And a little vnder he added:

For the Author or the Drawer.

He, whose deare natiue soile hight stately Genua.
Euen he whose name is Bartholomew Colon de Terra Rubra,
The yeere of Grace a thousand and foure hundred and fourescore
And eight, and on the thirteenth day of February more,
In London published this worke. To Christ all laud therefore.

And because some peraduenture may obserue that he calleth himselfe Columbus
de Terra Rubra, I say, that in like maner I haue seene some subscriptions
of my father Christopher Columbus, before he had the degree of Admirall,
wherein be signed his name thus, Columbus de Terra Rubra. [Sidenote: King
Henry the seuenth his acceptation of Columbus offer.] But to returne to the
king of England, I say, that after he had seene the map, and that which my
father Christopher Columbus offered vnto him, he accepted the offer with
ioyfull countenance, and sent to call him into England. But because God had
reserued the said offer for Castile, Columbus was gone in the meane space,
and also returned with the performance of his enterprise, as hereafter in
order shall be rehearsed. Now will I leaue off from making any farther
mention of that which Bartholomew Colon had negotiated in England, and I
will returne vnto the Admirall, &c.

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Another testimony taken out of the 60 chapter of the foresayd history of
Ferdinando Columbus concerning the offer that Bartholomew Columbus made
to king Henry the seuenth on the behalfe of his brother Christopher.