The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12: America, Part IHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12: America, Part I
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
And whereas master Hal, and master Grafton say, that in those ships there
were diuers cunning men, I haue made great enquirie of such as by their
yeeres and delight in Nauigation, might giue me any light to know who those
cunning men should be, which were the directors in the aforesaid voyage.
And it hath bene tolde me by sir Martine Frobisher, and M. Richard Allen, a
knight of the Sepulchre, that a Canon of Saint Paul in London, which was a
great Mathematician, and a man indued with wealth, did much aduance the
action, and went therein himselfe in person, but what his name was I cannot
learne of any. And further they told me that one of the ships was called
the Dominus vobiscum, which is a name likely to be giuen by a religious man
of those dayes: and that sayling very farre Northwestward, one of the ships
was cast away as it entred into a dangerous gulph, about the great opening,
betweene the North parts of Newfoundland, and the countrey lately called by
her Maiestie, Meta Incognita. Whereupon the other ship shaping her course
towards Cape Briton, and the coastes of Arambec, and oftentimes putting
their men on land to search the state of these vnknowen regions, returned
home about the beginning of October, of the yere aforesayd. And this much
(by reason of the great negligence of the writers of those times, who
should haue vsed more care in preseruing of the memories of the worthy
actes of our nation,) is all that hitherto I can learne, or finde out of
this voyage.
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The voyage of M. Hore and diuers other gentlemen, to Newfoundland, and Cape
Briton, in the year 1536 and in the 28 yere of king Henry the 8.
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