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Extrait de la Chronique de Robert Fabyan, selon Stow.

In anno Xhis yeare one Sébastian Gabato a genoas 1497.

14 enr' sonne borne in Bristow professing himselfe to ______

be experte in knowledge of the circute of the worlde and Ilandes of the same, as by his Charts and other reasonable démonstrations he shewed, caused the King to man and victual a shippe at çBristoiu to search for an Ilande whiche he Knewe to be replenished with rich commodities : in the ship diverse merchauntes of London adventured smai stockes, and in the company of this shippe, sayled also out of Bristow three or

1. La 14= année du règne de Henry VII comprend du 21 août 1498 au 21 août 1499. Ce serait donc, si l'on prenait le texte de Stow à la lettre, après la première de ces deux dates que l'expédition aurait mis à la voile. Nous pensons que Stow a eu en vue l'année julienne, malgré la rubrique portée en manchette ; car Hakluyt, qui donne cet extrait aussi d'après Fabyan, assigne à cet événement la date de la «13 yere of King Henrie the VII », la seule exacte.

3i8 JEAN ET SÉBASTIEN CABOT ,

foure smal shippes fraught with slight and grosse wares as course cloth, Caps, Laces, points and such other ...»

(John Stow, The Chroniclcsof Eugland, London, 1580, in-40, p. 862.)

La fin du paragraphe, empruntée à une autre autorité que Fabyan, est comme suit :

« Sir Humfrey Gilbert Kinght in his bocke intituled a discoverie for a newe passage to Cataia writcth thus, Sébastian Gabato, by hys personall expérience and travaile hath set forth and discribed tins passage in his Chartes, whiche are yet to be Seene in ye queenes Majesties privie Gallerie, at JVhilc Hall, who was sent to make this discoverie by king Hernie the seventh, and entred the same fret, affirming, yt he sayled very for Westward wyth a quarter of the North on the Northside of Terra de Labrador, the eleventh of June, until he came to the septentrial latitude of 67 1/2 degrees, and finding the seas stil open, sayd, y1 he might and would hâve gone to Cataia if the iminitie of the Maister and Mariners had not bene. »

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Extrait de la Chronique de Fabyan, selon Hakluyt.

Antè 1497. <( A note of Sébastian Gabotes Voyage of Discoverie, taken ========= out of an Old Chronicle, written by Robert Fabyan, sometime

Alderman of London, which is in the custodie of John Stowe, citizen, a diligent searcher and préserver of antiquities.

In the 13 yere This yeere the King (by meanes of a Vene-

ofKmg Henné tjan^ wnicn made himselfe very expert and

the VII, 1498 • CUnning in Knowledge of the circuit of the

worlde, and ilandes of the same as by a carde, and other

démonstrations reasonable hee shewed) caused to man and

1. La ijc année du règne de Henry VII se termine au 21 août 1498.

victuall a shippe at Bristow to search for an ilande, whiche hee

saide hee Knewe wcll was riche, and replenished with riche

commodities. Which Ship thus manned and victualled at the

Kinges cost, divers marchants of London ventured, in her smali

stockes, being in her, as chiefe Patrone, the saide Venetian. And

Bristow. | in the companie of the said shippe sayled also out

of Bristowe, three or foure small ships, fraught withsleight and

grosse merchandizes as course cloth, Caps, laces, points, and

-,,r-,,- ^ 7~ 7 other trifies, and so departed from Bristowe in William Purchas 1 .... rf , . ,. ... ,

Maior of London. the beSinnmg of M:iy : of whom in thls Maior s

— -time returned no tidings. »

(Hakluyt, Divers voyages touching the discouerie oj America, London, 1582, in-4°.)