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HISTORIES, &C.
the date. Sometimes I have not been able to find any date at all, and sometimes have not been satisfied that such a paper exists. An extensive collection of papers of this description has been for some time in a course of preparation by a gentleman[1] fully equal to the task, and from whom, therefore, we may hope ere long to receive it. In the mean time accept this as the result of my labors, and as closing the tedious detail which you have so undesignedly drawn upon yourself.
| 1496, Mar. 5. 11. H. 7. |
Pro Johanne Caboto et filiis suis super terra incognita investiganda. 12 Ry. 595. 3. Hakl. 4. 2. Mem. Am. 409. |
| 1498, Feb. 3. 13. H. 7. |
Billa signata anno 13. Henrici septimi. 3. Hakluyt's voiages 5. |
| 1502, Dec. 19. 18. H. 7. |
De potestatibus ad terras incognitas investigandum. 13. Rymer. 37. |
| 1540, Oct. 17. | Commission de François I. à Jacques Cartier pour l'establissement du Canada. L'Escarbot. 397. 2. Mem. Am. 416. |
| 1548, 2. E. 6. | An act against the exaction of money, or any other thing, by any officer for license to traffique into Iseland and Newfoundland, made in An. 2. Edwardi sexti. 3. Hakl. 131. |
| 1578, June 11. 20 El. |
The letters patent granted by her Majestic to Sir Humphrey Gilbert, knight, for the inhabiting and planting of our people in America. 3. Hakl. 135. |
| 1583, Feb. 6. | Letters patent of Queen Elizabeth to Adrian Gilbert and others, to discover the Northwest passage to China. 3. Hakl. 96. |
| 1564. Mar. 25. 26 El. |
The letters patent granted by the Queen's Majestic to M. Walter Raleigh, now knight, for the discovering and planting of new lands and countries, to continue the space of 6 years and no more. 3. Hakl. 243. |
- ↑ Mr. Hazard.
