The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, vol 8

The Principal Navigations,
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Title: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries

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manuscript abbreviations have been silently expanded:
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THE PRINCIPAL
NAVIGATIONS, VOYAGES, TRAFFIQUES,
AND
DISCOVERIES
OF
THE ENGLISH NATION.
Collected by
RICHARD HAKLUYT, PREACHER
AND
Edited by
EDMUND GOLDSMID, F.R.H.S.
VOL. VIII.
ASIA.
PART I.

Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoueries
OF THE ENGLISH NATION IN ASIA.
The life and trauailes of Pelagius borne in Wales.
Pelagius Cambrius ex ea Britanniæ parte oriundus, famati illius
Collegij Bannochorensis a Cestria non procul, præpositus, erat, in quo
Christianorum philosophorum duo millia ac centum, ad plebis in
Christo commoditatem militabant, manuum suarum laboribus, iuxta
Pauli doctrinam victitantes. Post quam plures exhibitos, pro Christiana
Repub. labores, vir eruditione insignis, et tum Græcè, tum Latinè
peritus, vt Tertullianus alter, quorundam Clericorum lacessitus iniurijs,
grauatim tulit, ac tandem a fide defecit.
Peragratis igitur deinceps Gallijs, in Aegyptum, et Syriam aliásque
orientis Regiones demum peruenit. Vbi ex earum partium Monacho
præsul ordinatus, sui nominis hæresim fabricabat: asserens hominem
sine peccato nasci, ac solo voluntatis imperio sine gratia saluari posse,
vt ita nefarius baptismum ac fidem tolleret. Cum his et consimilibus
impostricis doctrinæ fæcibus in patriam suam reuersus, omnem illam

Regionem, Iuliano et Cælestino Pseudoepiscopis fautoribus,
conspurcabat. Verum ante lapsum suum studia tractabat honestissima,
vt post Gennadium, Bedam, et Honorium alij ferunt authores,
composuítque multos libros ad Christianam vtilitatem. At postquam est
Hereticus publicatus, multo plures edidit hæresi succurrentes, et ex
diametro cum vera pietate pugnantes, vnde erat a suis Britannis in
exilium pulsus, vt in Epistola ad Martinum 5. Valdenus habet. Claruit
anno post Christum incarnatum, 390. sub Maximo Britannorum Rege.
The same in English.
Pelagius, borne in that part of Britaine which is called Wales, was head
or gouernour of the famous Colledge of Bangor, not farre from Chester,
wherein liued a Societie of 2100. Diuines, or Students of Christian
philosophie, applying themselues to the profite of the Christian people,
and liuing by the labours of their owne hands, according to Pauls
doctrine. He was a man excellently learned, and skilfull both in the
Greeke and Latine tongues, and as it were another Tertullian; after his
long and great trauailes for the good of the Christian common wealth,
seeing himselfe abused, and iniuriously dealt withall by some of the
Clergie of that time, he tooke the matter so grieuously, that at the last