ROBERT THORNE'S DECLARATION ajd. 



1527. 



If they will goe toward the Orient, they shall injoy Tartarta. 

 the regions of all the Tartarians that extend toward 

 the midday, and from thence they may goe and pro- 

 ceede to the land of the Chinas, and from thence to China. 

 the land of Cathaio Orientall, which is of all the maine 

 land most Orientall that can be reckoned from our 

 habitation. And if from thence they doe continue their 

 navigation, following the coasts that returne toward the 

 Occident, they shall fall in with Malaca, and so with 

 all the Indies which we call Orientall, and following [I. 214.] 

 the way, may returne hither by the Cape of Buona 

 Speransa : and thus they shall compasse the whole 

 worlde. And if they will take their course after 

 they be past the Pole, toward the Occident, they shall 

 goe in the backe side of the new found land, which 'New found 

 of late was discovered by your Graces subjects, untill land ^j~ 

 they come to the backe side and South Seas of the £ n£ s s i ^ e 

 Indies Occidentall. And so continuing their voyage 

 they may returne thorow the streight of Magellan to 

 this countrey, and so they compasse also the world by 

 that way : and if they goe this third way, and after 

 they be past the Pole, goe right toward the Pole 

 Antarctike, and then decline toward the lands and 

 Islands situated between the Tropikes, and under the 

 Equinoctiall, without doubt they shall finde there the 

 richest landes and Islands of the world of golde, 

 precious stones, balmes, spices, and other thinges that 

 we here esteeme most : which come out of strange 

 countries, and may returne the same way. 



By this it appeareth, your Grace hath not onely a 

 great advantage of the riches, but also your subjects 

 shall not travell halfe of the way that other doe, which 

 goe round about as aforesayd. 



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