...them, and their deputies, full and free authority, leave, and power to saile to all parts, countreys, and seas of the East, of the West, and of the North, under our banners and ensignes, with five ships of what burthen or quantity soever they be, and as...

...University Press, 1991), 22-28 CHAPTER I lands.3 The letters patent authorized Cabot and his sons to explore "all parts, countries, and seas of the East, of the West, and of the North . . . upon their own proper costs . . . and in what part of the world so ever they be, which before...

...Sanctus, sons of the said John, and to their heirs and deputies, full and free authority, leave and power, to sail to all parts, countries and seas of the East, of the West, and of the North, under our banners and ensigns, with five ships of what burthen or quality soever they be, and as many...

...was allowed to have five ships, which were to be fitted " at his own proper costs and charges," and to sail to " all parts, countries, and seas of the East, of the West, and of the North." Cabot set out in the spring of 1497, and, on June 24, '; about five of the clocke, early in the morning,"...

...Henry VII. allowing him and his three sons, Lewis, Sebastian, and Sancius, their heirs or deputies, to " sail to all parts, countries, and seas, of the East, of the West, and of the North, under our banners and ensigns, with five ships of what burthen or quantity soever they be, and as many...