leaue and departed for that time I sent one of my companie with them to giue notice to Carasana and the rest of the Indians of Caripo that I had brought home their Country-man Martin whom they all thought to bee dead and another of their Nation also who had kindred and friends amongst them to desire him to come aboard my ship and to bring with him the principall Indians of Caripo that I might declare vnto them the cause of my comming into their Countrie and conferre with them of other matters intended for their good The next day I came into the Riuer of Wiapoco and anchored ouer against the Sandy Bay The day following the Indians came aboard as I had desired and brought vs good siore of their Countrie prouision Carasana and one or two more of them were attyred in old clothes which they had gotten of certaine English men who by the direction of Sir Walter Raleigh had traded there the yeere before the rest were all naked both men and women and this I obserued amongst them that although the better sort of men especially the Yaios doe couer their priuities by wearing ouer them a little peece of cotton cloth pretily wouen after their manner yet did I neuer see any of their women couered in any part either aboue or beneath the waste albeit they daily conuersed amongst vs but were all as the plaine prouerb is euen starke belly naked At their comming aboard my ship first Carasana as the principall amongst them and after him the rest saluted and welcommed vs after their rude manner I vsed them with all curtesie and entertayned them as well as the straight roome would giue me leaue giuing them good store of Aquauitae which they loue exceedingly I presented to their view their two Countrimen Martin the Lord of their Towne and Anthonie Canabre who was a Christian and had liued in England fourteene yeers both which I had brought home vnto them when they beheld them and after salutations and some conference knew to bee the same persons whom they supposed had beene long since dead they expressed much ioy and contentment and vnderstanding from their owne mouthes how well I had vsed them they seemed to be better pleased with our comming and when their rude salutations to their new-come Countrimen were ended I tooke them apart and thus declared the cause of my comming First I brought to their remembrance the exploits performed by Sir Walter Raleigh in their Countrie in the reigne of our late Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth when to free them from seruitude he most worthily vanquished the Spaniards at Trinidado burned their Towne tooke their Gouernour Don Anthonio de Berreo prisoner deliuered fiue of the Indian Kings imprisoned and bound by the necke with collers of Iron and with great labour and perill discouered the Riuer of Orenoque and the Countries adioyning as farre as the Prouince of Aromaya the Countrie of Topiawary and the Riuer of Caroli beyond it And that their Countrimen called the Orenoqueponi who are the borderers of Orenoque did then most willingly submit and render themselues vnder the subiection of the late Queene all which they well remembred and said that Sir VValter Raleigh promised to haue returned againe vnto them long since Then I excused his not returning according to his promise by reason of other imployments of great importance imposed vpon him by the late Queene shewing them moreouer that when he could not for that cause returne himselfe hee sent Captaine Keymis to visit them and to bring him true intelligence of their estate supposing that hee had left no Spaniards behinde him at Trinidado of power to molest them to the end that reliefe and aide might bee prepared for them according to their necessities and oppression of their enemies Then I told them of the death of the late Queene whereby that businesse of theirs was againe hindered Moreouer I declared vnto them that our gracious Soueraigne Lord King Iames who now reigneth ouer vs being the onely right and lawfull Heire and Successor to the Crowne and Dignitie of the Realme of England after the death of the late Queene was throughout the whole Land proclaymed King of England and so comming to reigne ouer vs hath beene euer since busied in ordering the State and affaires of the Kingdome which being by his great wisedome setled in tranquillitie and peace like a good gracious and worthy King doth now permit his Subiects to trauell abroad into forraine Countries and Nations to aide and assist all such as are vniustly molested by their enemies Whereupon I and the rest of these worthy Gentlemen my associates and friends hauing intelligence by some that had beene followers of Captaine Charles Lee who was a man well knowne amongst them and heretofore had taken possession of their Countrie to his Majesties vse and was planted diuers yeeres in Wiapoco where hee lyeth buried of the great variance and discord depending betweene them the allied Nations the Yaios Arwaccas Sappaios and Paragontos and their enemies the Charibes all inhabiting betweene the Riuers of Amazones and Dessequebe haue made a long and dangerous voyage into those parts to appease their dissentions and defend them against the Charibes or other enemies that shall molest or oppresse them and now being there arriued doe intend to make search in those Countries for conuenient places where such of our Nation as shall hereafter come to defend them may be fitly seated to dwell amongst them that if any of those Nations shall attempt at any time to disturbe the quiet liuing of their Neighbours they may haue store of English friends at hand and amongst them that will not spare their paines to appease their discords nor their liues to defend them from harme When I had thus declared vnto them the cause of my comming they made this answere that with our comming they were well pleased but our number of men they thought too great that they wanted meanes to prouide vs bread sufficient for them all hauing but a small Towne few Gardens and slender prouision for their owne companies because since Captaine Lee his death and his mens departure from them they neuer made prouision for any strangers I replyed that albeit their Towne was small and their Gardens few for the grounds wherein they plant their Cassaui whereof they make their bread they call their Gardens yet their Countrie was full of Inhabitants and had store of Gardens to supply our wants of bread and was plentifully stored with other prouisions sufficient for a greater number which I desired might be weekely brought vnto vs as neede required for that I meant not to take it without recompence but would giue them for it such commodities as should well please them which they wanted as Axes Hatchets Kniues Beades Looking-glasses Iewes trumps and such like things wherein they most delight Then they desired to consult amongst themselues which I permitted and expected their answere
made three or foure thousand pounds worth of Oyle they preferred it before Greenland Whale-fishing and purpose the next winter to fish for Whale here for Cod we assaied but found none there is good store no doubt in their season Neither got we anie fish all the time we lay there but some few little ones on the shoare We found great Mussles and verie fat and full of Sea Pearle but we could not eate them for they made vs all sicke that did eate as well sailers as passengers they caused to cast and scoure but they were soone well againe The Baie is so round and circling that before we could come to anchor we went round all the points of the Compasse We could not come neere the shoare by three quarters of an English mile because of shallow water which was a great preiudice to vs for our people going on shoare were forced to wade a Bow shoote or two in going aland which caused manie to get colds and coughs for it was manie times freezing cold weather This day before we came to harbour obseruing some not well affected to vnitie and concord but gaue some appearance of faction it was thought good there should be an association and agreement that we should combine together in one bodie and to submit to such gouernment and Gouernours as we should by common consent agree to make and choose and set our hands to this that followes word for word IN the name of God Amen We whose names are vnderwritten the loyall Subiects of our dread Soueraigne Lord King Iames by the grace of God of Great Britaine France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. Hauing vndertaken for the glorie of God and aduancement of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Countrie a Voiage to plant the first Colonie in the Northerne parts of Virginia doe by these presents solemnely and matually in the presence of GOD and one of another couenant and combine our selues together in a ciuill bodie politike for our better ordering and preseruation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid and by vertue hereof to enact constitute and frame such iust and equall Lawes Ordinances acts constitutions offices from time to time as shall be thought most meete and conuenient for the generall good of the Colonie vnto which wee promise all due submission and obedience In witnesse whereof we haue here vnder suscribed our names Cape Cod eleuenth of Nouember in the yeare of the raigne of our Soueraigne Lord King IAMES of England France and Ireland 18. and of Scotland 54. Anno Domino 1620. The same day so soone as we could we set ashoare fifteene or sixteene men well armed with some to fetch Wood for we had none left as also to see what the Land was and what Inhabitants they could meete with they found it to be a small necke of Land on this side where we lay is the Bay and the furthest side the Sea the ground or earth sand hils much like the Downes in Holland but much better the crust of the earth a Spits depth excellent blacke earth all woodded with Oakes Pines Saffafras Iuniper Birch Holly Vines some Ash Walnut the Wood for the most part open and without vnder-wood fit either to goe or ride in at night our people returned but found not anie person nor habitation and laded their Boate with Iuniper which smelled verie sweete and strong and of which wee burnt the most part of the time we lay there Munday the thirteenth of Nouember we vnshipped our Shallop and drew her on land to mend and repaire her hauing bin forced to cut her downe in bestowing her betwixt the decks and she was much opened with the peoples lying in her which kept vs long ther for it was sixteene or seuenteene daies before the Carpenter had finished her our people went on shoare to refresh themselues and our women to wash as they had great neede but whilest wee lay thus still hoping our Shallop would be readie in fiue or six daies at the furthest but our Carpenter made slow worke of it so that some of our people impatient of delay desired for our better furtherance to trauaile by Land into the Countrie which was not without appearance of danger not hauing the Shallop with them nor meanes to carrie prouision but on their backes to see whether it might be fit for vs to seate in or no and the rather because as we sailed into the Harbour there seemed to be a Riuer opening it selfe into the maine Land the willingnesse of the persons was liked but the thing it selfe in regard of the danger was rather permitted then approued and so with cautions directions and instructions sixteene men were set out with euery man his Musket Sword and Corslet vnder the conduct of Captaine Miles Standish vnto whom was adioyned for counsell and aduise William Bradford Stephen Hopkins and Edward Tilley Wednesday the fifteenth of Nouember they were set a shoare and when they had ordered themselues in order of a single File and marched about the space of a mile by the Sea they espied fiue or six people with a Dogge comming towards them who were Sauages who when they saw them ran into the Woods and whistled the Dogge after them c. First they supposed them to be Master Iones the Master and some of his men for they were a shoare and knew of their comming but after they knew them to be Indians they marched after them into the Woods least other of the Indians should lye in Ambush but when the Indians saw our men following them they ran away with might and maine and our men turned out of the Wood after them for it was the way they intended to goe but they could not come neere them They followed them that night about ten miles by the trace of their footings saw how they had come the same way they went and at a turning perceiued how they raune vp an hill to see whether they followed them At length night came vpon them and they were constrained to take vp their lodging so they set forth three Sentinels and the rest some kindled a fire and others fetched Woods there held our Randeuous that night In the morning so soone as we could see the trace we proceeded on our iournie and had the tracke vntill wee had compassed the head of a long creake and there they tooke into another Wood and we after them supposing to finde some of their dwellings but we marched thorow Boughes and Bushes and vnder Hils and Vallies which tore our verie Armour in peeces and yet could meete with none of them nor their houses nor finde any fresh water which we greatly desired and stood in neede off for we brought neither Beere nor Water with vs and our victuals was onely Bisket and Holland Cheese and a little Bottell of Aquauite so as we were sore a thirst About ten a clocke we came into a deepe Valley full of
to demaund of Powhatan willing him to returne vnto the English Fort both such men as hee detayned of ours and such Armes as he had of theirs in his possession and those conditions performed hee willed them to assure vnto Powhatan that then their great Werowance the Lord Gouernour and Captaine Generall would hold faire quarter and enter friendship with him as a friend to King Iames and his Subiects But refusing to submit to these demands the Lord Gouernour and Captaine Generall gaue in charge to the Messengers so sent to signifie vnto Powhatan that his Lordship would by all meanes publike and priuate seeke to recouer from him such of the English as he had being Subiects to his King and Master vnto whom euen Powhatan himselfe had formerly vowed not only friendship but homage receiuing from his Maiestie therefore many gifts and vpon his knees a Crowne and Scepter with other Ornaments the Symbols of Ciuill State and Christian Soueraigntie thereby oâ—liging himselfe to Offices of dutie to his Maiestie Vnto all which Powhatan returned no other answere but that either we should depart his Country or confine our selues to Iames Towne only without searching further vp into his Land or Riuers or otherwise hee would giue in command to his people to kill vs and doe vnto vs all the mischiefe which they at their pleasure could and we feared withall forewarning the said Messengers not to returne any more vnto him vnlesse they brought him a Coach and three Horses for hee had vnderstood by the Indians which were in England how such was the state of great Werowances and Lords in England to ride and visit other great men After this diuers times and daily hee sent sometimes two sometimes three vnto our Fort to vnderstand our strength and to obserue our Watch Guard and how our people stood in health and what numbers were arriued with this new Weroance which being soone perceiued our Lord Gouernour and Captaine Generall forewarned such his Spies vpon their owne perill to resort no more vnto our Fort. Howbeit they would daily presse into our Block-house and come vp to our Pallizado gates supposing the gouernment as well now as fantasticall and negligent in the former times the whilest some quarter of a mile short of the Block-house the greatest number of them would make assault and lye in ambush about our Glasse-house whether Diuers times indeed our men would make out either to gather Strawberries or to fetch fresh water any one of which so stragled if they could with conueniencie they would assault and charge with their Bowes and Arrowes in which manner they killed many of our men two of which being Paspaheans who were euer our deadliest enemies and not to be reconciled at length being apprehended and one of them a notable villaine who had attempted vpon many in our Fort the Lord Gouernour caused them to be manacled and conuented before him and his Counsell where it was determined that hee that had done so much mischiefe should haue his right hand strocke off sending him away withall with a message to Powhatan that vnlesse hee would yet returne such Englishmen as he detayned together with all such their Armes as before spoken of that not only the other now Prisoner should die but all such of his Sauages as the Lord Gouernour and Captaine Generall could by any meanes surprize should runne the same course as likewise the Lord Gouernour and Captaine Generall would fire all his Neighbour Corne Fieldes Townes and Villages and that suddenly if Powhatan sent not to contract with him the sooner What this will worke with him wee know not as yet for this was but the day before our ships were now falling to Point Comfort and so to set sayle for England which ships riding before Weroscoick to take in their fraight of Cedar Clap-boord Blacke Wal-nut and Iron Oare tooke Prisoners likewise the chiefe King of Weroscoick called Sasenticum with his Sonne Kainta and one of his chiefe men And the fifteenth day of Iuly in the Blessing Captaine Adams brought them to Point Comfort where at that time as well to take his leaue of the Lieutenant Generall Sir Thomas Gates now bound for England as to dispatch the ships the Lord Gouernour and Captaine Generall had pitched his Tent in Algernoone Fort. The Kings Sonne Kainta the Lord Gouernour and Captaine Generall hath sent now into England vntill the ships arriue here againe the next Spring dismissing the old Werowance and the other with all tearmes of kindnesse and friendship promising further designes to bee effected by him to which hee hath bound himselfe by diuers Sauage Ceremonies and admirations And thus right Noble Ladie once more this famous businesse as recreated and dipped a new into life and spirit hath raysed it I hope from infamy and shall redeeme the staines and losses vnder which she hath suffered since her first Conception your Graces still accompany the least appearance of her and vouchsafe her to bee limmed out with the beautie which wee will begge and borrow from the faire lips nor feare you that shee will returne blushes to your cheekes for praysing her since more then most excellent Ladie like your selfe were all tongues dumbe and enuious shee will prayse her selfe in her most silence may shee once bee but seene or but her shadow liuely by a skilfull Workman set out indeed which heere hungerly as I am I haue presumed though defacing it in these Papers to present vnto your Ladiship After Sir Thomas Gates his arriuall a Booke called A true Declaration of Uirginia was published by the Company out of which I haue heere inserted this their publike testimonie of the causes of the former euils and Sir Thomas Gates his Report vpon Oath of Virginia THe ground of all those miseries was the permissiue Prouidence of God who in the fore-mentioned violent storme seperated the head from the bodie all the vitall powers of Regiment being exiled with Sir Thomas Gates in those infortunate yet fortunate Ilands The broken remainder of those supplyes made a greater shipwracke in the Continent of Virginia by the tempest of Dissention euery man ouer-ualning his owne worth would be a Commander euery man vnder prizing anothers value denied to be commanded The next Fountaine of woes was secure negligence and improuidence when euery man sharked for his present bootie but was altogether carelesse of succeeding penurie Now I demand whether Sicilia or Sardinia sometimes the Barnes of Rome could hope for increase without manuring A Colony is therefore denominated because they should be Coloni the Tillers of the Earth and Stewards of fertilitie our mutinous Loyteyers would not sow with prouidence and therefore they reaped the fruits of too deere bought Repentance An incredible example of their idlenesse is the report of Sir Thomas Gates who affirmeth that after his first comming thither be hath seene some of them eat their fish raw rather then they would goe a stones cast to fetch wood
wings of the Spanish Fleete conuey ouer all his troupes armour and warlike prouision and with their forces so vnited should inuade England or while the English Fleete were busied in fight against the Spanish should enter vpon any part of the coast which he thought to be most conuenient Which inuasion as the Captiues afterward confessed the Duke of Parma thought first to haue attempted by the Riuer of Thames vpon the bankes whereof hauing at his first arriuall landed twenty or thirty thousand of his principall Souldiers he supposed that he might easily haue won the Citie of London both because his small ships should haue followed and assisted his Land-forces and also for that the Citie it selfe was but meanely fortified and easie to ouercome by reason of the Citizens delicacie and discontinuance from the warres When as therefore the Spanish Fleete rode at anker before Caleis to the end they might consult with the Duke of Parma what was best to be done according to the Kings commandement and the present estate of their affaires and had now as we will afterward declare purposed vpon the second of August being Friday with one power and consent to haue put their intended businesse in practise the Lord Admirall of England being admonished by her Maiesties Letterâ— from the Court thought it most expedient either to driue the Spanish Fleet from that place or at leastwise to giue them the encounter and for that cause according to her Maiesties prescription he tooke forthwith eight of his worst and basest ships which came next to hand and disburthening them of all things which seemed to be of any value filled them with Gunpowder Pitch Brimstone and with other combustible and fiery matter and charging all their Ordnance with powder bullets and stones and sent the said ships vpon the 28. of Iuly being Sunday about two of the clocke after midnight with the winde and tide against the Spanish Fleete which when they had proceeded a good space being forsaken of the Pilots and set on fire were directly carried vpon the King of Spaines Nauie which fire in the dead of night put the Spaniards into such a perplexitie and horror for they feared lest they were like vnto those terrible ships which Frederie senebelli three yeeres before at the siege of Antwerpe had furnished with Gunpowder stones and dreadfull engines for the dissolution of the Duke of Parma his Bridge built vpon the Riuer of Scheld that cutting their cables whereon their ankers were fasted and hoising vp their sailes they betooke themselues very confusedly vnto the maine Sea And this sudden confusion the principall and greatest of the foure Galliasses falling fowle of another ship lost her rudder for which cause when she could not be guided any longer she was by the force of the tide cast into a certaine should vpon the shoare of Caleis where she was immediately assaulted by diuers English Pinnaces Hoyes and Drumblers And as they lay battering of her with their Ordnance and durst not boord her the Lord Admirall sent thither his long Boate with an hundreth choise Souldiers vnder the command of Captaine Amias Preston Vpon whose approach their fellowes being more emboldened did offer to boord the Galliasse against whom the Gouernor thereof and Captaine of all the foure Galliasses Hugo de Moncada stoutly opposed himself fighting by so much the more valiantly in that he hoped presently to be succoured by the Duke of Parma In the meane season Moncada after hee had endured the conflict a good while being hit on the head with a Bullet fell downe starke dead and a great number of Spaniards also were slaine in his company The greater part of the residue leaping ouer-boord into the Sea to saue themâ—elues by swimming were most of them drowned Howbeit there escaped among others Don Anthonio de Manriques a principall officer in the Spanish fleete called by them their Veador Generall together with a few Spaniards besides which Anthonio was the first man that carried certaine newes of the successe of their fleete into Spaine This huge monstrous Galliasse wherein were contained three hundred slaues to lug at the Oares and foure hundred souldiers was in the space of three houres rifled in the same place and there was found amongst diuers other commodities 50000. Duckets of the Spanish Kings treasure At length when the slaues were released out of their fetters the English men would haue set the said ship on fire which Monsieur Gourdon the Gouernour of Caleis for feare of the damage which might thereupon ensue to the Towne and Hauen would not permit them to doe but draue them from thence with his great Ordnance Vpon the 29. of Iuly in the morning the Spanish Fleete after the foresaid tumult hauing arranged themselues againe into order were within sight of Greueling most brauely and furiously encountered by the English where they once againe got the winde of the Spaniards who suffered themselues to be depriued of the commodity of the place in Caleis rode and of the aduantage of the winde neere vnto Dunkerk rather then they would change their array or separate their forces now conioyned and vnited together standing onely vpon their defence And albeit there were many excellent and warlike shâ—ps in the English fleet yet scarse were there 22. or 23. among them all which matched 90. of the Spanish ships in bignesse or could conueniently assault them Wherefore the English ships vsing their prerogatiue of nimble stirrage whereby they could turne and wield themselues with the winde which way they listed came oftentimes very neere-vpon the Spaniards and charged them so sore that now and then they were but a Pikes length at sunder and so continually giuing them one broad side after another they dispatched all their shot both great and small vpon them spending one whole day from morning till night in that violent kinde of conflict vntill such time as powder and bullets failed them In regard of which want they thought it conuenient not to pursue the Spaniards any longer because they had many great vantages of the English namely for the extraordinary bignesse of their ships and also for that they were so neerely conioyned and kept together in so good array that they could by no meanes be fought withall one to one The English thought therefore that they had right well acquitted themselues in chasing the Spaniards first from Caleis and then from Dunkerk and by that means to haue hindered them from ioyning with the Duke of Parma his forces and getting the winde of them to haue driuen them from their owne coasts The Spaniards that day sustained great losse and damage hauing many of their ships shot thorow and thorow and they discharged likewise great store of Ordnance against the English who indeede sustained some hinderance but not comparable to the Spaniards losse for they lost not any one ship or person of account For very diligent inquisition being made the
