SAINT ETHELBURGA'S CHURCH, INTERIOR

HENRY HUDSON

A BRIEF STATEMENT OF

HIS AIMS AND HIS ACHIEVEMENTS

BY

THOMAS A. JANVIER

TO WHICH IS ADDED
A NEWLY-DISCOVERED PARTIAL RECORD
NOW FIRST PUBLISHED

THE TRIAL OF THE MUTINEERS
BY WHOM HE AND OTHERS
WERE ABANDONED TO THEIR DEATH

1909

TO

C. A. J.

PART I
A Brief Life of Henry Hudson

CHAPTERS: I, II,III,IV,V,VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI,XII, XIII, XIV

PART II
Newly-discovered Documents

ILLUSTRATIONS: Frontispiece, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

PREFACE

It is with great pleasure that I include in this volume contemporary Hudson documents which have remained neglected for three centuries, and here are published for the first time. As I explain more fully elsewhere, their discovery is due to the painstaking research of Mr. R.G. Marsden, M.A. My humble share in the matter has been to recognize the importance of Mr. Marsden's discovery; and to direct the particular search in the Record Office, in London, that has resulted in their present reproduction. I regret that they are inconclusive. We still are ignorant of what punishment was inflicted upon the mutineers of the "Discovery"; or even if they were punished at all.

The primary importance of these documents, however, is not that they establish the fact—until now not established—that the mutineers were brought to trial; it is that they embody the sworn testimony, hitherto unproduced, of six members of Hudson's crew

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