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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF Captain John Smith

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ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF Captain John Smith

AN ACCIDENCE or the Path-way to Experience

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TO ALL THE RIGHT Honorable And most Generous Lords in England, and Others: Especially of his Majesties Privy Councell, and Councell of Warre.

TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL Sir Robert Heath, Knight etc.

TO THE READER; And All Generous And Noble Adventurers by Sea; And Well-Wishers to Navigation. Especially The Masters, Wardens, and Assistance of the Trinity-House.

AN ACCIDENCE for Young Sea-men: Or, Their Path-way to Experience.

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

A SEA GRAMMAR ...

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TO ALL THE RIGHT Honourable, and most generous Lords in England, especially those of his Majesties Privy Councell, and Councell of Warre.

TO THE READER And All Worthy Adventurers by Sea, and well wishers to Navigation.

TO HIS WELL Deserving friend Captaine John Smith.

TO THE MUCH deserving Captaine, John Smith.

TO HIS WORTHILY-deserving friend Captaine John Smith.

IN LAUDEM NOBILISSIMI viri Johannis Smith.

TO HIS FRIEND Captaine Smith, on his Grammar.

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

THE TRUE TRAVELS, Adventures, and Observations of Captaine John Smith

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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, William Earle of Pembroke, Lord Steward of his Majesties most Honourable Houshold. Robert Earle of Lindsey, Great Chamberlaine of England. Henrie Lord Hunsdon, Vicount Rochford, Earle of Dover. And all your Honourable Friends and Well-willers.

TO MY WORTHY FRIEND, Captaine John Smith.

TO MY NOBLE brother and friend, Captaine John Smith.

TO HIS VALIANT and deserving friend, Captaine John Smith.

TO MY WORTHY FRIEND, Captaine John Smith.

TO HIS WORTHY FRIEND, Captaine John Smith.

TO MY WORTHY FRIEND, Captaine John Smith.

TO MY WELL DESERVING friend, Captaine John Smith.

TO HIS APPROVED friend, the Authour; Captaine John Smith.

TO THE VALOUROUS and truly-vertuous souldier, Captaine John Smith.

TO HIS NOBLE FRIEND, Captaine John Smith.

TO HIS TRULY deserving friend, Captaine John Smith.

THE TRUE TRAVELS, ADVENTURES, AND OBSERVATIONS Of Captaine John Smith, in Europe, Asia, Africke, and America: beginning about the yeere 1593, and continued to this present 1629.

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO The True Travels

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

ADVERTISEMENTS for the Unexperienced Planters of New England, or Any Where

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TO THE MOST Reverend Father in God, George Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterburie his Grace, Primate and Metrapolitan of all England: and The Right Reverend Father in God, Samuel Lord Arch-Bishop of Yorke his Grace, Primate and Metrapolitan of England.

ADVERTISEMENTS: Or, The Path-way to Experience to erect a Plantation.

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO

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Fragment A. 1613. SAMUEL PURCHAS'S First Mention of John Smith

Fragment B. 1613. THE SMITH/HOLE MAP Reported in Print

Fragment C. 1613. SAMUEL PURCHAS and Smith's True Relation

Fragment D. 1613. ENGLISH DOMESTICATED BOARS Frighten Indians

Fragment E. 1616. CAPT. EDWARD BRAWNDE'S Letter to John Smith

Fragment F. December 1616. A SPANISH SUMMARY of Correspondence Involving "Juan Smith"

Fragment G. 1623? JULIUS CAESAR'S REMEDY for "Panique Feares"

Fragment H. 1624. TWO COMPLEMENTARY COUPLETS in Smith's Generall Historie

Fragment I. 1625. SAMUEL PURCHAS'S MENTION of Smith's "Fiery Torches"

Fragment J. 1625. SAMUEL PURCHAS'S PROTOTYPE of Smith's True Travels

SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY for Fragment J

THE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES of Captaine John Smith in divers parts of the world, begun about the yeere 1596.