should seeme vnto me alwayes a greater care and respect how to keepe themselues from all kinde of great heate the how to prouide for any store of great roste It had in it by report of them that should know best it some foure thousand and moe of very good able fighting men and sixe hundred horsemen at the least No question but that they were well furnished of all things appertaining thereunto especially so many good ships lying there and being so well stored with all manner of munition shot and powder as they were Of what wealth this towne should be I am not able to resolue the asker but as it should appeare by the great pillage by the common Souldiers and some Marriners too and by the goodly furnitures that were deâ—aced by the baser people and thereby vtterly lost and spoiled as not worth the carrying away and by the ouer great plenty of Wine Oyle Almonds Oliues Raisins Spices and other such Grocery wares that by the intemperate disorder of some of the rasher sort were knockt out and lay trampled vnder feet in euery common high way it should appeare that it was of some very mighty great wealth to the first owners though perchance not of any such great commodity to the last subduers for that I iudge that the better part was most riotously and intemperately spent and consumed The Wednesday Thursday and Friday following the Lords Generall spent in counsell about the disposing of all matters as well touching the towne and prisoners as also concerning all other matters thought meete of them in their honourable wisdomes and in all that meane while did shew such honourable bounty and mercy as is not able to be expressed For not onely the liues of euery one were spared but also there was an especiall care had that all the Religious as well men as women should be well and fauourably intreated whom freely without any manner of ransome or other molesiation they caused to be safely transported ouer to Port Saint Mary a Towne in a manner as faire as Cadiz but at that time as the case did stand certainely knowne to be of no wealth in the world and it was some sixe or seuen miles distant ouer against Cadiz in a manner as Paules is against Southwarke on the other side of the Bay in a part of Andaluzia subiect to the territorie of the Duke de Medina Sidonia Moreouer at the same instant they did appoint that worthy Knight Sir Amias Preston and some others in some conuenient Barkes to transport ouer to the said Towne safely and in good order a hundred or moe of the better sort of ancient gentlewomen and merchants wiues who were suffered to put vpon themselues some of them two yea some three suites Apparell with some conuenient quantitie of many Iewels Chaines and other ornaments belonging to their estate and degree Vpon Saturday being the six and twentieth Sir Iohn Winkfield knight was buried in honourable and warlike manner so farre forth as the circumstances of that time and place could permit At whose funerals the Nauie discharged a great part of their Ordnance in such order as was thought meete and conuenient by the Lords Generals command The seuen and twenty day being Sunday in the Abbey the diuine Seruice was had and a learned Sermon was made there by one Master Hopkins the right honourable Earle of Essex his Preacher a man of good learning and sweete vtterance and euen there the same day something before the Sermon was made these worthy Gentlemen following were Knighted by the Lord Generall And here I am to signifie by the way that two of these were Knighted three or foure daies before and some three or foure moe were Knighted after that time vpon certaine occasions but yet I hold it best and I trust without offence to recite their names in this place altogether SIr Samuel Bagnal Sir Arthur Sauage The Earle of Sussex The Lord Harbert The Lord Burke Count Lodowick Sir William Howard Sir George D'Eureux Sir Henry Neuel Sir Edmund Rich. Sir Richard Leuen Sir Peter Egomort Sir Anthonie Ashley Sir Henry Leonard Sir Richard Leuison Sir Horatio Vere Sir Arthur Throckmorton Sir Miles Corbet Sir Edward Conway Sir Oliuer Lambert Sir Anthony Cooke Sir Iohn Townesend Sir Christopher Heydon Sir Francis Popham Sir Philip Woodhouse Sir Alexander Clifford Sir Maurice Barkley Sir Charles Blunt Sir George Gifford Sir Robert Crosse. Sir Iames Escudamor Sir Urias Leigh Sir Iohn Leigh alias Lee. Sir Richard Weston Sir Richard Waâ—â—man Sir Iames Wootton Sir Richard Ruddal Sir Robert Mansfield Sir William Mounson Sir Iohn Bowles Sir Edward Bowes Sir Humfrey Druel Sir Amias Preston Sir Robert Remington Sir Iohn Buck. Sir Iohn Morgan Sir Iohn Aldridg Sir Iohn Asshindon Sir Mathew Browne Sir Iohn Acton Sir Thomas Gates Sir Gilly Mericke Sir Thomas Smith Sir William Pooley Sir Thomas Palmer Sir Iohn Stafford Sir Robert Louel Sir Iohn Gylbert Sir William Haruie Sir Iohn Gray Don Christ. Prince of Portugall Sir Iohn Vanderfoord Admirall of the Hollanders Sir Robert Dudley 8. August Being in Cadiz attending vpon my most honorable good Lord I talked with certaine of the Religious men such as I found learned whereof indeede there were some though not very many I talked also with the Bishop of Cusco there a graue aged comely man and being of late chosen to that Bishopricke he was as then to haue gone to the Indies had not we then taken him prisoner and so staied his iourney for that time It pleased the Lords generall to deale exceeding fauourably with this said Bishop of Cusco for it was their good pleasure to giue him his free passage without any ransome and therewithall to let him to vnderstand that they came not to deale with Church-men or vnarmed men or with men of peace weaklings and children neither was it any part of their meaning to make such a voyage for gold siluer or any other their wealth and riches c. But that their onely comming was to meet with their dishonorable practises and manifold iniuries and to deale with men of war and valour for the defence of the true honour of England and to let them to vnderstand that whensoeuer they attempted any base-conceited and dishonorable practise to their soueraigne Queen their Mistresse that it should be reuenged to the vttermost c. In this meane space while the Lords generall continued at Cadiz there came to them certaine poore wretched Turks to the number of eight and thirty that had bin a long time gally-slaues and either at the very time of the fight by Sea or else immediately thereupon taking the opportunity did then make their escape and did swim to land yeelding themselues to the mercy of their most honorable Lordships It pleased them with all speede to apparell them and to furnish them with mony and all other necessaries and to bestow on them a Barke and a Pilot to see them freely and safely conueied into
jewels cast off all and naked as they were borne cast themselues into the Sea to aduenture vpon English mercy amongst all which was taken vp by the Reare-admirals Boat two men of note and three of inferiour qualitie These three were clothed and set on land the other two were Don Nuno Velio Periera who had somtimes bin Gouernour of Mozambique and Sofala and returning for Spaine in a Carrick of great value lost neere Bona Speranza was now here a passenger and Bras Carero Captaine of another Carrick cast away neere Mozambique here also a passenger These two were brought into England and ransomed Three impediments happened to the Assailants the Reare-admirall hurt with a shot and made in person vnseruiceable being a valiant man the Vice-admirall slaine and the Admirall himselfe Captaine Caue shot at the first thorow both the legs whereof shortly after his returne hee dyed The Caruell and Pinnace were accidentally absent one and twentie were slaine in the fight In the Carrick were many of qualitie and before infection had fallen amongst them neere the Cape their number of white and blacke men exceeded 1100. all which perished but those before named The burden of this Carrick and her lading in wealth did farre exceede the Madre de Dios returning after a long voyage fraighted with pearles jewels drugs silkes her meanest lading pepper besides the best of the Nazaret lately cast away her commodities the Captaine whereof had beene Bras Carero aforesaid They set saile after this disaster for Flores and after some refreshing on the nine and twentieth of Iune descryed another Carrick of 1500. Tunnes which they supposed to bee the Saint Philip one of the King of Spaines men of warre After some more cautelous fight occasioned by that conceit they sent their Boat to summon her to yeeld to the Queene of Englands ships vnder the command of the Earle of Cumberland or else to vndergoe the fortunes of the Fiue wounds the sorrowfull witnesses whereof they presented those two former Captaines to whom the Generall Don Lewys de Costynio answered As your Generall hath beene at the burning of the Fiue wounds so I haue beene at the burning and taking of the Reuenge of the Queene of Englands Therefore let him doe what he dare doe for his Queene and I will doe what I am able for my King commanding the Boat instantly to be gone The fight was renewed but intermitted by the calme and remitted by the remisser companie their Captaines being slaine and wounded Whereupon they gaue ouer and arriued in England in August and the beginning of September hauing done much harme to the enemie and little good to themselues THe Earle not liking his ill partage in the Madre de Dios nor this vnhappier losse of two Carricks for want of sufficient strength to take them builded a ship of his owne of 900. Tunnes at Detford which the Queene at her lanching named The Scourge of Malice the best ship that euer before had beene built by any subiect Shee made his Lordship three voyages and after was sold to the East Indian Companie whence shee made many returnes before in the name of the Dragon related and proued fortunate against the Portugals in the East His Lordship had thought to haue gone in her in person and prepared the Alcedo his Vice-admirall commanded by Captaine Monson the Antonio commanded by Daniel Iarret and the old Frigot But when he had gone as farre as Plimmouth on his intended voyage Her Majestie by Sir Francis Drake and Sir Iohn Hawkins sent for him to returne which commandement his Lordship obeyed but the ships proceeded to seeke their aduenture giuing command of the Admirall to Captaine Langton which Captaine Monson misliking went forth seuerally to seeke his owne fortune in the Alcedo The Scourge the Antonie and the Frigot went together to the Asores where first they tooke a Saint Thome Caruell of 100. Tunnes laden with Sugars After which neere the Iland of Flores in a fogge they espyed a great Ship lying by the Lee which they conceiued to be a Carrick but found it to be the Saint Thomas Vice-admirall of the King of Spaines fleet lying for the waftage of the East and West Indian fleetes with whom they fell in so hot a fight that shee was glad to beare vp to recouer her selfe amongst the rest of her Consorts which after the cleering of the fogge they discerned not farre from them Thence they went to the Coast of Spaine where they tooke three Dutch ships of the East-Countries laden with Wheat Copper and other munitions and prouisions for the King of Spaine Hauing spent their victuals they returned AN. 1596. his Lordship set forth againe the Scourge of Malice in which he went in person accompanied with the Dread-naught of the Queenes and some other small ships and about thirtie or fortie leagues from England was incountred with a storme wherein the Scourge spent her mayne mast and was made vnseruiceable for that voyage so that hee was forced to returne for England in the Dread naught THe same yeere perceiuing that the Earle of Essex and the Lord Admirall were to goe to the Coast of Spaine with a great fleet of the Queenes together with a squadron of Flemmish men of warre his Lordship thought good to a wait some gleanings in so great a Vintage and set forth the Ascension of 300. Tunnes and foure and thirtie pieces of Ordnance manned with 120. men commanded by Captaine Francis Slingsby chiefly to expect such ships as should come from Lisbone The Ascension thus furnished met with such a fret of winde that with all haste they handed in their sailes and being within the Hooke of Godwine Sands droue with two anchors ahead till they were within two Cables length of the Sands They then let fall their short anchor which by Gods grace stayed them till the next day noone hourely expecting their wrack and at last cut their Cables Hauing refurnished themselues at Plimouth they set forwards and comming to the Rocke say off and on After some frustrated attempts by the Boat on a Caruell in which the Captaine was sore wounded the King of Spaines Admirall Sirago set forth sixe ships against them and himselfe and another ship laid the Ascension aboard the one on the Bow the other on the Quarter and now the mouthes of the great Ordnance being neere in place to whisper roared out their thunders and pierced thorow and thorow on all hands Which ended the Spaniards leaped into the fore-chaines and mayne-chaines thinking to haue entred the ship but were brauely repelled The English seeing many Spaniards together vnder the Admirals halfe decke discharged amongst them a Fowler laden with case shot to their no small harme To that the Spaniards had enough and were content to fall off Of ours two and twentie were slaine and hurt which losse lighted asmuch on them which hid themselues as those which stood to the fight To preuent the like
the blades in their pottage and vse them in other meates of pleasing taste and good for appetite When they came in the height of Bermuda they discouered a Monster in the Sea who shewed himselfe three times vnto them from the middle vpwards in which parts he was proportioned like a man of the complexion of a Mâ—llato or tawny Indian The Generall commanded one of his Clerkes to put it in writing to certifie the King thereof Presently after for the space of sixteene dayes the weather proued very foule Offering to make an escape they were descried and seuerely stocked and imprisoned a yeere in the Contractation house in Siuill and breaking prison were taken and by the Inquisition were sentenced Robert Barret and Iohn Gilbert to bee burnt Iob Hortop and Iohn Bone to the Gallies for tenne yeeres and after that to perpetuall prison Others were adiudged to the Gallies some eight some fiue yeeres Hortop serued twelue yeeres in hunger thirst cold and stripes and after foure yeeres imprisonment in his Fooles coat was redeemed to the seruice of Hernando de Sâ—ria from whom after three yeeres seruice more he stole away and landed at Portsmouth in December 1590. after three and twentie yeeres miserable bondage As for Dauid Ingrams perambulation to the North parts Master Hakluyt in his first Edition published the same but it seemeth some incredibilities of his reports caused him to leaue him out in the next Impression the reward oâ— lying being not to be beleeued in truths And for Sir Iohn Hawkins himselfe he had made one Voyage with three ships and three hundred Negros gotten on the Coast of Guinea to Hispaniola 1562. and other Ports and returned with a rich gaine This encouraged him to a second Voyage with the Iesus Salomon Tigre and Swallow 1564. And hauing visited diuers Ports be returned by Florida Anno 1567. their vnfortunate Voyage before mentioned was set forth in which his vniustice to Sauages was chastised by vniustice of Christians in manner as you haue heard Himselfe with his remayning company were first endangered with an extreame storme after that with famine his men dying continually so that the rest being not able to manage the ship and the winds crossing seeking to releeue themselues at Ponte Vedra with fresh meate they grew diseased and many of them died and thereby were also in danger of a second Spanish betraying which they hardly escaping arriued in England Ianuary the twentieth 1568. The Spanish indignities and treacheries were deeply lodged in the wronged minds both of Sir Iohn Hawkins and of Captayne Drake men borne for the honour of the English name and Nation in Marine affaires Sir Iohn Hawkins was sonne to Master William Hawkins of Plimmouth a man much esteemed by King Henry the Eighth as a principall Sea-captaine Hee had long before armed a ship of his owne of two hundred and fifty tunnes called the Paul of Plimmouth wherewith he made two Voyages to Brasill one in the yeere 1530. and the other 1532. in the first of which he brought a Brasilian King as they tearmed him to present him in his wilde accouâ—rements to King Henry It seemed that Sea affaires and arts remayned an Inheritance from the Father to the Sonne and from him also to the Nephew as shall after be seene neither did the West of England yeeld such an Indian Neptuniâ—â— paire as were these two Ocean Peeres Hawkins and Drake A briefe Historie of Sir FRANCIS DRAKES Voyages OF Sir Francis Drake Master Camden reports that he hath heard him say of himselfe that he was borne in the County of Deuon of meane condition his God father was Francis Russell afterwards Earle of Bedford who gaue him his name Francis Whiles he was young his father being called in question for Religion by reason of the sixe Articles set forth by King Henry against the Protestants was driuen to shift and withdrew himselfe into Kent After King Henries death he obtayned a place in the Nauâ—e Royall to reade Seruice and soone after was ordayned Deacon and made Vicar of the Church of Vpnor on the Riuer of Medway where by reason of his pouertie he put this his sonne to serue a Neighbour Mariner which traded with a small Barke into France and Zeland who brought him vp in the Mariners art and tooke such liking of him that at his death he bequeathed being a Bâ—chelour vnto him his Barke This Barke vpon the report of Sir Iohn Hawkins his preparations for that disastrous Voyage 1567. hee sold and ioyned to him in societie aforesaid and at Saint Iohn de Vllua lost all and hardly brought himselfe backe Hereupon seeking by his Mariners practice to repaire his losses and thereby and as a man of warre hauing gotten store of money together he made a second Voyage to recouer in the Spanish Indies what there he had lost quod licere Theologus classiarius facilè persuaserat and with a ship of warre called the Dragon and another ship and a Pinnasse none knowing it but his owne consorts Anno 1572. sayled to Nombre de Dios which Towne he suddenly surprised and lost For hauing landed one hundred and fiftie men and leauing seuentie of them in a Fort with the rest he went to the Market place and there discharged his Calieuers and sounded a Trumpet answered in like manner from the Fort. The Townesmen hereby terrified fled into the Mountaynes But fourteene or fifteene would backe with their Harquebuses to see what the matter was and discouering the Englishmen shot and by hap killed the Trumpeter Hereupon they in the Fort not seeing their Trumpet answered after they had heard the Calieuers supposed all those which had entred were slaine and fled to their Pinnasses The Captayne comming and seeing his men all gone was surprized with a new feare and leauing their furniture they swamme and waded to their Pinnasses and departed the Port. In the Sound of Dariene heehad intelligence by certayne fugitiue Negros of Mules comming Ioden with treasure from Panamâ— to Nombre de Dios and guided by them intercepted two companies of Mules and carried away the Gold only for they were not able to carrie the Siluer thorow the Mountaynes Two dayes after he came to the house of Crosses and burnt aboue 200000. Duckets in Merchandize and so departed When he trauelled ouer those Mountaynes hee beheld thence the South Sea and thereby inflamed with desire of glory and wealth was so rapt with desire of sayling therein that he fell there on his knees and begged of God and besought the fauour of God to assist him in that exploit and made a solemne vow to that purpose one day to sayle on that Sea which euery day and night lay next his heart pricking him forwards to the performance Whiles hee was musing and hatching these haughtie Designes Iohn Oxenham who in the former Nauigations had serued vnder Captayne Drake both Souldier Mariner and Cooke became
companions were killed and eaten onely my selfe remayned among these Canibals a yeere and eleuen moneths in the which time I went many times to warre against other Prouinces that were ioyning vpon the Countrie of Tamoyes and I thanke God prospered so well that I was very much esteemed of them and had a great commâ—nd ouer them when they went to the field These Tamoyes be as proper men as any bee in all Europe they vse to make holes in their vpper-lips like the Petewares most of them are of a very faire complexion The men haue their heads alwayes set with feathers of diuers colours which sheweth very pretily they goe starke naked The women are as proper as any Nation can be tall comly well legd cleane made of body very small in the waste very faire of complexion fine handed and very comly faces They vse a kinde of caruing ouer their breasts which becommeth them very well Here the Canibals esteeme not any more of gold or precious stones then wee doe of any stones in the streets if the Spaniards had knowne of this Countrie they needed not to haue gone to Peru there is not like vnto this for all kinde of rich metals and many kinde of precious stones In this place I liued eighteene moneths and went naked as the Canibals did After I had liued with these Canibals the time that you haue heard I was in great fauour and credit with them insomuch that they would not doe any thing before they had made me acquainted withall I haue told them many times of the comming and going of our English ships to the Straits of Magellan and how well we did vse all kinde of Nations and what kinde of all things necessarie wee had for their vse These wordes made the Canibals desire to come to the Sea coast and asked of mee how it were possible for them to come to dwell by the Sea without being slaues to the Portugals I told them that I knew many places where English men and French men did vse to come but that neither Portugall nor Spaniard was neuer there After I had told them what I thought best we all agreed to come through the Prouince of Tocoman and so to the Sea betweene the Riuer of Plate and Saint Vincents This Countrie of Tocoman is all sandie and in it inhabite the Pigmeys I haue seene many of them amongst the Spaniards at the Riuer of Plate They are not altogether so little as wee speake of them here in England their inhabitation in Tocoman is in Caues of the ground In this Countrie the Inhabitants in many places haue such Wheat as we finde in England and Cassaui meale This Tocoman is iudged by the Spaniard to be the end of Brasill and the entring into Peru for in Tocoma there are all kinde of Brasila Rootes and all kinde of Corne aswell as Peru this Countrie yeeldeth nothing to the Spaniards but wilde Horses and the Indians of Tocoman are mortall enemies to all the Inhabitants of Peru therefore the Spaniards doe keepe this Countrie because they keepe the Prouinces of Peru in feare or else they would rise vp against the Spaniards After we had passed this Countrie we came to a Riuer that runneth from Tocoman to Chile where we tarried foure daies making Canoas to passe the Râ—uer for there were so manie Crocodiles that we durst not passe it for feare of them after we had passed this Riuer we came to the Mountaine Detodas Metalas that is of all Mettals At this plâ—ce diuers Spaniards and Portugals haue beene and certain lawlesse men were set on shoare on this coast by one Pedro dâ— Charamento which came to this place and set vp a great Crosse and on it writ that the Countrie was the King of Spaines the which I put out and wâ—â—t that it was the Queene of Englands This hill is of diuers kinde of Mettals Copper and Iron some Gold and great store of Quicke-siluer It is verie high and all bare wit out any Trees Here likewise was a little Church made where we found two Images one of our Lady and another of Christ crucified When the Tamoyes saw those signes they thought that I had betraied them and indeede I was amazed thinking that we had beene in some part of the Riuer of Plate and because the Indians should not be discouraged I shewed my selfe to be very glad and told them that I knew those were signes thaâ— my Countrie men vsed to make when they came into strange Countries with these perswasions I made the Tamoyes to come on their iourney to the Sea where otherwise if I had told them it had bâ—n set vp by the Spaniards the feare that the poore Canibals stood in of them had bin enough to haue made them all returne againe from whence they came At the last we came to the Sea as I haue told you to the Towne of the Cariyohs this Towne standeth in a fine pleasant place hard by the coast in a faire Bay where one hundred Ships may anker without any danger And in this place you shall alwaies haue great store of fish In this Countrie for a Knife or a â—â—sh hooke you may buy a dozen of skinnes of very good Furre and if you will these Indians will goe for any trâ—fle and fetch two or three baskets of Mettals and some haue had such good lucke that for two or three Glasses and a Combe or two with some Kniues they haue got the value of foure or fiue thousand Crownes in Gold and Stones The Towne stood vpon a hill but we puld it down But when we were taken by the Portugals and that the Cariyohs were restored againe to their Countrie they did scituate againe with in the same place where they were when we draue them out of their Countrie Here the Portugals did binde mee and would haue hanged mee for the twelue Portugals that the Canibals had killed and eaten The Caryiâ—hs are men of good stature and very valiant they make holes in their vnder lippe as the other Canibals doe These Canibals likewise eate mans flesh and speake the same language that the Tamoyes doe the women are very comely the most of them are oâ— a faire complexion they weare their haire loose about their eares and all their bodies are died with blacke and their faces withered and yellow their brests are all carued with diuers colours which be seemeth verie well Here is the end of my trauell through America with the Canibals from whence I returned againe to my Master Saluador Corea de Sasa where I was worse then euer I was before The Giants of Port Desire and inhabitants of Port Famine also Angola Congo and Massangana and Angica Countries of Africa AT Port Desire which is the next hauen to the straits of Magelan inhabited Giants of fifteene or sixteene spans of height I affirme that at Port Desire I saw the footing of them by the shoare side that was aboue
