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Cabots voyage 

 from Bristol 

 wherein he 

 discovered 

 Newfound 

 land, Is the 

 Northerne 

 parts of that 

 land, and 

 from thence as 

 farre almost as 

 Florida. 



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that in the moneth of July it was so cold, and the ice 

 so great, that hee durst not passe any further : that the 

 dayes were very long, in a maner without any night, and 

 for that short night that they had, it was very cleare. 

 Cabot feeling the cold, turned towards the West, re- 

 freshing himselfe at Baccalaos : and afterwards he sayled 

 along the coast unto 38. degrees, and from thence he 

 shaped his course to returne into England. 



A note of Sebastian Cabots first discoverie of part 

 of the Indies taken out of the latter part of 

 Robert Fabians Chronicle not hitherto printed, 

 which is in the custodie of M. John Stow a 

 diligent preserver of Antiquities. 



N the 13. yeere of K. Henry the 7. (by 

 meanes of one John Cabot a Venetian 

 which made himselfe very expert and 

 cunning in knowledge of the circuit of 

 the world and Hands of the same, as by 

 a Sea card and other demonstrations 

 reasonable he shewed) the king caused 

 to man and victuall a ship at Bristow, to search for an 

 Island, which he said hee knew well was rich, and re- 

 plenished with great commodities : Which shippe thus 

 manned and victualled at the kings cost, divers Marchants 

 of London ventured in her small stocks, being in her 

 as chiefe patron the said Venetian. And in the company 

 of the said ship, sailed also out of Bristow three or 

 foure small ships fraught with sleight and grosse mar- 

 chandizes, as course cloth, caps, laces, points & other 

 trifles. And so departed from Bristow in the begin- 

 ning of May, of whom in this Maiors time returned 

 no tidings. 



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