ROBERT THORNE'S BOOK ad 



1527. 



India Occidentall, especially two Islands of the sayd India, 

 that in this Card I set forth, naming the one la Dominica, 

 and the other Cuba, and brought certaine golde from 

 thence. Of the which when the king of Portingal had 

 knowledge, he sent to the king of Spaine, requiring him 

 to give him the sayd Islands. For that by the sentence 

 of the Pope all that should be discovered was his, and 

 that hee should not proceede further in the discoverie 

 without his licence. And at the same time it seemeth 

 that out of Castil into Portingal had gone for feare of 

 burning infinite number of Jewes that were expelled out 

 of Spaine, for that they would not turne to be Christians, 

 and carried with them infinite number of golde and silver. 

 So that it seemeth that the king of Spaine answered, that 

 it was reason that the king of Portingal asked, and that 

 to be obedient to that which the Pope had decreed, he 

 would give him the sayd Islands of the Indies. Nowe 

 for as much as it was decreed betwixt the sayde kings, 

 that none should receive the others subjects fugitives, nor 

 their goods, therfore the king of Portingal should pay 

 and returne to the king of Spaine a million of golde or 

 more, that the Jewes had caryed out of Spaine to Por- 

 tingal, & that in so doing he would give these Islands, 

 and desist from any more discovering. And not fulfilling 

 this, he would not onely not give these Islands, but pro- 

 cure to discover more where him thought best. It seem- 

 eth that the king of Portingal would not, or could not 

 with his ease pay this money. And so not paying, that 

 he could not let the king of Spaine to discover : so that 

 he enterprised not toward the Orient where he had begun 

 & found the Spicerie. And consented to the king of 

 Spaine, that touching this discovering they should divide 

 the worlde betweene them two. And that all that should 

 be discovered from Cape Verde, where this Card begin- 

 neth to be counted in the degrees of longitude, to 180 

 of the sayd scale of longitude, which is halfe the world 

 toward the Orient, & finisheth in this Card right over 

 against a litle crosse made at the said 180 degrees, to be 



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