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A68946	A summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes VVest Indian voyage wherein were taken, the townes of Saint Jago, Sancto Domingo, Cartagena & Saint Augustine.; Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage	Bigges, Walter, d. 1586.; Croftes, Lieutenant.; Gates, Thomas, Sir, d. 1621.; Boazio, Baptista. Famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes and barkes wherin weare gotten the townes of St· Iago: :Sto: Domingo, Cartagena and :St: Augustines the same beinge begon from Plimmouth in the moneth of September 1585 and ended at Portesmouth in Iulie 1586.	1589 (1589)	STC 3056; STC 3171.6(d)_PARTIAL; ESTC S722	23,010	54

FRANCISCVS DRACO NOBILISSIMVS ANGLIAE FOVES REI NAVTICAE AC BELLICAE PERITISSIMVS 1598 AVDENTES FORTVNA IVVAT Cognita Nasoni mea si quoque vita fuisset Neptuni verè sobolem narrasset et alis Expansis Mundum circumuditasse per vndas Flammi●●m in mira metamorphosi vsque Draconem Conuersum fueram semper sic faucibus ipse Vnguibus atque alis caudáque armatus in hostem A SVMMARIE AND TRVE DISCOVRSE OF SIR FRANCES DRAKES VVest Indian Voyage Wherein were taken the Townes of Saint Jago Sancto Domingo Cartagena Saint Augustine Imprinted at London by Richard Field dwelling in the Blacke-Friars by Ludgate 1589. The Reader must vnderstand that this Discourse was dedicated and intended to haue bene imprinted somewhat before the comming of the Spanish Fleete vpon our coast of England but by casualtie the same was forgotten and slacked for a time of some better leasure TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE ROBERT D'EVREVX EARLE OF ESSEX AND EWE VISCOVNT of Hereford and Bourchier Lord Ferrers of Chartley Bourchier and Louaine Maister of the Queens Maiesties horse and knight of the most honorable order of the Garter T. C. wisheth increase of all honour and happinesse RIght Honorable hauing by chaunce recouered of late into my handes after I had once lost the same a copie of the Discourse of our late VVest Indian voyage vvhich vvas begun by Captaine Bigges vvho ended his life in the said voyage after our departure from Cartagena the same being aftervvardes finished as I thinke by his Lieutenant Maister Croftes or some other I knovve not vvell vvho Novve finding therein a most true report of the seruices and other matters vvhich happened in the sayd voyage the sight vvhereof is vvonderfully desired by manie honest and vvell disposed persons I haue presumed to recommend the publishing thereof vnto your Lordships protection and fauour for these tvvo causes The one for that your Lordships Honourable disposition is in the knovvledge of all men that knovv your selfe most thirstingly affected to embrace in your ovvne person the brauest enterprises if the time vvould once affoord anie such fit occasion as might be agreeable to her Maiesties resolution vvho vvisely and long may she do it gouerneth all things to the greatest aduantage of her selfe and people The other because my selfe hauing bene a member in the sayd actions and vvas Lieutenant of Maister Carleils ovvne companie vvhereby I can vvell assure the truth of this report I thought it my bounden duetie hauing professed my seruice to your Lordship before all men to dedicate the same rather vnto your Lordship then to anie other And although it be novve a yeare and a halfe sithence the voyage ended vvhereby some man vvill say that it is novve no nevve matter yet the present time considered hovv doubtfull some of our meaner sort of people are of the Spanish preparations I thinke this Discourse a very fit thing to be published that they may see vvhat great victories a fevve English men haue made vpon great numbers of the Spaniardes euen at home in their ovvne countreyes The beholding vvhereof vvill much encourage those vvho by fame and bare vvordes are made to doubt much more then there is cause vvhy they should Vpon vvhich point as there may be much sayd so my selfe being no Discourser do desire to be held excused therein and therefore doe onely commend the trueth of this report vnto your Lordship vvhich vvill be also auovved by diuers Captaines that vvere in the sayd voyage And so in all humblenesse do take my leaue readie to do your Lordship all faithfull seruice Your Lordships souldier and humble seruant THOMAS CATES A SVMMARIE AND TRVE DISCOVRSE OF SIR FRAVNCES DRAKES WEST INDIAN VOYAGE vvherein vvere taken the tovvnes of Sainct Iago Sancto Domingo Cartagena and Sainct Augustine THIS worthie knight for the seruice of his Prince and countrie hauing prepared his whole fleete and gotten them downe to Plimouth in Deuonshire to the nūber of fiue twenty saile of ships pinnaces hauing assembled of souldiers and mariners to the number of two thousand and three hundred in the whole embarqued them