ABSTRACT
Certaine Honourable personages and worthy Gentlemen of the Court and Countrey, with divers worshipfull Merchants of London and of the West Countrey, mooved with desire to advance God’s glory and to seeke the good of their native Countrey, consulting together of the likelihood of the Discoverie of the Northwest passage, which heretofore had bene attempted, but unhappily given over by accidents unlooked for, which turned the enterprisers from their principall purpose, resolved after good deliberation, to put downe their adventures to provide for necessarie shipping, and a fit man to be chiefe Conductour of this so hard an enterprise.
