Tudor and Stuart Britain in the Wider World, 1485–1685

• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2010
• Subjects: Cabot; Newfoundland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199730414-0062

Britain’s forays into the Atlantic world began with annual fishing expeditions to Newfoundland in the 1480s, which led to John Cabot claiming possession of that region in 1497. Despite this claim, by 1530 the British in America were eclipsed by French and Portuguese fishing. Under Queen Mary (r. 155...