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The
Reformation Online proudly presents John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto),
the real Discoverer of the New World!! |
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To the corrupt
Old World he gave a New World!!
John Cabot
(1450-1499).
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"For
the last seven years the people of Bristol have equipped two,
three [and] four caravels to go in search of the island of Brazil
(Newfoundland) and the Seven Cities according to the fancy of
this Genoese"(Pedro
de Ayala letter
from London written in 1498).
John
Cabot was the expert mariner who provided the geographic information
for the Waldseemuller map now in the Library of Congress.
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In 1494,
John Cabot planted the banners of England, Ireland and France
in the New World.
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On
June 24, 1494, John Cabot landed in the New World and planted the
banners of England, Ireland and France and the lion of St. Mark of
Venice.
According
to the laws of discovery in force at that time, when a country discovered
an island, that entire island belonged to that country.
Since
the New World was ONE CONTINENT or landmass from north to south, John
Cabot's claim of first discovery extends to the entire New
World.
Christopher
Columbus can claim the islands of Santo Domingo, Cuba and the Caribbean
Islands but that is all.
Legal
claim to the New World rests upon the Discovery of Cabot!!
The
legal claim to the New World rests upon the prior Discovery of John
Cabot....Joseph Story was a Supreme Court justice from 1812 to 1845
and the first professor of law at Harvard University Law School. He
was the author of Commentaries on the Constitution of the United
States—one of the most excellent commentaries on the Constitution
ever written. Here is a brief quote from that book:
"The
discovery of the Continent of America by Columbus in the fifteenth
century awakened the attention of all the maritime States of Europe.
Stimulated by the love of glory, and still more by the hope of gain
and dominion, many of them early embarked in adventurous enterprises,
the object of which was to found colonies, or to search for the precious
metals, or to exchange the products and manufactures of the old world
for whatever was most valuable and attractive in the new. England
was not behind her continental neighbours in seeking her own aggrandizement,
and nourishing her then infant commerce. The ambition of Henry the
Seventh was roused by the communications of Columbus, and in 1495
he granted a commission to John Cabot, an enterprising Venetian, then
settled in England, to proceed on a voyage of discovery, and to subdue
and take possession of any lands unoccupied by any Christian Power,
in the name and for the benefit of the British Crown. In the succeeding
year Cabot sailed on his voyage, and having first discovered the Islands
of Newfoundland and St. Johns, he afterwards sailed along the coast
of the continent from the 56th to the 38th degree of north latitude,
and claimed for his sovereign the vast region, which stretches from
the Gulf of Mexico to the most northern regions.
Such is the origin of the British title to the territory composing
these United States. That title was founded on the right of discovery,
a right, which was held among the European nations a just and sufficient
foundation, on which to rest their respective claims to the American
continent. Whatever controversies existed among them, (and they were
numerous,) respecting the extent of their own acquisitions abroad,
they appealed to this as the ultimate fact, by which their various
and conflicting claims were to be adjusted." (Joseph
Story, Commentaries
on the Constitution of the United States, p. 5).
Of
course Justice Story did not know that it was the initial voyages
of Cabot to the New World that caused Spain to send Columbus in order
to preempt the great Venetian Discoverer....The LEGEND of
Christopher Columbus only began in the U.S. following the fall of
the Papal States in 1870.
We
understand that the New World was inhabited by millions of
people thousands of years before Cabot's Discovery. The first
people to arrive here were the descendants of Noah who came a few
hundred years after the nations were scattered at the Tower of Babel.
The first settlers might have been blown across a then much smaller
ocean by a hurricane or simply fishermen in search of fish.
Later
on the Phoenicians came here and we know that the Egyptians built
the pyramids in Mexico. Around the year 600 A.D., Hibernian (Irish)
missionaries came here in order to preach true Christianity to the
natives. The merciless, mercenary Vikings came here too but they followed
the Irish missionaries in order to kill them and destroy their
work.
John
Cabot's first voyage was made in 1491, and his first Discovery of
the New World was in 1494!!
The
GREAT New World Discoverer may have made earlier attempts to reach
the New World, but the first voyage that we know about was made in
1491.
All
the later historians have the first Cabot voyage in 1497, but that is
an error because Cabot (unlike Columbus) made his discoveries first,
and then went to his sovereign for official recognition.
Sebastian
Cabot Planisphere.
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John Cabot's
landfall was on the coast of Labrador, Canada, on June 24,
1494.
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This
map, called the Sebastian Cabot Planisphere (1544) is in the Bibliothèque
Nationale de Paris. It shows the correct date of 1494 for the Discovery.
