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A26631	An historical relation of the first discovery of the isle of Madera [sic] written originally in Portugueze by Don Francisco Alcafarado, who was one of the first discoverers, thence translated into French, and now made English.; Qual foy o azo com que se descobrio a ilha da Madeyra. English	Alcoforado, Francisco.; Mello, Francisco Manuel de, 1608-1666.	1675 (1675)	Wing A888; ESTC R7591	20,386	39

AN HISTORICAL RELATION Of the First DISCOVERY OF THE ISLE OF MADERA Written Originally in Portugueze by Don Francisco Alcafarado gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to the Infanta Don Henry younger Son of John the first King of PORTUGAL Who was one of the First Discoverers thence translated into French and now made English Barbaras bas Segetes Imposuit Tartar LONDON Printed for William Cademan at the sign of the of the Popes-Head at the Entrance into the New Exchange in the Strand 1675. AN HISTORICAL RELATION OF THE DISCOVERY Of the ISLE of MADERA AFter a tedious War England enjoying a profound Peace under the reign of her victorious Monarch Edward the third London her Metropolis where then resided the King surfeiting in Riches and Plenty did allure the young Gentle men to participate of her pleasures These having now no imployment for their swords did betake themselves to such Recreations as best suited with their natures Amongst whom Lionel Machin a younger Brother of a good but a decayed Family impoverisht in the former wars slighting the Vanities and Feastings to which his Companions who were thereunto addicted might by their examples invite him did deport himself with a more reserved behaviour His Beauty and Courage together with the good Fortune which usually attended his generous undertakings rendered him more considerable than was usual for Persons of his Age and Estate Thus generously demeaning himself Love insensibly crept into his heart for Arabella Darcy a most fair and beautiful youn g Lady the non-paril not onely of the Court but Kingdome famous for such wonders he publickly made his addresses of love unto which Passion he unadvisedly cherished without considering that his Mistress being in the prime of yourh and Beauty Heir to a great Estate and allied to a most honourable Family had by these motives attracted many Lords and Noble-men to be her Servants Notwithstanding Lionels merit made him more kindly be received by Arabella than any of his other Rivals who had submitted themselves under the Empire of so fair and charming a Sovereign But I intend not to write the particular History of their Loves and therefore shall omit by what means he at length arrived to so much happiness Let it suffice to know none of the Lords addresses were acceptable to Arabella she desiring nothing more than to make Lionel her Husband This was not well rellished by her Relations by whom her Father and Mother coming to understand the reciprocal kindness of our Lovers which they in vain saught to obstruct they immediately made their complaints to the King representing what a detriment such a marriage would prove to their Family they having before concluded a very advantagious match for their Daughter which she now refused to embrace and therefore they most humbly besaught his Majesty to use his Royal Authority to hinder it The King thought the best means was that Lionel by his Order should be arrested and that during his imprisonment Arabella should be compelled to marry the Nobleman her Parents had before designed her At the same time both the one and the other was executed Lionel being sent to Prison and Arabella in spight of all her repugnance forced to take the Lord for her husband Who presently after the wedding retlred with his Wife from London to his house at Bristol a Sea-port Town scituate on the River Avon which joyning with another River called the Severn coming from the Province of Gloucester both together disemboug themselves into the Irish Ocean Lionel hears the news of this Marriage with a great deal of Sorrow and being assured that Arabella's affection toward him was not diminished he lost all patience to be detained in Prison and therefore imployed his Friends to supplicate the King for his liberty which was not very difficult to obtain his Majesty having no farther end in the business than to content the Ladies Parents whose marriage being now solemnized and she removed a great way off he at small entreaty granted Lionel his liberty But as the violence which others use to hinder our desires doth rather augment than diminish their force So Lionells passion by his imprisonment grew stronger revolving in his mind during his restraint divers wayes how to be revenged of those he thought had done him wrong and resolved being now at liberty to execute them For this purpose secretly gathering together such of his Friends and Kinsmen in whom he put the most considence judging it necessary with some reasons to perswade them to be assistant to him in his designs he thus expressed himself You cannot but think that the resentment I have for the late affront put upon me is the cause of your present convention And I am perswaded if I were so