3. Lochinvar. Encouragements for such as shall have intention to bee
Vndertakers in the new plantation of Cape Breton, now New Galloway.
Edinburgh, 1625, 4°
4. Voyage into New England in 1623-24.. By Christopher Levett. London,
1628, 4°
5. Capt. John Smith’s True Relation of such occurrences of Noate as
hath hapned in Virginia. London, 1608, 4°
6. Gosnold’s Voyage to the North part of Virginia in 1602. By John
Brereton. London, 1602, 4°
7. A Plain Description of the Barmudas, now called Sommer Islands.
London, 1613, 4°
8. For the Colony in Virginia Brittania, Lavves Divine Morall and
Martiall, &c. London, 1612, 4°
9. Capt. John Smith’s Description of NewEngland, 16l4-15, map. London,
1616, 4°
10. Hariot (Thomas) Briefe and true report of the new foundland of
Virginia. London, 1588, 4°
‘Mr. Secretary Outis’ undertook the task of seeing the reprints of the
original texts of these ten volumes through the Press, and almost the
whole of this work he actually accomplished.
The co-operative objects of the Association, however, appear never to
have been fully inaugurated, although a large number of literary men,
collectors, societies and libraries entered their names as Members of
the Club. All were willing to give their pecuniary support as
subscribers to the Club’s publications, but few offered the more
valuable aid of their literary assistance; hence practically the whole
of the editing also devolved upon Mr. Henry Stevens.
He first took up No. 10 on the above list, Hariot’s Virginia. His long
and diligent study for the introduction thereto, resulted in the
discovery of so much new and important matter relative to Hariot and
Raleigh, that it became necessary to embody it in the present separate
volume, as the maximum dimensions contemplated for the introduction to
each work had been exceeded tenfold or more.
Owing to Mr. Stevens’s failing health, the cares of his business, and
the continual discovery of fresh material, it was not till 1885 that
his investigations were completed, although many sheets of the book had
been printed off from time to time as he progressed. The whole of the
text was actually printed off during his lifetime, but unfortunately he
did not live to witness the publication of his work, perhaps the most
historically important of any of his writings. Publication has since
been delayed for reasons explained hereinafter.
On the death of my father, on February 28, 1886, I found myself
appointed his literary executor, and I have since devoted much time to
the arrangement, completion, and publication of his various unfinished
works, seeking the help of competent editors where necessary.