mew
therefore returning vnto Castile, with the capitulations granted by the
king of England to his brother, vnderstood at Paris by Charles the king of
France that the Admirall his brother had already performed that discouery:
whereupon the French king gaue vnto the sayd Bartholomew an hundred French
crownes to beare his charges into Spaine. And albeit he made great haste
vpon this good newes to meet with the Admirall in Spaine, yet at his
comming to Siuil his brother was already returned to the Indies with
seuenteene saile of shipps. Wherefore to fulfill that which he had left him
in charge in the beginning of the yeere 1494 he repaired to the Catholike
princes, taking with him Diego Colon my brother and me also, which were to
be preferred as Pages to the most excellent Prince Don Iohn, who now is
with God, according to the commandement of the Catholic Queene Lady
Isabell, which was then in Validolid. Assoone therefore as we came to the
Court, the princes called for Don Bartholomew, and sent him to Hispaniola
with three ships, &c.

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THE ENGLISH VOYAGES, NAVIGATIONS, AND DISCOUERIES.

_(Intended for the finding of a northwest passage) to the north parts of
America, to meta incogita, and the backeside of Gronland, as farre as 72
degrees and 12 minuts: performed first by Sebastian Cabota, and since by
Sir Martin Frobisher, and M. John Dauis, with the patents, discourses,
and aduertisements thereto belonging._

The Letters patents of King Henry the seuenth granted vnto Iohn Cabot and
his three sonnes, Lewis, Sebastian, and Sancius for the discouerie of new
and vnknowen lands.

Henricus Dei gratia rex Angliae, et Franciae, et Dominus Hiberniae, omnibus,
ad quos praesentes literae nostrae peruenerint, salutem.

Notum sit et manifestum, quod dedimus et concessimus, ac per praesentes
damus et concedimus pro nobis et haeredibus nostris, dilectis nobis Ioanni
Caboto ciui Venetiarum, Lodouico, Sebastiano, et Sancio, filijs dicti
Ioannis, et eorum ac cuiuslibet eorum haeredibus et deputatis, plenam ac
liberam authoritatem, facultatem, et potestatem nauigandi ad omnes partes,
regiones, et sinus maris orientalis, occidentalis, et septentrionalis, sub
banneris, vexillis, et insignijs nostris, cum quinque nauibus siue
nauigijs, cuiuscunque portiturae et qualitatis existant, et cum tot et
tantis nautis et hominibus, quot et quantos in dictis nauibus secum ducere
voluerint, suis