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  • ...hn Layfield''' (also spelled '''Laifield''') (died 6 November 1617) was an English scholar and Bible translator. ...58) ''The Translators Revived: A Biographical Memoir of the Authors of the English Version of the Holy Bible''. Mobile, Alabama: R. E. Publications (republish ...
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  • He also alludes to the English piracies committed by [[Francis Drake]] and [[Thomas Cavendish]], and to ev [[Category:16th-century Spanish Roman Catholic priests]] ...
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  • ...to South America with Sebastian Cabot.<ref>Heather Dalton, ''Merchants and Explorers''</ref> [[Category:English spies]] ...
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  • {{short description|English explorer (fl. 1512–1528)}} ...[[Robert Thorne (merchant)|Robert Thorne]] in 1527 from [[Seville]] to the English ambassador in Spain arguing for a route from England to the [[Spice Islands ...
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  • ...c/pages/unger.html Cartographic conversation - Brown University]</ref> The explorers [[William Barents]] and [[Henry Hudson]] also believed in the Open Polar Se ...search for [[John Franklin]]'s missing expedition, and many would-be polar explorers took up the theory, including [[Elisha Kent Kane]], Dr. [[Isaac Israel Haye ...
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  • {{Short description|English merchant}} '''John Frampton''' was a 16th-century [[English people|English]] merchant from the [[West Country]], who settled in [[Spain]], was impriso ...
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  • ...gen. However, [[William Baffin]] (Markham [1881], pp. 40–43), pilot of the English warship ''Tiger'', had met Gerritsz off Spitsbergen between 19–23 June 1613 [[Category:16th-century births]] ...
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  • ...ailed for [[Kholmogory, Arkhangelsk Oblast|Kholmogory]] in Russia, but the English, who were already established there, denounced him as a spy to the Russian ...he [[Pet and Jackman Expedition]] sought the [[Northeast Passage]] for the English [[Muscovy Company]]. The Russian authorities built two ships to do the same ...
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  • ...{{c.|1448}}&nbsp;– 1502?) was a [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] [[List of explorers|explorer]] who charted about 600 miles of the [[coast of Labrador]].<ref na ...that the markings were abbreviated Latin, and the message, translated into English, read as follows: '' I, Miguel Cortereal, 1511. In this place, by the will ...
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  • {{Short description|English explorer and writer (1561 – 1635)}} {{Use British English|date=October 2015}} ...
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  • [[Category:16th-century English people]] [[Category:Explorers from Cornwall]] ...
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  • {{short description|16th-century Spanish conquistador; founder of present-day Salta, Argentina}} ...web/20071009214653/http://www.welcomesalta.com.ar/ |date=2007-10-09 }} (in English) ...
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  • {{use Australian English|date=January 2022}} [[Category:16th-century births]] ...
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  • {{Short description|16th-century English navigator}} '''Edward Fenton''' (died 1603) was an English [[navigator]], son of Henry Fenton and Cicely Beaumont and brother of Sir [ ...
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  • ...r Japan for silver trade. Among the adventurers on the expedition were the English navigator [[William Adams (sailor, born 1564)|William Adams]] and his broth [[Category:16th-century Dutch explorers]] ...
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  • {{Use Canadian English|date=December 2010}} ...waves at the top of the shield, refers to the city's early discoverers and explorers. The shield is supported on the left by a mariner of the fifteenth century ...
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  • ...]] and [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] [[pilot (shipping)|pilot]] and [[Spanish explorers|explorer]]. He served in the [[Portuguese India Armadas]] that secured cont ...h name|name]] Juan Rodríguez Serrano and more common in [[English language|English]] sources,{{sfnp|Stanley|1874|p=4}} although [[Antonio Pigafetta]]{{mdash}} ...
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  • * [[John Davis (English explorer)|John Davis]] – English explorer who accompanied De Houtman on the first East Indies' expedition as '''English''' ...
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  • '''Andrew Boorde''' (or '''Borde''') (''c.'' 1490{{snd}}April 1549) was an English traveller, [[physician]] and writer. ...mission to find out the state of public feeling abroad with regard to the English king. He writes to Cromwell from various places, and from [[Catalonia]] he ...
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  • ...nown as Diego Soares de Melo, Diego Suarez de Melo and the "Galego", was a 16th-century [[Portugal|Portuguese]] [[navigator]] and [[explorer]]. In 1824, the bay was explored by the English hydrographer Owen, then in 1833, Captain Bigeault, commandant of La Nièvre, ...
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