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 Angliæ, et Franciæ, et Dominus Hiberniæ, omnibus,
ad quos præsentes literæ nostræ peruenerint, salutem.

Notum sit et manifestum, quòd dedimus et concessimus, ac per præsentes
damus et concedimus pro nobis et hæredibus nostris, dilectis nobis Ioanni
Caboto ciui Venetiarum, Lodouico, Sebastiano, et Sancio, filijs dicti
Ioannis, et eorum ac cuiuslibet eorum hæredibus et deputatis, plenam ac