Note 88 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

It has been suggested that Hakluyt had access to Cabot’s papers in possession of William Worthington, and that they revealed the true date. It is a pity he did not “make note of it” among his authorities. See R. H. Major’s True Date of the English Discovery, etc., London, 1870, originally printed in the Archæologia, xliii, 17.