. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . e. Theimportant historical inscription is in the top left-hand corner, and reads asfollows; Effigies Seb. Caboti Angli, filii Johannis Caboti Veneti MilitisAurati, Primi Inventoris Terra3 NovEe sub Henrico VII., Angliae the right-hand corner is his motto Spes mea in Deo est. 1 R. Biddlo died in 1817, tigod 51. For a notice of tliis eminent Statesman, See Dictionary, sub-nohi. 2 It is well Itnown that Columbus, whose groat acliievemont of 1492 has placedhim on a pinnacle of renown which neither
. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . e. Theimportant historical inscription is in the top left-hand corner, and reads asfollows; Effigies Seb. Caboti Angli, filii Johannis Caboti Veneti MilitisAurati, Primi Inventoris Terra3 NovEe sub Henrico VII., Angliae the right-hand corner is his motto Spes mea in Deo est. 1 R. Biddlo died in 1817, tigod 51. For a notice of tliis eminent Statesman, See Dictionary, sub-nohi. 2 It is well Itnown that Columbus, whose groat acliievemont of 1492 has placedhim on a pinnacle of renown which neither nor detl-action cnu ever eclipse orunderoaiuo, was himself preceded in the actual discovery of tcryn Jlnna by Jolm andHobastian Cabot. It was not till 140S that thjit prince of navigators liglitod on the northcoast of South America, whereas it is a fact beyond all question that in 1497 John Cabot,accompanied by his son, , was on the coast of North America.*—R. HMajor, , &c., In Archseologia, XLiii., p. 17. 3 N. and Q., 2nd S, V., 203, |^flia;StiAU CabOtC toulb me tbat l)c rm ^rvitotoc mui Hat at lUhYaris ntoUi \\t toaa cmtdV»it^ 1)18 fatl)fr tolmiff. ani) no rrtunxfb Ao,cy^nt intotnglanfi initl) l)i» father aftfr imlfviir yfarfa.\»l)rrehv I hftoasthouolit to liaUf bin hornr mlmiff. \ E? ,;?:.-;! ,\:,ld 1555, li^ The Mayors Chapel. 21 The quarto engraving in Seyers Bristol, vol. ii., page 208, has madethis interesting painting familiar to most of us. There is also a photo-lithographic copy of Seyers engraving prefixed to Mr. J. F. NichoUs Life of Cabot, which is so well done as to have deceived iMr. Stevens,the American Bibliographer, who, in his little book The Cabots, page31, erroneously calls it an excellent line engraving. A vignette of thepainting in question, delicately engraved by Storm, was published iuAmerica, in 1838, an impression of which, with an India proof of Seyersplate, I beg to place before yo
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