â—ore seuerely prosecuted in England in time of peace then in any the Kingdomes of Christendome But the English haue all license either immediately from their Prince or from other thereunto authorized and so cannot in any sense be comprehended vnder the name of Pirats for any hostilitie vndertaken against Spaine or the dependancies thereof And so the state standing as now it doth if in Spaine a particular man should arme a ship and goe in warfare with it against the English and happened to be taken by them I make no question but the company should be intreated according to that manner which they haue euer vsed since the beginning of the warre without making further inquisition Then if he were rich or poore to see if hee were able to giue a ransome in this also they are not very curious But if this Spanish ship should fall a thwart his Kings Armado or Gallies I make no doubt but they would hang the Captaine and his company for Pirats My reason is for that by a speciall Law it is enacted that no man in the Kingdomes of Spaine may arme any ship â—and goe in warfare without the Kings speciall licence and commission vpon paine to be reputed a Pirate and to be chastized with the punishment due to Corsarios In England the case is different for the warre once proclamed euery man may arme that will and hath wherewith which maketh for our greater exemption from being comprehended within the number of Pirats With these and or like Arguments to this purpose to auoid tediousnesse I omit I conuinced all those whom I heard to haâ—pe vpon this string which was of no small importance for our good entreatie and motiues for many to further and fauour the accomplishment of the promise lately made vnto vs. One day after dinner as was the ordinary custome the Generall his Captaines and the better sort of his followers being assembled in the Cabbin of the Poope in conference an eager contention arose amongst them touching the capitulation of Buena Querra and the purport thereof Some said that onely life and good entreatie of the prisoners was to be comprehended therein others enlarged and restrained it according to their humours and experience In fine my opinion was required and what I had seene and knowne touching that point wherein I pawsed a little and suspecting the Worst feared that it might be a baite laid to catch me withall and so excused my selfe saying that where so many experimented Souldiers were ioyned together my young iudgement was little to be respected whereunto the Generall replied That knowledge was not alwaies incident to yeeres though reason requireth that the aged should be the wisest but an Art acquired by action and management of affaires And therefore they would bee but certified what I had seene and what my iudgement was in this point vnto which seeing I could not well excuse my selfe I condescended and calling my wits together holding it better to shoot out my bolt by yeelding vnto reason although I might erre then to stand obstinate my will being at warre with my consent and fearing my deniall might bee taken for discourtesie which peraduenture might also purchase mee mislike with those who seemed to wish mee comfort and restitution I submitted to better iudgement the reformation of the present assembly saying Sir vnder the capitulation of Buena Querra or faire warres I haue euer vnderstood and so it hath beene obserued in these as also in former times that preseruation of life and good entreatie of the prisoner haue beene comprehended and further by no meanes to bee vrged to any thing contrary to his conscience as touching his Religion nor to be seduced or menaced from the allegeance due to his Prince and Countrey but rather to ransome him for his moneths pay And this is that which I haue knowne practised in our times in generall amongst all Ciuill and Noble Nations But the English haue enlarged it one point more towards the Spaniards rendred a Buena Querra in these warres haue euer deliuered them which haue beene taken vpon such compositions without ransome but the couetousnesse of our age hath brought in many abuses and excluded the principall Officers from partaking of the benefit of this priuiledge in leauing them to the discretion of the Victor being many times poorer then the common Souldiers their qualities considered whereby they are commonly put to more then the ordinary ransome and not being able of themselues to accomplish it are forgotten of their Princes and sometimes suffer long imprisonment which they should not With this Don Beltran said This ambiguitie you haue well resolued And like a worthy Gentleman with great courtesie and liberalitie added Let not the last point trouble you but be of good comfort for I heere giue you my word anew that your ransome if any shall be thought due shall be but a couple of Grey-hounds for me and other two for my Brother the Conde de Lemes And this I sweare to you by the habit of Alcantera Prouided alwayes that the King my Master leaue you to my dispose as of right you belong vnto me For amongst the Spaniards in their Armadoes if there bee an absolute Generall the tenth of all is due to him and he is to take choise of the best where in other Countries it is by lot that the Generals tenth is giuen And if they be but two ships hee doth the like and being but one she is of right the Generals This I hardly belieued vntill I saw a Letter in which the King willed his Vice-roy to giue Don Beltran thankes for our ship and Artillery which hee had giuen to his Maiestie I yeelded to the Generall most heartie thankes for his great fauour where with he bound me euer to seeke how to serue him and deserue it In this discourse Generall Michaell Angell demanded for what purpose serued the little short Arrowes which we had in our ship and those in so great quantitie I satisfied them that they were for our Muskets They are not as yet in vse amongst the Spaniards yet of singular effect and execution as our enemies confessed for the vpper worke of their ships being Muskets proofe in all places they passed through both sides with facilicie and wrought extraordinary disasters which caused admiration to see themselues wounded with small shot where they thought themselues secure and by no meanes could find where they entred nor come to the sight of any of the shot Hereof they proued to profit themselues after but for that they wanted the Tampkings which are first to bee driuen home before the Arrow bee put in and as then vnderstood not the secret they reiected them as vncertaine and therefore not to bee vsed but of all the shot vsed now a dayes for the annoying of an Enemie in fight by Sea few are of greater moment for many respects which I hold not conuenient to treate of in publike A
little to the Southwards of the Iland of Pearle betwixt seuen and eight degrees is the great Riuer of Saint Buena Ventura It falleth into the South Sea with three mouthes the head of which is but a little distant from the North Sea In the yeere 1575. or 1576. one Iohn Oxnam of Plimouth going into the West Indies ioyned with the Symarons These are fugitiue Negroes and for the bad intreatie which their Masters had giuen them were then retired into the Mountaines and liued vpon the spoyle of such Spaniards as they could master and could neuer bee brought into obedience till by composition they had a place limited them for their freedome where they should liue quietly by themselues At this day they haue a great habitation neere Panama called Saint Iago de los Negros well peopled with all their Officers and Commanders of their owne saue onely a Spanish Gouernour By the assistance of these Symarons hee brought to the head of this Riuer by piecemeale and in many Iourneyes a small Pinnace hee fitted it by time in warlike manner and with the choice of his Companie put himselfe into the South Sea where his good happe was to meete with a couple of shippes of trade and in the one of them a great quantitie of Gold And amongst other things two pieces of speciall estimation the one a Table of massy Gold with Emralds sent for a present to the King the other a Lady of singular beautie married and a mother of children The latter grew to bee his perdition for hee had capitulated with these Symarons that their part of the bootie should be onely the prisoners to the end to execute their malice vpon them such was the rancour they had conceiued against them for that they had beene the Tyrants of their libertie But the Spaniards not contented to haue them their slaues who lately had beene their Lords added to their seruitude cruell intreaties And they againe to feede their insatiable reuenges accustomed to roast and eate the hearts of all those Spaniards whom at any time they could lay hand vpon Iohn Oxnam I say was taken with the loue of this Lady and to winne her good will what through her teares and perswasions and what through feare and detestation of their barbarous inclinations breaking promise with the Symarons yeelded to her request which was to giue the prisoners libertie with their shippes for that they were not vsefull for him notwithstanding Oxnam kept the Lady who had in one of the restored shippes either a Sonne or a Nephew This Nephew with the rest of the Spaniards made all the haste they could to Pamana and they vsed such diligence as within few houres some were dispatched to seeke those who little thought so quickly to bee ouertaken The pursuers approaching the Riuer were doubtfull by which of the afore-remembred three mouthes they should take their way In this wauering one of the Souldiers espied certaine feathers c. Comming in sight of the Ilands of Pearles the winde beganne to fresh in with vs and wee profited our selues of it but comming thwart of a small Iland which they call La Pacheta that lieth within the Pearle Ilands close aboord the Mayne and some eight or tenne leagues South and by West from Panama the winde calmed againe This Iland belongeth to a priuate man it is a round humocke contayning not a league of ground but most fertile Insomuch that by the owners industrie and the labour of some few slaues who occupie themselues in maâ—uring it and two Barkes which he employeth in bringing the fruit it giueth to Panama it is said to be worth him euery weeke one with another a barre of siluer valued betwixt two hundreth and fiftie or three hundreth Pezos which in English money may amount to fiftie or threescore pound and for that which I saw at my being in Panama touching this I hold to be true In our course to fetch the Port of Panama we put our selues betwixt the Ilands and the Main which is a goodly Channell of three foure and fiue leagues broad and without danger except a man come too neere the shoare on any side and that is thought the better course then to goe a Sea-boord of the Ilands because of the swift running of the tides and the aduantage to stop the ebbe As also for succour if a man should happen to be becalmed at any time beyond expectation which happeneth sometimes The seuenth of Iuly wee had sight of Perico they are two little Ilands which cause the Port of Panama where all the shippes vse to ride It is some two Leagues West North-west of the Citie which hath also a Pere in it selfe for small Barkes at full Sea it may haue some sixe or seuen foot water but at lowe water it is drie The ninth of Iuly wee anchored vnder Perico and the Generall presently aduised the Audienoia of that which had succeeded in his Iourney which vnderstood by them caused Bonfires to be made and euery man to put Luminaries in their houses the fashion is much vsed amongst the Spaniards in their feasts of ioy or for glad tidings placing many lights in their Churches in their windowes and Galleries and corners of their houses which being in the beginning of the night and the Citie close by the Sea shoare shewed to vs being farre off as though the Citie had beene on a light fire About eight of the clocke all the Artilerie of the Citie was shot off which wee might discerne by the flash of fire but could not heare the report yet the Armado being aduised thereof and in a readinesse answered them likewise with all their Artilerie which taking end as all the vanities of this earth doe The Generall setled himselfe to dispatch aduice for the King for the Vice-roy of Peru and the Vice-roy of Noua Spana for hee also had beene certified of our being in that Sea and had fitted an Armado to seeke vs and to guard his coast But now for a farewell and note it Let mee relate vnto you this Secret How Don Beltran shewed mee a Letter from the King his Master directed to the Vice-roy wherein hee gaue him particular relation of my pretended Voyage of the shippes their burden their munition their number of men which I had in them as perfectly as if hee had seene all with his owne eyes Saying vnto mee Hereby you may discerne whether the King my Master haue friends in England and good and speedy aduice of all that passeth Whereunto I replyed It was no wonder for that hee had plenty of Gold and Siluer which worketh this and more strange effects for my Iourney was publique and notorious to all the Kingdome whereunto he replyed that if I thought it so conuenient leaue should be giuen me to write into England to the Queens Maiestie my Mistresse to my Father and to other personages as I thought good and leauing the Letters open that
hee would send some of them in the Kings Packet others to his Vncle Don Rodrigo de Castro Cardinall and Archbishop of Seuill and to other friends of his Not making any doubt but that they would bee speedily in England For which I thanked him and accepted his courtesie and although I was my selfe vnable to write yet by the hands of a seruant of mine I wrote three or foure copies of one Letter to my Father Sir Iohn Hawkins In which I briefly made relation of all that had succeeded in our Voyage The dispatches of Spaine and New Spaine went by ordinarie course in ships of aduice but that for the Peru was sent by a kinsman of the Generals called Don Francisco de la Cuena Which being dispatched Don Beltran hasted all that euer he could to put his ships in order to returne to Lyma Hee caused the Daintie to be grounded and trimmed for in those Ilands it higheth and falleth some fifteene or sixteene foot water And the Generall with his Captaines and some Religious men being aboord her and new naming her named her the Uisitation for that shee was rendred on the day on which they celebrate the Visitation of the Virgin Marie In that place the ground being plaine and without vantage whereby to helpe the tender sided and sharpe Ships they are forced to shoare them on either side In the middest of their solemnitie her props and shores of one side fayled and so shee fell ouer vpon that side suddenly intreating many of them which were in her very badly and doubtlesse had shee beene like the ships of the South Sea shee had broken out her bulge but being without Masts and emptie for in the South Sea when they bring aground a shippe they leaue neither Mast Balast nor any other thing aboord besides the bare Hull her strength was such as it made no great showe to haue receiued any dâ—mage but the feare shee put them all into was not little and caused them to runne out of her faster then a pace In these Ilands is no succour nor refreshing onely in the one of them is one house of straw and a little spring of small moment For the water which the Shippes vse for their prouision they fetch from another Iland two leagues West North-west of these which they call Tabaga hauing in it some fruit and refreshing and some few Indians to inhabite it What succeeded to mee and to the rest during our Imprisonment with the rarities and particularities of the Peru and Tierra firme my Voyage to Spaine and the successe with the time I spent in prison in the Peru in the Tercera in Seuill and in Madrid with the accidents which befell mee in them I leaue for a second part of this discourse if God giue life and conuenient place and rest necessarie for so tedious and troublesome a worke desiring God that is Almightie to giue his blessing to this and the rest of my intentions that it and they may be fruitfull to his glorie and to the good of all then shall my desires bee accomplished and I account my selfe most happie To whom be all glory and thankes from all eternitie CHAP. VI. A briefe Note written by Master IOHN ELLIS one of the Captaines with Sir RICHARD HAWKINS in his Voyage through the Strait of MACELAN begunne the ninth of Aprill 1593. concerning the said Straite and certaine places on the coast and Inland of Peru. THe second of Februarie 1593. wee fell with the Land of Terra Australis in 50 degrees fiftie fiue leagues off the Straite of Magelan which Land lay East and by North or East North-east from the Straite which is a part of Terra Australis from which Land wee entred the Straite vpon the West South-west course then we ran ten leagues West North-west other ten leagues West South-west then eight leagues South-west and came to an anchor on the starboord side in a hooke where you may moore any ship in twelue fathomes water From thence wee ranne South-west and by South seuen leagues where we came to an Iland called Penguin Iland and tooke in fiue or sixe tunnes of Penguins and flayed them and salted them Thence twelue leagues South South-west and found good riding in twelue fathoms fine sand from thence to Port Famine the new Towne of Pedro Sarmiento fiue leagues South-west Then West North-west sixteene leagues where we anchored in good riding Then North-west and by West till wee came to the Riuer of Geneuera on the starboord side eight leagues Then fiue leagues North-west Then North-west and by West thirtie leagues till wee came out of the Straite which is in length one hundred and eleuen leagues The mouth or entrance of the Straite is in thirtie two degrees and an halfe and the Out-let is in the same heigth The middle is in fiftie foure degrees and a terce After wee were come out of the Straite wee went away North-west and by North fortie leagues into the Sea then North vntill wee came to the Iland of Mocha which is in thirtie eight degrees and thirtie minutes where we had good trade with the People This I le is three leagues long where great reliefe of Mutton Mais and other things may bee had from the Indians This I le is twelue leagues from the mayne Land From thence wee went North and past by the I le of Saint Marie from thence vnto Valparaiso which standeth in thirtie three degrees into which Hauen I went with our Boate and tooke foure shippes in which wee had Wines and other good prouition and there wee remayned the space of twelue dayes And in this time I went on shoare and tooke fiue houses which were full of Wine and other good things And in this time there came a shippe by the Harbour which the Generall went to take but hee did not yet I with twelue men did take her and within one houre the Generall came to vs. The shippe had clothes of Cotton for men to weare of the Indian making and some Gold Valparaiso is a Port and a 〈◊〉 in the bottome of the Bay where they make excellent Wine From thence eighteene leagues into the Land is Saint Iago a great Towne of Spaniards From thence wee passed to Arica which is in twentie degrees as I take it All this Coast lieth North and South From thence wee passed to Pisco and Chincha where the Generall and the Master Hugh Cornish went to goe on shoare but they did not Heere wee met with sixe of the Kings shippes which came to seeke vs but at that time wee escaped them These places are in fourteene degrees and an halfe From thence wee passed by the Citie of Lima which is in twelue degrees and an halfe From thence by Paita which is an Hauen and a Towne and standeth in fiue degrees From thence wee passed by the Equinoctiall Line and went to Atacame where wee were taken the two and twentieth
of March which is the latter end of Summer so that the Countrey was full of snow and withall a sudden storme came that he could not see Sarmiento and his men ashoare but returned the second time to the Coast of Brasill to the Riuer of Ienero where he heard newes of the English ships by the two ships that escaped from the Englishmen whereupon hee left his Lieutenant Diego de Ribera and Sarmiento that they might the next yeere returne for the Straits So Diego de Flores with foure ships which hee had left and other foure which the King had sent to succour him went all along the Coast to seeke for the Englishmen but could not find them for they were gone directly for England so he went vnto a Port called Parayna where he found fiue French ships and burnt three and tooke two and also the Fort that the Frenchmen had and put in Spaniards and the Frenchmen runne into the Mountaynes to the Sauages this done he returned for Spaine And his Lieutenant Diego de Ribera and Sarmiento had the next yeere such good fortune that they arriued safely into the Straits with all their ships and so set ashore foure hundred men and because the ships Boat could not land being once laden the ship that had all the victuals and munition that ship they runne ashoare in a Bay and as the water did ebbe they tooke all things out of her this beeing done Diego de Ribera left Sarmiento with foure hundred men thirtie women and a ship with victuals for eight moneths and with the other three returned being in the Straits but eight dayes Now Pedro Sarmiento made a Towne at the mouth of the Straits on the Northside and put therein a hundred and fiftie men and from hence hee went by Land and sent the ship further into the Straits and fiftie leagues within the Straits at the narrowest place of all where is a very good Port here he made another Towne which he named the Towne of King Philip and also would haue made a Fort and planted Ordnance for the defence of the Straits but the Snow and the Winter was so great that hee could not proceed in it but hee tooke aboue fiue and twentie Mariners into the ship with him and said hee would goe see how the other people did and so came to the Straits mouth to the Towne and after hee had beene there a day or two with them he said that a storme put him from the Straits by force and broke his Cables but his men said to the contrary that he himselfe cut his Cables God knoweth the truth and so he came to the Riuer of Ienero and not finding any succour there came from the King hee went to Fernambocke asking aide of the Captaine for victuals the Captaine incontinent laded his ship with victuals and clothes for the men so that hauing these things hee tooke his way for the Straites but betweene the Cape of Saint Augustine and the Baya the wind came out of the Sea with such violence that it forced the ship to runne ashore where Sarmiento had three of his men drowned and he with the rest hardly escaped the ship was lost and all that was in her And then he came by Land to the Baya and the Gouernour of Brasill bought a Barke that was there in the Harbour and lading her with victuals and clothes for the men hee hauing this prouision with diuers other more that were needfull for his men he tooke his Voyage for the Straits and comming as high as fortie foure degrees he met with a sudden storme and was forced to throw all ouer-boord that he carried and was yet in the end compelled to returne for the Riuer of Ienero where hee stayed for succour from the King a whole yeere but there came not so much as a Letter for him for the King was sore grieued at Pedro Sarmiento because he told him that in the narrowest place of the Straits it was but a mile ouer but Diego de Ribera and others told the King that it was aboue a league broad that if a ship came with wind and current all the Ordnance in the World could not hurt them whereby the King thought that Pedro Sarmiento had deceiued him in making him to lose so many men and to be at so great a charges to no effect Also the Gouernour of Baya seeing the King wrote not to him would giue Sarmiento no more succour wherefore Sarmiento went in his ship for Spaine which he came last in from the Straits and it is said that he was taken by Englishmen and so carried for England It is reported that this Sarmiento is the best Manner in all Spainè and hath say led farthest After all this the Captaine of the Riuer Ienero â—ent a small ship with victuals for the Straits but was also put backe in fortie degrees This is all the Discouery that hath beene of the Straits of Magelanes as well by the Spaniards as other Nations vnto this yeere 1586. It is fâ—ure yeeres since these poore and miserable Spaniards were 〈◊〉 in the Straits from which time there hath no succour gone vnto them so God he knoweth whether they be dead or aliue The Land that heth from the Straits to the Coast of Chili no man hath trauelled it by land because of the great Mountaines of Snow that lye in that Countrey as also I may well say that it hath not often beene done by Sea for that all the ships that haue passed that way haue at the least gone thirtie leagues of the shore because of the shoalds and many little Ilands that lie of the mayne land and therefore there is nothing knowne what is in that Countrey The first Inhabitance that you haue after you passe the Straits is on the Coast of Chili and is called Castro it is the worst place of all the Coast for that in it there is small store of Gold and little victuall and very cold this place is compassed with many shoalds so that it is a Port but for small Barkes The next to this is Baldiuia but before I passe any further I will declare vnto you the situation of Chili This Coast lieth North and South and is in length aboue a hundred leagues and it is not in breadth aboue fiue and twentie leagues at the most there runne from the great Mountaines into the Sea great store of Riuers which maketh many Valleyes and is the fruitfullest land in the World for that it hath bread wine and other victuals great store These Riuers bee very rich of Gold and for to shew you in few words all that this Prouince hath I say that this land lacketh nothing but might be called Paradise but for that it lacketh only one thing and that is peace This land was first discouered in this order after the Spaniards had conquered the Kingdome of Peru as hereafter I will shew vnto you they found in this Kingdome