and him selfe at Plimouth aforesayd the twelfth day of September 1585. being accompanied with these men of name and charge which hereafter followe Maister Christopher Carleill Lieutenant Generall a man of long experience in the warre as well by sea as land had formerly carried high offices in both kindes in many fights which he discharged alwaies verie happily and with great good reputation Anthonie Powell Sergeant Maior Captaine Matthew Morgan and Captaine Iohn Sampson Corporals of the field These principall officers had commandement ouer the rest of the lande Captaines whose names hereafter follow Captaine Anthonie Plat. Captaine Iohn Merchant Captaine Edward VVinter Captaine Iohn Goring Captaine Robert Pew Captaine George Barton Captaine VVilliam Cecill Captaine VValter Bigs Captaine Iohn Hannam Captaine Richard Stanton Captaine Martine Frobusher Vizeadmirall a man of great experience in sea faring action and had carried chiefe charge of many ships himselfe in sundry voyages before being nowe shipped in the Primerose Captaine Francis Knolles Rieradmirall in the Gallion Leicester Maister Thomas Venner Captaine in the Elizabeth Bonaduenture vnder the Generall Maister Edward VVinter Captaine in the Aide Maister Christopher Carleill the Lieutenant generall Captaine in the Tigar Henrie VVhite Captaine of the sea Dragon Thomas Drake Captaine of the Thomas Thomas Seelie Captaine of the Minion Bailie Captaine of the Barke Talbot Robert Crosse Captaine of the Barke Bond. George Fortescute Captaine of the Barke Bonner Edward Carelesse Captaine of the Hope Iames Erizo Captaine of the white Lion Thomas Moone Captaine of the Francis Iohn Riuers Captaine of the Vantage Iohn Vaughan Captaine of the Drake Iohn Varney Captaine of the George Iohn Martin Captaine of the Beniamin Edward Gilman Captaine of the Skout Richard Hawkins Captaine of the Galliot called the Ducke Bitfield Captaine of the Swallow After our going hence which was the fourteenth of September in the yeare of our Lord one thowsand fiue hundred eighty and fiue and taking our course towards Spaine we had the winde for a few daies somewhat skant and sometimes calme And being ariued neere that part of the coast of Spaine which is called the Mores we happened to espie diuerse sailes which kept their course close by the shore the weather being faire and calme The Generall caused the Vizeadmirall to goe with the Pinnaces well manned to see what they were who vppon sight of the said pinnaces approching nere vnto them abandonned for the most parte all their shippes being Frenchmen laden all with salt and bounde homewardes into France amongst which ships being all but of small burden there was one so well liked which also had no man in her as being brought vnto the Generall he thought good to make stay of her for the seruice meaning to pay for her as was accordingly performed at our returne which barke was called the Drake The rest of these

places and put to the sworde all such liuing soules as we should chaunce vpon so thus much he tooke for the conclusion of his answer and departing he promised to returne the next day but we neuer heard more of him Vpon the foure and twentieth of Nouember the Generall accompanied with the Lieutenant generall and six hundred men marched foorth to a village twelue miles within the lande called S. DOMINGO where the Gouernor and the Bishop with all the better sort were lodged and by eight of the clocke we came to it finding the place abandoned the people fled into the mountaines so we made stande a while to ease our selues and partly to see if any would come to speake to vs. After we had well rested our selues the Generall commaunded the troupes to march away homewardes in which retreat the enemy shewed them selues both horse foote though not such force as durst encounter vs and so in passing some time at the gase with them it waxed late and towards night before we could recouer home to S. IAGO Ciuitas S. DOMINICI sita in Hispaniola Indica Angliae magnitudine fere aequalis ipsa vrbs eleganter ab Hispanis extructa et omnibꝰ circum vicinis Ins●jura dat La Citte ' de Sainct Dominique asisse en la petite Hespaigne Indienne aegalle prisque én grandeur a'lAngleterre ceste Ville a este superbemant bastie par lés éspagnol● elle Commande a toutes lés Contreès Voisines But before our departure from the towne of S. IAGO we established orders for the better gouernment of the armie euery man mustered to his Capetaine and ●the● ministred to acknowledge her Maiestie supreame Gouernour as also euery man to do his vttermost endeuour to aduaunce the seruice of the action and to yeeld due obedience vnto the directions of the Generall and his officers By this prouident counsell and laying downe this good foundation before hand all things went forward in a due course to the a●chiuing