A.D. 



I527. 



New found 

 land discove- 

 red by the 

 Englishmen. 



Note. 

 [I. 219.] 



To saile by 

 the Pole. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



where I have made two little markes of the compasse 

 with crosses in them. 



So that plainely it should appeare by reason, that the 

 Portingals should leave these Islands of Cape Verde and 

 land of Brasil, if they would have part of the Spicerie of 

 the Emperours : or els holding these, they have no part 

 there. To this the Portingals say, that they will beginne 

 their 180 degrees from the selfe same Cape Verde : for 

 that it may extende so much more toward the Orient, 

 and touch these Islandes of the Emperours : and would 

 winne these Islandes of Cape Verde and land of Brasil 

 neverthelesse, as a thing that they possessed before the 

 consent of this limitation was made. 



So none can verely tell which hath the best reason. 

 They be not yet agreed, Quare sub Judice lis est. 



But without doubt (by all conjectures of reason) the 

 sayd Islands fall all without the limitation of Portingal, 

 and pertaine to Spaine, as it appeareth by the most part 

 of all the Cardes made by the Portingals, save those 

 which they have falsified of late purposely. 



But now touching that your Lordship wrote, whether 

 that which we discovered toucheth any thing the foresayd 

 coastes : once it appeareth plainely, that the Newefound 

 land that we discovered, is all a maine land with the 

 Indies Occidentall, from whence the Emperour hath all 

 the gold and pearles : and so continueth of coast more 

 then 5000 leagues of length, as by this Carde appeareth. 

 For from the said New lands it proceedeth toward the 

 Occident to the Indies, and from the Indies returneth 

 toward the Orient, and after turneth Southward up till it 

 come to the Straits of Todos Santos, which I reckon to be 

 more then 5000 leagues. 



So that to the Indias it should seeme that we have 

 some title, at least that for our discovering we might 

 trade thither as other doe. But all this is nothing neere 

 the Spicerie. 



Now then if from the sayd New found lands the Sea be 

 navigable, there is no doubt, but sayling Northward and 



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