A Memoir of Sebastian Cabot: With a Review of the History of Maritime Discovery. Illustrated by Documents from the Rolls, Now First Published

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Hurst, Chance, and Company, 1831 - America - 333 pages
 

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Page 32 - VOYAGES FROM ASIA TO AMERICA, for completing the discoveries of the north-west coast of America.
Page 68 - ... to sail to all parts, countries, and seas of the East, of the West, and of the North...
Page 300 - He kept a strait hand on his nobility, and chose rather to advance clergymen and lawyers, which were more obsequious to him, but had less interest in the people ; which made for his absoluteness, but not for his safety.
Page 188 - JAMES, by the grace of God, king of England, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith; and of Scotland the seven and fortieth.
Page 188 - Ordinances, Instructions, and Advertisements of, and for the direction of the intended voyage for Cathay, compiled, made, and delivered by the right worshipful M. Sebastian Cabota, Esq. Governour of the Mysterie and Companie of the Merchants Adventurers for the discoverie of Regions, Dominions, Islands, and places unknowen, the 9th day of May, in the yere of our Lord God 1553...
Page 69 - ... to seek out, discover, and find whatsoever isles, countries, regions, or provinces of the heathen and infidels whatsoever they be, and in what part of the world soever they be, which before this time have been unknown to all Christians.
Page 157 - ... acquired talent. In order to determine this, he desired one of the soldiers, who guarded him, to write the name of God on the nail of his thumb. This he showed successively to several Spaniards, asking its meaning ; and to his amazement, they all, without hesitation, returned the same answer.
Page 277 - ONE master Hore of London, a man of goodly stature and of great courage, and given to the studie of Cosmographie...
Page 289 - Bristol for the discovery of that island : with whom ventured also three small ships of London merchants, fraught with some gross and slight wares, fit for commerce with barbarous people. He sailed, as he affirmed at his return, and made a chart thereof, very far westwards, with a quarter of the north, on the north side of Terra de Labrador, until he came to the latitude of sixtyseven degrees and a half, finding the seas still open.
Page 240 - These people are ill affected towards the English by reason of one Hunt, a master of a ship, who deceived the people and got them, under color of trucking with them, twenty out of this very place where we inhabit, and seven men from the Nausites, and carried them away, and sold them for slaves, like a wretched man (for twenty pound a man,) that cares not what mischief he doth for his profit.

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