[292]. The authorities for these voyages are to be found, unless otherwise indicated, in Hakluyt (Maclehose ed., 1903), vol. ii.
[293]. Purchas, xiii. 6, thinks that Spitzbergen was the land found. The lowest point of Spitzbergen is in 76½°. It is impossible that Willoughby could have committed such a serious error in latitude.[latitude.] Moreover, Spitzbergen is due north of Senjen.
[294]. Hakluyt, iii. 74, 331.
[295]. The Venetian agent (Venetian Cal. vi, No. 89) says three. The error arose from the name of the Philip and Mary, which the Italian doubtless took to be two vessels. The instructions for the voyage leave no doubt that only two ships were sent. See also Henry Lane’s letter (Hakluyt, iii. 332).
[296]. The Venetian envoy wrongly states that they were brought home in 1555.
[297]. Venetian Cal. vi, No. 269.
[298]. These details are scattered here and there in Borough’s account of the voyage.
[299]. Venetian Cal. vi, No. 852.
[300]. Cal. Cecil MSS., i, p. 146.
[301]. Brussels Archives, Kervyn de Lettenhove, i, p. 61.