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Samuel Purchas (1575? - 1626), was an England travel writer, a near-contemporary of Richard Hakluyt.

Purchas was born at Thaxted, Essex, England, and graduated at St John's College, Cambridge, in 1600; later he became B.D., and was admitted at Oxford in 1615. In 1604 he was presented by James I of England to the vicarage of Eastwood, Essex, and in 1614 became chaplain to Archbishop George Abbot (Archbishop of Canterbury) and rector of St Martin, Ludgate, London. He had previously spent much time in London on his geographical work. In 1613 he published the first volume of his Pilgrimes series. The last of these, Hakluytus Posthumus is a continuation of Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations and was partly based on manuscripts left by Hakluyt.

The fourth edition of the Pilgrimage is usually catalogued as the fifth volume of the Pilgrimes, but the two works are essentially distinct. Purchas died in September or October 1626, according to some in a debtors' prison. None of his works was reprinted till the Glasgow reissue of the Pilgrimes in 1905-1907. As an editor and compiler Purchas was often injudicious, careless and even unfaithful; but his collections contain much of value, and are frequently the only sources of information upon important questions affecting the history of exploration.

Purchas his Pilgrimage was one of the sources of inspiration for the poem "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Writings

Purchas, his Pilgrimage; or, Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages, (1613)
Purchas, his Pilgrim. Microcosmus, or the histories of Man. Relating the wonders of his Generation, vanities in his Degeneration, Necessity of his Regeneration, (1619)
Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes, contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells, by Englishmen and others (4 vols.), (1625).