OFFER OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS 



A.D, 



4 88. 



Carmina Meredith filii Rhesi mentionem facientia 

 de Madoco filio Oweni Guynedd, & de sua 

 navigatione in terras incognitas. Vixit hie 

 Meredith circiter annum Domini 1477. 



'Adoc wyf, mwyedlC wedd, "These verses I 



lawn genau, Owyn Guynedd : ZtedfnZ 



M. WilRam 



Camden. 



M 



Ni fynnum dir, fy enaid oedd 

 Na da mawr, ond y moroedd. 



The same in English. 



Madoc I am the sonne of Owen Gwynedd 

 With stature large, and comely grace adorned : 

 No lands at home nor store of wealth me please, 

 My minde was whole to search the Ocean seas. 



The offer of the discovery of the West Indies [in. 2. 

 by Christopher Columbus to king Henry the 

 seventh in the yeere 1488 the 13 of February: 

 with the kings acceptation of the offer, & 

 the cause whereupon hee was deprived of the 

 same : recorded in the thirteenth chapter of 

 the history of Don Fernand Columbus of 

 the life and deeds of his father Christopher 

 Columbus. 



Hristophoro Colon temendo, se parimente 

 i Re di Castiglia non assentissero alia 

 sua impresa, non gli bisognasse proporla 

 di nuovo a qualche altro principe, & cosi 

 in cio passasse lungo tempo ; mando in 

 J Inghilterra un suo fratello, che haveva 

 appresso di se, chiamato Bartholomeo 

 Colon : il qual, quantunque non havesse lettere Latine, 

 era pero huomo prattico, & giudicioso nelle cose del 

 mare, & sapea molto bene far carte da navigare, & 

 sphere, & altri instrument! di quella professione, come 



} 35 



