John Cabot, the Discoverer of North-America, and Sebastian His Son
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Excerpt from John Cabot, the Discoverer of North-America, and Sebastian His Son: A Chapter of the Maritime History of England Under the Tudors, 1496-1557 In the year 1497, a Venetian citizen, called Giovanni Caboto, having obtained letters-patent from Henry VII. the year previous for a voyage of discovery, crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and, under the British Hag, discovered the continent of North America. In 1498, he fitted out in Bristol a new expedition, and again sailed westward; but scarcely anything further is known of that enterprise. Caboto had a son named Sebastian, born in Venice, who lived in England not less than sixteen years, and then removed to Spain, where in 1518 Charles V. appointed him Pilot-Major. This office he held for thirty years. In 1526, Sebastian was authorized to take command of a Spanish expedition intended for "Tharsis and Ophir" but which, instead, went to La Plata, and proved disastrous. After his return to Seville, he was invited, in 1547, by the counsellors of Edward VI. to England, and again settled in that country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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