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the writers of those times, who should have used 

 more care in preserving of the memories of the 

 worthy actes of our nation.''^ 



THE TRINITIE AND THE MINION. 1536. 



This voyage, we are told by Hakluyt, was set 

 forth by Master Hore, of London, " a man of 

 goodly stature and of great courage, and given to 

 the studie of cosmographie." Assisted by the 

 king's favour, several gentlemen were encouraged 

 to accompany him in a voyage of discovery upon 

 the north-west parts of America, many of whom 

 were of the Inns of Court and of Chancery; " and 

 divers others of good worship, desirous to see the 

 strange things of the world. The whole number 

 that went in the two tall ships were about sixe- 

 score persons, whereof thirty were gentlemen, 

 which were all mustered in warlike maner at 

 Gravesend, and after the receiving of the sacra- 

 ment they embarked themselves in the ende of 



Aprill, 1536."t 



After a tedious passage of two months they 

 reached in safety Cape Breton; and shaping a 

 course from thence to the north-east came to Pen- 

 guin island, " very full of rocks and stones, 

 whereon they went and found it full of great 



* Hakluyt's Voyages, vol. iii. p. 129- 

 I idem. 