It reads in Latin with the Arabic date of 1494:
"Terram
hanc olim nobis clausam, aperuit Ioannes Cabotus Venetus, necno Sebastianus
Cabotus eius filius anno ab orbe redem pto 1494 die vero 24 Julij
(sic), hora 5 sub diluculo, quá terrá prima visain appellarunt,
et Iusulá quandi magná ei oppositá, Insulá
divi Io annis nominarunt, quippe quae solemni die festo divi Ioannnis
a perta fuit. Huius terrae incolae pellibus animalium induuntur, arcuin
in bello, sa gittis, hastis spiculis clavis ligneis, et fundis utuntur,
sterilis incultaq tellus fuit, leonibus, ursis albis, procerisque
cervis, piscibus innume-ris lupis scilicet, salmonibus, et ingentibus
soleis, unius ulnao longitudine, altisque diversis piscium generibus
abundat, horum autem maxima copia est, quos vulgus Bacallios appellat,
ad haec insunt accipitres nigri corvorum similes, aquilae, perdicesque
fusco colore aliaeque diversae volucres."
Here
is the Spanish inscription on the map:
"Esa
tiera fue descubierta por Ioan Caboto Veneciano, y Sebastian Caboto
su hijo, anno del nascimiento de nuestro Salvador JesuChristo de M.
CCCC. XCIIII, a veinte y quatro de Iunio, por la mannana, ala qual
pusieron nombre prima tierra vista, y a una isla gráde que
esta par de la dha tierra, le pusieron nombre sant Ioan, por aver
sido descubierta el mismo dia la gente della andan vestidos depieles
de animales, usan en sus guerras arcos, y flechas, lancas, y dardos,
y unas porras de palo, y hondas. Es tierra muy steril, ay en ella
muchos orsos plancos, y ciervos muy grádes como cavallos y
otros muchos animales y semeiantemente ay pescado infinito, sollos,
salmoes, lenguados, muy grandes de vara enlargo y otras muchas diversidades
de pescados, y la mayor multitud dellos se dizen bacealaos, y asi
mismo ay enla dha tierra Halcones prietos cuomo cuervos Aquillas,
Perdices, Pardillas, y otras muchas aves de diversas maneras."
Queen
Elizabeth I had a copy of this map by Sebastian Cabot in her palace
at Westminster.
John
Cabot explaining his great Discovery of the New World to King
Henry VII of England. |
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By
the time John Cabot arrived back in Bristol after his great Discovery,
the Papal Bull granting the entire New World to Spain had arrived
in England.
Cabot realized
at once that Rome and Spain were trying to STEAL the New World from
him. To protect his Discovery, he applied to the king for a Royal
Charter or Letters Patent.
King Henry
granted the Charter but he knew that this could cost him his throne
due to the Papal threat of excommunication. This was just before
the Reformation and ALL of Europe still trembled before the roaring
lion seated on the 7 Hills.
Thank God
that the king ignored his threats and fulminations!! |
The
Sebastian Cabot Planisphere was in the secret archives of the Vatican
for about 300 years!!
The map was the
work of Sebastian Cabot, the son of John Cabot. It was discovered in
1843 in Bavaria. Like the Juan de la Cosa map, it was taken to Paris
when Napoleon invaded Rome in 1810. Most of the archives were returned
except for this map and the Juan de la Cosa map.
A magnificent half-sized
colored offset of the map, complete with inscriptions and descriptions,
by André Rossel and Roger Hervé, was published by Editions
les Yeux Ouverts, in Paris, in 1968.
There is a copy in
the maps department of the New York Public
library.
The
Juan de la Cosa map was also in the secret archives for about
300 years!!
Only
John Cabot had charted the New World coastline up to that time. Here is
the oldest map of the New World showing English flags all the way from
Newfoundland to Florida. For 3 centuries it lay in the secret archives
of the Vatican until it was carried to Paris by Napoleon Bonaparte in
1810.
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The
Juan de la Cosa map. |
Famous
map by Juan de la Cosa from the year 1500. It shows the flags
of Castile and Leon in the vicinity of Cuba and the English flags
covering all of the New World coastline from Florida to Canada.
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Map showing
English flags on New World.
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The original
parchment of this map or chart, a piece of ox-hide measuring 37.5 x 72
inches (96 X 183 cm), superbly illustrated in ink and water colors, was
found in 1832 in a shop in Paris by Baron Walckenaer, a bibliophile and
the Dutch Ambassador, and was brought to the attention of the world the
following year by Alexander Humboldt, the famous German scholar. Upon
the death of Baron Walckenaer in 1853, the map was purchased by the Queen
of Spain, and though greatly deteriorated, is now the chief treasure of
the Museo Naval in Madrid.
