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A20784	The vvorld encompassed by Sir Francis Drake being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dios formerly imprinted; carefully collected out of the notes of Master Francis Fletcher preacher in this imployment, and diuers others his followers in the same: offered now at last to publique view, both for the honour of the actor, but especially for the stirring vp of herock spirits, to benefit their countrie, and eternize their names by like noble attempts.	Drake, Francis, Sir, d. 1637.; Vaughan, Robert, engraver.; Fletcher, Francis, 16th cent.	1628 (1628)	STC 7161; ESTC S105366	81,588	115

inch and halfe in breadth which made a faire and princely shew somewhat resembling a crowne in forme about his necke hee had a chaine of perfect gold the linkes very great and onefold double on his left hand was a Diamond an Emerald a Ruby and a Turky 4 very faire and perfect jewells on his right hand in one ring a big and perfect Turky and in another ring many Diamonds of a smaller size very artificially set and couched together As thus he sate in his chaire of State at his right side there stood a page with a very costly fanne richly embrodered and beset with Saphires breathing gathering the aire to refresh the king the place very hot both by reason of the sunne and the assembly of so great a multitude After a while our gentlemen men hauing deliuered their message and receiued answer were licenced to depart and were safely conducted backe againe by one of the chiefe of the kings Councell who had charge from the king himselfe to performe the same Our gentlemen obseruing the castle as well as they could could not couceiue it to be a place of any great force two onely canons they there saw and those at that present vntrauersable because vnmounted These with all other furniture of like sort which they haue they haue gotten them from the Portingals by whom the castle it selfe was also builded whiles they inhabited that place and Iland Who seeking to settle a tyrannous gouernment as in other places so ouer this people and not contenting themselues with a better estate then they deserued except they might as they thought make sure worke by leauing none of the royall bloud aliue who should make challenge to the kingdome cruelly murthered the king himselfe father to him who now raignes and intended the like to all his sonnes Which cauelty instead of establishing brought such a shaking on their vsurped estate that they were faine without couenanting to carrie away goods munition or any thing else to quitte the place and the whole Iland to saue their liues For the present king with his brethren in reuenge of their fathers murther so bestirred themselues that the Portingall was wholly driuen from that Iland and glad that he yet keepes footing in Tidore These foure yeares this king hath beene increasing and was as was affirmed at that present Lord of an hundred Ilands thereabout and was euen now preparing his forces to hazard a chance with the Portingals for Tidore it selfe The people are Moores whose Religion consists much in certaine superstitious obseruations of new Moones and certaine seasons with a rigid and strickt kind of fasting We had experience hereof in the Viceroy and his retinue who lay aboard vs all the time for the most part during our abode in this place who during their perscribed time would neither eate not drinke not so much as a cup of cold water in the day so zealous are they in their selfe deuised worship but yet in the night would eate threetimes and that very largely This Terenate stands in 27. min. North latitude While we rode at anchor in the harbour at Terenate besides the natiues there came aboard vs another a goodly gentleman very well accompanied with his interpreter to view our ship and to conferre with our Generall he was apparelled much after our manner most neate and Courtlike his carriage the most respectiue and full of discreet behauiour that euer we had seene Hee told vs that he was himselfe but a stranger in those Ilands being a naturall of the Prouince of Paghia in China his name Pausaos of the familie of Hombu of which familie there had 11. raigned in continuall succession these two hundred yeares and king Bonog by the death of his elder brother who dyed by a fall from his horse the rightfull heire of all China is the twelfth of this race he is of 22. yeares of age his mother yet liuing he hath a wife and by her sonne he is well beloued and highly honoured of all his subjects and liues in great peace from any feare of forreine inuasion but it was not this mans fortune to enioy his part of this happinesse both of his king and countrey as hee most desired For being accused of a capitall crime whereof through free yet he could not euidently make his innocency appeare and knowing the peremptory iustice of China to be irreuocable if he should expect the sentence of the Iudges he before hand made suite to his king that it would please him to commit his trial to Gods prouidence and iudgement and to that end to permit him to trauell on this condition that if the brought not home some worthy intelligence such as his Maiestie had neuer had before and were most fit to be knowne and most honorable for China he should for euer liue an exile or else dye for daring to set foot againe in his owne countrey for he was assured that the God of heauen had care of innocency The king granted his suite and now he had beene three yeares abroad and at this present came from Tidore where he had remained two moneths to see the English Generall of whom he heard such strange things and from him if it pleased God to afford it to learne some such intelligence as might make way for his returne into his countrey and therefore he earnestly intreated our Generall to make relation to him of the occasion way and manner of his coming so far from England thither with the manifold occurrences that had happened to him by the way Our Generall gaue ample satisfaction to each part of his request the stranger hearkened with great attention and delight to his discourse and as he naturally excelled in memory besides his helpe of art to better the same so he firmely printed it in his mind and with great reuerence thanked God who had so vnexpectedly brought him to the notice of such admirable things Then fell he to intreate our Generall with many most earnest and vehement persuasions that be would be content to see his countrey before his departure any farther Westward that it should be a most pleasant most honourable and most profitable thing for him that he should gaine hereby the notice and carrie home the description of one of the most ancient mightiest and richest kingdomes in the world Hereupon he tooke occasion to relate the number and greatnesse of the Prouinces with the rare commodities and good things they yeelded the number statelinesse and riches of their Cities with what abundance of men victuals munition and all manner of necessaries and delightfull things they were stored with In particular touching ordnance and great gunnes the late inuention of a scab-shind F●●er amongst vs in Europe he related that in Suntien by some called Quinzai which is the chiefest Citie of all China they had brasse ordnance of all sorts much easier to be trauersed then ours were and so perfectly made that they would hit a shillng aboue 2000. yeares agoe With

