[73]. Add. MSS., 7099, a manuscript copy of the original accounts, which are not now available.
[74]. First printed by Harrisse in John and Sebastian Cabot (1896). The actual document is an appropriation for the pension and bears date December 6, 1503, but contains a reference to the first grant on the date given above.
[75]. Foedera, xiii. 37.
[76]. See New English Dictionary.
[77]. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., art. ‘Parrots’.
[78]. R. O., T. R. Misc. Book 214.
[79]. Reprinted by the Percy Society, 1848, ed. J. O. Halliwell.
[80]. The evidence that the voyage in question really took place is extremely doubtful. See Chap. [X].
[81]. M. Oppenheim, Administration of the Royal Navy, p. 38.
[82]. The inscription alone is insufficient to identify the country with modern Labrador, for it is certain that some early cartographers applied the name to Greenland.