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skins, " at Waterford, and costes many are and (as men sayne in England) be 

 there none better havens." A jeweller in London attested Irish gold to be 

 excellent. The poet then bids England to keep Ireland, for it is a " boterasse " 

 and a post under England and Wales ; " and God forbid but each were other's 

 brother " ! Also, " cherish marchaudize, keep the admiraltie, that we be 

 masters of the narrow sea."' 



UOEKIGENDA TO PaPEK ON BrASIL. 



P. 230, note 3, for Oxoniensis read Oxoniensm. Note 4, for Brecani read 

 Brendani) for O'Hanlon read O'Donoghue. P. 233, note', for Terram read 

 2'cTrarum. P. 239, lines 22, 23, for the " buss of Emanuel Erobisher's 

 fleet" read the "buss Emanuel of Erobisher's fleet." 



'I have to thank Mr. James Mills, i.s.o. (Deputy-Keeper of the Records of Ireland), Mr. M. J. 

 McEnery, and Mr. Hei'hert Wood for many valuable suggestions as to sources of information in 

 the Records. The second also assisted me with some identifications of the place-names. The last 

 gave me several notes and added to many other acts of kindness that of reading portions of these 

 proofs. I have also to acknowledge the kind permission of the Board of Trinity College, through 

 Rev. T. E. Abbott, d.d., and Mr. A. C. De Burgh, in permitting me to publish photographs of the 

 map of Baptist Agnesi, a late but neat and typical portolan of the second type (1450-1570). 

 Mr. T. W. Lyster took much pains to help me with the maps of the National Library. 