him but encreased them vsing him in a manner as another himselfe and as his most inmost friend lodging him with himselfe giuing him the second place in all companies in his presence leauing in his hand the state as it were of his owne person in his absence imparting vnto him all his counsells allowing him free liberty in all things that were reasonable and bearing often at his hands great infirmities yea despising that any priuate iniury should breake so firme a friendship as he meant towards him And therefore was he often times not a little offended euen with those who vpon conscience of their duty and knowledge that otherwise they should indeed offend disclosed from time to time vnto him how the fire increased that theatned his owne together with the destruction of the whole action But at length perceiuing that his lenity and fauours did little good in that the heat of ambition was not yet allayed nor could be quenched as it seemed but by blood and that the manifold practises grew dayly more and more euen to extremities he thought it high time to call these practises into question before it were too late to call any question of them into hearing And therefore setting good watch ouer him and assembling all his Captaines and gentlemen of his comapany together he propounded to them the good parts which were in the gentleman the great good will and inward affection more then brotherly which he had euer since his first acquaintance borne him not omitting the respect which was had of him among no meane personages in England and afterwards deliuered the letters which were written to him with the particulars from time to time which had beene obserued not so much by himselfe as by his good friends not onely at sea but euen at Plimmouth not bare words but writings not writings alone but actions tending to the ouerthrowe of the seruice in hand and making away of his person Proofes were required and alleaged so many and so euident that the gentleman himselfe stricken with remorse of his inconsiderate and vnkinde dealing acknowledged himselfe to haue deserued death yea many deathes for that he conspired not onely the ouerthrow of the action but of the principall actor also who was not a stranger or il-willer but a deare and true friend vnto him and therefore in a great assembly openly besought them in whose hands iustice rested to take some order for him that he might not be compelled to enforce his owne hands against his owns bowells or otherwise to become his owne executioner The admiration and astonishment hereat in all the hearers euen those which were his neerest friends and most affected him was great yea in those which for many benefits receiued from him had good cause to loue him but yet the generall was most of all distracted and therefore withdrewe himselfe as not able to conceale his tender affection requiring them that had heard the whole matter to giue their iudgements as they would another day answer it vnto their prince and vnto almightie God judge of all the earth Therefore they all aboue 40. in number the chiefest of place and judgement in the whole fleet after they had discussed diuersly of the case and alleaged whatsoeuer came in their mindes or could be there produced by any of his other friends with their owne hands vnder seale adiudged that He had deserued death And that it stoode by no meanes with their safety to let him liue And therefore they remitted the manner thereof with the rest of the circumstances to the generall This judgement and as it were assise was held a land in one of the Ilands of that port which afterwards in memory hereof was called the Iland of True iustice and iudgement Now after this verdict was thus returned vnto our generall vnto whom for his company her maiestie before his departure had committed her sword to vse for his safety with this word We doe account that he which striketh at thee Drake striketh at vs he called for the guilty party and caused to be read vnto him the seuerall verdicts which were written and pronounced of him which being acknowledged for the most part for none had giuen heauier sentence against him then he had giuen against himselfe our generall proposed vnto him this choice whether he would take to be executed in this Iland or to be sett aland on the maine or returne into England there to answer his deed before the Lords of her maiesties Councell He most humbly thanked the generall for his clemencie extended towards him in such ample sort and crauing some respit to consult thereon and so make his choice aduisedly the next day he returned this answer that Albeit he had yeelded in his heart to entertaine so great a sinne as whereof now he was iustly condemned yet he bad a care and that excelling all other cares to die a christian man that whatsoeuer did become of his clay body he might yet remaine assured of an eternall inheritance in a farre better life This he feared if he should be set a land among Infidels how he should be able to maintaine this assurance feeling in his owne frailtie how mighty the contagion is of lewde custome And therefore he besought the generall most earnestly that he would yet haue a care and regard of his soule and neuer jeopard it amongst heathen and sauage Infidells If he should returne into England he must first haue a ship and men to conduct it with sufficient victuals two of which though they were had yet for the third he thought no man would accompanie him in so bad a message to so vile an issue from so honorable a seruice But if that there were which could induce their mindes to returne with him yet the very shame of the returne would be as death or grieuouser if it were possible hecause be should be so long a dying and die so often Therefore he professed that with all his heart he did embrace the first branch of the generals proffer desiring onely this fauour that they might receiue the holy communion once againe together before his death and that he might not die other then a gentlemans death Though sundry reasons were vsed by many to perswade him to take either of the other wayes yet when he remained resolute in his former determination both parts of his last request were granted and the next conuenient day a communion was celebrated by Mr. Francis Fletcher preacher and pastor of the fleet at that time The generall himselfe communicated in this Sacred ordinance with this condemned penitent gentleman who shewed great tokens of a contrite and repentant heart as who was more deepely displeased with his owne act then any man else And after this holy repast they dined also at the same table together as cheerefully in sobriety as euer in their liues they had done aforetime each cheering vp the other and taking their leaue by drinking each to other as if some journey