[232]. The Book made by Master Robert Thorne, Hakluyt, ii. 164–81.
[233]. This was Sebastian Cabot’s expedition, which never passed the Straits of Magellan, but turned instead into the River Plate. The two Englishmen were Roger Barlow and Henry Latimer. There is no record of their personal adventures, although the details of the voyage are well known. See Harrisse, John and Sebastian Cabot (1896).
[234]. Maclehose edition, 1905, xiv. 304.
[235]. Historia General, Madrid, 1601, Dec. II, lib. v, cap. iii, pp. 144–5.
[236]. 1852 ed., Bk. 19, chap. xiii, p. 611.
[237]. Letters and Papers, iv, No. 5082.
[238]. The author of an article in the English Historical Review (vol. xx, p. 115) suggests that it was the Samson and not the Mary Gilford which visited the West Indies, but there seems to be no satisfactory proof of this. The balance of evidence certainly points to the loss of the Samson in the North-West.
[239]. Letters and Papers, iv, No. 3213 (20).
[240]. Letters and Papers, i, No. 1050.
[241]. See his epitaph and Barrett, Antiquities of Bristol (1789), p. 683.