The Waldseemuller map was the work
of John Cabot!!
If
we discount aliens from outer space, there is ONLY ONE explanation
for the mysterious Waldseemuller map. Cabot was an excellent mariner
and the Venetians were the best sailors in the world up to that time.
Of course the men from Bristol were used to long sea voyages into
the Atlantic ocean in search of fish. John Cabot must have discovered
the strait leading into the Pacific ocean and basically followed the
same route as later followed by Sir Francis Drake.
Universalis
Cosmographia,
the Waldseemüller wall map dated 1507, depicts the Americas,
Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Ocean separating Asia
from the Americas.
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The New
World is named America and the Pacific ocean is clearly
displayed on this map years before Balboa first saw it!!
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This
is the first map depicting the Pacific ocean and the first map to
contain the name AMERICA.
How
America got its name. A Vespucci sting
operation!!
Amerigo
Vespucci (1451-1512), shown here as a young boy.
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Vespucci
was a COMMONER—of that we can be certain.
Even
his profession—money lending—was frowned upon because
of the practice of usury.
Never
during the AGE of Discovery was the first name of a commoner used
to name a new found land.
Even
the first name of Columbus was not used because he was the so-called
son of a wool carder from Genoa!! |
Portrait
and signature of Vespucci, 1508.
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Vespa
from which the name Vespucci is derived is the Italian word
for WASP. The entire New World has received a nasty sting of venom from
the wasp Amerigo Vespucci.
Amerigo
Vespucci (son of Nastagio Vespucci) was born into the rich money lending
Vespucci family in Florence, Italy, on March 9, 1451. The family was
related to the rich and powerful money lending Medici banking cartel.
Several of the Medici dynasty became Popes, among them was the infamous
Leo X who excommunicated Saint Martin Luther:
"Amerigo
had to cross Florence twice daily to attend a private school at the
Convent of San Marco conducted by his uncle, (Dominican) Father Giorgio
Antonio Vespucci. There one of his schoolmates was Pier Soderini who
rose to be gonfaloniere (prime minister) of the Florentine
Republic—to whom he addressed his famous Lettera. Amerigo
entered the commercial house of Lorenzo di Pier Francesco de' Medici,
who sent him in 1491, after twenty years' service, to Seville as head
employee of a Medici affiliate, Juanoto Berardi. He was then almost
forty years old. At Seville his main business was merchant banking and
ship chandlery. Upon the death of Berardi in 1495, Vespucci became head
of the house, and as such helped to outfit Columbus's fleet for the
Third Voyage in 1498."(Morison, The European Discovery of America,
vol. II, p.279).
John
Cabot's Bristol paymaster was named Richard Amerike!!
Intimate
details of the Cabot voyages were sent back to Spain—including
maps....Now
it so happens that John Cabot had a paymaster
named Richard Amerike. John Cabot
had a habit of giving away islands to his friends:
"I
have also spoken with a Burgundian, one of Messer Zoane's companions,
who corroborates everything. He wants to go back, because the Admiral,
which is the name they give to Messer Zoane, has given him an island.
He has given another to his barber, a Genoese by birth, and both consider
themselves counts, while my lord the Admiral esteems himself at least
a prince" (Letter to the Duke
of Milan about John Cabot's discovery of the New World).
It
is certain that John Cabot wrote the name of his paymaster (Amerike)
on one of the islands or perhaps on the MAINLAND ITSELF:
"
. . .but with the help of the enclosed copy you (Columbus) will be able
to ascertain what you wish to know, since the capes of tierra firma
and the islands are therein named and you will also see there where
the first landfall [primera vista] took place, because it was
on the return [course] that was found the major part of the land. "(John
Day's letter to Columbus).
When
Verspucci saw the name Richard Amerike either on a map of the New World
or among the papers of John Cabot, he noticed the similarity of names.
Right there and then, his devilish mind began to concoct a scheme to
supplant Richard Amerike and have the New World named after himself.
A Catholic
historian named Bartolomé de la Casas wrote about the "long
premeditated plan of Vespucci to have the world acknowledge him as the
Discoverer of the largest part of the Indies." (de las Casas, History
of the Indies, p. 95).
Amerigo
Vespucci never voyaged to the New World!!
Because
of the similarity of names, the Florentine fraudster saw the opportunity
to steal a whole New World from the English and name it after himself.
He was a usurer or moneylender by profession so stealing or reaping
where others have sown was no problem for him as that was his chosen
profession!!