Predecessors could neuer attaine vnto without great cost labour and cares and oftentimes with the losse and destruction of diuers Which when the Bishop of Chiapa vnderstood hee determined also to write an Apologie in the vulgar tongue against the said Doctors summarie in defence of the Indies therein impugning and vndermining his foundations and answering all reasons or whatsoeuer the Doctor could alleage for himselfe therein displaying and setting before the peoples face the dangers inconueniences and harmes in the said doctrine contained Thus as many things passed on both sides his Maiestie in the yeere 1550. called to Valadolid an Assembly of learned men as well Diuines as Lawyers who beeing ioyned with the Royall counsaile of the Indies should argue and among them conclude whether it were lawfull without breach of Iustice to leuie warres commonly tearmed conquests against the Inhabitants of those Countries without any new offence by them committed their infidelity excepted Doctor Sepulueda was summoned to come and say what he could and being entred the Counsaile Chamber did at the first Session vtter his whole minde Then was the said Bishop likewise called who for the space of fiue dayes continually did reade his Apologie but being somewhat long the Diuines and Lawyers there assembled besought the Learned and Reuerend Father Dominicke Soto his Maiesties Confessor and a Dominican Friar who was there present to reduce it into a Summary and to make so many Copies as there were Lords that is fourteene to the end they all hauing studied vpon the matter might afterward in the feare of God say their mindes The said Reuerend Father and Master Soto set downe in the said Summary the Doctors reasons with the Bishops answeres to the same Then had the Doctour at his request a Copie deliuered him to answere out of which Summarie he gathered twelue against himselfe whereto he made twelue answeres against which answeres the Bishop framed twelue Replyes Doctor Sepulued a his Prologue to the Lords of the Assembly beganne thus Most worthy and Noble Lords sith your Lordships and Graces haue as Iudges for the space of fiue or sixe dayes heard the Lord Bishop of Chiapa reade that Booke whereinto he hath many yeeres laboured to gather all the reasons that either himselfe or others could inuent to proue the conquest of the Indies to be vniust as seeking first to subdue barbarous Nations before we preach the Gospell vnto them which haue beene the vsuall course correspondent to the grant made by Pope Alexander the sixt which all Kings and Nations haue hitherto taken and obserued it is meete and I doe so desire you that I who take vpon me to defend the grant and authority of the Apostolike Sea together with the equitie and honour of our Kings and Nation c. Out of which Replies here followeth the Abstract of two that stand vs insteed The report is vntrue that the Indians did yeerely sacrifice in New Spaine twenty thousand persons either one hundred or fiftie For had that beene so we could not now haue found there so much people and therefore the Tyrants haue inuented it thereby to excuse and iustifie their Tyrannies also to detaine so many of the Indians as escaped the oppression and desolation of the first Vintage in bondage and tyrannie But we may more truely say that the Spaniards during their abode in the Indies haue yeerely sacrificed to their so deerely beloued and reuerend Goddesse Couetousnesse more people then the Indians haue done in a hundred yeeres This doe the Heauens the Earth the Elements and the Starres both testifie and bewaile the Tyrants yea the very Ministers of these mischiefes cannot deny it For it is euident how greatly these Countries at our first entrie swarmed with people as also how wee haue now laid it waste and dispeopled the same wee might euen blush for shame that hauing giuen ouer all feare of God wee will yet neuer the lesse seeke to colour and excuse these our so execrable demeanours considering that only for getting wealth and riches we haue in fortie fiue or fortie eight yeeres wasted and consumed more Land then all Europe yea and part of Asia doe in length and breath containe robbing and vsurping vpon that with all crueltie wrong and tyrannie which we haue seene well inhabited with humane people among whom there haue beene slaine and destroyed twentie Millions of soules In the twelfth and last Reply as followeth The Spaniards haue not entred into India for any desire to exalt Gods honour or for zeale to Christian Religion either to fauour and procure the saluation of their Neighbours no neither for their Princes seruice whereof they doe so vainely bragge but Couetousnesse hath brought them and Ambition hath allured them to the perpetuall dominion ouer the Indies which they as Tyrants and Deuils doe couet to bee parted among them and to speake plainly and flatly doe seeke no other but to expell and driue the Kings of Castile out of all that World and themselues seizing thereupon by Trannie to vsurpe and take vpon them all Royall Souereigntie CHAP. V. Notes of Voyages and Plantations of the French in the Northerne America both in Florida and Canada OF the French Plantation in that part of Brafill by Uillagaynon which therefore Frier Thenet called France Antarctike you haue seene alreadie in Lerius Besides the French haue almost from the first beginnings of the Spanish Plantation with men of warre haunted those Coasts and taken many Spanish prises The French haue also made other Discoueries and setled some habitation for a time in the Northerne parts of the New World Iohn Uerrazano a Florentine was sent Anno 1524. by King Francis the first and Madame Regent his Mother who is said to haue discouered from the eight and twentieth to the fiftieth degree all which and much more had long before beene discouerd by Sir Sebastian Cabot for the King of England who was the first that set foote on the American Continent in behalfe of any Christian Prince Anno 1496. or as otheâ—rs 1497. and therefore the French reckoning falleth short some of which Nation vpon Verazanos Discouery challenge I know not what right to all that Coast and make their New France neere as great as all Europe To leaue that we are to do them Historicall right in relating their actions in those parts The Rites and Customes of Florida are related at large by Renâ— Laudonniere by Master Hakluyt translated and in his Workes published Laudonniere was sent by that famous Admirall Chastillon with Iohn Ribalt Anno 1562. who arriued at Cape François in Florida in thirtie degrees and there erected a Pillar with the French Armes The Riuer they called the Riuer of May hauing entred it on May day In the Woods they found great store of red and white Mulberie Trees and on their tops an infinite number of Silk-wormes Eight other Riuers they discouered to which they gaue the names of Seine Somme Loyre Cherente
more then Rockie Spaniards which massacred him and all his companie This butcherie was reuenged in a fourth Floridan Voyage made from France by Captaine Gaurgues Anna 1567. who borrowed and sold to set forth three ships and entring the Riuer Tacaâ—acourn which the French called Seine he made league with eight Sauage Kings which had beene much dispighted by the Spaniards and were growne as dispightfull to them The Spaniards were accounted foure hundred strong and had diuided themselues into three Forts vpon the Riuer of May the greatest begun by the French two smaller neerer the Riuers mouth to fortifie each thereof with twelue hundred Souldiers in them well prouided for Munition In Aprill 1568. he tooke these two Forts and slue all the Spaniards the vindicatiue Sauages giuing him vehement and eager assistance especially Olotocara Nephew to Saturioua As they went to the Fort he said that he should die there and therefore desired Gourgues to giue that to his wife which he would haue giuen himselfe that it might bee buried with him for his better welcome to the Village of the Soules departed This Fort was taken the Spaniards some slaine others taken and hanged on the same trees on which the French hung fiue of which on of these Spaniards confessed he had hanged and now acknowledged the Diuine Iustice. In steed of the Writings which Melendes had hanged ouer them I doe not this as to Frenchmen but as to Lutherans Gourgues set vp another I doe not this as to Spaniards or Mariners but as to Traitors Robbers and Murtherers The Forts he razed not hauing men to keepe them and in Iune following arriued in Rochel Comming to the King with expectation of reward the Spanish King had so possessed him that he was faine to hide himselfe This Dominicke de Gourgues had beene an old Souldier once imprisoned and of a Captaine made a Gally-slaue by the Spaniards and grew for his seruice in reputation with the Queene of England he died Anno 1582. And thus much of the French Voyages in Florida for Virginias sake worthy to be knowne of the English Now for their more Northerne Voyages and Plantations Master Hakluyt hath published the Voyages of Iaques Cartier who in Aprill 1534. departed from Saint Malo with two ships and in May arriued at Newfoundland On the one and twentieth of May they came to the Iland of Birds a league about so full of Birds as if they were sowed there and a hundred times as many houering about it some as bigge as Iayes blacke and white with beakes like Crowes lying alway on the Sea their wings not bigger then halfe ones hand which makes that they cannot flie high In lesse then halfe an houre they filled two Boat with them These they named Aporatz another lesse Port which put themselues vnder the wings of others greater they called Godetz a third bigger and white byting like Dogges they called Margaulx Though the Iland be fourteene leagues from the Continent Beares come thither to feed on those Birds One white one as bigge as a Kow they killed in her swimming and found her good meate Three such Bird Ilands they also discouered the fiue and twentieth of Iune which they called the Ilands of Margaulx There also they found Morses Beares and Wolues But these Northerne Coasts are better knowne to our Countrymen then that I should mention his French names which from Cabots time almost forty yeeres before had beene knowne to the English The next yeere Cartier set forth with three ships to Saint Lawrence his Bay and so to the Riuer of Hochelaga They went to Canada and to the Towne of Hochelaga They saw the great and swift fall of the Riuer and were told of three more therein The Scorbute that Winter killed fiue and twentie of their men in their Fort the rest recouered by the vse the sap and leaues of a tree called Hameda which was thought to be Sassafras These reports of Canada Saguenay and Hochelaga caused King Francis to send him againe Anno 1540. purposing also to send Iohn Francis de la Roche Lord of Robewall to be his Lieutenant in the Countries of Canada Saguenay and Hochelaga Hee went Anno 1542. his chiefe Pilot was Iohn Alphouso of Xantoigne whose Notes as also the Relation of that Voyage with three shippes and two hundred persons men women and children Master Hakluyt hath recorded He built a Fort and wintered there and then returned These were the French beginnings who haue continued their Trading in those parts by yeerly Voyages to that Coast to these times for fishing and sometimes for Beauers skinnes and other Commodities One Saualet is said to haue made two and forty Voyages to those parts Marke Lescarbot hath published a large Booke called Noua Francia and additions thereto part of which we haue here for better intelligence of those parts added with Champleins Discoueries CHAP. VI. The Voyage of SAMVEL CHAMPLAINE of Brouage made vnto Canada in the yeere 1603. dedicated to CHARLES de Montmorencie c. High Admirall of France WE departed from Houfleur the fifteenth day of March 1603. This day we put into the Roade of New Hauen because the winde was contrary The Sunday following being the sixteenth of the said moneth we set saile to proceed on our Voyage The seuenteenth day following we had sight of Iersey and Yarnsey which are Iles betweene the Coast of Normandie and England The eighteenth of the said moneth wee discryed the Coast of Britaine The nineteenth at seuen of the clocke at night we made account that we were thwart of Ushent The one and twentieth at seuen of clocke in the morning we met with seuen ships of Hollanders which to our iudgement came from the Indies On Easter day the thirtieth of the said moneth wee were encountred with a great storme which seemed rather to be thunder then winde which lasted the space of seuenteene dayes but not so great as it was the two first dayes and during the said time we rather lost way then gained The sixteenth day of Aprill the storme began to cease and the Sea became more calme then before to the contentment of all the Company in such sort as continuing our said course vntill the eighteenth of the said moneth we met with a very high Mountaine of Ice The morrow after we discried a banke of Ice which continued aboue eight leagues in length with an infinite number of other smaller peeces of Ice which hindred our passage And by the iudgement of our Pilot the said flakes or Ice were one hundred or one hundred twenty leagues from the Country of Canada and we were in 45. degrees and two third parts we found passage in 44. deg The second of May at eleuen of clocke of the day we came vpon The Banke in 44. degrees one third part The sixt of the said moneth we came so neere the land that we heard the Sea beate against the shore
he would treat with him Oagimont Sagamos of the Riuer Saint Croix was appointed for that purpose and he would not trust them but vnder the assurance of the Frenchmen he went thither Some Presents were made to Astikou who vpon the speech of peace began to exhort his people and to shew them the causes that ought to induce them to hearken vnto it Whereunto they condiscended making an exclamation at euery Article that he propounded to them Some fiue yeeres agoe Monsieur de Monts had likewise pacified those Nations and had declared vnto them that he would bee enemie to the first of them that should begin the Warre and would pursue him But after his returne into France they could not containe themselues in peace And the Armouchiquois did kill a Souriquois Sauage called Panoniac who went to them for to trucke Merchandize which he tooke at the Store-house of the said Monsieur de Monts The Warre aboue mentioned happened by reason of this said murther vnder the conduct of Sagamos Membâ—â—iou the said Warre was made in the very same place where I now make mention that Monsieur de Champdore did treate the peace this yeere Monsieur Champlein is in another place to wit in the great Riuer of Canada neere the place where Captaine Iames Quartier did winter where hee hath fortified him selfe hauing brought thither housholds with Cattle and diuers sorts of fruit-trees There is store of Vines and excellent Hempe in the same place where he is which the earth bringeth forth of it selfe He is not a man to be idle and we expect shortly newes of the whole Discouerie of this great and vncomparable Riuer and of the Countries which it washeth on both sides by the diligence of the said Champlein As for Monsieur de Poutrincourt his desire is immutable in this resolution to inhabit and adorne his Prouince to bring thither his family and all sorts of Trades necessary for the life of man Which with Gods helpe hee will continue to effect all this present yeere 1609. And as long as hee hath vigour and strength will prosecute the same to liue there vnder the Kings obeysance The Authour hath written another large Booke of the Rites of the Sauages of those parts which I haue omitted partly because Champlein in the former Chapiter hath giuen vs large instructions of the same and because in our Virginian and New England and New-found-land our men will relate the like and because I seeke to bee short howsoeuer my Subiect causeth mee to bee voluminous CHAP. VIII Collections out of a French Booke called Additions to Noua Francia containing the Accidents there from the yeere 1607. to 1611. MOnsieur de Monts hauing his priuiledge prorogued for one yeare with some associates sent vnto his Gouernment three Ships furnished with men and victuals And forasmuch as Monsieur de Poutrincourt hath taken his part on the maine Sea and for the desire that Monsieur de Monts hath to pierce through the Land to the Westerne Sea coast to the end he should not be an hinderance vnto him and to be able thereby to reach one day to China he determined to fortifie himselfe in a place of the Riueâ— of Canada which the Sauages call Kebec some fortie leagues aboue the Riuer of Saguenay There it is narrower being no broader then a Canon will carry and so by that reason the place is commodious to command through all that great Riuer Monsieur Champlein the Kings Geographer very skilfull in Sea matters and who delighteth marueilously in these enterprises tooke vpon him the charge of conducting and gouerning this first Colonie sent to Kebec Where being arriued it was needefull to make houses for him and his company wherein there was no toyle wanting such as we may imagine as was the labour of Captaide Iacques Quartier at his arriuall in the place of the said Riuer where he wintered and so Monsieur de Monts in the I le of Saint Croix whereby did issue vnknowne sicknesses which tooke away many men for there was not found any Timber ready to be put in worke not any buildings to lodge the workemen in they were driuen to fell downe the wood by the roote to cleare the ground and to lay the first foundations of a worke which with the helpe of God shall be the subiect of many wonders But as our Frenchmen haue oftentimes bin found mutinous in such actions so there were some among these which did conspire against the said Champlein their Captaine hauing deliberated to put him to death first by poison afterwards by a traine of Gunpowder and after hauing pilfered all to come to Tadoussac where Baskes and Rochell Ships were to make their returne in them to these parts But the Apothecary of whom the poyson was demanded disclosed the matter Whereupon Information being made one of them was hanged and some others condemned to the Gallies which were brought backe into France in the Ship wherein Monsieur du Pont of Honfleur was Commander The people being lodged some store of Corne was sowed and a number of Gardens were made where the ground did restore plentifully the seedes receiued This Land bringeth forth naturally Grapes in great quantity the Walnut-trres are there in abundance and Chestnut-trees also whose fruite is in the forme of an halfe moone but the Walnuts are with many corners or edges which be not diuided There is also great store of Pumpions and very excellent Hempe wherewith the Sauages make fishing lines The Riuer there doth abound with as much fish as any other Riuer in the world It is thought that Beuers are not here so good as vpon the coast of the Etechemins and Souriquois yet notwithstanding I may say very well that I haue seene skins from thence of blacke Foxes which seeme to exceede Sables or Marterns The winter being come many of our Frenchmen were found greatly afflicted with the sickenesse which is called the Scuruie whereof I haue spoken elsewhere Some of them died thereof for want of present remedy As for the tree called Annedda so much renowned by Iacques Quartier it is not now to be found The said Champlein made diligent search for the same and could haue no newes thereof and notwithstanding his dwelling is at Kebec neighbouring on the place where the said Quartier did winter Whereupon I can thinke nothing else but that the people of that time haue bin exterminated by the Iroquois or other their enemies The Spring time being come Champlein hauing had a long time a minde to make new discoueries was to choose either to make his way to the Iroquois or to goe beyond the fall of the great Riuer to discouer the great Lake whereof mention hath bin made heretofore Notwithstanding because the Southerly Countries are more pleasant for their milde temperature he resolued himselfe the first yeare to visite the Iroquois But the difficulty consisted in the going thither
in the Sea but because she got vnder the Fortresse which also began to shoot at the Englishmen they were forced to leaue her and to put further into the Sea hauing slaine fiue or sixe of the Spaniards The Englishmen that were taken in the small ship were put vnder hatches and coupled in bolts and after they had beene Prisoners three or foure dayes there was a Spanish Ensigne-bearer in the ship that had a brother â—â—â—ine in the â—â—eet that came for England who as then minding to reuenge his death and withall to shew his man-hood to the English Captiues that were in the English shippe which they had taken as is aforesaid tooke a Ponyard in his hand and went downe vnder the Hatches where finding the poore Englishmen sitting in bolts with the same Ponyard he stabbed sixe of them to the heart which two others of them perceiuing clasped each other about the middle because they would not bee murthered by him threw themselues into the Sea and there were drowned This act was of all the Spaniards much disliked and very ill taken so that they carried the Spaniard prisoner vnto Lisbone where being arriued the King of Spaine willed he should be sent into England that the Queene of England might vse him as she thought good which sentence his friends by intreatie got to bee reuersed notwithstanding he commanded he should without all fauour bee beheaded but vpon a good Friday the Cardinall going to Masse all the Captaines and Commanders made so great intreatie for him that in the end they got his pardon This I thought good to note that men might vnderstand the bloudie and honest mindes of the Spaniards when they haue men vnder their subiection The same two English ships which followed the Spanish Admirall till hee had got vnder the Fort of Tercera as I said before put into the Sea where they met with an other Spanish ship being of the same fleete that had likewise beene scattered by the storme and was only missing for the rest lay in the Road this small ship the Englishmen tooke and sent all the men on shore not hurting any of them but if they had knowne what had beene done vnto the foresaid English Captiues I beleeue they would soone haue reuenged themselues as afterward many an innocent soule payed for it This ship thus taken by the Englishmen was the same that was kept and confiscated in the Iland of Tercera by the Englishmen that got out of the Iland in a fisher-boat as I said before and was sold vnto the Spaniards that as then came from the Indies wherewith they sailed to Saint Lucas where it was also arrested by the Duke and appoined to goe in company to fetch the siluer in Tercera because it was a shippe that sayled well but among the Spaniards fleete it was the meanest of the Company By this meanes it was taken from the Spaniards and carried into England and the Owners had it againe when they least thought of it The nineteenth of March the aforesaid ships being nineteene in number set saile hauing laden the Kings siluer and receiued in Aluaro Flores de Quiniones with his company and good prouision of necessaries Munition and Souldiers that were fully resolued as they made shew to fight valiantly to the last man before they would yeeld or lose their riches and although they set their course for Saint Lucas the wind draue them vnto Lisbone which as it seemed was willing by his force to helpe them and to bring them thither in safetie although Aluaro de Flores both against the wind and weather would perforce haue sailed to Saint Lucas but being constrained by the wind and importunitie of the Sailers that protested they would require their losses and damages of him he was content to saile to Lisbone from whence the siluer was by Land carried into Siuilia At Cape Saint Vincent there lay a Fleet of twentie English shippes to watch for the Armada so that if they had put into Saint Lucas they had fallen right into their hands which if the wind had serued they had done And therefore they may say that the wind had lent them a happie Voyage for if the Englishmen had met with them they had surely beene in great danger and possibly but few of them had escaped by reason of the feare wherewith they were possessed because Fortune or rather God was wholly against them Which is a sufficient cause to make the Spaniards out of heart to the contrarie to giue the Englishmen more courage and to make them bolder for that they are victorious stout and valiant and seeing all their enterprizes doe take so good effect that thereby they are become Lords and Masters of the Sea and need care for no man as it well appeareth by this briefe Discourse In the month of March 1590. There was a Blasing Starre with a taile seene in Tercera that continued foure nights together stretching the tayle towards the South In the moneth of May a Caruell of Fayael arriued at Tercera in the Hauen or Road of Angra laden with Oxen Sheepe Hennes and all other kinds of victuals and full of people which by a storme had broken her Ruther whereby the Sea cast her about and therewith she sunke and in her were drowned three children and a Frier Franciscan the rest of the men saued themselues by swimming and by helpe from the shore but all the Cattle and Hennes came drowned to land the Frier was buried with a great Procession and Solemnitie esteeming him for a Saint because he was taken vp dead with his Booke betweene his armes for the which cause euery man came to looke on him as a Miracle giuing great Offerings to say Masses for his soule The first of August the Gouernor of Tercera receiued aduise out of Portugall and Spaine that two yeeres before the date of his Letters there were sayled out of England twelue great shippes well appointed with full resolution to take their iournie seuen of them into the Portugall Indies and the other fiue to Malacca of the which fiue two were cast away in passing the Straits of Magellanes and three sayled to Malacca but what they had done there was as then not knowne The other seuen passed the Cape de bona Speranza and arriued in India where they put into the Coast of Malabares but let them goe againe and two Turkish Gallies that came out of the Straits of Mecca or the Red Sea to whom likewise they did no hurt And there they laded their ships wis Spices and returned backe againe on their way but where or in what place they had laden it was not certainely knowne sauing onely that thus much was written by the Gouernour of India and sent ouer Land to Uenice and from thence to Madrill The seuenth of August a Nauie of English ships was seene before Tercera beeing twentie in number and fiue of them the Queenes ships their Generall was one Martin Frobisher as wee after had
