john and sebastian cabot - Cristo Raul

APPENDICES 267
ed. of 1741, vol. v., part iv., p. 89;
in Hakluyt s c
Divers Voyages, and
c
Principal Navigations (see the latter,
iii.
4, in ed. of 1598-1600) ; in Desimoni
s Intorno a Giovanni Caboto, p.
47 ; and in some other collections. An
English version in Hakluyt (as above) ;
also in Nicholls, Bristol, iii., 294, and else
where. See text of this vol., p. 48, &c.
The date (March 5, is
1496) not that of
the petition itself,
but only of the delivery,
and of the grant following thereon.
1496. 4. The despatch of March 28, 1496, from the
Spanish sovereigns to Ruy
Goncales de
Puebla, Senior Ambassador of their
Majesties in England.
This, as already noticed, replies, among
other things,
to a letter from Puebla of
January 21, 1496, now lost,
but which
evidently gave notice of John Cabot s
projects and compared
Columbus.
them to those of
See Bergenroth, Spanish Calendar,
i.
pp. 88-9, No. 128 ;
text of this vol.,
p. 51, &c. Original at Simancas, Capitulaciones
con Inglaterra Leg., 2, fol. 16.
1497. 5.
The grant of ^10 from Henry
VII. to