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Extrait de la Chronique de Robert Fabyan, selon Stow.

In anno 1^5 y eare ne Sébastian Gabato a genoas 1497.

14 Henr. VII * . sonne b orne 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 reasonabie démonstrations he shewed, caused the King to man and victual a shippe at Uristow to search for an Ilande whiche he Knewe to be replenished with rich commodities : in the ship diverse merchauntes of London adventured smal stockes, and in the company of this shippe, sayled also out of Bristow three or

1. La 14c année du règne de Henry VII comprend du 21 août 1498 au 21 août 1499. Ce serait donc, si Ton 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 Tannée 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 Heurie the VII », la seule exacte.

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

(John Stow, TbeCkronicksofEngland,London, 1580, in-4 , p. 862.)

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

« Sir Humfrey Gilbert Kinght in his bockc intituled a discoverie for a newe passage to Cataia writeth thus, Sébastian Gabato, by hys personall expérience and travaile hath set forth and discribed tbis passage in his Chartes, whiche are yet to be Seene in y« queenes Mujesties privie Gallerie, at IVIntc Hall, who was sent to make this discoverie by king Henrie the seventh, and entred the same fret, affirming, yt he sayled very for Wesrward 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, yt 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 Chroniqtje de Fabyan, selon Hakluyt.

Antè 1497. (< A. note of Sébastian Gabotes Voyage of Discoverie, taken = s === 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 of King Henrie the VU, 1498 ! .

This yeere the King (by meanes of a Venetian, which made himselfe very expert and 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 13 e 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 well was riche, and replenished with riche

commodities. Which Ship.thus manned and victualled at the

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

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 with sleight and

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

w .„: — ^ — ; — T other trifles, and so departed from Bristowe in William Purcnas

the beginning of May : of whom in this Maior s

time returned no tidings. »

Maior of London.

(Hàkluyt, Divers voyages touching the discouerie of America, London, 1582,^-4°.)