base a Fellow to forget it yet you have so much honour as not to let me neglect a revenge The apparent injustice done me in forcing the Lady Arabella contrary to her inclinations to espouse him who it at present her Husband is no doubt a great affliction to her but more to me who was and still am her Lover Revenge and love hurry me on strange undertakings for I am resolved to take her from him and free my Mistress out of the hands of a man she hates The action I confess is both bold and dangerous but I should think my self unworthy of such Friends if I had not courage to attempt it with your assistance I would willingly undertake this concern alone and not expose you my Friends to the dangers that attend this enterprise but I should be unjust to you my worthy Kinsmen not to let you participate in the revenge for though the injury is only done me yet the affront is put upon our whole Family I were therefore much too blame if I went singly to retort abuses done us all Were the enterprise solely on my account I would not doubt your aid since enemies who openly offend us are more pardonable than those complemental Friends who in time of necessity refuse us their help should therefore any of you abandon me I have more reason to complain of him than of a professed Enemy But since I doubt not thereof let us Dear Friends consider how we may make our affronters sensible of the Injustice they have done us This Harangue of Lionell produced all the desired effects in the minds of them who heard it they unanimously promising not to leave him but resolving to run his Fortune Whereupon it was thought necessary they should then part and take several Roads to Bristol there to watch all means and take necessary measures to relieve Arabella The vicinity and commodity of the Sea did seem greatly to facilitate their enterprise France being pitched upon as a commodious retreat the great antipathy between that Crown and England promising them all the security they could desire They did not question good success it depending on their courages which were highly excited by divers heroique actions which had been gloriously atchieved when Love

he had made them steer that the Island he saught after was not far from thence and told Gonsalve that the rayes of the Sun lying very hot on the Earth and drawing thence the humidity of which there was a great quantity by reason of the multiplicity of Trees made a gross vapour to ascend which filling the Skie with its foggyness was the reason of the obscurity they saw and that he was confident by these tokens the Land they so much coveted to discover was not far from that place All of them were of a contrary opinion to Morales and tumultuously cryed how that he being a Castilian and by consequence an Enemy was very well pleased to see their Nation exposed to evident dangers that it was enough for men to encounter men without commencing a war against the Elements that it became only Heathens and Infidels to penetrate into the secrets of God that they were to expect nothing but death from that cloud and that to proceed further was only to dare the Almighty that the Infant was ill served to have his Servants exposed to such unprofitable dangers but the King was worse used in regard they were his most faithful Subjects who might serve him in more feisible undertakings than to search after a supposed Land on no other ground than the Pilots vain imaginations They farther argued that Gonsalve was a Nobleman of great merit he might expect large recompences from his own deserts without precipitating himself and them into such certainty of peril that valour was never shewn in pushing forward despair that it was no charity under pretence of Religion to find out people and seize on their Countries whereby they shewed themselves rather covetous of their own than God's glory but that they ought to be content with those Lands they already possessed and finally affirmed they were but men and therefore would not undergo what seemed to be above Mortals strength All these clamours did not stagger their Commanders resolution he therefore for the present gave them good words resolving because he was of greater courage than all of them to surmount the difficulties which now seemed greater by reason of the averseness of these men and communicating his thoughts only to Jean de Morales he hoisted his sails and weighed anchor steering his course directly towards the Bug-bear shadow making all the sail his Vessels could bear by that means the sooner to obtain the Land he hoped to find The nearness of the obscurity did augment their fears it appearing higher and bigger as they nearer approached to it About mid day the Sea seemed altogether darkned an unusual blackness filling the whole horizon neither was there any sign of Land for the gross cloud into which they where now entered covered both Sea and Skie This was the cause of a strange confusion and the vicinity of their supposed danger made them all cry out and earnestly entreat Gonsalve that he would not proceed which if he did they looked upon themselves as dead men beseeching him not to be the destruction of so many innocents Their outcryes did not at all startle