About The Same Yeere Of His Raigne, Furnished And Sent Out Certaine Shippes Under The Governance Of Sebastian Cabot Yet Living, And One Sir Thomas Pert, Who Was Vice-Admiral Of England And Dweleth In Poplar At Blackwall, Whose Faint Heart Was The Cause That The Voyage Took None Effect.

If, I say, such manly courage, whereof we have spoken, had not at that time beene wanting, it might

Happily have come to passe, that that rich treasurie called Perularia, (which is nowe in Spaine in the citie of Seville, and so named, for that in it is kept the infinite riches brought thither from the newfoundland kingdom of Peru) might long since have beene in the tower of London, to the kings great honour and the wealth of this realme.

Hereunto that also is to bee referred which the worshipfull Mr Robert Thorne wrote to the saide king Henry VIII. in the yeere 1527, by Doctor Leigh his ambassador sent into Spaine to the Emperour Charles V. whose worries bee these:

Now rest to be discovered the north parts, the which it seemeth unto me is onely your highnes charge and dutie; because the situation of this your realme is thereunto neerest and aptest of all other: and also, for that already you have taken it in hand. And in mine opinion it will not seeme well to leave so great and profitable an enterprise, seeing it may so easily and with so little cost, labour, and danger be followed and obteined.

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