TEXT: 'A briefe Note of the sending another barke this present yeere 1602, by the honourable knight, Sir Walter Ralegh, for the searching out of his Colonie in Virginia' (Samuel Mace's voyage), printed in John Brereton, A Briefe and true Relation of the Discouerie of the North part of Virginia (London: George Bishop, 1602), first edition p. 14.
SOURCE EDITIONS: (a) facsimile of the 1602 first edition (E. D. Church copy), New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1903, with introductory note by Luther S. Livingston -- blackletter OCR, garbled but original spelling recoverable; (b) modernised-spelling reprint in Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 3rd ser., vol. VIII (Boston, 1843), 'Tracts appended to Brereton', pp. 94-95.
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DATE FETCHED: 2026-09-14
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----- (a) 1903 facsimile: introductory note extract, and the OCR of 1602 p. 14 -----
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Introductory  Note 

pardoned  in  1611,  or  the  John  Brereton  who  sought  a 
license  to  keep  an  inn  in  Chester  in    1613. 

On  page  14  is  a  little  note  of  the  fruitless  voyage  of 
Captain  Samuel  Mace,  the  same  year,  to  Virginia  by 
Raleigh's  orders,  to  search  for  the  lost  colony  at  Roanoke. 
The  "larger  discourse"  seems  never  to  have  "come  to 
light,"   and  but  little  is  known   of  the  voyage. 

Captain  Edward  Hayes,  the  author  of  the  "  Treatise," 
described  on  the  title,  and  which  fills  pages  15  to  24,  was 
not,  apparently,  of  the  party,  though  he  had  himself  been 
one  of  the  pioneers  in  American  colonization,  having 
commanded  the  Golden  Hinde,  the  companion  to  Sir 
Humphrey  Gilbert's  ill-fated  ship,  in  the  expedition  to 
Newfoundland   in    1583. 
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----- (b) MHS Collections 1843 (modernised spelling), pp. 94-95 -----
good terra sigillata. 


A brief Note of the sending another Bark this present year, 
1602, by the Honorable Knight, Sir Walter Raleigh, for 
the searching out of his Colony in Virgima. 


Samuel Mace, of Weymouth, a very sufficient mariner, 
an honest sober man, who had been at Virginia twice before, 
was employed thither by Sir Walter Raleigh, to find those 
people which were left there in the year 1587. To whose 
succor he hath sent five several times at his own charges. 
The parties by him set forth, performed nothing ; some of 
them following their own profits elsewhere ; others returning 
with frivolous allegations. At this last time, to avoid all ex- 
cuse, he bought a bark, and hired all the company for wages 


Tracts appended to Brereton. 95 


by the month; who departing from Weymouth in March 
last, 1602, fell forty leagues to the south-westward of Hat- 
teras, in thirty-four degrees or thereabout ; and having there 
spent a month; when they came along the coast to seek the 
people, they did it not, pretending that the extremity of 
weather and loss of some principal ground-tackle, forced and 
feared them from searching the port of Hatteras, to which 
they were sent. From that place where they abode, they 
brought sassafras, radix chine, or the china root, Benjamin,