hornes and are feathered very artificially Pasphia was as good as his word for hee sent Venison but the Sawse came within few dayes after At Port Cotage in our Voyage vp the Riuer we saw a Sauage Boy about the age of ten yeeres which had a head of haire of a perfect yellow and a reasonable white skinne which is a Miracle amongst all Sauages This Riuer which wee haue discouered is one of the famousest Riuers that euer was found by any Christian it ebbes and flowes a hundred and threescore miles where ships of great burthen may harbour in safetie Wheresoeuer we landed vpon this Riuer wee saw the goodliest Woods as Beech Oke Cedar Cypresse Wal-nuts Sassafras and Vines in great abundance which hang in great clusters on many Trees and other Trees vnknowne and all the grounds bespred with many sweet and delicate flowres of diuers colours and kindes There are also many fruites as Strawberries Mulberries Rasberries and Fruits vnknowne there are many branches of this Riuer which runne flowing through the Woods with great plentie of fish of all kindes as for Sturgeon all the World cannot be compared to it In this Countrey I haue seene many great and large Medowes hauing excellent good pasture for any Cattle There is also great store of Deere both Red and Fallow There are Beares Foxes Otters Beuers Muskats and wild beasts vnknowne The foure and twentieth day wee set vp a Crosse at the head of this Riuer naming it Kings Riuer where we proclaimed Iames King of England to haue the most right vnto it When wee had finished and set vp our Crosse we shipt our men and made for Iames Fort. By the way wee came to Pohatans Towre where the Captaine went on shore suffering none to goe with him hee presented the Commander of this place with a Hatchet which hee tooke ioyfully and was well pleased But yet the Sauages murmured at our planting in the Countrie whereupon this Werowance made answere againe very wisely of a Sauage Why should you bee offended with them as long as they hurt you not nor take any thing away by force they take but a little waste ground which doth you not any of vs any good I saw Bread made by their women which doe all their drugerie The men takes their pleasure in hunting and their warres which they are in continually one Kingdome against another The manner of baking of bread is thus after they pound their wheat into flowre with hote water they make it into paste and worke it into round balls and Cakes then they put it into a pot of seething water when it is sod throughly they lay it on a smooth stone there they harden it as well as in an Ouen There is notice to be taken to know married women from Maids the Maids you shall alwayes see the fore part of their head and sides shauen close the hinder part very long which they tie in a pleate hanging downe to their hips The married women weares their haire all of a length and is tied of that fashion that the Maids are The women kinde in this Countrey doth pounce and race their bodies legges thighes armes and faces with a sharpe Iron which makes a stampe in curious knots and drawes the proportion of Fowles Fish or Beasts then with paintings of sundry liuely colours they rub it into the stampe which will neuer be taken away because it is dried into the flesh where it is sered The Sauages beare their yeeres well for when wee were at Pamonkies wee saw a Sauage by their report was aboue eight score yeeres of age His eyes were sunke into his head hauing neuer a tooth in his mouth his haire all gray with a reasonable bigge beard which was as white as any snow It is a Miracle to see a Sauage haue any haire on their faces I neuer saw read nor heard any haue the like before This Sauage was as lustie and went as fast as any of vs which was strange to behold The fifteenth day of Iune we had built and finished our Fort which was triangle wise hauing three Bulwarkes at euery corner like a halfe Moone and foure or fiue pieces of Artillerie mounted in them we had made our selues sufficiently strong for these Sauages we had also sowne most of our Corne on two Mountaines it sprang a mans height from the ground this Countrey is a fruitfull soile bearing many goodly and fruitfull Trees as Mulberries Cherries Walnuts Ceders Cypresse Sassafras and Vines in great abundance Munday the two and twentieâ—h of Iune in the morning Captaine Newport in the Admirall departed from Iames Port for England Captaine Newport being gone for England leauing vs one hundred and foure persons verie bare and scantie of victualls furthermore in warres and in danger of the Sauages We hoped after a supply which Captaine Newport promised within twentie weekes But if the beginners of this action doe carefully further vs the Country being so fruitfull it would be as great a profit to the Realme of England as the Indies to the King of Spaine if this Riuer which wee haue found had beene discouered in the time of warre with Spaine it would haue beene a commoditie to our Realme and a great annoyance to our enemies The seuen and twentieth of Iuly the King of Rapahanna demanded a Canoa which was restored lifted vp his hand to the Sunne which they worship as their God besides he laid his hand on his heart that he would be our speciall friend It is a generall rule of these people when they swere by their God which is the Sunne no Christian will keepe their Oath better vpon this promise These people haue a great reuerence to the Sunne aboue all other things at the rising and setting of the same they sit downe lifting vp their hands and eyes to the Sunne making a round Circle on the ground with dried Tobacco then they began to pray making many Deuillish gestures with a Hellish noise foming at the mouth staring with their eyes wagging their heads and hands in such a fashion and deformitie as it was monstrous to behold The sixt of August there died Iohn Asbie of the bloudie Flixe The ninth day died George Flowre of the swelling The tenth day died William Bruster Gentleman of a wound giuen by the Sauages and was buried the eleuenth day The fourteenth day Ierome Alikock Ancient died of a wound the same day Francis Mid-winter Edward Moris Corporall died suddenly The fifteenth day their died Edward Browne and Stephen Galthrope The sixteenth day their died Thomas Gower Gentleman The seuenteenth day their died Thomas Mounslic The eighteenth day there died Robert Penniugton and Iohn Martine Gentleman The nineteenth day died Drue Piggase Gentleman The two and twentieth day of August there died Captaine Bartholomew Gosnold one of our Councell he was honourably buried hauing all the Ordnance in the Fort shot off with many vollies of small shot After
sufficient Curats Pikes Swords and Morions more then men the Sauages their language and habitations well knowne to one hundred well trained and expert Souldiers Nets for Fishing Tooles of all sorts to worke Apparell to supply our wants sixe Mares and a Horse fiue or sixe hundred Swine as many Hennes and Chickens some Goates some Sheepe what was brought or bred there remained but they regarded nothing but from hand to mouth to consume what wee had tooke care for nothing but to perfit some colourable complaints against Captaine Smith for effecting whereof three weekes longer they staied the sixe Ships till they could produce them That time and charge might much better haue beene spent but it suted well with the rest of their discretions Now all these which Smith had either whipped punished or any way disgraced had free power and libertie to say or sweare any thing and from a whole armefull of their examination this was concluded The Mutiners at The Falls complained he caused the Sauages to assault them for that he would not reuenge their losse they being but one hundred and twentie and hee fiue men and himselfe and this they proued by the oath of one hee had oft whipped for periury and pilfering The Dutch-men that hee had appointed to be stab'd for their treacheries swore he sent to poison them with Rats-bane The prudent Councell that he would not submit himselfe to their stolne authoritie Coe and Dyer that should haue murdered him were highly preferred for swearing they heard one say he heard Powhatan say That hee heard a man say if the King would not send that Corne hee had hee should not long enioy his Copper Crowne nor those Robes hee had sent him yet those also swore he might haue had Corne for Tooles but would not The truth was Smith had no such Engines as the King demanded nor Powhatan any Corne. Yet this argued he would starue them Others complained hee would not let them rest in the Fort to starue but forced them to the Oyster Bankes to liue or starâ—e as hee liued himselfe For though hee had of his owne priuate prouisions sent from England sufficient yet hee gaue it all away to the weake and sicke causing the most vntoward by doing as he did to gather their food from the vnknowne parts of the Riuers and Woods that they liued though hardly that otherwayes would haue starued ere they would haue left their beds or at the most the fight of Iames Towne to haue got their owne victuall Some propheticall spirit calculated he had the Sauages in such subiection he would haue made himselfe a King by marrying Pocahontas Powhatans daughter It is true she was the very nonparell of his Kingdome and at most not past thirteene or fourteene yeeres of age Very oft she came to our Fort with what shee could get for Captaine Smith that euer loued and vsed all the Countrey well but her especially hee euer much respected and shee so well requited it that when her father intended to haue surprized him she by stealth in the darke night came through the wild Woods and told him of it But her marriage could no way haue entitled him by any right to the Kingdome nor was it euer suspected he had euer such a thought or more regarded her or any of them then in honest reason and discretion he might If he would be might haue married her or haue done what him listed For there was none that could haue hindred his determination Some that knew not any thing to say the Councell instructed and aduised what to sweare So diligent they were in this businesse that what any could remember he had euer done or said in mirth or passion by some circumstantiall oath it was applyed to their fittest vse yet not past eight or nine could say much and that nothing but circumstances which all men did know was most false and vntrue Many got their Passes by promising in England to say much against him Instead of accusing him I haue neuer heard any giue him a better report then many of those witnesses themselues that were sent only home to testifie against him Richard Pots W. P. The day before the Ships departed C. Davis arriued in a small Pinnace with some sixteene proper men more to those were added a company from Iames Towne vnder the command of Captaine Ratcliffe to inhabite Point-Comfort Martin and Master West hauing lost their Boats and neere halfe their men amongst the Sauages were returned to Iames Towne For the Sauages no sooner vnderstood of Captaine Smiths losse but they all reuolted and did murder and spoile all they could encounter Now were wee all constrained to liue onely of that which Smith had onely for his owne company for the rest had consumed their proportions And now haue wee twentie Presidents with all their appurtenances for Master Persie was so sicke he could not goe nor stand But ere all was consumed Master West and Ratliffe each with a Pinnace and thirtie or fortie men well appointed sought abroad to trade and vpon confidence of Powhatan Ratliffe and his men were slaine onely Ieffery Shortridge escaped and Pochahuntas the Kings daughter saued a boy called Henry Spelman who liued many yeeres after by her meanes amongst the Patawomekes Powhatan still as bee found meanes cut off their Boats and denied them trade And Master West finding little better successe set saile for England Now we all found the want of Captaine Smith yea his greatest maligners could then curse his losse Now for corne prouision and contribution from the Saueges wee had nothing but mortall wounds with Clubs and Arrowes As for our Hogs Goats Sheepe Horse or what liued our Commanders and Officers did daily consume them some small proportions sometimes wee tasted till all was deuoured then Swords Arrowes Peeces or any thing we traded to the Sauages whose bloudy fingers were so imbrued in our blouds that what by their crueltie our Gouernours indiscretion and the losse of our Ships Of fiue hundred within sixe moneths after there remained not any more then sixtie most miserable and poore creatures It were to vild to say what wee endured Life was now preserued by Roots Herbs Acornes Walâ—uts Berries now and then a little Fish and Starch by such as had any A Sauage slaine and buried is said to haue beene taken vp by the poorer and eaten which is reported also to haue hapned to others of their owne A report was that one slew his wife and had eaten part of her this is by others denied the murther acknowledged and he iustly executed for that parricide The occasion of these miseries was onely our owne for want of prouidence industrie and gouernment and not the barrennesse and defect of the Countrey as is generally supposed for till then in three yeeres for the numbers were landed vs wee had neuer landed sufficient prouision for sixe moneths such a glutton is the Sea and such good fellowes the Mariners wee as
and fiftie leagues distant from the West Indies in crossing the Gulfe of Bahoma there hapned a most terrible and vehement storme which was a taile of the West Indian Horacano this tempest seperated all our Fleet one from another and it was so violent that men could scarce stand vpon the Deckes neither could any man heare another speake being thus diuided euery man steered his owne course and as it fell out about fiue or sixe dayes after the storme ceased which endure fortie foure houres in extremitie The Lion first and after the Falcon and the Vnitie got sight of our Shippe and so we lay a way directly for Virginia finding neither current nor winde opposite as some haue reported to the great charge of our Counsell and Aduenturers The Vnity was sore distressed when she came vp with vs for of seuenty land men she had not ten sound and all her Sea men were downe but onely the Master and his Boy with one poore sailer but we relieued them and we foure consorting fell into the Kings Riuer haply the eleuenth of August In the Vnity were borne two children at Sea but both died being both Boyes When wee came to Iames Towne we found a Ship which had bin there in the Riuer a moneth before we came this was sent out of England by our Counsels leaue and authority to fish for Sturgeon and to goe the ready way without tracing through the Torrid Zoan and shee performed it her Commander was Captaine Argoll a good Marriner and a very ciuill Gentleman and her Master one Robert Tindall The people of our Colonie were found all in health for the most part howbeit when Captaine Argoll came in they were in such distresse for many were dispersed in the Sauages townes liuing vpon their almes for an ounce of Copper a day and fourescore liued twenty miles from the Fort and fed vpon nothing but Oysters eight weekes space hauing no other allowance at all neither were the people of the Country able to relieue them if they would Whereupon Captaine Newport and others haue beene much to blame to informe the Counsell of such plenty of victuall in this Country by which meanes they haue beene slacke in this supply to giue conuenient content Vpon this you that be aduenturers must pardon vs if you finde not returne of Commodity so ample as you may expect because the law of nature bids vs seeke sustenance first and then to labour to content you afterwards But vpon this point I shall be more large in my next Letter After our foure Ships had bin in harbour a few dayes came in the Viceadmirall hauing cut her maine Most ouer boord and had many of her men very sicke and weake but she could tell no newes of our Gouernour and some three or foure dayes after her came in the Swallow with her maine Mast ouerboord also and had a shrewd leake neither did she see our Admirall Now did we all lament much the absence of our Gouernour for contentions began to grow and factions and partakings c. Insomuch as the President to strengthen his authority accorded with the Mariners and gaue not any due respect to many worthy Gentlemen that came in our Ships whereupon they generally hauing also my consent chose Master West my Lord de la Wars brother to be their Gouernour or president de bene esse in the absence of Sir Thomas Gates or if he miscarried by Sea then to continue till we heard newes from our Counsell in England This choice of him they made not to disturbe the old President during his time but as his authority expired then to take vpon him the sole gouenment with such assistants of the Captaines as discreetest persons as the Colonie afforded Perhaps you shall haue it blazoned a mutenie by such as retaine old malice but Master West Master Percie and all the respected Gentlemen of worth in Virginia can and will testifie otherwise vpon their oathes For the Kings Patent we ratified but refused to be gouerned by the President that now is after his time was expired and onely subiected our selues to Master West whom we labour to haue next President I cannot certifie you of much more as yet vntill we grow to some certaine stay in this our state but by the other Ships you shall know more So with my harty commendations I cease From Iames Towne this last of Angust 1609. CHAP. VI. A true reportory of the wracke and redemption of Sir THOMAS GATES Knight vpon and from the Ilands of the Bermudas his comming to Virginia and the estate of that Colonie then and after vnder the gouernment of the Lord LA WARRE Iuly 15. 1610. written by WILLIAM STRACHY Esquire §. I. A most dreadfull Tempest the manifold deaths whereof are here to the life described their wracke on Bermuda and the description of those Ilands EXcellent Lady know that vpon Friday late in the euening we brake ground out of the Sound of Plymouth our whole Fleete then consisting of seuen good Ships and two Pinnaces all which from the said second of Iune vnto the twenty three of Iuly kept in friendly consort together not a whole watch at any time loosing the sight each of other Our course when we came about the height of betweene 26. and 27. degrees we declined to the Northward and according to our Gouernours instructions altered the trade and ordinary way vsed heretofore by Dominico and Meuis in the West Indies and found the winde to this course indeede as friendly as in the iudgement of all Sea-men it is vpon a more direct line and by Sir George Summers our Admirall had bin likewise in former time sailed being a Gentleman of approued assurednesse and ready knowledge in Sea-faring actions hauing often carried command and chiefe charge in many Ships Royall of her Maiesties and in sundry Voyages made many defeats and attempts in the time of the Spaniards quarrelling with vs vpon the Ilands and Indies c. We had followed this course so long as now we were within seuen or eight dayes at the most by Cap Newports reckoning of making Cape Henry vpon the coast of Virginia When on S. Iames his day Iuly 24. being Monday preparing for no lesse all the blacke night before the cloudes gathering thicke vpon vs and the windes singing and whistling most vnusually which made vs to cast off our Pinnace towing the same vntill then asterne a dreadfull storme and hideous began to blow from out the North-east which swelling and roaring as it were by â—â—ts some houres with more violence then others at length did beate all light from heauen which like an hell of darkenesse turned blacke vpon vs so much the more fuller of horror as in such cases horror and feare vse to ouerrunne the troubled and ouermastered sences of all which taken vp with amazement the eares lay so sensible to the terrible cries and murmurs of the
we will forbeare to take the most holy name of God in vaine in ordinary swearing by it or any other thing or by scoffing or vaine abusing of his most holy Word or to vse cursing or filthy speeches or any other thing forbidden in Gods most holy Word as also to liue together without stealing one from another or quarrelling one with another or slandering one of another And to auoide all things that stand not with the good estate of a Christian Church and well gouerned Common-wealth as also to embrace the contrary as Iustice and Peace Loue and all other things that stand with the good and comfort of Societie Fourthly Whereas we are here together farre remote from our natiue soile of England and yet are indeed the naturall Subiects of our most Royall and gracious King IAMES of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. Wee doe therefore in the presence aforesaid solemnly promise euermore to continue the loyall Subiects of our said Soueraigne King his Heires and Successors and neuer to reuolt from him or them vnto any other whatsoeuer but euermore to acknowledge his Supreme Gouernment Fiftly Whereas wee were sent hither by diuers Aduenturers of the Citie of London and other parts of the Realme of England wee doe here in the presence aforesaid promise to vse all diligence for the good of the Plantation and not to purloyne or imbesell any of the prohibited commodities out of the generall estate but to vse all faithfulnesse as it becommeth Christians to doe as also to bee obedient to all such Gouernour or Gouernours or their Deputie or Deputies as are or shall be by them sent to gouerne vs As also to yeeld all reuerence towardes the Ministery or Ministers of the Gospel sent or to be sent Sixtly and lastly Wee doe here in presence aforesaid promise the Lord assisting vs that if at any time hereafter any forrain power shall attempt to put vs out of this our lawful possession not cowardly to yeeld vp the same but manfully to fight as true English men for the defence of the Common-wealth we liue in and Gospel wee professe and that whiles we haue breath wee will not yeeld to any that shall inuade vs vpon any conditions whatsoeuer I had thought hitherto to haue added a Letter of M. Hughes written from thence Dec. 21. 1614. and printed But our latter intelligence being more ample hath caused mee to omit him and others Yea all things in some and some things in all M. Norwood hath beene a diligent Surueyor of the place and accidents and hath giuen a Map of the one common to be sold and a briefe relation of the other But because his History of the Creatures is briefe I haue borrowed out of Captaine Smith what he had borrowed of Capt. Butler and others to giue the Reader more full satisfaction in that kind CHAP. XVII Relations of Summer Ilands taken out of M. RICHARD NORWOOD his Map and Notes added thereto printed 1622. The History of the Creatures growing or liuing therein being inlarged out of Capt. SMITHS written Relations SIr Thomas Gates and Sir George Summers hauing staied in Bermuda nine moneths with helpe of such things as they saued with the Sea-ven'ure and of such as they found in the Countrey had built of Cedar and rigged fit for the Sea two Vessels a Ship and a Pinnace and vpon the tenth of May 1610. departed toward Uirginia leauing onely two men behind them and carrying them store of prouision for the reliefe of the people there Vpon the foure and twentieth of May they arriued safely there and shortly after some of them returned to the Sommer Ilands againe for a further supply in the same Ship which they had formerly built there where Sir George Sommers dying his men did not according to his last charge giuen vnto them returne to Virginia but framed their course for England leauing behind them three men that staied voluntarily who shortly after found in Sommerset Iland which is a part of Sandys Tribe a verie great treasure in Ambergreece to the valew of nine or ten thousand pound sterling there hath also been found since diuers times of the best sort This new discouery of the Sommer Ilands being thus made knowne in England to the Virginian Company by these men which returned they sold it to some hundred and twentie persons of the same Company who obtained a Charter from his Maiestie and so hold it And toward the latter end of Aprill 1612. sent thither a Ship called the Plough with some sixtie persons to inhabite appointing Gouernour one Master Richard Moore a man ingenuous and carefull who since dyed in Sir Walter Rawlyes last voyage to Guiana a place as appeareth by our Moderne Geographers very rich and spatious But as I say he arriued there about the beginning of Iuly and found the foresaid three men that staied voluntarily very well Master Moore spent the three yeeres of his gouernment for the most part in fortifying the Countrey and trayning the people in Martiall exercises which custome hath beene continued by his successours hee built some nine or tenne Forts placing Oâ—dnance and Munition in them In his time the Lord sent vpon the Countrey a very grieuous scourge and punishment threatning the vtter ruine and desolation of it That it came from God I need not striue to proue especially considering it was generally so acknowledged by vs at that time The causes and occasions of it I need not name being very well knowne to vs all that then liued there which were about sixe hundred persons thought shortly after much diminished I will onely shew the thing it selfe which was a wonderfull annoyance by silly Rats These Rats comming at the first out of a Ship few in number increased in the space of two yeeres or lesse so exceedingly that they filled not onely those places where they were first landed But swimming from place to place spread themselues into all parts of the Countrey Insomuch that there was no Iland though seuered by the Sea from all other Lands and many miles distant from the Iles where the Rats had their originall but was pestered with them They had their Nests almost in euery Tree and in all places their Burrowes in the ground like Conies to harbour in They spared not the fruits of Plants and Trees neither the Plants themselues but eate them vp When wee had set our Corne they would commonly come by troupes the night following or so soone as it began to grow and digge it vp againe If by diligent watching any of it were preserued till it came to earing it should then very hardly scape them Yea it was a difficult matter after wee had it in our houses to saue it from them for they became noysome euen to the persons of men Wee vsed all diligence for the destroying of them nourishing many Cats wilde and tame for that purpose wee vsed Rats-bane and many times set fire
