this talkative boldneſſe, and to permit mee alſo to mention your late fauour, and ſecondiug that Royall teſtimonie, when notwithſtanding the dreadfuyll infection, your gracious affection admitted free communication with me, intended a free and bountifull Collation on me, and extended ſo large a collaudation to thoſe my Pilgrimes; neither by their voluminous prolixitie deterred from reading them; nor then deterring my ſuſpended ſerupulous thoughts by your iudicious ſeureitie, but with ingenuous ſinceritie yeelding a teſtimonie ſo able and ample, that though J bluſh to record it, yet J now repent not of ſo valt undertakings, which ſuch iudgement deemeth ſo profitable, that the ſtudious in this kind of literature neede goe no further: which was the ſcope of thoſe voluminous Collections, to conuire as it were all Trauclling ſpirits into that one Pilgrime-centre, and at once to make the World Eyewitneſſe to it ſelfe. Let me glorie further that my Volumes are admitted into your Graces Librarie, and my ſelfe an appendix of your family and

Your Graces vnworthy

Chaplaine,

S. P.