ROBERT THORNE'S DECLARATION ad. 



1527. 

 which is, that with a small number of ships there may 



bee discovered divers New lands and kingdomes, in the 



which without doubt your Grace shall winne perpetuall 



glory, and your subjectes infinite profite. To which 



places there is left one way to discover, which is into the The discovery 



North : for that of the foure partes of the worlde, it °f the North - 



seemeth three parts are discovered by other Princes. 



For out of Spaine they have discovered all the Indies 



and Seas Occidentall, and out of Portingall all the Indies 



and Seas Orientall : so that by this part of the Orient 



& Occident, they have compassed the world. For the 



one of them departing toward the Orient, and the other 



toward the Occident, met againe in the course or way of 



the middest of the day, and so then was discovered a 



great part of the same Seas and coastes by the Spaniards. 



So that now rest to be discovered the sayd North parts, 



the which it seemeth to mee, is onely your charge and 



duety. Because the situation of this your Realme is 



thereunto neerest and aptest of all other : and also for 



that you have II already taken it in hand. And in mine \\By Sebastian 



opinion it will not seeme well to leave so great and Cabot and sir 



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profitable an enterprise, seeing it may so easily and with - n the -^ 



so little cost, labour, and danger, be followed and ob- y ere fhis 

 tayned : though heretofore your Grace hath made thereof reigne. 

 a proofe, & found not the commodity thereby as you dnd this is the 

 trusted, at this time it shall be no impediment. For V Qfl?Qcnsalvo 

 there may be now provided remedies for things, then Oveido, that 

 lacked, and the inconveniences and lets remooved, that came to 5. Do- 

 then were cause that your Graces desire tooke no full min S°- 

 effect, which is, the courses to be changed, & followed 

 the foresaid new courses. And concerning the mariners, 

 shippes, and provision, an order may be devised and 

 taken meete and convenient, much better then hitherto. 

 By reason wherof, and by Gods grace, no doubt your 

 purpose shall take effect. Surely the cost herein will be 

 nothing, in comparison to the great profit. The labour 

 is much lesse, yea nothing at all, where so great honour 

 and glory is hoped for : and considering well the courses, 

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