When was sebastian cabot born

As a result, from to the late s, Sebastian was in the service of the King of Spain. He then returned to England, becoming governor of the Muscovy Company, which aimed to find a northeast passage to Asia, around the north of Russia. He probably died in In , the Newfoundland government issued a commemorative stamp bearing a portrait thought to be of John Cabot.

It was in fact a portrait of Sebastian Cabot, painted in old age. Sebastian Cabot. This image of Sebastian Cabot was mistakenly identified as that of his father John on a Newfoundland stamp. Cabot sent one ship back to Spain, to convey his reports and his accusations against the mutineers and to request fresh supplies, and spent the winter of —29 at San Salvador. In the spring he went back upstream to Sancti Spiritus, where, during his temporary absence in the autumn of , the fort was captured and sacked by Indians; Cabot recovered the heavy guns and withdrew to San Salvador where, at a council on 6 Oct.

There could hardly be a clearer indication that Charles V was satisfied with the geographical results of the expedition to the Plata even if it be too much to identify, with J. The charges against his reputation as a navigator are unconvincing and must be held unproven.

On 24 June Cabot wrote to the secretary of the Council of the Indies about three maps which he had made for the emperor and about a method of determining longitude from magnetic variation. A second method proposed by Cabot for finding the longitude, and d escribed by Alonso de Santa Cruz, made use of the declination of the sun, observed with the quadrant.

On 6 Jan. Cabot remained governor after the grant of a new charter to the company in , and he assisted in the preparation of the expedition sent out by the company in under Stephen Borough. In February his successor as governor of the company was in office.

No will of his later than that made in Seville on 11 May has survived. Unhappily nothing came of this; and the only surviving literary remains of Sebastian Cabot are the Spanish documents printed by Harrisse and , by Toribio Medina , and by Pulido Rubio , the English documents printed by Hakluyt , and indirect quotations from his conversation and letters preserved by 16th-century writers.

Of his maps, only the printed world map of , with its legends, survives in a single copy, although a second copy of the Latin legends, in pamphlet form, also exists. Copies of his map were still in the royal collection about and probably perished in the burning of the Palace of Whitehall in and An oil painting of Sebastian Cabot in old age, perhaps identical with one seen by Purchas in the royal collection at Whitehall before , was in the 18th and 19th centuries in the possession, successively, of Lord Errol, of C.

It was destroyed by fire in ; copies made by J. That he was married and had offspring in England before , when he entered Spanish service, is attested by his journey to London at the end of that year to bring his wife and family su mujer y casa to Seville; by a reference in a Spanish document of 14 Sept. Giles in London, was dead; and by the English record of a legacy to his daughter Elizabeth, on 7 May , from her godfather William Mychell of London. Cabot evidently remarried in Spain; and various official documents, from 25 Aug.

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