EXTRAIT DE LA CHRONIQUE DE FABYAN, SELON HAKLUYT

« À note of Sebastian 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 preserver of antiquities.

Inthe 13 yere This yeere the King (by meanes of a Vencof King Henrie tan, which made himselfe very expert and tie VIR 1498 cunning in Knowledge of the circuit of the worlde, and ilandes of the same as by a carde, and other demonstrations reasonable hee shewed) caused to man and

1. La 13° année du règne de Henry VIT se termine au 21 août 1498.

victuall a shippe at Bristow to search for an ilande, whiche hec 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 i in her, as chiefe Patrone, the saide Venctian. And

Bristow. | inthe companie of the said shippe sayled also out of Bristowe, three or foure small ships, fraught with sleight and grosse merchandizes as course clota, Caps, laces, points, and other trifles, and so departed from Bristowe in the beginning of May: of whom in this Maior's - time returned no tidings. »

William Purchas

Maior of London,

(Hakcuvr, Divers voyages louching the discouerie of America, London, 1582, in-J°.)