from England sixe or seuen weekes before him and spent seuenteen weekes on the voyage which proued so tedious that many both Saylers and Passengers died In the end of Nouember arose such a storme that many great Trees were blown vp by the roots the Warwicke cast away the Garland forced to cut her Masts ouerboord Not long after happened another as fierce in which the Mount built by M. Moore for a Watch-tower was blowne vp by the roots and their winter crop of Corne blasted He began the new yeere with refortifying the Kings Castle and finding the Treasurer rotten tooke nine Peeces of Ordnance out of her Hee sent the Garland for England Hee finished the Church begun by Captain Kendall with great toile got three Peeces out of the wracked Warwick imployed a Dutch Carpenter of the former Dutch wrack to build Boates. A luckie fellow in February found a piece of Ambergreece of eight Ounces as hee had done twice afore and according to order of Court to preuent concealements had therfore thirtie pound an Ounce Two Dutch Frigots arriued conducted by Captaine Powell and much refreshed the Colony with Oyle and Bacon at cheape rates The Gouernour made a new platforme in place of the burned Redoubt and mounted seuen great Peeces on Cariages of Cedar The Ministers not being conformable to the Church of England nor vniforme with themselues in administration of the Sacrament and Matrimony Hee translated the Liturgie Booke of Garnsie and Iarsie void of the pretended scruples which was generally embraced and in his time practised and the Sabbaths obseruation proclaimed They rebuilded the Mount and diuers Boats was indangered with a Hericano one lost Finding a little Crosse erected where Sir George Summers his heart and entrailes were buried he caused a Marble stone brought out of England to bee handsomely wrought and an Epitaph engrauen in memory of that worthy Souldier and laid thereon inuironed with a square wall of hewed stone On the second of Iune began their Assizes in which their Lawes and Gouernment were reduced to the English forme The first of August was a generall Assembly in manner of a Parliament at Saint Georges diuers Articles concluded and being sent hither by the Company confirmed which for breuitie I omit The Magazine Ship soone after came in weake case thither hauing cast ouerboord twentie or thirtie of her people and had they staied at Sea a weeke longer were likely to haue all perished That aire soon mends or ends men in that case and those which died not soone after the landing recouered not without infection of others there 70000. weight of Tobacco was prefixed for her freight Commandement came now to entertaine no Ships but such as were sent from the Company to the Colonies great griefe which now were forced to a Magizane-Monopoly and debarred of occasionall reliefe Cap. Powell soone after came thither imployed by the States desiring admittance for wood and water which was denied with exceeding murmuring and exclaiming of the Colony The Magazine Ship arriued her Master dead and many passengers the rest sicke Then happened also in September a Spanish Wrack which comming from Carthagena with the Spanish Fleet lost their Ship on those Rockes and seuentie persons were saued some of which had beene rifled but their money to the value of one hundred and fortie pound restored them by the Gouernours meanes into whose hands they committed it for disbursment of their charges Some were sent away others forced to stay till their labours had procured meanes for their passage Hee made meanes to get out of the Wrack two Sakers and three Murtherers which were the same which Cap. Kendall had sold to Cap. Kerby who was taken by two men of War of Carthagena most of his men slaine or hanged hee wounded died in the Woods as these Spaniards related Three Bulwarkes were raised at Southampton Fort with two Curtens and two Iauelens Armes were distributed to all such as were able to vse them The Weauells which had at this time much hurt their Corne found a strange remedy For a proclamation being made that all Corne should be gathered by a day because many had lost some for want of gathering stâ—ll haunting the Ships for Aqua-vitae and Beere some bad husbands hastily gathered it and threw it on heapes in their houses vnhusked so letting it lye foure or fiue moneths Now the good husbands husked theirs and hanged it vp with much labour where the Flies did blow it which the others idlenesse as the euent shewed preuented that being thus found to be the best way to saue the corne and labour to let it lye in the huske Diuers places of fresh-water were now also luckily found out Another triall of whale-fishing was vainely attempted by a Ship which came from Uirginia who returned thither fraught with Lime-stone 20000. pound weight of Potatos c. Aprill and May were spent in building a Prison and perfecting some Fortifications and foure Sakers were gotten from the Spanish Wrack and mounted at the Forts One was hanged for buggering a Sow whose Cock in the time of his imprisonment vsed also to tread a Pig as if it had beene a Hen till the Pig languished and died and then the Cock haunted the same Sow About the same time two Chickens were hatched one of which had two heads the other is said to haue crowed loud and Iustily within twelue houres after it was out of the shell Other Peeces were got out of the Spanish Wrack and a Saker also out of that of Sir George Summers By a Barke going to Uirginia Captaine Butler his time expiring conueied himselfe thither leauing the gouernment to C. Felgate C. Stokes c. In the Kings Castle were mounted or sufficient platformes sixteen Peeces of Ordnance In Charles Fort two in Southampton Fort fiue betwixt which the Castle passeth the channel into the Harbor secured by twenty three Peeces of good Ordnance In Coups Ile is Pembrookes Fort with two Peeces Saint Georges channell is guarded by Smiths Fort and Payets Fort in which are eleuen Peeces Saint Georges Towne is commanded by Warwicks Fort with three great Peeces on the Wharfe before the Gouernours house are eight more besides the warning Peece by the Mount and three in Saint Katherines in all tenne Fortresses and fiftie two Peeces of Ordnance sufficient and seruiceable Hee left one thousand fiue hundred persons and neere one hundred Boates the I le replenished with prouisions fruites poultry c. Master Iohn Bernard was sent by the Honourable Company to supply his place who arriued within eight dayes of Captaine Butlers departure with two Ships and one hundred and fortie Passengers with Armes and all sorts of Munition and other prouisions During his life which continued but sixe weekes hee gaue good proofe of his sufficiency in reforming things defectiue He and his wife were both buried in one day and one graue and Master Iohn Harrison
vngodly and inhumane also to deny the world to men or like Manger-dogges neither to eat hay themselues nor to suffer the hungry Oxe to prohibite that for others habitation whereof themselues can make no vse or for merchandise whereby much benefit accreweth to both parts They which doe this Tollunt è vita vitae societatem to vse Tullies phrase hominem ex homine tollunt to borrow Saint Ieroms in another matter The Barbarians themselues by light of nature saw this and gaue Ours kind entertainment in mutuall cohabitation and commerce and they hauing not the Law were a Law to themselues practically acknowledging this Law of Nature written by him which is Natura naturans in their hearts from which if they since haue declined they haue lost their owne Naturall and giuen vs another Nationall right their transgression of the Law of Nature which tieth Men to Men in the rights of Natures commons exposing them as a forfeited bond to the chastisement of that common Law of mankind and also on our parts to the seueritie of the Law of Nations which tyeth Nation to Nation And if they bee not worthy of the name of a Nation being wilde and Sauage yet as Slaues bordering rebells excommunicates and out-lawes are lyeble to the punishments of Law and not to the priuiledges So is it with these Barbarians Borderers and Outlawes of Humanity Armatenenti Omnia dat qui iusta negat If the Armes bee iust as in this case of vindicating vnnaturall inhumane wrongs to a louing and profitable Nation entertained voluntarily in time of greatest pretended amity On this quarrell Dauid conquered all the Kingdome of the Ammonites and leâ—â— it to his 〈◊〉 in many generations notwithstanding Moses had otherwise left a speciall caution for their security testifying that God had giuen it the sonnes of Lot and prohibiting inuasion to Israel That natural right of cohabitation and commerce we had with others this of iust inuasion and conquest and many others praeuious to this we haue aboue others so that England may both by Law of Nature and Nations challenge Virginia for her owne peculiar propriety and that by all right and rites vsuall amongst men not those mentioned alone but by others also first discouery first actuall possession prescription gift cession and liuery of seisin sale for price that I mention not the naturall Inheritance of the English their naturally borne and the vnnaturall outcries of so many vnnaturally murthered for iust vengeance of rooting out the authors and actors of so prodigious iniustice And first for discouery the English Spaniard and Portugall seeme the Triumuiri of the Worlds first discoueries the Spaniard and Portugall first opening the Eastern Western and Southern parts the English the Northern America and all known parts thence to the North Northeast I could bring authority for King Arthurs conquests aboue 1000. yeers since in Island Gronland Estotiland but I feare this would seeme too weake a foundation and which lyers get by lying discredit our other authorities lesse suspicious howsoeuer Authors of best note in Geography alledge those which reuerence of the truth makes me let passe And so I doe King Malgo soone after him and Saint Brandon and the Friar of Oxford which A. 1360. is said to discouer to the Pole and Owen Gwined Prince of North Wales his sonne Madock A. 1170. which conueyed a Colony as learned men thinke into the West Indies In all Antiquities as Uarro obserued there are somethings fabulous so I deeme the former something vncertaine as this last and somethings Historicall as that which we shall deliuer Robert Thorne in a Booke to Doctor Leigh writeth that his father with another Merchant of Bristol Hugh Eliot were the first discouerers of the New-found-lands and if the Mariners would haue beene ruled by their Pilot the Lands of the West Indies from whence the Gold commeth had beene ours What yeere this happened he expresseth not but the words import that it was before Columbus his discouery And before Columbus his discouery of the continent Sir Sebastian Cabot at the charges of K. Henry the seuenth with two Caruels in the yeere 1496. so him selfe in Ramusio the Map with his picture in the Priuy Gallery hath 1497. sailed to the New-found land which he called Prima Vista and the Iland S. Iohns because it was discouered on the Feast of S. Iohn Baptist from whence he sailed Northerly to 67. deg and a halfe hoping by that way to passe to Cathay but his mutinous company terrified haply with Ice and cold forced his returne which hee made along the Coast toward the Equinoctiall to the part of the firme land now called Florida and then his victualls failing he returned into England where by occasion of warres with Scotland the imploiment was laid aside Afterwards the same Sir Sebastian Cabot was sent A. 1516. by King Henry the eight together with Sir Thomas Pert Viceadmirall of England which after coasting this Continent the second time as I haue read discouered the Coast of Brasil and returned from thence to S. Domingo and Puerto Rico. Now Columbus his first discouery of the Ilands was in 1492. of the Continent in his third voyage in August 1497. or as others 1498. so that counting most fauourably for Columbus Cabot had discouered the Continent in Iune next before by one reckoning aboue a yeere by another aboue two yeeres before And indeed that New World might more fitly haue borne his name then America of Americus vesputius or of Columbus Cabot hauing discouered farre more of that Continent then they both or any man else in those Seas to wit from 67. degrees and an halfe to the Line and from thence Southerly to the Riuer of Plate Hee also was the principall mouer in the setting forth of Sir Hugh Willoughby in King Edwards time vnder whom he was constituted Grand Pilot of England with the annuall stipend of one hundred sixtie sixe pound thirteene shillings foure pence in which voyage Greeneland was discouered neither is there any other Willoughbys Land to be found but in erroneous Maps and the Russian Empire by the North Cape and the Bay of Saint Nicolas But for Uirginia as it was then discouered by Sir Seb. Cabot so it receiued that name from our Virgin-Mother Great Elizabeth in whose time formal actual possession was taken for her Maiesty the thirteenth of Iuly 1584. by Captain Philip Amadas and Captain Barlow whom Sir Walter Raleigh had sent thither with two Barkes furnished who also the next yeere 1585. sent Sir Richard Greenevile with seuen sayle which there left an English Colony vnder the gouernment of M. Ralph Lane A. 1586. hee sent another Ship of one hundred Tuns thither for their reliefe but the Colony being returned in Sir Francis Drakes Fleet shee returned also Sir Richard Greenevile also about a fortnight after their departure arriued with three Ships and not finding the Colonie
to finde the Azores in which way from thence it is easie for English Ships not far from their owne home or Ports to disperse themselues in expectation of a surprisall The want of such helpes in Queene Elizabeths glorious times enforced our men of Warre still to awaite both for the Indian Carrickes and all American Ships houering about the Azores Ilands subiect to the Spanish Crowne where they neither had harbour in stormes nor could in any wants refresh themselues with water victuals or other prouisions but by force where a greater and stronger Armada of the enemy waited to wafte home their Ships returning where it often hapned that the Ships could not so soone be descried but they gat either into some Port and vnder some Fort which secured them or else there ran themselues aground and sauing what they could with their persons fired the rest so to sacrifice it to Neptune or Uulcan rather then permit it to English hands Neither had the English any neere Port where to supply themselues in any distresse or exhaustion of prouisions but must necessarily returne home for England if not as sometimes perishing in the way with little or perhaps no prize attained Likewise in long Voyages as to the East Indies and to the South Sea hauing no harbour to friend euery disease proued mortall to their Voyage and forced at lest a returne that is a miscarrying of the designe if not of themselues whereas such a refuge as Virginia and Summer Ilands might either haue recouered the Voyage intended or refreshed and inabled them to make as good a purchase vpon the enemy making him to pay their charges perhaps with more gaine then the first intents could haue produced Examples will make this more euident And first to begin with the first of our great Discouerers Sir Sebast ian Cabot and Sir Thomas Pert were set forth by King Henry the eight as before is mentioned in a Voyage of American Discouery a Ship of which Fleete comming from the coast of Brasil to Domingo Ouiedo mentions it in the Spanish stile branding them with Piracy yet laieth nothing to their charge but discouery and offer of trade paying with Pewter dishes for what they tooke was thence repelled Anno 1517. and obtained some prouisions at Saint Iohn from whence in their returne to England Ouiedo thinkes they perished at least the Voyage miscarried as appeareth by Master Thornes and Master Edens testimony thereof for want of prouisions The like happened to Master Hores Voyage described in Master Hakluit Anno 1536. when want of victuals made them eate one another and at last to steale a French Ship in which they returned Anno 1564. Sir Iohn Hawkins hauing made a profitable Voyage by sale of Negros on the coast Townes of America was driuen to seeke reliefe of the French then planted in Florida rooted thence not long after by Spanish butchery And in another Voyage 1567. incurred by perfidious treachery of the Spaniards a most lamentable disaster He then sailed in the Iesus of Lubecke hauing to his consorts the Minion the William and Iohn the Iudith the Angell and the Swallow Hauing gotten Negros in Guinnee and made his market in the Spanish Indies he put in for reliefe at Saint Iohn de Vlhua Whiles his Fleete was there the Spanish Fleete came thither with their new Viceroy which he could easily haue kept out of the harbour but there being then no Warres betwixt England and Spaine certaine Articles were concluded betwixt them from which the Vâ—ceroy perfidiously resulting with close trechery contrary to his faith plighted assaulted the English with a strong power on the sudden the issue whereof was the firing drowning taking many of the English whom they put also to execrable tortures Onely the Minion and Iudith of that whole Fleete escaped if it be an escaping to auoide Scylla and rush on Charibdis For they were so shaken in fight first after with stormes lastly and worst of all with famine that they were forced to expose a hundred and foureteene men to the mercy of cruell elements crueller Sauages cruellest Spaniards who exercised in the Inquisition with bondage rackes whips fires famishments plurima mortis imago what the other had spared so that of a hundred and foureteene not aboue the odde foure and those foure after Odysses of wandrings and Iliades of miseries returned home from the foure corners of the World Had Sir Iohn Hawkins had a Uirginian opportunity of refreshing the first danger should not haue needed and the last had not proued worse then the first that exposing being not farre from the Uirginian shoare and the current fitting to carry him thither Sir Francis Drake was then Captaine of the Iudith and repaied that courtesie to the Spaniards after who to shew the fesibility of such refreshing Anno 1585. hauing sacked Saint Iago Domingo Carthagena and Saint Augustine returned by Uirginia to relieue the Colony there planted by Sir W. Raleigh Anno 1591. Captaine George Raymund in the Penelope Captaine Foxcroft in the Merchant Royall and Captaine Lancaster in the Edward Bonaduenture set forth a Voyage intended for the East Indies Their Company were so weakened with sicknesse that the Viceadmirall was sent backe from Soldanha with sicke men The Admirall was lost the Rereadmirall returned and for want of prouisions put ouer from Saint Helena to Trinidad in hope of reliefe Yet being there disappointed they intended to get to Newfoundland but being crossed with stormes in the way and forced backe to Port Ricco the Ship was driuen away and lost not far from Mona whiles the famished Company were seeking refreshing which how easily had a Bermuda or Virginia supplied had an English plantation flourished there Sir Iames Lancaster and the rest being forced to return after much misery in French Ships for France and thence home Anno 1596. the Beare the Beares Whelpe and the Beniamin were set forth for China vnder the command of Captaine Beniamin Wood. Frier Ioaon dos Santos mentions both the two former of Raymund and Lancaster and two also of these seene on the coast of Mozambique Bartolome Leonardo de Argensola in his Booke printed at Madrid 1609 hath published the Letter of the Chinese Visitor of Chincheo in which he writeth to Don Pedro de Acnnaa Gouernour of the Philippinas that the King of China had done two Sangleys to death for shewing the hauen to these two English Ships and Acunna rescribes that the English were Pyrates c. after the Spanish wont These Ships were vnheard of in England vntill a Letter of Alcasar de Villa sennor Auditor of Domingo writ to the King his Master being by an English Ship intercepted gaue intelligence of one of those two Ships which distressed for want of necessaries by mortality had foure men only left aliue in her which seeking reliefe put themselues into their Boate and comming on shoare in the Iland Vtias not farre from Domingo with Iewels
