Note 1000 — Chapter IV · (continued 2)

This petition is known as the Epistola supplicatoria, and is embodied in the original text in Chauveton’s French edition of Benzoni. It is also given in Cimber and Danjon’s Archives curieuses, vi. 232, and in Gaffarel’s Floride Française, p. 477; and in Latin in De Bry, parts ii. and vi. (cf. Sparks’s Ribault, appendix). [There are other contemporary accounts or illustrations in the “Lettres et papiers d’état du Sieur de Forquevaulx,” for the most part unprinted, and preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, which were used by Du Prat in his Histoire d’Élisabeth de Valois (1859), and some of which are printed in Gaffarel, p. 409. The nearly contemporary accounts of Popellinière in his Trois mondes (1582) and in the Histoire universelle of De Thou, represent the French current belief. The volume of Ternaux’ Voyages known as Recueil de pièces sur la Floride inédites, contains, among eleven documents, one called Coppie d’une lettre venant de la Floride, ... ensemble le plan et portraict du fort que les François y ont faict (1564), which is reprinted in Gaffarel and in French’s Historical Collections of Louisiana and Florida, vol. iii. This tract, with a plan of the fort on the sixth leaf, recto, was originally printed at Paris in 1565 (Carter-Brown, i. 256). None of the reprints give the engravings. It was seemingly written in the summer of 1564, and is the earliest account which was printed.—Ed.]