The Holinshed Texts (1587, Volume 6, p. 785)

¶In this yeare all the gardens which had béene continued time out of mind,

Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag 872. Gardens in Moore field [...] wast to make archers game.

Price of haie doubled.

Sebastian Gabato his discouerie of [...]n Iland of rich commo|dities.

without Moore gate of London, were destroied, and of them was made a plaine field for archers to shoot in. Also this yéere was a great drought, by reason whereof a load of haie, which was before sold at London at fiue shillings, was this yeare sold for ten or twelue more. Also this yeare, one Sebastian Gabato, a Genoas sonne, borne in Bristow, professing himselfe to be expert in knowledge of the circuit of the world, and Ilands of the same, as by his charts and other reasonable de|monstrations he shewed, caused the king to man and vittell a ship at Bristow, to search for an Iland which he knew to be replenished with rich commodites. In the ship diuerse merchants of London aduentured small stocks, and in the companie of this ship sailed also out of Bristow three or foure small ships fraight with slight and grosse wares, as course cloash, caps, lases, points, and such other.

Sir Humfrie Gilbert knight, in his booke intitu|led, A discouerie for a new passage to Cataia, writeth thus;

Sebastian Gabato, by his personall experience and trauell, hath described and set foorth this passage in his charts, which are yet to be séene in the quéenes maiesties priuie gallerie at White hall, who was sent to make this discouerie by king Henrie the se|uenth, and entered the same f [...]et, affirming that hee sailed verie farre westward, with a quarter of the north, on the north side of terra de Labrador, the eleuenth of Iune, vntill he came to the septentrionall latitude of 67½ degrées, and finding the seas still open, said, that he might & would haue gon to Cataia, if the em|nitie of the maister and mariners had not béene.

Ne|uerthelesse, he went verie farre, euen to a nation in|habited with people more like beasts than men, as ap|peareth in the yeare 1502, and the seuentéenth of this kings reigne, when the said traueller was returned, and presented himselfe to the kings maiestie.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Anno Reg. 14.In this yeare the warre had like to haue béene reuiued betwixt the realmes of England and Scot|land by a small occasion,England and Scotland lik|lie to go togi|ther by the eares a [...]resh. as thus. Certeine yongmen of the Scots came arriued before Norham castell, & beheld it woonderous circumspectlie, as though they would faine haue béene of counsell to know what was doone the rein. The kéepers not perceiuing anie damage attempted against them for the first time, determined not to mooue anie question to them, or once to stirre out. But when they came againe the next day, and viewed it likewise, the kéepers of the castell suspecting some euill meaning, demanded of them what their intent was, and why they viewed and aduised so the castell. The Scots answered them roughlie with disdainfull words, so that the English|men fell to and replied with strokes; and after manie blowes giuen and receiued, diuerse Scots were wounded, and some slaine; and the residue ouermat|ched with multitude of the Englishmen, fled as fast as their horsses could carie them.