VOYAGE

OF

MARTIN PRINGE,

Performed in the Year 1603.

From Bristol to the northern part of Virginia.

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Introduction to the voyage.

When Mr. Richard Hackluyt, parishioner of St. Augustine, the principal church in Bristol, had presented a well-founded proposal for a further discovery of the northern part of Virginia to several prominent merchants there, a voyage thither was decided upon after several meetings and proper deliberation.

Liberty sought and obtained.

Beforehand, they sent Mr. Hackluyt, with a Mr. John Angel and Mr. Robert Saltern (who had made the voyage the year prior with Captain Bartholomew Gosnold original: "Gesnol"), to Sir Walter Raleigh, who held a very broad letter of privilege for all those coasts from Queen Elizabeth, to request that he would admit them into his right. Having obtained liberty from him under hand and seal, they immediately made ready a small ship,

Outfitting of 2 Ships.

named Speed-well, of about 50 tons, which was manned with 30 men and boys; the skipper and head of that voyage was one Martin Pring, a man who was very capable of holding such a position, and alongside him Edmund Jones as under-skipper, and the above-mentioned Robert Saltern as their principal agent. Beside this ship, they made ready a bark, the Discoverer,