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION TO Fragment J

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Fragment K. 1627. Smith'S COMMENDATORY VERSES for John Taylor

Fragment L. 1628. Smith'S COMMENDATORY VERSES for Robert Norton

AUXILIARY DOCUMENTS

Document i. RECORD OF Capt. John Smith's Baptism

Document ii. LAST WILL of George Smith, Father of Captain John

Document iii. INVENTORY OF George Smith's Property

Document iv. CAPT. John Smith'S Last Will

Document v. CONFIRMATION OF

Document vi. ORIGINAL EPITAPH in St. Sepulchre's Church, London

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEXES

INDEX OF INDIAN WORDS

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ABBREVIATIONS
AND SHORT TITLES

ABBREVIATIONS

marg.	Marginalia, notes printed in margins of Smith's works.
repr.	Reprinted.
sig.	Signature, a letter or mark at the bottom of each gathering (folded sheet) in a book. In the absence of printed page numbers, reference is made instead to the signature, the order of the leaf in the gathering, and the side of the leaf. E.g., AIr[ecto] and AIv[erso] for the front and back of the first page in signature A; A2r for the front of the second, etc.

SHORT TITLES

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Arber, Smith, Works	Edward Arber, ed., Captain John Smith ... Works, 1608–1631, 2 vols., The English Scholar's Library Edition, No. 16 (Birmingham, 1884).
Barbour, Jamestown Voyages	Philip L. Barbour, ed., The Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter, 1606–1609, 2 vols. (Hakluyt Society, 2d Ser., CXXXVI-CXXXVII [London, 1969]).
Barbour, Three Worlds	Philip L. Barbour, The Three Worlds of Captain John Smith (Boston, 1964).
DAB	Dictionary of American Biography.
DNB	Dictionary of National Biography.
Hakluyt, Principal Navigations	Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, 3 vols. (London, 1598–1600).
Lefroy, Memorials	Sir J. H. Lefroy, comp., Memorials of the Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas or Somers Islands, 1515–1685, 2 vols. (London, 1877).
Mainwaring, Seaman's Dictionary	Sir Henry Mainwaring, "The Seaman's Dictionary," in G. E. Manwaring and W. G. Perrin, eds., The Life and Works of Sir Henry Mainwaring (Navy Records Society, LIV, LVI [London, 1920, 1922]).
OED	Oxford English Dictionary, 13 vols. (Oxford, 1933).
Purchas, Pilgrimes	Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas His Pilgrimes ..., 4 vols. (London, 1625).
Sabin, Dictionary	Joseph Sabin et al., eds., A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, 29 vols. (New York, 1868–1936).
STC	A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave, comps., A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1475–1640, 2 vols. (London, 1926; repr. 1969).
VMHB	Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.
WMQ	William and Mary Quarterly.

WORKS BY CAPT. John Smith

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Accidence	An Accidence or The Path-way to Experience. Necessary for all Young Sea-men ... (London, 1626).
Advertisements	Advertisements For the unexperienced Planters of New England, or any where ... (London, 1631).
Broadside	Broadside prospectus of The Generall Historie of Virginia ... (London, 1623).
Description of N.E.	A Description of New England: or The Observations, and discoveries, of Captain John Smith ... in the North of America ... (London, 1616).
Generall Historie	The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles ... (London, 1624).
"Letter to Bacon"	Letter to Sir Francis Bacon (1618).
Map of Va.	A Map of Virginia, With a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion (Oxford, 1612).
New Englands Trials (1620) and (1622)	New Englands Trials ... (London, 1620, 1622).
Proceedings	The Proceedings of the English Colonie in Virginia since their first beginning from England in ... 1606, till this present 1612 ... (Oxford, 1612) [Pt. II of Map of Va.].
Sea Grammar	A Sea Grammar ... (London, 1627).
True Relation	A True Relation of such occurrences and accidents of noate as hathhapned in Virginia ... (London, 1608).
True Travels	The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captaine John Smith ... (London, 1630).