Why they would lie about it, I surely don't know

Why didn't the european aristocracy share the knowledge of the maps showing the western hemisphere? Why did columbus already know it was there, and recieve aristocratic funding to go there?

What happened when the peasant slave puritans in england learned about the "new world" which had been known about and on their maps for centuries if not millennia?

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