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chronique qui est évidemment contemporaine de l'événement, et, dans une lettre, ce savant paltographe ajoute : « The early part of this chronicle is derived from a common source with several other London Chronicles, such as Gregory’s, printed [par M. Gairdner in the « Collections of a London Citizen. » The laller part bas something in common with Fabyan, but there is a good deal in it for tbe reign of Henry VIL not to be found in any printed source. »

Ce MS. porte sur une feuille volante (d'une autre écriture) le titre suivant : « Crouicon regum Angliæ et series maiorume el vice comitum Civitatis London ab anno primo Henrici tertin ad annum primum Hen. Svi, »

ExrratT DE LA CHRONIQUE DE ROBERT FABYAN, SELON STOW.

In auno | This yeare one Sebastian Gabato a genoas a4 HP FÉES. 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 demonstrations he shewed, caused the King to man and victual a shippe at Brislow 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 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.

Antè 1497.

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

(Joux Srow, The Chronicles of England, 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 bocke intituled a discoverie for a newe passage to Calaïa writeth thus, Sebastian Gabato, by hys personall experience and travaile hath set forth and discribed this passage in his Chartes, whiche are yet to be Scene in ye queencs Majesties privie Gallerie, at While Hall, who was sent to make this discovcrie by king Henrie 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, ÿt he might and would have gone to Cataia if the iminitie of the Maister and Mariners had not bene. »