64 DISCOVERIES IT^ 1536. 



which was a wart, upon one of his knees, as he 

 told me, Richard Hakluyt of Oxford, himselfe ; 

 to whom I rode 200 miles to learn the whole 

 trueth of this voyage from his own mouth, as being 

 the onely man now alive that was in this dis- 

 coverie. 



" Certaine months after, those Frenchmen came 

 into England, and made complaint to king Henry 

 the VIIL ; the king, causing the matter to be ex- 

 amined, and finding the great distresse of his sub- 

 iects and the causes of dealing so with the French, 

 was so mooved with pitie, that he punished not his 

 subiects, but of his owne purse made full and 

 royall recom pence unto the French. 



" In this distresse of famine, the English did 

 somewhat relieve their vitall spirits, by drinking 

 at the springs the fresh water out of certaine 

 wooden cups, out of which they had drunke their 

 aqua composita before."'*' 



SIR HUGH WILLOUGHBY. 1553. 



The attention of the merchants of England en- 

 gaged in foreign trade appears to have chiefly been 

 confined to the Flemish towns, the island of Ice- 

 land, and to a limited fishery on the banks of 

 Newfoundland, during the first h:Jf of the six- 



* Hakluyt, vol. iii. p. 130. 