their Captain but calling together the Officers Mariners and Souldiers and placing himself to be heard by them all more to justifie his constancy than satisfie their desires he made them this Oration Do you think my Friends and Comrades that I esteem my life less than you do yours if not none certainly ever went about to perswade you that if you miscarry I have any means to save my self that indeed would be the greatest injustice in the World that I should reap the Glory and you the Hazards of this enterprise but equally we are to participate in both if therefore I at present appear more hardy then suits with your content It is because I highly esteem you for I am insinitely glad you understand what perils you expose your selves unto that it may hereafter be famed you deliberately and of purpose not by chance did confront these more than humane dangers I do not therefore at all wonder at your fears but I do not by any means approve of the way you would put in execution to remove them with what justice can you pretend to more glory than other Nations if you do not thus expose your lives if you follow but the footsteps of your noble Ancestors you may trace them in such adventures as we are now a making For what reason did we come from our Countrey for what reason did our Master send us hither wherefore among thousands which tendred themselves for this employment did he make choice of us wherefore doth he shew himself a father to our Families wherefore doth he take so kindly our Devoir 't is not surely that we should do our business by halfs or leave off our adventures before finished Consider that as there is but one life so there is but one death and it is neither without reason that you should fear the Elements more than men for twice by either of them you cannot dy If you do not refuse to hazard your lives against the Enemies of your King what is it that you dread in the wind or water do you think a wave or a gust of wind more cruel then the Sword or Lance of an Enemy is not the peril the same you meet with in any rancounter seeing you cannot but once receive your deaths Think upon that grounds we are entered into the service of our King and Prince is it not to make discovery of unknown Provinces which your courages are to conquer and lay at their feet this ought not to be abandoned by your disobedience and fear especially being commanded on this Voyage by their immediate orders Truely Friends 't is more scandalous to return home and dy with shame at Lisbon then unhappily perish in the Sea if so ill fortune should attend as Let us bravely then undergo this risque for be you certainly assured when once our resolutions are fixed to proceed we shall find all things as easie as we can wish The Night is never more dark then when day approaches the strange consternation we are now in is the greater sign our lock'd for good fortune draws near Couragiously Friends examine the cause of your temerity reason will soon inform you the Cloud which is the cause is but a shadow if both nature and fortune did expose us I would be the first should take the care of our lives but seeing we have nothing but our foolish fancies to fear which is misbecoming valiant men to dread let us in the Name of God proceed This discourse worked so powerfully on those to whom it was addressed that it made all their fears vanish and composed their minds so firmly that unanimously they protested Gonsalve should not only govern them as their Chief but command them as absolute Master of their Lives and Liberties they resolving to obey him blindly and without dispute in all things Though the weather was fair yet the Sea being

was the cause of undertaking them This resolution taken was instantly put in execution and being all safely arrived at Bristol as they had before projected they there again consulted how farther to prosecute what they had begun and it was thought convenient by them all that one of their Company should endeavour to procure a service in the house of Arabella's Husband my Lord but we know not his name for the Engglish to whom we are beholding for this Relation held it discretion to keep it secret Their eyes were instantly upon one judged most proper for that purpose who willingly undertook it and was entertained by the Lord as his Groom It was his good fortune to have assigned to his care a fair pied Horse on which Arabella often rode when she went to take the Air either in company of her Husband or alone The innocence of those times esteeming a Ladies honour to be a sufficient guard though the present Age is not of that opinion Bristol being as great a Town of Trade as most in England there were always in the Harbor many Ships ready to set Sail. One of the best sailing and strongest Vessels Lionel and his Companions resolved to seize the negligence of the Commander and vigilence of Lionel gave them great hopes there would not be much difficulty in effecting their desires The better to carry on their work they bought a Shallop with which they every day rowed out to Sea as on their pleasure so that when they should seize on Arabella and the Ship they might do it with more facility and less suspition both on the People a shore and those aboard the Vessels which rode at an Anchor near the Ship they intended to make use of Whilst these things were doing by the Conspirators Arabella had hourly notice from her new domestick of what ever was resolved on in their Cabal and accordingly took her measures in a short time all things being favourable and the wind come fair at North Arabella had notice that in a day or two they intended to put their design in execution The place Lionel had chosen daily to come to with his shallop was behind a Cape of Land very convenient for his purpose because little frequented and by reason of the solitariness of the place not at all subject to any rancounter might unluckily happen in that juncture of time the Groom also to favour the business had omitted for three Days to give any Drink to the pyed Horse which was his Charge Arabella when she knew all things were in readiness and that Lionel and his Companions waited for her in the shallop with impatience expecting that happy Hour they had so long waited for mounted on Horseback on pretence of taking the Air and rode towards the Cape before mentioned the Horse being extream thirsty hearing the Waves beat against the Shoar and thereby knowing the nearness of the water rushed furiously on in spight of the bit or those that led him all that the pretended Groom could do was to catch hold on the reins seeming thereby to stop him when indeed he only guided him towards the Shallop which he might the easier do because the Horse seeing himself led towards Water which he much desired did not unwillingly submit to be so guided Lionel and his Comrades seeing what was done a Shoar leaped out of the Shallop where they attended the beginning of that good fortune should put an end to their Disgrace and most officiously laying hold on the Horses bridle dismounted the Lady and immediately with the cunning Groom embarqued in the Shallop so that before the other Servants could come to the Sea side Our adventurers were got a good distance thence having with Sails and Oars dilligently endeavoured so to do The Day appointed to put this Action in execution was also designed for seizing the Vessel we before spoke of which was the easier accomplished in regard that at the same time the Owners made a farewel feast a Shore to which the Master Mariners Officers and Souldiers were invited so that the Vessel being in a manner empty was without difficulty surprized by Lionel and his Friends upon which so soon as they were embarqued loosing the sails and cutting the Cable they steered their Course for France the Wind blowing a brisk gale carried the Ship swiftly away which was very happy for our Lovers What a noise the recital of this adventure made not onely in Bristol but also throughout all England what descants was made thereof or what dangers the Actors underwent and what punishment they deserved let the Reader imagine for we intend not to particularize them in our Relations The Eyes of Love are not always blind for Lionel considering the quality of the offence he had committed against whom soon bethought himself that the Husband of Arabella was a person of such Quality as having not only his own power but also the Authority of Justice in his behalf would not fail to make all the Ships then in Harbor pursue the Ravishers of his Wife and Honour Lionel therefore to prevent being overtaken made all the sail he could not caring how soon he lost the sight of Land At Night he altered the Course that in the Day he had steered the better to blind any that should pursue him all that Night they sailed with such a swiftness as usually accompany's them that run headlong into their own ruine the Day ensuing he found himself out of danger of pursuit But the Wind which hitherto had continued favourable and gentle now began to be so impetuous that it seemed rather to blow a Storm then a fair gale Arabella now began to reflect on what was past and consider her former and present condition musing on these things she came upon the deck the better to divert her melancholy where seeing nothing but a Tempestuous Sea and an Air she had not been accustomed unto she then perceived what a miserable estate she had reduced her self unto the poor Vessel being now become the sport of the Sea and Wind was a general grief and affliction to them all After five Days of Navigation without discovering the Land they looked for the wind became so cross and vehement as it quite forced them from the coasts of France whether their desires tended the Friends of Lionel who were not so amorous as himself soon became sensible of their deplorable estate perceiving how equally fortune treated them making no distinction between the innocent and guilty and that they were all like to share in the common danger But Lionel was most extreamly tormented to consider that he was not only the means of bringing himself into that ruin but also his Friends and chiefly her whom he Loved more dear more than his Life Thirty Days were they in this Calamity running through the vast and dangerous deserts of the Ocean destitute of all Hope and Hourly expecting death when one morning about Sun-rising they began to have some Hopes for they