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INTRODUCTION
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thus entitled, ' A breife Relation of certaine Journies and
Voyages into France, Spain, Turkey and East India;
passed and performed by Peter Mundy.' The Author or
Traveller, who was of Penem1 in Cornwall, first went into
France A.D. 1609, and the next year2, served in a Merchants
Ship as a Cabbin-boy; from which Station, by degrees,
he became employed in considerable business. He dis-
covers a good Capacity joyn'd with Veracity; and divides
his Narration into several Chapters, the Contents of which
do follow the Title ; of which I shall give the following
Abstract, because I remember not that I have seen the
Work itself in print." Here follows a Table of Contents
of Relations I.—XIX. slightly enlarged from Mundy's
" First Table." Wanley concludes his remarks on Mundy's
work thus: " Although this Book be but a Copy, it is
nevertheless corrected by the Author's hand."
Besides the Rami, and Harl. MSS. there are some
late copies of portions of Mundy's work. The India
Office copy, which consists of Relations IV. to XXX. or
the account of Mundy's first and second voyages to India,
in 1628 and 1635 respectively, was apparently made from
the Raw/. MS., for it contains tracings of the illustra-
tions found only in the complete work. It was presented
to the India Office on the 5th October, 1814, by Thomas
Fisher3, F.S.A. This copy will be fully dealt with in the
succeeding volumes.
Of the India voyages there are, too, early nineteenth
century copies of events during Mundy's residence in India,
1628—1634, as told in Relations V., VI. and VII. There
is also a copy of part of his voyage to China. These
fragments were acquired by the British Museum in 1853
and are catalogued as Add. MSS. 19278—19281. They
also will be fully dealt with in vols. II. and III.
1 i.e., Penryn.
2 This is incorrect, Mundy went to France in 1608, and began life
as a cabin-boy in 1611.
3 Fisher was born in 1771 and died in 1836.
lxi
thus entitled, ' A breife Relation of certaine Journies and
Voyages into France, Spain, Turkey and East India;
passed and performed by Peter Mundy.' The Author or
Traveller, who was of Penem1 in Cornwall, first went into
France A.D. 1609, and the next year2, served in a Merchants
Ship as a Cabbin-boy; from which Station, by degrees,
he became employed in considerable business. He dis-
covers a good Capacity joyn'd with Veracity; and divides
his Narration into several Chapters, the Contents of which
do follow the Title ; of which I shall give the following
Abstract, because I remember not that I have seen the
Work itself in print." Here follows a Table of Contents
of Relations I.—XIX. slightly enlarged from Mundy's
" First Table." Wanley concludes his remarks on Mundy's
work thus: " Although this Book be but a Copy, it is
nevertheless corrected by the Author's hand."
Besides the Rami, and Harl. MSS. there are some
late copies of portions of Mundy's work. The India
Office copy, which consists of Relations IV. to XXX. or
the account of Mundy's first and second voyages to India,
in 1628 and 1635 respectively, was apparently made from
the Raw/. MS., for it contains tracings of the illustra-
tions found only in the complete work. It was presented
to the India Office on the 5th October, 1814, by Thomas
Fisher3, F.S.A. This copy will be fully dealt with in the
succeeding volumes.
Of the India voyages there are, too, early nineteenth
century copies of events during Mundy's residence in India,
1628—1634, as told in Relations V., VI. and VII. There
is also a copy of part of his voyage to China. These
fragments were acquired by the British Museum in 1853
and are catalogued as Add. MSS. 19278—19281. They
also will be fully dealt with in vols. II. and III.
1 i.e., Penryn.
2 This is incorrect, Mundy went to France in 1608, and began life
as a cabin-boy in 1611.
3 Fisher was born in 1771 and died in 1836.