Historians Make New British-Canadian Find

This story is a bit of a cross-over, but I felt as it involved Britain and British colonial history it was worth mentioning here. Historians have discovered a letter from King Henry VII of England commissioning a merchant from Bristol in 1499. He was to sail west and try and follow up the voyages of John Cabot a few years before, to learn more about North America. The letter explicitly states that William Weston is searching for a "new founde land", which makes this the earliest known use of the term in relation to Canada, the previous oldest being another document linked to Henry VII from 1502. Medieval News has a great quote about the importance of this find from Professor Evan Jones: As "almost any new information about the voyages is valuable…the very existence of such a voyage would, therefore, alter the standard narrative of the early and poorly documented English voyages to the New World." On a more personal note, the letter also states that a lawsuit against Weston was to be suspended until he’d returned.