1. “Articles of Agreement” between the Governour of the East India Company and George Waymouth, 11 January 1602, in Thomas Rundell ed., Narratives of Voyages towards the North-West, in search of a passage to Cathay and India, 1496–1631 (New York: Burt Franklin, 1849), 62.
2. According to D. F. Latch, Halkuyt gave a “balanced, adequate picture of China” derived from both English and foreign sources, and only used first-hand accounts to ensure accuracy. D. F. Latch, “The Far East”, in David B. Quinn, ed., The Hakluyt Handbook, 2 vols (Burlington: Ashgate, 2010), I: 214.
3. Henry VII financed the voyages of the Italian John Cabot in 1497 and his son Sebastian in 1508–9, who both searched for a north-west passage to Asia. Stanley Bertram Chrimes, Henry VII (1972; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 229–30.
4. Toyotomi Hideyoshi to the Viceroy of the Indies, 1591, in Ryusaku Tsunoda, W. Theodore de Bary, and Donald Keene, eds., Sources of Japanese Tradition (New York: Columbia University Press, 1958), 316–18.
5. See Nabil Matar, “Elizabeth Through Moroccan Eyes” (145–68) and Anna Riehl Bertolet, “The Tsar and the Queen: ‘You Speak a Language That I Understand Not’” (101–24) in Charles Beem, ed., The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).