THE ENGLISH CLAIM TO AMERICA
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Hakluyt reproduces the several conflicting accounts of the two Cabot voyages extant in his day and marshals them as the “testimonies” confirming the English claim to North America. They are thus summarized in his catalogue of contents of the Principal Navigations.
“The first taken out of the mappe of Sebastian Cabota cut by Clement Adames;
“the second used by Galeacius Butrigarius the Popes legate, and reported by him;
“the third out of the preface of Baptista Ramusius [Giovanni Battista Ramusio] before his third volume of Navigations;