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Here's an interesting article that suggests he did. I should read John Cabot and his Italian financiers mentioned in the article before I comment further. (by the way, the research is available here for free)but one thing struck me as odd.The historians use this as evidence
The clue, says Jones, is the ledger’s reference to Cabot’s goal being “the” new land rather than the indefinite “a” or some other less precise phrasing.
more than they use this
The most compelling clue is a two-page letter in Spanish — only found in the 1950s, and believed to have been sent to Columbus in 1498 by a mysterious English merchant and spy named John Day — that contains this startling statement about Cabot’s recently completed 1497 voyage to Newfoundland: “It is considered certain that the cape of the said land was found and discovered in the past by the men from Bristol, who found ‘Brasil’ as your Lordship well knows. It was called the Island of Brasil, and it is assumed and believed to be the mainland that the men from Bristol found.”
which they dismiss as myth.IMO, that's more compelling evidence than the "A" and "the"
