Richard Hakluyt (circa 1552/1553 - 23 November 1616) was an English writer. He is known for promoting the settlement of North America by the English through his works, notably Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582) and The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation (1589-1600) of which this is Volume VIII, dealing with Asia. Hakluyt was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. Between 1583 and 1588 he was chaplain and secretary to Sir Edward Stafford, English ambassador at the French court. An ordained priest, Hakluyt...

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. THE following extraordinary account of the "Cause Celebre" of Urbain Grandier, the Cure of Loudun, accused of Magic and of having caused the Nuns of the Convent of Saint Ursula to be possessed of devils, is written by an eye-witness, and not only an eye-witness but an actor in the scenes he describes. It is printed at...

The Principal Navigations - Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation - Collected by Richard Hakluyt, Preacher and Edited by Edmund Goldsmid. Richard Hakluyt (1553 - 23 November 1616) was an English writer. He is known for promoting the British colonisation of North America by the English through his works, notably Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582) and The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation (1589-1600). Hakluyt was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. Between 1583 and 1588 he was chaplain...

"Magic Plants" is an interesting historical look (written in 1700 no less) at past ages and the usage of herbs within a spiritual context. With references to astrology, the Aeslepion, and other concepts, it is dense and detailed with references to many antiquated medical and philosophical minds. It combines this with a short witch trial manuscript involving two herbal references, apparently to display the torment which plagued the better medical minds of past ages.

"A Treatise on Magical Incantations" is a quasi-historical and christianized work from the 1880s. Supposedly based on the (possibly mythical) Christianus Pazig's work in Latin from over a century prior, it speaks of Homeric mythology, antiquity, the middle ages, and the use of voice and incantation in various serpent cults. It is a dense, if biased work, which generally rebuffs the concept of incantation as relevant, and relegates what is claimed to be relevant generally to the demonic, setting aside only biblical accounts of the use of incantation and praising them as the work of the...