 The book was first translated into English by John Healey (1608–9), using the title "The Discovery of a New World or A Description of the South Indies", attributed to "English Mercury".It was a free and necessarily unauthorised translation, and involved Hall in controversy.Andrea McCrea describes Hall's interactions with Robert Dallington, and then Healey, against the background of a few years of the pace-setting culture of the court of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales.