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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03702	The trauailes of an English man Containing his sundrie calalmities indured by the space of twentie and odd yeres in his absence from his natiue countrie; wherein is truly decyphered the sundrie shapes of wilde beasts, birds, fishes, foules, rootes, plants, &c. With the description of a man that appeared in the sea: and also of a huge giant brought from China to the King of Spaine. No lesse pleasant than approued. By I.H. Published with authoritie.; Rare travailes of Job Hortop	Hortop, Job.	1591 (1591)	STC 13828; ESTC S116216	16,448	32

cole hauing a stone in it and it is an excellent good fruite There also groweth a strange thing which they call Magei it serueth them to many vses below by the roote they make a hole whereat they do take out of it twise euery day a certaine kind of licour which they seeth in a great kettell till the third part be consumed and that it waxe thicke it is as sweet as anie honie they doe eate it Within twentie daies after that they haue taken all the licour from it it withereth and they cut it downe and vse it as we vse our hempe heere in England which done they conuert it to many vses of some part they make Mantles ropes and threed of the ends they make needles to sowe their saddels pannels and other furniture for their horses of the rest they make tyles to couer their houses and they put it to many other purposes And thus we came to Mexico which is 7 leagues about seated in a great fen inuironed with foure hils it hath but two waies of entrance and it is ful of creeks in the which in their Canowes they passe from place to place and to the Ilandes there within In the Indies ordinarily three times a yeare bee woonderfull earthquakes which put the people in great feare and daunger during the time of two yeres that I was in Mexico I saw them six times when it commeth it throweth downe trees houses and churches There is a Citie 25 leagues from Mexico called Tuscalia which is inhabited with a hundred thousand Indians they go in white shirts linnen breeches and long mantles and the women weare about them a garment much like vnto a flannen petticote The Kings pallace was the first place that we were brought vnto in Mexico where without we were willed to sit downe Much people men women children came wondering about vs many lamented our misery some of their clergie asked vs if we were Christians we said we praised God we were as good christians as they they asked how they might know that we said by our confessions Frō thence we were carried in a Canowe to a Tanners house which standeth a little from the citie the next morning two friars two priests came thither to vs and willed vs to blesse our selues and say our praiers in the Latin tong that they might vnderstand vs many of our company did so wherevpon they returned to the vize-king and told him that we were good Christians that they liked vs well then they brought vs much releefe with cloths our sick men were sent to their hospitals where many were cured and many died From the Tanners house we were led to a gentlemans place where vpon paine of death wee were charged to abide and not to come into the Citie thither we had all things necessarie brought vs on sundaies and holydaies much people came and brought vs great releefe The vize-king practised to hang vs and caused a paire of new gallows to be set vp to haue executed vs wherevnto the Noblemen of that country would not consent but praied him to stay vntill the ship of aduise brought newes from the king of Spaine what should be done with vs for they saide they could not finde any thing by vs whereby they might lawfully put vs to death The vize-king then commanded vs to be sent to an Iland therby he sent for the Bishop of Mexico who sent foure priests to the Iland to examine confes vs who said that the vize-king would burne vs when we were examined and confessed according to the lawes of their country They returned to the Bishop told him that we were very good Christians The Bishop certefied the vize-king of our examinations and confessions and said that we were good Christians therefore he would not meddle with vs. Then the vize-king sent for our maister R. Barret whom he kept prisoner in his pallace vntil the fleete was departed for Spaine The rest of vs hee sent to a Towne seuen leagues from Mexico called Tothscoco to carde wooll among the Indian slaues which drudgery we disdained and concluded to beat our maisters and so we did wherefore they sent to the vize-king desiring him for Gods sake and our Ladies to send for vs for they would not keep vs any longer they said that we were deuils no men The vizeking sent for vs imprisoned vs in a house in Mexico from thence he sent An. Goddard some other of our company with him into Spaine with Lushon the Generall that tooke vs the rest of vs staied in Mexico 2 yeeres after then were sent prisoners into Spaine with Don Iohn de valesco de varre admiral general of the spanish fleet who caried with him in his ship to be presented to the K. of Spaine the anatomie of a Giant which was sent from China to Mexico to the vize-king Don Martin Hennerico to be sent to the K. of Spaine for a great wonder It did appeere by the anatomie that he was of a monstrous size the skull of his head was neer as big as half a bushel his neck bones shoulder plates arme bones all other lineaments of his other partes were huge and monstrous to behold the shanke of his leg from the ankell to the knee was as long as any mans ankell vp to his wast and of bignesse accordingly At this time and in this shippe were also sent to bee presented to the king of Spaine two chests full of earth with ginger growing in them which were also sent from China to be sent to the king of Spaine The ginger runneth in the ground like to liccoras the blades growe out of it in length and proportion like vnto the blades of wild garlicke which they cut euerie fifteene daies they vse to water them twise a day as we doe our hearbes heere in England they put the blades in their porrage and vse them in their other meates whose excellent sauour and tast is very delightfull and procureth a good appetite When wee were shipped in the port of S. Iohn de Low the Generall called our maister Robert Barret vs with him into his cabbin and asked vs if wee would fight against Englishmen if we met them at sea we said that wee would not fight against our Crowne but if we met with any other we would doe what wee were able He said if we had saide otherwise hee would not haue beleeued vs and for that we should be the better vsed and haue allowance as other men had he gaue a charge to euery one of vs according vnto our knowledge Robert Barret was placed with the pilate I was put in the Gunner roome William Cawse with the bote-sunne Iohn Beare with the quarter-maisters Edward Rider and Geffrey Giles with the ordinarie marriner Richard the maisters boy attended on him and the pilate shortly after we departed from the port of S. Iohn de Lowe with all the fleete of Spaine for

haue traded with them but they durst not for feare of the king we brought vp the Minnion against the Castell and shotte at the Castell and Towne these we landed in an Iland where were many gardens there in a caue we found certain Buttesios of wine which wee brought away with vs in recompence whereof our Generall commaunded to bee set on shore woollen and linnen cloth to the value thereof From hence by foule weather wee were forced to seeke the port of S. Iohn de Lowe in our way twhart of Campeche wee met with a Spanyard a small ship who was bound for Santa Domingo he had in him a Spanyard called Augustine de villa noua that was he that betrayed all the Noble men in the Indies caused them to be beheaded wherefore he with two Friers with him fled to S. Domingo them wee tooke and brought with vs into the port of S. Iohn de Low Our Generall made a great account of him and vsed him like a Noble man in the ende he was one of them that betrayed vs when we had mored our shippes and landed we mounted the ordinance that wee found there in the Iland and for our safeties kept watch and ward Two daies after wee discouered the Spanish fleete wherof Lushon a Spanyard was Generall with him came a Spanyard called Don Martin Henerico whō the king of Spaine sent to bee his vize-king of the Indies He sent a pinnice with a flagge of truce vnto our Generall to know of what Countrie those ships were that rode there in the King of Spaines port who sayd they were the Q. of Englandes ships which came in there for victuals for their mony for the which if your Generall will come in here he shall giue me victualles and all other necessaries and I will go out on the one side of the port and he shall come in on the other side The Spaniard returned for answere that he was a vize king had a thousand men and therefore he would come in Our Generall sayd if he bee a vize king I represent my Queenes person I am a vize king as well as he and if he haue a thousand men my pouder and shot will take the better place Then the vize king after counsell among themselues yeelded to our Generals demaund swearing by his King and his Crowne by his commission and authoritie that hee had from his King that he would performe it and therevpon pledges were giuen on both parts Our Generall bearing a godly and Christian mind voide of fraud and deceite iudged the Spanyards to haue done the like deliuered to them six Gentlemen not doubting to haue receiued the like from them but the faithlesse Spanyardes in costly apparell gaue of the basest of their companie as afterwardes it was well knowne These things finished proclamation was made on both sides that on payne of death no occasion should be giuen whereby any quarrel should growe to the breach of the league and then they peaceably entered the port with great triumph on both sides The Spanyards presently brought a great Hulke a ship of nine hundred and mored her by the side of the Minion and they cut out ports in their other shippes planting their ordenance towards vs in the night they filled the Hulke with men to lay the Minion aboord as the sequel did shew which made our General doutfull of their dealinges wherefore for that hee could speake the Spanish toong hee sent Robert Barret aboord the vize-king to knowe his meaning in those dealings who willed him with his company to come in to him whome he commaunded presently to bee sette in the bilbowes and foorthwith a Cornet for a watchword among the false Spanyards was sounded for the enterprising of their pretended treason against our Generall whome Augustine de villa noua sitting at dinner with him should then presently haue killed with a poynado which hee had priuily in his sleeue which was espyed and preuented by one Iohn Chamberlaine who tooke the poynado out of his sleeue Our Generall hastily rose vp and commaunded him to bee put prisoner in the Steward roome and to bee kept with two men The faithlesse Spanyards thinking all things to their desire had beene finished sodainely sounded a Trumpet and therewith three hundred Spanyards entred the Minion whereat our Generall with a lowde and fierce voyce called vnto vs saying God and Saint George vpon those trayterous villaines and rescue the Minnion I trust in God the day shall bee ours and with that the Marriners and soldiers leapt out of th Iesus of Libbicke into the Minnion and beate out the Spanyardes and with a shotte out of her fiered the Spanyards vize-admirall where the most part of three hundred Spanyardes were spoyled and blowne ouer boord with powder Their Admiral also was on fier half an houre wee cutte our cables wound off our shippes and presently fought with them they came vpon vs on euery side and continued the fight from tenne of the clocke vntill it was night they kylled all our men that were on shore in the Iland sauing three which by swimming got aboord the Iesus of Libicke They sunke the Generals ship called the Angell and tooke the Swallow the Spanyards admiral had aboue threescore shot through her many of his men were spoyled foure other of their shippes were sunke there were in that fleete and that came from the shore to rescue them fifteene hundred we slew of them fiue hundred and fortie as wee were credebly infourmed by a note that came to Mexico In this fight the Iesus of Libicke had fiue shot through her maine mast her fore-mast was stroke in sunder vnder the hounds with a chaine shot and her hull was wonderfully pearced with shot therfore it was vnpossible to bring hir awaie They set two of their own ships on fire intending therwith to haue burnt the Iesus of Libbicke which wee preuented by cutting our cables in the halfe and winding off by our sternefast The Minion was forced to set saile stand off from vs and come to an ancor without shot of the Iland Our Generall couragiously cheered vp his soldiers and Gunners and called to Samuel his page for a cup of Beere who brought it him in a siluer cup and he drinking to al his men willed the Gunners to stand by their ordenance lustily like men He had no sooner set the cup out of his hand but a demy Culuerine shot stroke away the cup a Coopers plaine that stood by the maine mast ran out on the other side of the ship which nothing dismaied our Generall for hee ceased not to incourage vs saying feare nothing for God who hath preserued mee from this shot will also deliuer vs from these traytors and villaines Then captaine Bland meaning to haue turned out of the port had his main mast stroke ouer bord with a chainshot that came from the shore wherefore hee ancored fired his ship tooke his pinnice with all his men