BY
ROBERT KERR, F.R.S. & P.A.S. EDIN.
ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND CHARTS.
VOL. VI.
CONTENTS OF VOL. VI.
PART II. BOOK II. CONTINUED.
CHAP. XI. Early English voyages of discovery to America. Introduction.
SECT. I. Discovery of Newfoundland by John and Sebastian Cabot in 1497,
in the service of Henry VII. of England.
II. Discourse by Galeacius Butrigarius, Papal Legate in Spain,
respecting the Discoveries in America, by Sebastian Cabot.
III. Notice concerning Sebastian Cabot by Ramusio, in the Preface to the
third Volume of his Navigations.
IV. Notice respecting the voyage of Sebastian Cabot to the north-west,
from Peter Martyr ab Angleria.
V. Testimony of Francisco Lopez de Gomara, concerning the discoveries of
Sebastian Cabota.
VI. Note respecting the discoveries of Sebastian Cabot; from the latter
part of Fabians Chronicle.
VII. Brief notice of the discovery of Newfoundland, by Mr Robert
Thorne.
CHAP. XI SECT. VIII. Grant by Edward VI. of a Pension and the Office of
Grand Pilot of England to Sebastian Cabot.
IX. Voyage of Sir Thomas Pert and Sebastian Cabot about the year 1516,
to Brazil, St Domingo, and Porto Rico.
X. Brief note of a voyage by Thomas Tison to the West Indies, before the
year 1526.
CHAP XII. The Voyages of Jacques Cartier from St Maloes to Newfoundland
and Canada, in the years 1534 and 1535.
