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SebastianCabot told Englishman Richard Eden that he was born in Bristol and carried to Venice at four years of age, and he told Contarini, the Venetian ambassador at the court of Charles V that he was Venetian, educated in England.
By 1512 Sebastian was certainly employed by Henry VIII as a cartographer at Greenwich.
The character of SebastianCabot does not leave a favourable impression; restless and unscrupulous, he busied himself with the most varied projects, and was ready to enter into relations with any country from which he might hope to gain the realization of his schemes.
The inference that John Cabots three sons, mentioned in his patent of 1496, must then have been of full age is almost certainly unfounded; the absence of their names from the second patent, which in 1498 authorized the impressment of shipping by their father, suggests in fact that at this date they were still minors.
Cabot supported Gutiérrez and produced reports on the numerous errors of the padrón; but the opinion of other cosmographers prevailed, and Cabot was in 1545 forced to acquiesce in the official condemnation of Gutiérrez proposed reform and to require him to make his charts accord with the padrón.
Cabot was certainly consulted in or before 1553 about a plan for an Anglo-French descent on Peru (the secret of which he wrote to Charles V); but his principal task was to be that of expert adviser on the English ventures for discovery of a northeast passage.
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