. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . is followed by a disputed third in1499, of which we have an entrj- that it was to the Gulf ofMexico; shortly after this is to be placed tiie death of JohnCabot, and Sebastian disappears from sight till the year in 1501, 1502, 1504, and afterwards, English ships wentthe Newfoundland voyage, chiefly for fishery. Possibly tjuided by Portuguese and Italian information, l^rom the DEstemap. it seems clea


. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . is followed by a disputed third in1499, of which we have an entrj- that it was to the Gulf ofMexico; shortly after this is to be placed tiie death of JohnCabot, and Sebastian disappears from sight till the year in 1501, 1502, 1504, and afterwards, English ships wentthe Newfoundland voyage, chiefly for fishery. Possibly tjuided by Portuguese and Italian information, l^rom the DEstemap. it seems clear that the Portuguese knew the outline of the XortliAmerican coasts from Florida to Cape Cod in The landfall on thisoccasion was probably S. of that on the former voyajre ; and the exploratio7iis said to have included the whole E. coast of the present United States asfar as Florida. (Harrisse, op. p. 34.) 67ti THE BEGIXXIXGS OF MODERX EXGLAXD. L1485 REGINALD We liave sceii how, in the matter of aichitecture, each new styleArchitecture arose and reached a comparative degree of perfection, not onlyand Art. during the lifetime of its predecessor, but while the predecessor. WINDOW IX lAinrciKD CIIUIUII, (.LULlX^TEllSIUKi;. was in the plenitude of its power. The same holds true of thework of the painter on glass. Tliere is rarely any apparentdifference between the or colour of the latter part of thePainted Glass. Early English glass and the carh ]iart of the Decorated glass, orbetween the later Decorated and the earliest magnificent dc[itli nl cdldur of the earliest times of glass o ABCHITECTUBE AXD APiT. 677 1S09J mosaic did not last long, and, indeed, in point of colour, thefalling-off was tolerably continuous throughout the whole otthe Decorated and Perpendicular })eriods. Nor was there, sofar as we can judge, nunh original talent then, or at anytime, displayed in England in this department. The bordersare, as a rule, either copies of archi


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