and the King thereof; yea and the English were as early in that very designe as the Portingales, for our Stow ad An. 1501, & 1502. Chronicles shew that Sebastian Gabat or Cabot, borne at Bristol, was employed by King Henry the seventh, and he with some London Merchants, adventured three or foure ships into those New-found lands, Anno one thousand foure hundred ninety eight; and it cannot be doubted, but they had made some former sufficient ex∣periments, before that their so confident engagement: Thence tis affirmed by others Purchas. l. 4. c. 13., that the English were there before Columbus, and about the yeere Stow. Ibid. one thousand five hundred and two, three of those Natives were brought unto the King, they were cloathed in beasts skinnes, did eate raw flesh, spake a language none could understand, two of those men were seen at the Court at Westminster two yeeres after, cloathed like Englishmen. But wee of this Nation have yet a more ancient claime, three hundred yeeres before Columbus, in the time of Henry the second, Anno Dom. one thou∣sand one hundred and seventy; when Madoc ap Owen Gwineth did not onely discover the Countrey, but plan∣ted in some part of Mexico, and left Monuments of the Brittish language, and other usages, taken notice of by the Spaniands, since their arrivall thither. Mr. Her∣bertL. 3. p. 360. in his travailes doth not onely remember this, but sheweth it to have bin mentioned by many worthy men of late, and ancient times, as Cynwic ap Greue, Me∣redith ap Rhice, Gul. Owen, Lloyd, Powell, Hackluit, Davis, Broughton. And Purchas. l. 4. c. 13. p. 807.But yet more particularly, Dr DonneSermon to Virginia Plan∣ters. An. 1622. p. 20. 26. allowes that as a justifiable reason of mens removall from one place to another, publique benefit; Interest Reipublicae ut re sua quis bene utatur, every one must use his private for 0