The telling scroll unravels to 13 foot (4 m). Image: The National Archives, UK.
Posted on 10/17/2018 9:49:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In AD 1499 England launched its very first English-led expedition to "Terra Nova" (New World) and now researchers studying a 16th century scroll have found King Henry VII awarded William Weston, one the explorers, with... the payment of 30 British pounds sterling... equivalent of a laborers salary for six years... The information was discovered on a huge parchment dating back more than 500 years and ultraviolet light was required to reveal the hidden text said study co-researcher Evan Jones, a senior lecturer in economic and social history at the University of Bristol in a report in Live Science.
In 2009, the University of Bristol published Jones paper titled The lost voyage: First English-led expedition to North America in which a "long lost letter" written by King Henry VII was addressed to Weston as he "was preparing for an expedition to the new found land." The king was excited and in support of Weston because in AD 1497 and 1498 the Venetian explorer John Cabot had successfully sailed the Atlantic having set off from the southern English port of Bristol. But it seems Weston was preparing a British-led expedition...
On another level of this fascinating story, the new study also confirmed two extraordinary claims made by Alwyn Ruddock, a deceased historian from the University of London, who having studied the early English voyages to the Americas for over 4 decades claimed that Cabot had explored most of the North American continent's east coast by AD 1500. Ruddock never published her discoveries and in a bizarre act, upon her death in 2005, she ordered that all her notes were destroyed, and so they were.
(Excerpt) Read more at ancient-origins.net ...
The telling scroll unravels to 13 foot (4 m). Image: The National Archives, UK.
The Discovery Of America: The Revolutionary Claims Of A Dead Historian
University Of Bristol | 4-4-2007 | Alwyn Ruddock
Posted on 04/04/2007 4:49:18 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1812133/posts
Briton found America in 1499
The Daily Mirror | 29 Aug., 2009 | By Tom Pettifor
Posted on 08/29/2009 12:03:39 AM PDT by OldSpice
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2327271/posts
Rewriting History: Alwyn Ruddock and John Cabot
http://web.mac.com/ | Sunday, July 11, 2010 | Douglas Hunter
Posted on 05/04/2012 8:05:33 PM PDT by kiryandil
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2880118/posts
New evidence suggests Cabot may have known of New World before voyage
Ottawa Citizen | 29 April 2012 | Randy Boswell
Posted on 05/07/2012 11:58:05 AM PDT by Theoria
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2880945/posts
***Ruddock never published her discoveries and in a bizarre act, upon her death in 2005, she ordered that all her notes were destroyed, and so they were.***
Consider the loss to the literary world if Augustus had carried out Virgil’s last wish that the AENEID be destroyed.
Virgil was a drama queen, but regardless, it's a weird thing to do.
Maybe she had dementia.
Cool map! Cool story!
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