ROBERT THORNE'S BOOK a.d. 



1527. 



Islands of Rhodes, Candie, and Cyprus. And over 

 against Italie are the Islands of Sicilia and Sardinia. 

 And over against Spaine is Majorca and Minorca. In the 

 ende of the gulfe of Syria is Judea. And from thence 

 returneth the coast toward the Occident, till it commeth 

 to the streights where we began, which all is the coast 

 of Affrike and Barbaric Also your Lordship shall 

 understand that the coastes of the Sea throughout all 

 the world, I have coloured with yellow, for that it 

 may appeare that all that is within the line coloured 

 yellow, is to be imagined to be maine land or Islands : 

 and all without the line so coloured to bee Sea : whereby 

 it is easie and light to know it. Albeit in this little 

 roome any other description would rather have made 

 it obscure then cleere. And the sayd coasts of the Sea 

 are all set justly after the maner and forme as they lie, 

 as the navigation approveth them throughout all the 

 Card, save onely the coastes and Isles of the Spicerie 

 of the Emperour which is from over against the 160. 

 to the 215. degrees of longitude, For these coastes 

 and situations of the Islands, every of the Cosmo- 

 graphers and pilots of Portingal & Spayne do set after [I. 217.] 

 their purpose. The Spaniards more towards the Orient, 

 because they should appeare to appertain to the Em- 

 perour : & the Portingals more toward the Occident, 

 for that they should fal within their jurisdiction. So 

 that the pilots and navigants thither, which in such 

 cases should declare the truth, by their industrie do 

 set them falsly every one to favour his prince. And 

 for this cause can be no certaine situation of that coast 

 and Islands, till this difference betwixt them be verified. 

 Now to come to the purpose of your Lordships demaund Doctor Leys 

 touching the difference between the Emperour and the dmand - 

 king of Portingal, to understand it better, I must declare 

 the beginning of this discoverie. Though peradventure 

 your Lordship may say that in that I have written 

 ought of purpose, I fall in the proverbe, A gemino ovo 

 bellum : But your Lordship commanded me to be large, 



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