[63]. The date of this manuscript is generally given as 1560, but, from internal evidence, it must be earlier. F. R. von Wieser, in his preface to the Innsbruck edition (1908), comes to the conclusion that it was completed in 1541.
[64]. Isabella died in 1504 and Ferdinand in 1516. Cabot sailed for the River Plate in 1526.
[65]. Navarette, Coleccion de los Viajes, Madrid, 1825–37; (original patent printed in full).
[66]. Navarette, iii. 41: ‘Lo cierto es que Hojeda en su primer viaje halló á ciertos ingleses por las immediaciones de Coquibacoa.’
[67]. On this point see Harrisse: Discovery of North America (1892), pp. 102–24.
[68]. The principal modern works on the Cabots are: S. E. Dawson, Voyages of the Cabots, 1894; H. Harrisse, Jean et Sébastien Cabot, 1882, and John and Sebastian Cabot, 1896; G. E. Weare, Cabot’s Discovery of North America, 1897; C. R. Beazley, John and Sebastian Cabot, 1898; G. P. Winship, Cabot Bibliography, 1900; H. P. Biggar, Voyages of the Cabots and Corte Reals, 1903. Of these authors Mr. Winship is the only one who takes the view that there were three voyages, and he inclines to the belief that Sebastian’s voyage took place in 1508–9.
[69]. One of these three Portuguese is in all probability the ‘labrador’ mentioned by Santa Cruz as having taken intelligence of discoveries to Henry VII.
[70]. Patent printed in full in introduction to Hakluyt Society’s Divers Voyages, ed. by J. W. Jones.
[71]. H. Harrisse, Évolution Cartographique de Terre-Neuve, p. 41.
[72]. Harrisse, Discovery of North America, p. 174.