Note 9 — Chapter I

In Ziegler’s original work he begins this sentence thus: “Petrus Martyr mediolanensis in hispanicis navigationibus scribit, Antoninum quendam Cabotum solventem a Britannia,” etc. This clerical or typographical error as to Cabot’s Christian name probably arose from a misreading of Martyr’s language in Dec. iii. lib. 6: “Scrutatus est eas Sebastianus quidam Cabotus.” Eden did not hesitate to substitute Sebastian for Anthony. As a mystification concerning the name Antoninum (or Anthony) Cabot, I will add that Mr. Brevoort has called my attention to the following entry in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII., vol. i. pt. 1, p. 939, doc. 5639, Nov. 27, 1514: “Patent denization to Anthony Chabo, surgeon, native of Savoy,” with another entry showing that in 1512 an annuity of twenty pounds was granted to him; and Mr. Brevoort asks the question if Anthony could have been another son of Jean Cabot, arriving in England later; and also whether the Cabots might not have come originally from Savoy? [Ziegler’s title reads: Syria, Palestina, Arabia, Ægyptus, Schondia, Holmia,—the section on Schondia, as he calls the north, takes folios 85-138; and the last of the eight maps in the book is of Schondia. See Harrisse’s Biblio. Amer. Vetus, no. 170; F. Muller’s Catalogue, 1877, no. 3595. The Schondia section was reprinted in Krantzius’s Regnorum Aquilonarium, etc., Frankfort, 1583. F. Muller’s Catalogue, 1872, no. 844.—Ed.]