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
[Sidenote: Haukes and other foules.] In their iourney they were so ferre
Northwards, that they sawe mighty Islands of yce in the sommer season, on
which were haukes and other foules to rest themselues being weary of flying
ouer farre from the maine. [Sidenote: Foules supposed to be Storkes.] They
sawe also certaine great white foules with red bils and red legs, some what
bigger then Herons, which they supposed to be Storkes. They arriued at S.
Iues in Cornewall about the ende of October. From thence they departed vnto
a certairie castle belonging to sir Iohn Luttrel, where M. Thomas Buts, and
M. Rastall and other Gentlemen of the voyaye were very friendly
entertained: after that they came to the Earle of Bathe at Bathe, and
thence to Bristoll, so to London. M. Buts was so changed in the voyage with
hunger and miserie, that sir William his father and my Lady his mother knew
him not to be their sonne, vntill they found a secret marke which was a
wart vpon one of his knees, as hee told me Richard Hakluyt of Oxford
himselfe, to whom I rode 200. miles onely to learne the whole trueth of
this voyage from his own mouth, as being the onely man now aliue that was
in this discouerie.
[Sidenote: The French royally recompenced by king Henry the 8.] Certaine
moneths after, those Frenchmen came into England, and made complaint to
king Henry the 8: the king causing the matter to be examined, and finding
the great distresse of his subiects, and the causes of the dealing so with
the French, was so mooued with pitie, that he punished not his subiects,
but of his owne purse made full and royall recompence vnto the French.
In this distresse of famine, the English did somewhat relieue their vitall
spirits, by drinking at the springs the fresh water out of certaine wooden
cups, out of which they had drunke their Aqua composita before.
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An act against the exaction of money or any other thing by any officer for
licence to traffique into Iseland and Newfoundland, made in An 2. Edwardi
sexti.
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