[124] Ibid., f. 70.
[125] 4 Hen. VII, cap. 10.
[126] H. Harrisse, John Cabot, the Discoverer of North America, and Sebastian his Son. Lond. 1896, p. 138.
[127] Herbert, Life of Henry VIII, p. 125, ed. 1870.
[128] When Charles V sailed from Flushing to Spain in 1517 we read that the operation of lowering a boat took two hours, (Fernandez Duro, Viajes Regios por Mar, p. 94). The fleet was made up of 52 vessels drawn from Holland, Zealand and Spain, but this can scarcely refer to the Dutch vessels.
[129] Royal MSS. 13, B ii, 56.
[130] Brewer, Reign of Henry VIII, i, 21.
[131] State Papers Ven., Oct. 1515, and Letters and Papers of the reign of Henry VIII, 6th Nov. 1515. Among his jewels was ‘a chayne of golde of threefolde with a whistell and a pece of a unycornes home at it inclosed in gold,’ (Cott. MSS. App. xxviii, f. 29). The whistle was the badge of the sea officer.
[132] Exch. War. for Issues, 29th Jan. 1510 and Letters and Papers, i, 3422, viii.
[133] Ibid. The pomegranate was a part of the arms of the city of Granada. The capture of Granada and the destruction of the Moorish kingdom had resounded through Christendom, and after Katherine of Aragon’s arrival in England the pomegranate was frequently used as a badge.