Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . , Your living costsyou so little that youmust have enoughlaid by to make agenerous gift to the king. Thus a man was sure to becaught on cither one tine of the fork or the other. Henry was a lover of peace as well as of money, and tookpart in no wars of consequence. On one occasion he per-suaded Parliament to make a large grant to carry on a warwith France; but as soor as the tax had been collected, hemade a treaty of peace T vh the French, and kept th
Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . , Your living costsyou so little that youmust have enoughlaid by to make agenerous gift to the king. Thus a man was sure to becaught on cither one tine of the fork or the other. Henry was a lover of peace as well as of money, and tookpart in no wars of consequence. On one occasion he per-suaded Parliament to make a large grant to carry on a warwith France; but as soor as the tax had been collected, hemade a treaty of peace T vh the French, and kept the money. Ocean Shu of the Fifteenth CVntury 116 HISTORY OF ENGLAND [1509 himself. When he died, he left a fortune of about £2,000,000sterling, equal in our money to-day to at least $90,000,000. 112. Commerce and exploration.—There was no Englishnavy in the fifteenth century for the protection of com-merce. Piracy was common, and merchant vessels wentarmed. Fur-trading was now begun with the coasts of theBaltic, and, in the west of England, companies were formedto engage in the fisheries around the coasts of trade also was protected and prosperous. The introduction of the mariners compass into Europeduring the fifteenth century had enabled navigators tosail far from land and to venture into unknown was during this reign, in 1492, that Columbus made forSpain his wonderful voyage westwards to what he supposedwas eastern Asia. A few years later, in 1497, John Cabot,a Venetian living in Bristol, with his son Sebastian, discov-ered Newfoundland. The private diary of Henry
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