[83]. Robert Thorne the elder did not die until some time between 1519 and 1526, so that his son, writing in 1527, had had every opportunity of hearing his story from his own lips.
[84]. A fine facsimile of the Cantino map is exhibited in the British Museum.
[85]. Stanford’s Compendium, 1897: ‘Labrador’, by S. E. Dawson.
[86]. 26 Hen. VIII, c. 10.
[87]. Letters and Papers, xiv, part i, No. 373.
[88]. Cromwell has been credited with the intention of ‘stapling’ the cloth trade in London, i.e. with deliberately supplanting the Merchant Adventurers’ mart at Antwerp by an emporium in London. It is hardly likely that he would have adopted such a suicidal policy otherwise than on compulsion. The more probable explanation seems to be as here stated. Chapuys’s letter quoted below (p. [130]) appears conclusive.
[89]. 32 Hen. VIII, c. 14.
[90]. Some particulars here given are taken from other sources than the Act of 1540. See Hakluyt, v. 62; Letters and Papers, xvi, No. 1126.
[91]. Iron in pigs and bars ready for manufacture.
[92]. Letters and Papers, xvi, No. 13.