Documents Describing the Voyage of John Cabot in 1497

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Albert Bushnell Hart, Edward Channing
A. Lovell & Company, 1893 - 14 páginas

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Página 4 - ... to sail to all parts, countries, and seas of the east, of the west, and of the north...
Página 11 - East where spices growe, by a way that was never knowen before, by this fame and report there increased in my heart a great flame of desire to attempt some notable thing.
Página 5 - Cabot, and he is styled the great admiral. Vast honour is paid him ; he dresses in silk, and these English run after him like mad people, so that he can enlist as many of them as he pleases and a number of our own rogues besides.
Página 15 - Jefferson's Proposed Instructions to the Virginia Delegates, 1774, and the Original Draft of the Declaration of Independence, 1776. 12 Ordinances of Secession and other Documents, 1860-1861. 13 Coronado's Journey to New Mexico and the Great Plains. 1540-42. 14 Plans of Union. 1696-1780. 15 The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, with the Alien, Sedition and Other Acts. 1798-1799.
Página 11 - I departed from thence and returned into England, where I found great tumults among the people, and preparation for warres in Scotland : by reason whereof there was no more consideration had to this voyage. Whereupon I went into Spaine to the Catholique king, and Queene Elizabeth, which being...
Página 7 - I wished to go thither I should get an archbishopric. But I have thought that the benefices which your Excellency has in store for me are a surer thing ; and therefore I beg that if these should fall vacant in my absence, you will cause possession to be given to me, taking measures to do this rather [especially] where it is needed, in order that they be not taken from me by others, who because they are present can be more diligent than I, who in this country have been brought to the pass of eating...
Página 5 - We giuing and granting vnto them and to their heires and deputies, that they shall be free from all paying of customes of all and singular such merchandize as they shall bring with them from those places so newly found.
Página 9 - North pole, that euen in the moneth of July he found monstrous heapes of ice swimming on the sea, and in maner continuall day light, yet saw he the land in that tract free from ice, which had bene molten by the heat of the Sunne.
Página 8 - The inhabitants of this island used to weare beasts' skinnes, and have them in as great estimation as we have our finest garments. In their warres they use bowes, arrowes, pikes, darts, woodden clubs, and slings. The...
Página 5 - ... ownership of the same is reserved to the crown, with a small ship and eighteen persons he committed himself to fortune ; and having set out from Bristol, a western port of this kingdom, and passed the western limits of Hibernia...

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