A.D. 

 I516. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



of most of the principall Cities and townes upon 



the coasts of Tierra firma, Nueva Espanna, and 



all the foresaid Islands; since the most traiterous 



burning of her Majesties ship the Jesus of Lubec 



and murthering of her Subjects in the port of S. 



Juan de Ullua, and the last generall arrest of her 



Highnesse people, with their ships and goods 



throughout all the dominions of the King 



of Spaine in the moneth of June 1585. 



Besides the manifold and tyrannicall 



oppressions of the Inquisition 



inflicted on our nation upon 



most light and frivolous 



occasions. 



The voyage of Sir Thomas Pert, and Sebastian 

 Cabot, about the eight yeere of King Henry 

 the eight, which was the yere 15 16. to 

 Brasil, Santo Domingo, and S. Juan de Puerto 

 rico. 



Hat learned and painefull writer Richard 

 Eden in a certaine Epistle of his to the 

 duke of Northumberland, before a 

 worke which he translated out of 

 Munster in the yeere 1553, called A 

 _^ treatise of new India, maketh mention 

 ""■^ of a voyage of discoverie undertaken 

 out of England by sir Thomas Pert and Sebastian 

 Cabota, about the 8. yere of King Henry the eight of 

 famous memorie, imputing the overthrow thereof unto 

 the cowardise and want of stomack of the said Sir 

 Thomas Pert, in maner following. If manly courage, 

 saith he, (like unto that which hath bene scene & 

 proved in your Grace, as well in forreine realmes, as 

 also in this our countrey) had not bene wanting in 

 other in these our dayes, at such time as our 



