that no man could vnderstand them, and in their demeanour like to bruite
beastes, whom the King kept a time after. Of the which vpon two yeeres
after, I saw two apparelled after the maner of Englishmen in Westminster
pallace, which that time I could not discerne from Englishmen, til I was
learned what they were, but as for speach, I heard none of them vtter one
word.

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A briefe extract concerning the discouene of Newfound-land, taken out of
the booke of M. Robert Thorne, to Doctor Leigh, &c.

I Reason, that as some sicknesses are hereditarie, so this inclination or
desire of this discouerie I inherited from my father, which with another
marchant of Bristol named Hugh Eliot, were the discouerours of the
Newfound-lands; of the which there is no doubt (as nowe plainely appeareth)
if the mariners would then haue bene ruled, and followed their Pilots
minde, but the lands of the West Indies, from whence all the golde cometh,
had bene ours; for all is one coast as by the Card appeareth, and is
aforesaid.

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The large pension granted by K. Edward the 6. to Sebastian Cabot,
constituting him grand Pilot of England.

Edwardus sextus Dei gratia Angliæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ rex, omnibus
Christi fidelibus ad quos præsentes hæ literæ nostræ peruenerint, salutem.
Sciatis quod nos in consideratione boni et acceptabilis seruitij, nobis per
dilectum seruientem nostrum Sebastianum Cabotam impensi atque impendendi,