Sea had preserued and deliuered vp vnto the hands of the President Within few dayes after they gaue our Captaine and Master Thomas Saint Iohn libertie of mayne Prison vpon the securitie of two English Merchants which were Master William Rapier and Master Iohn Peckeford whereof the later is dwelling and maried in Siuill The rest of the Company being one and twentie in Prison continued still in miserable estate And about two moneths after Robert Cooke of London one of our Company fell sick of a Fluxe whereof he languished three moneths and more and by no meanes that wee could make could get him forth to bee cured although wee spent more then sixtie Rials in Supplicaues and Sutes to get him out At length being dead they caused his bodie to bee drawne vp and downe the Prison by the heeles naked in most contemptible manner crying Behold the Lutheran as fiue others of our Company beeing then in Prison beheld and so laid him vnder the Conduit and powred water into his dead bodie This done they cut off his Eares Nose and Members as the Spaniards themselues confessed vnto vs and so conueyed his bodie wee could neuer learne whether although we proffered them money to haue his dead corps to burie it Shortly after Nathaniel Humfrie our Boatswaine was stabbed into the belly with a Knife by a Spaniard which was a slaue in the Prison and fourteene dayes after dyed who beeing dead I went vnto the Keeper of the Prison desiring to buy his dead bodie to burie it and so for twenty Rials I bought his bodie and buried it in the field Then we be sought the President for Iustice on this slaue which had slaine our Boatswaine he demanded what we would haue of the slaue And we requested that as he had slaine an honest and worthy man of ours cause lesse that hee might die for it according to the Law The President answered no but if we would haue him condemned for two or three yeares more to the Gallies he should For said hee The King of Spaine will not giue the life of the worst Slaue that he hath for the best Subiect the King of England hath and so sent vs away with this answere Whereupon being out of all hope of Iustice with the President we repaired vnto the Regent being an Ecclesiasticall man one of the chiefest Iudges of the Citie desiring likwise Iustice on the Murtherer aforesaid who in kind tearmes promised vs Iustice and so willed vs to retaine counsell and Atturnies to prosecute our Sute which wee did accordingly and so after two moneths Sute and the cost of more then two hundred Rials on Lawyers Scribes and other Officers at length we had him hanged by the fauour of the Regent which otherwise we had neuer obtained And now I may not omit to shew how I got the libertie to haue the scope of the Citie for my Race to come and go Hauing beene three moneths in close Prison with our poore company as aforesaid At length I got the fauour of two Englishmen inhabiting in Siuill named Constantine Collins and Henry Roberts who did ingage themselues for me The Spaniards were very desirous to haue me to serue their State and proffered me great wages which I refused to doe affirming that this imployment which I had in hand was not yet ended vntill which time I would not determine any Then the Alcadie maior of the Contractation House and diuers others Merchants perswaded me to make them some descriptions and Maps of the Coast and parts of Virginia which I also refused to doe They being discontent with me sent mee againe to Prison where I continued two and twentie dayes and then I making meanes vnto my good friends borrowed money and so gaue diuers bribes vnto the keepers of the Prison whereupon they gaue mee libertie to goe abroad againe into the Citie at my pleasure And wayting euery day for some order from the Court of Spaine of our discharge there came none but delayes and prolonging of our troubles and miseries So as we began almost to despaire of libertie At length an honest Dutch Merchant dwelling in Siuill named Hanse Eloyse sent vnto mee to speake with me which when I came vnto him signified vnto me what he had learned of one of the Iudges of the Contractation who told him as he reported vnto me that the Spaniards had a great hate vnto me aboue all others because they vnderstood that I had beene a former Discouerer in Virginia at the bringing into England of those Sauages and that they thought it was by my instigation to perswade our State to inhabit those parts And because they had receiued so small knowledge of those parts by my confession and that they could not perswade mee to serue that State neither would make them any note draught or descriptions of the Countrie They resolued to bring to the Racke and torment me whereby to draw some further knowledge by confession from me before any discharge might come for vs. The which this honest Merchant considering and the Innocencie of our case gaue me to vnderstand And wished mee rather to flie and preserue my selfe then to stand to their mercie on the Racke I hearing this the next morning being the three and twentieth of October suddenly fled from Siuill and with me Master Thomas Saint Iohn aforesaid and one other of our Company named Iames Stoneman my Brother whom through great cost and charges bestowed on the Keepers of the Prison a little before I had got forth to bee cured of a Callenture Thus wee fled from Siuill leauing Master Henry Challons our Captaine at libertie vpon sureties and sixteene more of our Company in close Prison From thence on the fiue and twentieth of October wee came to a Mount in the Câ—ndado where finding no passage by any shipping into England France or Flanders Wee trauelled through Algaruie to the Port of Setunall and finding no passage there wee trauelled to Lasbone in Portugall Where wee arriued the one and thirtieth of October and there found ships readie bound to goe to England but the wind was contrary for fourteene dayes At the time of our abode at Lisbone wee vnderstood that three Carrickes were come from the East Indies whereof one was arriued safely at Lisbone tenne dayes before our comming thither Another was driuen to leeward and put in Veego as wee heard The third Carracke beeing at the I le of Tercera was so leake that they could not bring her home into Portugall but vnloaded her into three of the King of Spaines great Armadoes to bring the goods more safely to Lisbone Which Ships at there comming before the mouth of the Riuer of Lisbone in the night within three dayes after my comming thither were all cast away on certaine shoaldes there called Oscacâ—opos or as wee commonly call them the Catchops where of nine hundred men as the Portugalls reported but only thirtie seuen were saued and of the goods
very little at all because the said ships being cast away on the ebbe The goods were driuen off into the Sea the dead bodies of many that were drowned I my selfe saw â—ast on the shore with the sundry wrackes of the parts of the Ships Masts and Yards with other wracke of Caske Chists and such like in great abundance The fourteenth day of Nouember the winde being faire wee tooke passage from Lisbone in a small Barke belonging to Bidâ—ford called the Marget and on the foure and twentieth of the same we were landed at Saint Iues in Cornwall and from thence I hasted to Plimmouth where I shewed vnto Sir Ferdinando Gorges and diuers others the Aduenturers the whole Discourse of our vnhappie Voyage together with the miseries that wee had and did indure vnder the Spaniards hands And then hasted with all the speed I could toward the Court of England where I was assured to my great comfort that they either were alreadie or very shortly should bee deliuered Before my departure from Siuill I should haue remembred that about Whitsontide last there were brought into the Prison of the Contractation there two young men brought out of the West Indies in one of the Kings Gallions which were of Captaine Iohn Legats company of Plimmouth which departed out of England about the latter end of Iuly 1606. bound for the Riuer of Amazons as hee told me before his going forth where hee had beene two yeeres before And comming on the Coast of Brasill as those young men the name of one of them is William Adams borne in Plimpton neere Plimmouth reported vnto mee whether falling to the leeward of the Riuer of Amazons or deceiued by his Master they knew not And not being able to recouer the said Riuer were constrayned to refresh in the West Indies in which time there fell a great disorder betweene the said Captaine Legat and his company so as one of his company in a broyle within themselues aboard there ship slue the said Captaine Legat whether in his owne priuate quarrell or with the consent of the rest of the Company they could not tell mee But this is the more to bee suspected for that he alwayes in former Voyages dealt very straitly with his company After his death his company comming to the I le of Pinos on the Southside of Cuba to refresh themselues being eighteene persons were circumuented by the trecherie of the Spaniards and were there betrayed and taken Prisoners and within foure dayes after of eighteene persons fourteene were hanged the other foure being youths were saued to serue the Spaniards whereof two of them refusing to serue longer in there ships were put into the Prison at Siuill the other two remayne still as slaues to the Spaniards This I had the rather noted to the end that it may be the better considered what numbers of ships and men haue gone out of England since the conclusion of peace betweene England and Spaine in the way of honest Trade and Traffique and how many of them haue miserably miscarried Hauing beene slaine drowned hanged or pittifully captiued and thrust out of their ships and all their goods REader I had by me the Voyage of Captaine Thomas Hanham written by himselfe vnto Sagadahoc also the written Iournals of Master Raleigh Gilbert which stayed and fortified there in that vnseasonable Winter fit to freeze the heart of a Plantation of Iames Dauies Iohn Eliot c. but our voluminousnesse makes me afraid of offending nicer and queasier stomackes for which cause I haue omitted them euen after I had with great labour fâ—â—ted them to the Presse as I haue also done a written large Tractate of Mawaushen and the Uoyage of Master Edward Harlie one of the first Planters with Cap. Popham and Nicholas Hobson to those parts 1611. with diuers Letters from Cap. Popham and others You must obserue that it was in those times called by the name of Virginia and the Northerne Plantation or Colonie But Captaine Smith a man which hath so many Irons in our fire presented a Booke of the Countrie to Prince Charles his Highnesse with a Map of the Countrey who stiled it as our hopes are he will one day make it New England and altered the Sauage names of places to English Hee made one Voyage thither Anno 1614. and the next yeere beganne another which taken by Frenchmen he was not able to make vp but in testimonie of his loue to his Countrey here and of his hopes there hath written diuers Bookes One called A Description of New England in which his said Uoyages are described with the description of the Countrey and many Arguments to incite men to that vndertaking which I had also prepared for the Presse but for the former feares haue omitted the other called New Englands Trials twice or thrice printed out of which I haue added thus much that the World may see the benefit to bee made by fishing and may also be better acquainted with the successe and succession of New Englands Affaires CHAP. III. Extracts of a Booke of Captaine IOHN SMITH printed 1622. called New Englands tryalls and continuing the Storie thereof with Motiues to the businesse of fishing there The benefit of fishing as Master Dee reporteth in his Brittish Monarchie HE saith that it is more then foure and fortie yeeres agoe and it is more then fortie yeeres since he writ it that the Herring Busses out of the Low-countries vnder the King of Spaine were siue hundred besides one hundred Frenchmen and three or foure hundred Sayle of Flemmings The Coasts of Wales and Lancashire was vsed by three hundred Sayle of strangers Ireland and Baltemore fraugted yeerly three hundred Sayle of Spaniards where King Edward the Sixt intended to haue made a strong Castle because of the Strait to haue Tribute for fishing Blacke Rocke was yeerely fished by three or foure hundred Sayle of Spaniards Portugals and Biskiners Master Gentleman and many Fisher-men and Fish-mongers with whom I haue conferred report The Hollanders raise yeerely by Herring Cod and Ling 3000000. pounds English and French by Salt-fish Poore Iohn Salmons and Pilchards 300000. pounds Hamborough and the Sound for Sturgion Lobsters and Eeles 100000. pounds Cape Blacke for Tunny and Mullit by the Biskiners and Spaniards 30000. pounds But diuers other learned experienced Obseruers say though it may seeme incredible That the Duke of Medina receiueth yeerely tribute of the Fishers for Tunny Mullit and Purgos more then 10000. pounds Lubeck hath seuen hundred Ships Hamborough six hundred Embden lately a Fisher Towne one thousand foure hundred whose Customes by the profit of fishing hath made them so powerfull as they bee Holland and Zealand not much greater then Yorkeshire hath thirtie walled Townes foure hundred Villages 20000. saile of Ships and Hoyes thirtie sixe thousand are Fisher-men whereof one hundred are Doggers seuen hundred Pinkes and Wel-boates seuen hundred Frand Boates Britters and Tode-boats with one thousand three hundred Busses besides three hundred
of Codfish it is well knowne vnto you Salmons Eeles Mackarell Herrings Lance Caplin Dog fish Hollibuts Flowkes Lobsters Crabs and Muskles All and more then all these are here in great plentie very good and sweet meat The wild fruit and berries are small Peares Cherries Nuts Resberries Strawberries Barberries Dewberrics Hurtleberries with others all good to eate Many faire Flowers I haue seene here which I cannot name although I had learned Gerrards Herball by heart But wild Roses are here both red and damaske as fragrant and faire as in England All our Corne and Seedes haue prospered well and are already growne almost to perfect maturitie c. THE SECOND PART OF THE TENTH BOOKE CHAP. X. Diuers Warlike Fleets set forth to Sea against the Spaniards by our English DEBORA Queene ELIZABETH of Glorious memory Her manifold Deliueries and Victories LOI the Man whose Mâ—se 〈…〉 s'd on Plantations New England Virgin Bermude Newfound-landed Lawrell for oliue take and make Relations Of Armes Harmes Fights Frights Flights Depopulations Romes Buls Spaines broyles Irelands 〈◊〉 Traitors branded GOD Angels Winds Seas Men Elizas Glory Conspire Shee outlines Death â—n Heauen in Story HAile greatest of English Names Glorious ELIZABETH Nor may wee after thy voyage and peregrination out of this World vnto thy true and heauenly home Country forget the great Acts of thy earthly Pilgrimage Thou wast indeed the Mother of English Sea-greatnesse and didst first by thy Generalls not salute alone but awe and trrrifie the remotest East and West stretching thy long and strong armes to India to China to America to the Peruvian Seas to the Californian Coast and New Albions Scepters Thou mad'st the Northerne Muscouite admire thy Greatnesse Thou gauest name to the North-west Straits Meta Incognita and the Southern Negros and Ilands of the South-vnknowne-continent which knew not humanitie were compelled to know Thee Thou imbracedst the whole earthly Globe in thy Maritime Armes thou freedst England from Easterlings and Lumbards borrowed legs and taughtst her not onely to stand and goe without helpe but become helpe to our friends and with her own Sea forces to stand against yea to stand vpon and stampe vnder feet the proudest of her foes Thou wast a Mother to thy Neighbours Scots French Dutch a Mirrour to the remotest of Nations Great Cumberland twelue voyages before recited are thine and the fiery vigor of his Martiall Spirit was kindled at thy bright Lamp quickened by the Great Spirit of ELIZABETH Drake Candish Iohn and Richard Hawkins Raleigh Dudley Sherley Preston Greenuile Lancaster Wood Raimund Leuison Monson Winter Frobisher Daâ—â—es and other the Star-worthies of Englands Sphere whose Planet-courses we haue before related acknowledge ELIZAS Orb to be their First and highest Mouer How many Royall Fleets did shee set forth In the yeeres 85. and 87. those vnder Sir Francis Drake before mentioned as that also in 95. vnder him and Sir Iohn Hawkins another Fleet 1590. vnder Sir Iohn Hawkins and Sir Martin Frobisher to the Ilands also 1591. the Iland Fleet vnder the Lord Thomas Howard now Earle of Suffolke that 1592. by Sir Iohn Burroughs and Sir Robert Crosse when the Madre de Dios was taken and another Carrike burnt An. 1594. Shee sent forth a Fleet to Brest where Frobusher was slaine Another 1599. vnder the Lord Thomas Howard A. 1600. vnder Sir Richard Leuison a Fleet to the Ilands 1601. another to Ireland A. 1602. vnder Sir Richard Leuison and Sir William Manson and another vnder the same Commanders 1603. as bequeathing in her fatall extreames Marine Actions and Glory to her Successour These and other her Sea-glories I purpose not here to dilate hauing already handled some of them but haue singled from the rest the actions of 88. 89. 96. and 97. praemising somthing as a Preface of the great deliuerances which God vouch safed that Virgin Queen That Church which is mystically called The woman drunken with the bloud of Saints had begun to persecute her from her birth Pope Clement the sixt decreeing against her Mothers mariage and Pope Paul the third thundring a terrible sentence against her Fathers Soueraigntie And although King Henry had first enacted against his daughters and after for them by Parliamentary authoritie yet when King Edward which vsed to call her his sweet sister Temperance was dead there wanted not some which extruded both the sisters and obtruded another succession Queene Mary dispersing that storme raised another wherein shee was exposed to the columnies of fairesoule-mouthed sycophants which would haue stained the reigne of that Queene otherwise branded as short bloudy vnfortunate with the slaughter of that Royall Virgin Story and others saying That in vaine the boughs of Heresie were lopped off if the Root were suffered to continue Long and straight imprisonment shee indâ—red and was forced by them to Masse Confession and externall profession of that Romish Catholiâ—â—sme which perhaps had not diuerted her enemies designe had not the peruersâ—st of her enemies Gardiner beene auerted by his owne death and had not also King Philip with the Spaniards enuied to the French so rich an Inheritance as by Queene M 〈…〉 death without â—ssue which could scarsly from her sicke and aged body be expect was likely to fall vpon Queene Mary of Scotland betrothed to the Dolphin of France whereby the Spanish greatnesse already embroyled enough was likely to bee ouermatched by the French increased with addition of three mightie Kingdomes Queene Mary dying and Cardinall Poole with many Prelates as it were attending her exequies with their owne with generall applause Shee was acknowledged Queen Her first care was to restore Religion notwithstanding the dangers thence incompassing her shee also reiected the mariage with King Philip whereof hee had treated with her by the Earle of Feria his Embassadour promising to procure thereunto the Popes dispensation neither admitted shee the offered match of Charles sonne to Ferdinand the Emperour and when Henry the French King by the Guisians was perswaded to challenge England to his sonne and daughter in law causing them to vse her title Francis Mary by the Grace of God King and Queene of Scotland England and Ireland and prepared Warres against her God tooke him out of the world being s 〈…〉 e at a Talt sport The new King and Queene continued their former challenge Title and Ensignes which gaue no small occasions of those euills which afterwards inuolued her breeding a great d 〈…〉 gust betwixt those two greatest Ladies which Christendome had both Heires to an absolute Souereigntie Shee expelled the French out of Scotland stablished the affaires of Ireland procured armour and weapons out of Germany caused much Artillery to bee cast of Brasse and Iron new Mynes of Brasse being sound at Keswicke and the stone Calammaris vsefull for Brasse-workes found here also prouision for Gunpowder was first at her commandement made here at home Barwicke fortified the Nauie furnished the Sea Townes imitating her example and increasing
dayly in Nauall forces answered by Martiall Spirits for Land and Sea seruice Thus did God blesse her that had glorified him in establishing his Truth notwithstanding the pouertie of the State at her entrance deepely indetted by her predecessours and the saint friendship or professed enmitie of Rome and all her disciples Thus shall it bee done to the Woman God will honour and more then thus for what was all the time of her reigne but vicissitudes of Treasons Warres and manifold externall and internall broyles and yet in an admirable working of Diuine Grace when had England so long and flourishing peace at home or glory and renowme abroad as if hee which brought light out of darknesse would permit all such contrary workings to bee the object of his goodnesse the fewell and materialls of her greatnesse Arthur Poole the fourth yeere of her reigne abused the greatnesse of his bloud with other conspirators to the Guisâ—â—n purposes but taken and sentenced receiued not bloudie reward from her mild and mercifull hand Pope Pius the fift denounceth her excommunicate discharging her Subiects from loyaltie and alleageance and arming them against her Ridolfi a Florentine playes the Merchant of Popish wares the Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland take armes the Duke of Norfolke is entangled the French and Spaniard are perswaded by the Pope who promised also if need were to ingage to this purpose all the goods of the Sea Apostolike Chalices Crosses and holy Vestments Uitellius is commanded to inuade England with an Army from the Low-countries but God protected ELIZABETH and her Enemies abroad were disappointed the Traitors at home falling into their owne pit About the same time Edmund and Peter brethten to the Earle of Oâ—â—ond were busie in Ireland to inflame which rebellion Mendoza came out of Spaine but before it brake forth into any great combustion it was extinct Don Iohn of Austria enters next vpon the Stage for I omit Barues and Muthers Sir Henry Percie the B. of Ross his attempts and other Acts and Arts sauouring more of the Foxe then the Lion and pretended a peace whiles hee intended the deliuerance of the Scottish Queene and marrying her to make himselfe King of England and Scotland by helpe of fugitiues and fauour of the Pope and Guisians and in the midst of his warlike preparations suddenly dieth When Pius his impious curses had thus proued blessings hee deceaseth and Gregory his successour in the Papacie and malice to Queene ELIZABETH the great Founder of Seminaties gaping for no lesse then a Kingdome to his base sonne Iames Boncompagnâ— treateth with the Spaniard who had swallowed England also in his conceit Thomas Stukley an English fugitiue promiseth Ireland to the Popes bastard who in recompence giues him the titles of Marquesse of Lagen Earle of Wexford and Caterlough Vicount of Morough and Baron of Ross all places of note in Ireland and made him Generall of eight hundred Italian Souldiers the King of Spaine paying their wages But Sebastian King of Portugall which should haue conducted the Spanish forces against England being intangled with an African Expedition procured Sâ—â—cley to goe thither with him where both lost their liues And the Spaniard was now diuerted from English designes to those neerer of Portugall there imploying the forces intended against vs. Doctor Nicolas Sanders playeth the next part who hauing written in defence of the Popes visible Monarchy Ecclesiasticall and belched out the fowlest slanders of Queen ELIZABETHS parentage that Hell could deuise would make his writings visible by his deeds and with Iames Fitz Moricâ— an Irish Traitor hauing obtained to be the Popes Nuntio with a banner consecrated at Rome and some forces out of Spaine entreth Ireland there fortifieth and winneth Desmond to his partie San Ioseph 〈…〉 followeth with seuen hundred Italians and Spaniards with Armour for fiue thousand Their Fort is taken Fitz moricâ— first and after the Earle with many others slaine Sanders runnes mad and wandering vp and downe in the Woods and Mountaines dieth miserably the Country is pacified and ELIZABETH preuaileth The Seminaries Schooles of Treason were now erected at R 〈…〉 and Rhemâ—â— to become worse then that Troian Hoâ—se Cells of desperate Eâ—issaries incâ—ndaries of their owne Countrey Campion and others suffer seditious Bookes are written against the Queene whereby S 〈…〉 râ—ill was instigated to kill her Mendoza the Spanish Embassadour was commanded to depart out of England hauing practised with Throckmorton and others about an inuasion of the Land and to remoue the Queene About the same time in manner miraculously traiterous projects came to light by certaine papers of one Creighâ—â—â— a Scottish Iesuite who being taken by Dutch Pirates tare them and threw them into the Sea which would not bee accâ—ssary to Iesuiticall plots but by the helpe of the winde brought them backe to the Ship which being deliuered to Sir William Wade were ioyned again and reuealed new plots of the Pope the Spaniard and Guisians to inuade England Whereupon an Association was made by many thorow the Kingdome binding themselues by their hands and seales to prosecute all such to death as should attempt any thing against the life of the Queene Cardinall A 〈…〉 for the English Catholikes Ecclesiasticall Inglefield for the Larkes the Bishop of Rosse for the Queene of Scots were said to haue agreed to depriue the Queene and to disinherite King IAMES as a fauoâ—â—er of Heresie c. A. 1585. Doctor Parry whom Queene ELIZABETH had before pardoned his life being heartned by Ragazonius the Popes Nuntio in France and absolued in the Popes name by the Cardinall Comensis vndertooke to kill the Queene being thereunto incouraged by Allens booke teaching that excommunicated Princes may bee dispoyled of liues and Scepters His partner reueales him and his mischiefe lighted on himselfe Henry Earle of Northumberland brother of Thomas before executed at Yorke slew himselfe in the Tower and the Lord Chancellour three dayes after in the Starre Chamber declared that he had beene committed for traiterous deuises against the Queene and State the particulars whereof were then opened by the Atturney Popham seeking to set free the Queene of Scots to destroy the Queene and the Religion to haue dealt with Charles Paget termed Mope about these things with the inuasion of England c. The Burkes rebellion in Ireland fell out that yeere and many broyles which cost three thousand their liues at one time the title Mac-William in Connagh extinguished and the insolence of the Ilanders betwixt Scotland and England repressed The Spaniard arrested the English Ships in his Ports whence the Expeditions of the Earle of Cumberland and Sir Francis Drake before mentioned tooke their beginning and the Warres betwixt the two Kingdomes A. 1586. that prodigions plot of Sauage Balard Babington and the rest of that bloudy crue conspiring to kill the Queene was detected and the plotters were executed In 87. the French Embassadour a Guisian conferred
