[Sidenote: The
second voyage of Madoc the sonne of Owen Guyneth.] And after he had
returned home, and declared the pleasant and fruitfull countreys that he
had seen without inhabitants, and vpon the contrary part, for what barren
and wild ground his brethren and nephews did murther one another, he
prepared a number of ships, and got with him such men and women as were
desirous to liue in quietness: and taking leaue of his friends, tooke his
journey thitherward againe. [Sidenote: Gomara. lib. 2. cap. 16.] Therefore
it is to be supposed that he and his people inhabited part of those
countreys: for it appeareth by Francis Lopez de Gomara, that in Acuzamil
and other places the people honored the crosse. Wherby it may be gathered
that Christians had bene there before the comming of the Spanyards. But
because this people were not many, they followed the maners of the land
which they came vnto, and vsed the language they found there.

[Sidenote: M. Powels addition. Gutyn Owen.] This Madoc arriuing in that
Westerne countrey, vnto the which he came in the yere 1170, left most of
his people there, and returning backe for more of his owne nation,
acquaintance and friends to inhabit that faire and large countrey, went
thither againe with ten sailes, as I find noted by Gutyn Owen. I am of
opinion that the land whereunto he came was some part of the West
Indies.[5]

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Carmina Meredith filij Rhesi[6] mentionem facientia de Madoco filio Oweni
Guynedd, et de sua nauigatione in terras incognitas. Vixit hic Meredith
circiter annum Domini 1477.

Madoc wyf, mwyedic wedd,
Iawn genau, Owyn Guynedd:
Ni fynnum dir, fy enaid oedd
Na da mawr, ond y moroedd.[7]

The same in English.

Madoc I am the sonne of Owen Gwynedd
With stature large, and comely grace adorned:
No lands at home nor store of wealth me please,
My minde was whole to search the Ocean seas.

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The offer of the discouery of the West Indies by Christopher Columbus to
king Henry the seuenth in the yeere 1488 the 13 of February: with the
kings acceptation of the offer, and the cause whereupon hee was depriued
of the same: recorded in the thirteenth chapter of the history of Don
Fernand Columbus of the life and deeds of his father Christopher
Columbus.[8]

Christophero Colon temendo, se parimente i Re di Castiglia non assentissero
alla sua impresa