of our happie enterprise In all the time of our being here neither the Gouernor for the king of Spaine which is a Portingall neither the Bishop whose authoritie is great neither any of the inhabitants of the towne or Island euer came at vs which we expectected they should haue done to intreate vs to leaue them some part of their needefull prouisions or at the least to spare the ruining of their towne at the going away The cause of this their vnreasonable distrust as I do take it was the fresh remembrance of the great wrongs they had done to olde Maister VVilliam Hawkins of Plimouth in the voyage he made fower or fiue yeares before when as they did both breake their promise and murdered many of his men whereof I iudge you haue vnderstood and therefore needelesse to be here repeated But since they came not at vs we left written in sundry places as also in the Spitle house which building was onely appointed to be spared the great discontentment and scorne we tooke at this their refraining to come vnto vs as also at the rude maner of killing and sauage kind of handling the dead body of one of our boyes found by them stragling all alone from whom they had taken his head and his heart and had stragled the other bowels about the place in a most brutish and most beastly maner In reuenge whereof at our departing we consumed with fire all the houses aswell in the countrey which we sawe as in the towne of S. IAGO From hence putting ouer to the VVest Indies we were not many dayes at sea but there beganne amongst our people such mortalitie as in few daies there were dead aboue two or three hundred men And vntil some seuen or eight dayes after our comming from S. IAGO there had not died anie one man of sickenesse in all the Fleete the sickenesse shewed not his infection wherewith so many were stroken vntill we were departed thence and then seazed our people with extreme hote burning and continuall ague whereof some verie fevve escaped vvith life and yet those for the most part not vvithout great alteration and decay of their vvittes and strength for a long time after In some that dyed vvere plainely shevved the small spottes vvhich are often found vpon those that be infected vvith the plague we were not aboue eighteene daies in passage betweene the sight of Sainct IAGO aforesaid and the Island of DOMINICA being the first Island of the VVest Indies that we fell withall the same being inhabited with sauage people which goe all naked their skin couloured with some painting of a reddish tawney verie personable and handsome strong men who doe admit little conuersation with the Spaniards for as some of our people might vnderstand them they had a Spaniard or twaine prisoners with them neither doe I thinke that there is any safety for any of our nation or any other to be within the limits of their commaundement albeit they vsed vs very kindely for those fewe houres of time which we spent with them helping our folkes to fill and carie on their bare shoulders fresh water from the riuer to our ships boats and fetching from their houses great store of Tobacco as also a kinde of bread which they fed on called Cassado verie white and sauerie made of the rootes of Cassania In recompence whereof we bestowed liberali rewardes of glasse coloured beades and other things which we had found at Sainct IAGO wherewith as it seemed they rested very greatly satisfied and shewing some sorowfull countenance when they perceaued that we would depart From hence we went to another Island VVestward of it called Sainct CHRISTOPHERS Island wherein we spent some dayes of Christmas to refresh our sicke people and to cleanse and aire our ships In which Island were not any people at all that we could heare of In which time by the General it was aduised and resolued with the consent of the Lieutenant generall the Vizeadmirall and all the rest of the Captaines to proceede to the great Island of HISPANIOLA as well for that we knewe our selues then to be in our best strength as also the rather allured thereunto by the glorious fame of the Citie of S. DOMINGO being the auncientest and chiefe inhabited place in all that tract of country there abouts And so proceeding in this determination by the way we met with a small Frigot bound for the same place the which the Vizeadmirall tooke and hauing duly examined the men that were in her there was one found by whom we were aduertised the hauen to be a barred hauen and the shore or lande thereof to be well fortified hauing a Castle therevpon furnished with great store of artillerie without the daunger whereof was no conuenient landing place with ten English miles of the Citie to which the sayd Pilote tooke on him to conduct vs. All things being thus considered on the whole forces were commaunded in the euening to imbarke them selues into Pinnaces boates and