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Memorial
brass of Richard Amerike's daughter Joan, in Bristol, England. |
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Richard
Amerike was the paymaster for John Cabot!!
"Fig.25:
Memorial brass of Richard Amerike's daughter Joan, and her husband
John Brook, to be seen virtually alongside that of John Jay in
the chancel of Bristol's St. Mary Redcliffe church. The Latin
inscription reads: 'Here lies the body of that venerable man John
Brook, serjeant-at-law to that most illustrious prince of happy
memory King Henry VIII and Justice of Assize for the same king
in the western parts of England, and chief steward of the honourable
house and monastery of the Blessed Mary of Glastonbury in the
County of Somerset in which John died on the 25th day of December
1522. And near him rests Joan his wife, one of the daughters and
heirs of Richard Amerike, on whose souls may God have mercy, Amen."
(Wilson, The Columbus Myth, p.167). |
Official
Chronology of John Cabot, the real Discoverer of the New World!!
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EVENT |
1450 |
John Cabot
(Giovanni Caboto) is born in Genoa, Italy. His father is a seaman
and a merchant. In 1461, when John is 11, his family moves to Venice.
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1476
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John Cabot
becomes a citizen of the Republic of Venice. His hero is the Venetian
explorer Marco Polo, and he is determined to reach China by sailing
westward. |
1480
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John Cabot
arrives in Bristol, England, with his wife and 3 sons. He is a POOR
MAN so he works in the Bristol fishing industry. After many years
of hard work he finances the building of his own ship. A Bristol
merchant named Richard AMERIKE helps to finance his voyages. |
1491 |
John Cabot
makes his first attempt to reach the New World but he has to turn
back because of a raging storm. |
1494 |
On May 2, he
sails from Bristol again in his tiny ship called the Matthew
manned by a crew of 18 Bristol sailors. On June 24, he lands on
the coast of Canada. He plants the banner of England and the lion
of St. Mark of Venice on the new found land (Newfoundland).
He returns safely to Bristol in the month of August. |
1496
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By this time,
the news of the Papal Bull has reached England. John Cabot
realizes that Columbus is trying to supplant him, so he
applies to King Henry VII for a Royal Charter. The king grants the
Charter but John Cabot must go at his own expense!! |
1497 |
With the Royal
Charter of the king to legalize his discovery, John Cabot sails
again in the Matthew. He lands on the coast of Maine and
then sails south as far as Florida mapping the coast of the New
World. He names the New World AMERIKE after his Bristol financier...
On his return voyage, he names an island after his barber (surgeon),
and another island after a Burgundian friend. |
1498 |
On his 3rd
voyage, he sails with 5 ships and provisions for a long voyage of
exploration and colonization. He maps all the coast of the mainland
from Canada to Venezuela still looking for Cipango (Japan) which
he knew lay off the coast of China. |
| 1499 |
Cabot and his
ships are intercepted somewhere off the coast of Venezuela by Alonso
de Hojeda. The great Discoverer of the New World and all his crew
are KILLED and their maps stolen!! |
All the
Cabot voyages of exploration were watched carefully by the agents of the
Spanish Inquisition in England. Meticulous details of his previous voyages
and the maps he made were sent to Spain....King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
put the Papal Bull into effect by issuing a license to kill to
a notorious conquistador and cold-blooded murderer named Alonso
de Hojeda . . . and sent him to intercept the Cabot expedition. On the
Hojeda expedition was a navigator and mapmaker named Juan de la Cosa.
Vital
links
Amerigo
Vespucci unmasked at last!!
The
Columbus Myth Exposed at Last!!
Christopher
Columbus Unmasked at Last!!
First
map with the name America on the North and South
References
Barrara,
Carlo Pezzi. Di Giovanni Cabotto. Tipografia Antonelli, Venezia,
1874.
Morison,
Samuel Eliot. The European Discovery of America. The Northern
Voyages, Oxford University Press, New York, 1971.
Nebenzahl,
Kenneth Maps from the Age of Discovery. Columbus to Mercator,
Times Books Ltd, London, England, 1990.
Pope
Peter E. The Many Landfalls of John Cabot. University of
Toronto Press. Toronto, 1997.
Story,
Joseph. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States.
Carolina Academic Press, Durham, North Carolina, 1987. (First published
in 1833).
Tarducci,
Francesco. John & Sebastian Cabot. (Translated by Henry
F. Brownson), H. F. Brownson Publisher, Detroit, 1893.
The
medallion of the New World Discoverer is from the book Di Giovanni
Cabotto by Carlo Pezzi Barrera, Venezia, 1874.
Copyright
© 2007 by Niall Kilkenny
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