A.D. 

 I481. 



[II. H. 3.] 



The English 

 had an ordin- 

 ary tj-ade to 

 the Canaries 

 1526. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



which ambassage the king of England seemed to be very 

 well pleased, and they were received of him with very 

 great honour, and he condescended unto all that the 

 ambassadours required of him, at whose hands they re- 

 ceived authenticall writings of the diligence which they 

 had performed, with publication thereof by the heralds : 

 and also provisoes of those confirmations which were 

 necessary. And having dispatched all things well, and 

 with the kings good will, they returned home into their 

 countrey. 



A briefe note concerning an ancient trade of the 

 English Marchants to the Canarie-ilands, 

 gathered out of an olde ligier booke of M. 

 Nicolas Thorne the elder a worshipfull mar- 

 chant of the city of Bristoll. 



T appeareth evidently out of a certaine note or 

 letter of remembrance, in the custody of me 

 Richard Hakluyt, written by M. Nicolas Thorne 

 the elder a principall marchant of Bristoll, to his friend 

 and factour Thomas Midnall and his owne servant 

 William Ballard at that time resident at S. Lucar in 

 Andaluzia; that in the yeere of our Lord 1526 (and 

 by all circumstances and probabilities long before) cer- 

 taine English marchants, and among the rest himselfe 

 with one Thomas Spacheford exercised usuall and ordi- 

 nary trade of marchandise unto the Canarie Hands. For 

 by the sayd letter notice was given to Thomas Midnall 

 and William Ballard aforesayd, that a certaine ship called 

 The Christopher of Cadiz bound for the West Indies 

 had taken in certaine fardels of cloth both course and 

 fine, broad and narrow of divers sorts and colours, some 

 arovas of packthreed, sixe cerons or bagges of sope with 

 other goods of M. Nicolas Thorne, to be delivered at 

 Santa Cruz the chiefs towne in Tenerifa one of the seven 

 Canary-ilands. All which commodities the sayd Thomas 

 and William were authorised by the owner in the letter 



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