The decades of the newe worlde or west India conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes, with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and ilandes lately founde in the west ocean perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne. ... Wrytten in the Latine tounge by Peter Martyr of Angleria, and translated into Englysshe by Rycharde Eden.
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The decades of the newe worlde or west India conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes, with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and ilandes lately founde in the west ocean perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne. ... Wrytten in the Latine tounge by Peter Martyr of Angleria, and translated into Englysshe by Rycharde Eden.
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Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526.
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Londini :: In ædibus Guilhelmi Powell [for Edwarde Sutton],
Anno. 1555.
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America -- Early accounts to 1600.
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"The decades of the newe worlde or west India conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes, with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and ilandes lately founde in the west ocean perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne. ... Wrytten in the Latine tounge by Peter Martyr of Angleria, and translated into Englysshe by Rycharde Eden." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20032.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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¶ The contentes of the .viii. booke. Fol. 80.
¶ A contention betwene the Castilians and Portugales as concernynge the diuision of the newe founde landes: And howe the controuersie was fynysshed by the byshop of Rome.
Howe Don Chrystopher the gouernoure of the Ilande of Sancti Iohannis, was slayne by the Canibales and the bys∣shop put to flyght. Also of the other bysshops of the Ilandes.
Howe the Canibales of the Iland of Sancta Crux, slew and eate a kynge with certeyne of his men beinge frendes to the Chrystians and made faggottes of theyr bones: And how querelynge with owre men, they put them to silence.
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