Economic Development - Exploration

Henry VIII’s view on exploration

Henry VIII’s view on exploration

• Uninterested

• Made no attempt to build on the early achievementsof Cabot and the Bristol merchants in his father’s reign

Robert Thorne

• Bristol trader

• Continued his involvement in an Iceland and Newfoundland fishery

Other merchants

• Other merchants still interested in exploration found themselves unable to win royal support for any venture

Sebastian Cabot

• Remained in Spain for most of Henry VIII’s reign apart from two short visits to England

• Only after Edward VI took the throne is when he returned