The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, vol. 12 | Page 6

easily the coasts of lands to know, This comely
mappe right learnedly the same to thee will shew: Which Strabo, Plinie,
Ptolomew and Isodore maintaine: Yet for all that they do not all in one
accord remaine. Here also is set downe the late discouered burning
Zone By Portingals, vnto the world which whilom was vnknowen.
Whereof the knowledge now at length thorow all the world is blowen.
And a little vnder he added:
For the Author or the Drawer.

He, whose deare natiue soile hight stately Genua. Euen he whose name
is Bartholomew Colon de Terra Rubra, The yeere of Grace a thousand
and foure hundred and fourescore And eight, and on the thirteenth day
of February more, In London published this worke. To Christ all laud
therefore.
And because some peraduenture may obserue that he calleth himselfe
Columbus de Terra Rubra, I say, that in like maner I haue seene some
subscriptions of my father Christopher Columbus, before he had the
degree of Admirall, wherein be signed his name thus, Columbus de
Terra Rubra. [Sidenote: King Henry the seuenth his acceptation of
Columbus offer.] But to returne to the king of England, I say, that after
he had seene the map, and that which my father Christopher Columbus
offered vnto him, he accepted the offer with ioyfull countenance, and
sent to call him into England. But because God had reserued the said
offer for Castile, Columbus was gone in the meane space, and also
returned with the performance of his enterprise, as hereafter in order
shall be rehearsed. Now will I leaue off from making any farther
mention of that which Bartholomew Colon had negotiated in England,
and I will returne vnto the Admirall, &c.
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Another testimony taken out of the 60 chapter of the foresayd history of
Ferdinando Columbus concerning the offer that Bartholomew
Columbus made to king Henry the seuenth on the behalfe of his brother
Christopher.
Tornato adunque l'Ammiraglio dallo scoprimento di Cuba and di
Giamaica, tornò nella Spagnuola Bartolomeo Colon suo fratello, quello,
che era già andato a trattare accordo col Re d'Inghilterra sopra lo
scoprimento delle Indie, come di sopra habiam detto. Questo poi,
ritornando sene verso Castiglia con capitoli conceduti, haueua inteso a
Parigi dal re Carlo di Francia, l'Ammiraglio suo fratello hauer gia
scorperte l'Indie: per che gli souenne per poter far il Viaggio di cento
scudi. Et, Auenga che per cotal nuoua egli si fosse molto affrettato, per
arriuar l'Ammiraglio in Spagna, quando non dimeno giunse a Siuiglia,
egli era gia tornato alle Indie co' 17 nauigli. Perche, per asseguir quanto
ei gli haueba lasciato, di subito al principio dell' anno del 1494 sen'
andò a i Re Catholici, menando seco Don Diego Colon, mio fratello, e
me ancora, accioche seruissimo di paggi al serenissimo principe Don

Giouanni, il qual viua in gloria, si come hauea commandata la
Catholica Reina donna Isabella, che alhora era in Vagliadolid. Tosto
adunque che noi giungemmo, i Re chiamarono Don Bartolomeo, et
mandaronlo alia Spagnuola centre naui, &c.
The same in English.
Christopher Columbus the Admirall being returned from the discouery
of Cuba and Iamayca, found in Hispaniola his brother Bartholomew
Columbus, who before had beene sent to intreat of an agreement with
the king of England for the discouery of the Indies, as we haue sayd
before. This Bartholomew therefore returning vnto Castile, with the
capitulations granted by the king of England to his brother, vnderstood
at Paris by Charles the king of France that the Admirall his brother had
already performed that discouery: whereupon the French king gaue
vnto the sayd Bartholomew an hundred French crownes to beare his
charges into Spaine. And albeit he made great haste vpon this good
newes to meet with the Admirall in Spaine, yet at his comming to Siuil
his brother was already returned to the Indies with seuenteene saile of
shipps. Wherefore to fulfill that which he had left him in charge in the
beginning of the yeere 1494 he repaired to the Catholike princes, taking
with him Diego Colon my brother and me also, which were to be
preferred as Pages to the most excellent Prince Don Iohn, who now is
with God, according to the commandement of the Catholic Queene
Lady Isabell, which was then in Validolid. Assoone therefore as we
came to the Court, the princes called for Don Bartholomew, and sent
him to Hispaniola with three ships, &c.
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THE ENGLISH VOYAGES, NAVIGATIONS, AND DISCOUERIES.
_(Intended for the finding of a northwest passage) to the north parts of
America, to meta incogita, and the backeside of Gronland, as farre as
72 degrees and 12 minuts: performed first by Sebastian Cabota, and
since by Sir Martin Frobisher, and M. John Dauis, with the patents,
discourses,