ROBERT THORNE'S BOOK a.d. 



1527. 



might come some knowledge of those other Islands of 

 the king of Spaine, but bought the cloves of Marchants 

 of that countrey, that brought them to Calicut, much 

 deerer then they would have cost, if he had sent for 

 them, thinking after this maner it would abide alwayes 

 secret. And now that it is discovered he sendes and 

 keepes the Spaniards from the trade all that he can. 



Also it should seeme that when this foresaid consent of 

 the division of the worlde was agreed of betweene them, 

 the king of Portingal had already discovered certaine 

 Islandes that lie over against Cape Verde, and also 

 certaine part of the maine land of India toward the South, 

 from whence he fette Brasill, and called it the land of 

 Brasil. So for that all should come in his terme and 

 limites, hee tooke three hundred and seventie leagues 

 beyond Cape Verde: and after this, his 180 degrees, 

 being his part of the worlde, should begin in the Carde 

 right over against the 340 degrees, where I have made a 

 little compasse with a crosse, and should finish at the 1 60 

 degree, where also I have made another little marke. 

 And after this computation without any controversie, the 

 Islands of the spicery fal out of the Portingals domin- 

 ation. So that nowe the Spaniards say to the Portingals, 

 that if they would beginne their 180 degrees from the 

 sayde Cape Verde, to the intent they should extende 

 more toward the Orient, and so to touch those Islandes 

 of the Spicerie of the Emperour, which is al that is 

 betweene the two crosses made in this Card, that then the 

 Islands of Cape Verde and the lande of Brasil that the 

 Portingals nowe obtaine, is out of the sayd limitation, 

 and that they are of the Emperours. Or if their 180 

 degrees they count from the 370 leagues beyond the said 

 Cape Verde, to include in it the said Islands and lands of 

 Brasil, then plainely appeareth the said 180 degrees 

 should finish long before they come to these Islands of 

 the Spicerie of the Emperour : As by this Carde your 

 Lordship may see. For their limits should begin at the 

 340 degrees of this Carde, and ende at the 160 degrees, 



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