This much of this tract of landes out of the aforesaide collections and abridgements.  Wherein this also is worthy the obseruation, that euen then our Europaean Pilots sayled those seas by the helpe of the loadstone.  For concerning the vse thereof in Nauigation, I suppose there is not to be found a more ancient testimonie.  And these things I haue annexed the rather vnto this table of Mar del Zur; considering that none of those Authours which haue written the Histories of the Newe world, haue in any part of their writings, mentioned one word thereof.  Hitherto Ortelius.

THE NAUIGATIONS, VOYAGES, TRAFFIQUES, AND DISCOUERIES,

OF THE

English nation,

To NEWFOVNDLAND, to the isles of RAMEA and the isles of Assumption
otherwise called NATISCOTEC.

Situate at the mouth of the River of Canada, and to the coastes of cape
Briton, and Arambec, corruptly called Norumbega,

With the patents, letters, and aduertisements thereunto belonging.

The voyage of the two ships, whereof the one was called the Dominus
  vobiscum, set out the 20 day of May in the 19 yere of king Henry the
  eight, and in the yere of our Lord God 1527. for the the discouerie of
  the North partes.

Master Robert Thorne of Bristoll, a notable member and ornament of his country, as wel for his learning, as great charity to the poore, in a letter of his to king Henry the 8 and a large discourse to doctor Leigh, his Ambassadour to Charles the Emperour, (which both are to be seene almost in the beginning of the first volume of this my work) exhorted the aforesayd king with very waighty and substantial reasons, to set forth a discouery euen to the North Pole.  And that it may be knowne that this his motion tooke present effect, I thought it good herewithall to put downe the testimonies of two of our Chroniclers, M. Hall, and M. Grafton, who both write in this sort.  This same moneth (say they) king Henry the 8 sent 2 faire ships wel manned and victualled, hauing in them diuers cunning men to seeke strange regions, and so they set forth out of the Thames the 20 day of May in the 19 yeere of his raigne, which was the yere of our Lord. 1527.

And whereas master Hal, and master Grafton say, that in those ships there were diuers cunning men, I haue made great enquirie of such as by their yeeres and delight in Nauigation, might giue me any light to know who those cunning men should be, which were the directors in the aforesaid voyage.  And it hath bene tolde me by sir Martine Frobisher, and M. Richard Allen, a knight of the Sepulchre, that a Canon of Saint Paul