with Stafford to kill the Queene making great promises to that purpose And he and Moody were further treated with on that point by Trappius his Secretary which by Stafford was reuealed and preuented But whiles all pretended the freeing of the Queen of Scots by this meanes they shortned her dayes and freed her of her life The story is knowne and I shall not need to insist vpon these later things nor on Tyrones Tragicall rebellion the death of so many thousands English Irish Spanish noâ— Lopez his plot to poison the Queene c. I but propound these things to excite English thankfulnesse to God and hatred to that Whoore drunken with bloud which hath thus enchanted the Kings of the earth yea like the Legion Deuill hath broken all chaines of allegeance and hath initiated in hellish mysteries naturall sworne subiects to inuasion and mutuall massacres yea to account it tolerable lawfull commendable meritorious and in ordine ad deum necessary ô times ô monsters to kill and murther and hath made it a compendious way to win the Kingdome of Heauen by killing the Kings of the Earth And if the bloud of so many Saints from Abel to Zacharias were threatned to fall on Ierusalem sometimes the holy Citie what may be said of Rome whose Temporall Monarchy first founded in the bloud of Rhemus brother of Romulus proceeded in exiling their owne Kings and in exterminating worlds of men out of the world Caesar alone is said in fiftie battells to haue slaine 1192000. men besides what was slaine in his Ciuill Warres in a world of time together exceeded in the sanctitie of the bloud of so many thousand Saints and Martyrs in ten dismall persecutions and yet fell short of the pretended Catholike Rome that mysticall Woman drunken with bloud I dare boldly auer and by History make it good yea in great part to a iudicious obseruer the former parts of this Worke haue shewed that since the Papall challenge of Monarchy ouer Monarkes by Gregory the seuenth the Deuills thousand yeeres of imprisonment being expired Antichristian Rome hath by Sword Fire Warres Ciuill and Forraine and other inhumane immane diuellish furies procured the shedding of more humane bloud then euer Heathen Rome in farre longer time had shed to erect their Heathenish Empire from the dayes of Romulus which founded the Citie to Augustus which grounded and stablished the Empire and Tiberius vnder whom Christ was crucified Yea if you adde the persecutions of the succeeding Emperors till Iulian the Apostata yet haue the later Antichristian exceeded in numbers as much as the executions of Warres are vsually beyond all comparison of the Iudiciall and Legall I adde that as the Ethnike Romans spilt none except in persecutions but Ethnike bloud so the pretended Christan Romists except in the Indies and the Holy Land Wars shed none in this account but Christian. This may seem a prodigal speech prodigious paradox to those which know not the millions which perished in the Holy Land Wars set kept on foot about 200. yeers together by Papall ambition so many hundreths of thousands which perished in the same times by open warres made by the Popes Crusados against the Albigenses Waldenses and what other names it pleased them to giue to better men then themselues in almost eightie yeeres continued warres So many Ciuill Warres in Germany the subiects and competitors armed by Crusados against the Emperours till that Eagle was plucked where one Henry whom Hildebrand first deposed fought sixtie battells In England France Italy and other parts in the daies of King Iohn Fredericke the second Coâ—radâ— Memfred Phillip and others and after that the long Bohemian broiles drenched in bloud after Husses fire and lately so innumerable millions pauperis est numerare in America and the Ilands which these bookes plainly euince to haue beene written in bloud by Roman authoritie and pretence not to make mention of the Philippinas the East Indies the Wars in Sicile and Naples and the Greeke Empire first weakned and after by Roman ambition lost how many hundreth thousands hath France lost of Christians within these last hundreth yeeres how many more haue taken their fatall farewells in the Belgian quarrell How doe those Low-countries and Germany still flow in bloud That I speake not of our England and Ireland But I hate the thoughts of those things and therefore come to the 88. businesse that also set on worke from Rome the widest and openest passage from hell for his ingresse and egresse that was a Murtherer from the beginning and in the last ages turning himselfe into an Angell of light hath there established his principall Vicar vnder pretended titles and seemings of Christ and Christianitie Yea this is also remarkable that in the treasons against Queene Elizabeth and in those against our present Souereigne King Iames whom God long preserue by Watson Clerke Cobham c. at first and in the Master and Monster-peece which was now ready to breake forth with violence and virulence from Hell and to blow vp all other Treasons that of the Gun-powder Traitors still the busiest part of the Tragedie is committed to some Romish Priest or Iesuite who should fit and frame the resolute dissolutenesse of wild spirits to the execution of it or themselues The Master Workman I say not Beelzebub is the Pope as appeareth in those before mentioned and in this of 88. whose Bull declaratory against that Worthy of women followeth as the contents thereof are deliuered by Meteranus to whose labours in this Story wee are principally indetted It was to be published in the Popes name by Cardinall Allen after the Nauie had arriued in England to command the English to yeeld their obedience to the Duke of Parma From the Pope therefore wee will begin our 88 Story touching the preparation and successe of that Armada sirnamed inuincible CHAP. XI Octagesimus Octauus mirabilis Annus The Popes Bull the King of Spaines preparations the Duke of Medinas Expedition the Duke of Parmas Forces for the inuasion of England diuers Sea-fights twixt the English and Spanish Fleets the Sea flight of the Spanish and miserable disasters in their returne Their lies The Queens Religious Triumph SIxtus Quintus by diuine prouidence vniuersall Pastor of the Flock of Christ to whom by continued and lawfull succession the administration and charge of the Catholike Church pertaineth taking into consideration the miseries and calamities whereinto the famous Kingdomes of England and Ireland had falne which in times past were commended so much for Vertues Religion and Christian Pietie and Obedience and now by the impious and vniust Empire of Elizabeth pretended Queene and a few adhering to her not onely to haue come to a dissolute estate and dangerous to it selfe but also as infected and venemous members are wont to cause infection and disease to the whole body of Christians and wanting there the due remedies which elswhere by help of
Christian Princes he vseth to preuent abuses to maintaine Ecclesiasticall discipline For asmuch as Henry the Eight late King of England a Rebell and forsaker of the Sea Apostolike separated himselfe and his from the communion of Christians by force and Elizabeth the present Vsurper perseuereth therein not without great commotion and danger of the Neighbour Regions shewing her selfe obstinate and impenitent so that there is no hope that those Kingdomes may at any time be reformed and reduced to the exercise of Christian Religion true peace and quietnesse except shee be depriued of the administration of the Kingdome Therefore our most holy Father desiring as his Office requireth to prouide for this euill with present and strong remedies inspired to him from God to the health of the vniuersall Church incited as well by his owne as his predecessors affection and zeale alway borne toward England and moued by the continuall sollicitation vehement and importunate exhortation of very many and those principall men of the said Nation hee hath vsed great diligence with diuers Princes and especially with the Mightie and Catholike King of Spaine imploring his aide hereunto by the reuerence which hee beareth the Roman Sea by the old friendship and consanguinitie which his Family hath had with the Kings of England by his singular charitie and beneuolence formerly shewed to the Catholikes of that Countrey for obtaining by that meanes his desire of peace and quietnesse in his Neighbour Prouinces for his studie and readinesse towards the propagation of Catholike Religion and lastly for the furtherance of the common good of Europe hath besought him to confer all the Forces which God almightie hath giuen him hereunto that that Woman may bee deiected from her degree and that the euill men and hurtfull to mankind which adhere to her may be punished and that Kingdome may bee reduced to certaine reformation and quietnesse from which great good and many commodities to the Common-wealth might be to be expected Wherefore that bee might make knowns to all the world the Iustice of this Cause and the Subiects also of that Kingdome might fully he satisfied likewise that hee might denounce the iust iudgement of God against her It hath seemed meet to his Holinesse with the Declaratory Sentence made against this Woman to shew the cause also why he had so proceeded against her First because shee is an Heretike and Schismatike and therefore excommunicated of two Popes his predecessors contumacious disobedient to God and the supreme Sea Also shee tooke to her selfe with presumptious vsurpation supreme Authoritie and Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction ouer the Soules of Men against Nature Reason against all Lawes Diuine and Humane and that as well by vertue of the sentences giuen by Clement the Seuenth and Paul the Third as of the publike declaration of King Henry her Father Thirdly because shee vsurped the Kingdome against all right not onely in regard of the impediments aforesaid but also against the old Contracts in times past made betwixt the Sea Apostolike and the Kingdome of England in the time of Henry the Second when the said Kingdome reconciled if selfe to the Roman Sea for the murther of Saint Thomas of Canturbury At which time it was agreed that none should bee taken for lawfull King of England without consent of the Great Bishop which conuention or contract was after renewed by King Iohn and confirmed by Oath Which thing was most profitable and so established by the request of the Nobilitie and People For many and grieuous iniuries extorsions and other wrongs perpetrated by her and by others through her permission against the distressed innocent Subiects of both Kingdomes For seditions and rebellions betwixt the Inhabitants of neighbour Prouinces raised against their lawful Magistrate and naturall Prince by which shee seduced innumerable Soules and many potent Regions For entertainment giuen to Fugitiue Heretikes and Rebells wicked and publike malefactors and vndertaking their protection to the great losse and detriment of Christian Regions Also for sending to and procuring the Turke that our mightie and cruell Enemy to inuade Christendome and disturbe the setled Peace For the horrible and long persecution of the Saints of God for holy B B. ill handled spoyled imprisoned and diuers torments and miserable tortures and slaughters done to the members of the holy and Catholike Church For the inhumane and vniust imprisonment and crueltie lately exercised against the most gracions Princesse Mary Queene of Scotland which had fled into England hauing first receiued promise of securitie pretection and aide For abolishing the true Catholike Religion the profanation of holy Sacraments also of Monasteries Temples Persons consecrated to the memory of Saints and all other things which make or may help to eternall life And concerning Secular affaires and the State politike for that the ancient Nobilitie being reiected and excluded shee hath promoted obscure and vnworthy men to Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall dignities and by this meanes hath made a sale of Lawes and Rights and lastly for the absolute tyranny which shee vsurpeth and continually exerciseth to the great contempt of God oppression of the miserable People the losse of Soules and destruction of Countries Wherefore seeing those offences are of that nature and moment that some make her vncapable of the kingdome others make her vnworthy of life his Holinesse by the power of Almightie God and of Apostolicall authoritie committed to him doth renew the sentence of his predecessors Pius the Fifth and Gregory the Thirteenth whereby the said Elizabeth is excommunicated and depriued of her Kingdome And now by these present Letters the same Elizabeth againe excommunicateth and depriueth of all Royall Dignitie Titles Rights and pretences to the said Kingdomes of England and Ireland declaring her illegitimate and a true Usurper of the Kingdomes and absoluing the Subiects of that Land and all others from all dutie of Dominion Fidelitie and Obedience and from the Oath giuen to her or to any of her substitutes Further expresly commanding vnder paine of the anger of God Almightie that none of whatsoeuer condition or degree after hee shall haue notice hereof doe presume to yeeld her any obedience fauour or ayde whatsoeuer but that all may imploy all their power and indenour that due punishment may be taken of her that shee at length which hath separated her selfe by many wayes from God and his Church seeing her selfe for saken and destitute of all worldly refuge may be brought to acknowledge her fault and to subiect her selfe to the iudgement of the most High with all submission And therefore commands all and euery the Inhabitants of the said Kingdomes and all others that with all their power they execute the premisses withdrawing all helpe publike and priuate from the said person and her adherents and that as soone as they shall be hereof certisied they ioyne themselues to the Catholike
Armie led by the Illustrious and victorious Prince Alexander Farnesius Duke of Parma and Deputie of the Catholike King with all the forces they can gather that they may assist the said depriuation and punishment of the parties afore said and the restitution of the holy Catholike Religion declaring that all which shall show themselues disobedient to this Mandate shall not escape deserued punishments Be it knowne further to all men that it is not the purpose of his Holinesse the Catholike King or the said Dukes Highnesse in this Expedition to oppresse the said Kingdomes or thereof to make conquest or to alter the Lawes Priuiledges or Customes thereof or to depriue any man there of his libertie or life except the rebellious and contumacious or to bring any change besides that which shall be iudged fit by common voyces of his Holinesse the Catholike Maiesty and the States of that Kingdome to the restoring and continuing of the Catholike Religion and the punishment of that Usurper and her adherents Certifying and securing all that all controuersies which may happen by the depriuation of that Woman whether they shall arise about priuate mens affaires or about the Royall Succession or betwixt the Clergy and Laity or whatsoeuer other discords they shall be all compounded and decided according to the Lawes Iustice and Christian equitie without any iniury or damage Neither shall it onely bee prouided conueniently that the Catholikes which haue suffered so many euills be not spoyled but fauour is also granted to all others which being penitent shall submit themselues vnto the Chiefe Commander of the Army And whereas by due information made wee are giuen to vnderstand that there are many innocents which through ignorance of Christian Faith hauing falne haue hitherto erred onely of ignorance being neuerthelesse reckoned amongst Heretikes wee purpose not at all to punish such persons but to inâ—ure patiently till by conference of learned men and good sound counsells they may be better instructed touching the truth and not shew themselues obstinate but desirous to preuent the effusion of Christian bloud and destruction of Countries which may be expected by the resistance of some wicked principall aduersaries Therefore by these Presents wee declare that it is not onely lawfull for all as well publike as priuate persons besides those which haue vndertaken this Expedition to lay band on the said Vsurper and other her adherents to take them and deliuer them to the Catholike side but also this deed shall bee esteemed of vs for a faithfull and singular seruice and shall be recompenced with very great rewards according to the qualitie of the persons taken or betrayed All others also which heretofore haue giuen ayde or shall hereafter assist to the punishment of the euill and the restitution of Catholike Religion in those Kingdomes shall receiue their reward and recompence increased by vs in Dignities and Honours as their good and faithfull seruice to the Common-wealth shall desire Wherein as much as may be care shall be had that reckoning and respect be holden of the antient and honourable Houses and Stockes of the said Kingdomes Lastly free accesse and safe conduct by these Presents is granted to all men which will ioyne themselues to the Catholike Armie and will bring thereto prouision furniture of warre and other necessaries full and liberall satisfaction is promised for all things which for the seruice and commoditie of the said Armie shall be supplied by them And all are admonished and plainly commanded that they doe their vtmost indeuour and diligence that by their meanes cause may bee remoued of vsing force in punishing those which shall neglect this Precept Further more the Holy Father in his fatherly loue and singular affection to this Expedition out of the Spirituall Treasure of the holy Church which is committed to his custody and dispensation doth liberally grant plenary Indulgences and remission of Sins to all those which shall bring any aid or fauour to the depriuation and punishing of the said persons and the reformation of both Kingdomes to wit after due penance Contrition and Confession had according to the Lawes of God and Men and the receiued custome amongst Christians NOw that all might bee carried more closely and that this Expedition might seeme made against the Low-countries rather then the English a solemne meeting was appointed first neer Ostend after at Bronckburg in Flanders for a treaty of peace with the Queene of England Henry Earle of Derby the Lord Cobham Sir Iames Croft D. Dale D. Rogers were sent Richardot plainly said that he knew not what might be put in practise in the meane time against England But the Prince and he being demanded if their were any enterprise of inuading England they vtterly denied any thoughts therof Count Aremberg Campignie Richardot Maes Garnier were the Princes Delegates and professed that they had sufficient Commission for treaty of peace First a truce was propounded by the English and by them â—eâ—â—ed Then the English required that the ancient leagues betwixt the Kings of England and the House of Burgundy might be renewed and confirmed that the Low-countrimen might iniov their priuiledges and libertie of conscience that Spaniards and forraine forces might be remoued that neither they nor their neighbours should haue cause to feare and then the Queene would redeliuer her foure Cautionary Townes They whiled them with such answere as suted to their purposes and long adoe was made in weauing and vnweauing Penelopes web till the Spanish Armada was vpon the Coast and the very Ordnance proclaimed in their eares a surcease from further illusions Then did Parma dismisse them pulled off his Visor vncasing the Fox and truly appearing in the Lions skin But let vs now come to take view of this Fleet and the preparations made for it The King of Spaine hauing with small fruit aboue twenty yeeres together waged warre against the Netherlands after deliberation with his Counsellours thereabout thought it most conuenient to assault them once again by Sea which had bin attempted sundry times heretofore but not with forces sufficient Vnto the which expedition it stood him now in hand to ioine great puissance as hauing the English people his professed enemies whose Iland is so situate that it may either greatly helpe or hinder all such as faile into those parts For which cause he thought good first of all to inuade England being perswaded by his Secretary Escouedo and by diuers other well experienced Spaniards and Dutchmen and by many English fugitiues that the conquest of that Iland was lesse difficult then the conquest of Holland and Zealand Moreouer the Spaniards were of opinion that it would be farre more behoouefull for their King to conquer England and the Low countries all at once then to bee constrained continually to maintaine a warlike Nauie to defend his East and West Indie Fleets from the English Drake and from such like valiant enemies And for the same purpose the King
by reason they had so frankly spent the greater part in the former conflicts The same day a Counsell being assembled it was decreed that the English Fleete should be deuided into foure squadrons the principall whereof was committed vnto the Lord Admirall the second to Sir Francis Drake the third to Captaine Hawkins the fourth to Captaine Frobisher The Spaniards in their sailing obserued very diligent and good order sailing three and foure and sometimes more ships in a ranke and following close vp one after another and the stronger and greater ships protecting the lesser The fiue and twenty of Iuly when the Spaniards were come ouer-against the Isle of Wight the Lord admirall of England being accompanied with his best ships namely the Lion Captaine whereof was the Lord Thomas Howard The Elizabeth Ionas vnder the command of Sir Robert Southwell son in law vnto the Lord Admirall the Beare vnder the Lord Sheffield Nephew vnto the Lord Admirall the Victorie vnder Captaine Barker and the Galeon Leicester vnder the forenamed Captain George Fenner with great valour and dreadfull thunder of shot encountered the Spanish Admirall being in the very midst of all his Fleete Which when the Spaniards perceiued being assisted with his strongest ships he came forth and entered a terrible combat with the English for they bestowed each on other the broad sides and mutually discharged all their Ordnance being within one hundred or an hundred and twenty yards one of another At length the Spaniards hoised vp their failes and againe gathered themselues vp close into the forme of a roundell In the meane while Captaine Frobisher had engaged himselfe into a most dangerous conflict Whereupon the Lord Admirall comming to succour him found that hee had valiantly and discreetly behaued himselfe and that he had wisely and in good time giuen ouer the fight because that after so great a batterie he had sustained no damage For which cause the day following being the sixe and twenty of Ioly the Lord Admirall rewarded him with the order of Knighthood together with the Lord Thomas Howard the Lord Sheffield Master Iohn Hawkins and others The same day the Lord Admirall receiued intelligence from New-hauen in France by certaine of his Pinnaces that all things were quit in France and that there was no preparation of sending aide vnto the Spaniards which was greatly feared from the Guisian faction and from the Leaguers but there was a false rumour spread all about that the Spaniards had conquered England The seuen and twentieth of Iuly the Spaniards about the sun-setting were come ouer-against Douer and rode at ancre within the sight of Caleis intending to hold on for Dunkerk expecting there to ioyne with the Duke of Parma his forces without which they were able to doe little or nothing Likewise the English Fleete following vp hard vpon them ancred iust by them within culuering-shot And here the Lord Henry Seymer vnited himselfe vnto the Lord Admirall with his fleet of 30. ships which rode before the mouth of Thames As the Spanish Nauie therefore lay at ancre the Duke of Medina sent certaine Messengers vnto the Duke of Parma with whom vpon that occasion many Noblemen and Gentlemen went to refresh themselues on land and amongst the rest the Prince of Ascoli being accounted the Kings base son and a very proper and towardly yong Gentleman to his great good went on shoare who was by so much the more fortunate in that he had not opportunity to returne on boord the same ship out of which he was departed because that in returning home it was cast away vpon the Irish coast withall the persons contained therein The Duke of Parma being aduertised of the Spanish Fleetes arriuall vpon the coast of England made all the haste hee could to be present himselfe in this expedition for the performance of his charge vainely perswading himselfe that now by the meanes of Cardinall Allen hee should be crowned King of England and for that cause he had resigned the Gouernment of the Low-Countries vnto Count Mansfeld the elder And hauing made his vowes vnto Saint Mary of Hall in Heâ—ault whom he went to visite for hisblinde deuotions sake he returned toward Bruges the eight and twenty of Iuly The next day trauelling to Dunkerk hee heard the thundring Ordnance of either Fleete and the same euening being come to Dixmud hee was giuen to vnderstand the hard successe of the Spanish Fleete Vpon tuesday which was the 13. of Iuly about high noone he came to Dunkerk when as all the Spanish Fleete was now passed by neither durst any of his ships in the meane space come forth to assist the said Spanish Fleet for feare of fiue and thirty warlike ships of Holland and Zeland which there kept watch and ward vnder the conduct of the Admirall Iustin of Nassau The foresaid fiue and thirty ships were furnished with most cunning Mariners and old expert Souldiers amongst the which were twelue hundred Musketeers whom the States had chosen out of all their Garrisons and whom they knew to haue beene heretofore experienced in Sea-fights This Nauie was giuen especially in charge not to suffer any ship to come out of the Hauen nor to permit any Zabraes Pataches or other small vessels of the Spanish Fleete which were more likely to aide the Dunkerkers to enter thereinto for the greater ships were not to be feared by reason of the shallow Sea in that place Howbeit the Prince of Parma his forces being as yet vnready were not come on boord his ships onely the English Fugitiues being seuen hundred in number vnder the conduct of Sir William Stanley came in fit time to haue beene embarked because they hoped to giue the first assault against England The residue shewed themselues vnwilling and loath to depart because they saw but a few Marriners who were by constraint drawne into this expedition and also because they had very bare prouision of Bread Drinke and other necessary victuals Moreouer the ships of Holland and Zeland stood continually in their sight threatning shot and Powder and many inconueniences vnto them for feare of which ships the Mariners and Sea-men secretly withdrew themselues both day and night least that the Duke of Parma his Souldiers should compell them by maine force to goe on boord and to breake through the Hollanders Fleete which all of them iudged to be impossible by reason of the straightnesse of the Hauen But it seemeth that the Duke of Parma and the Spaniards grounded vpon a vaine and presumptuous expectation that all the ships of England and of the Low-Countries would at the first sight of the Spanish and Dunkerk Nauie haue betaken themselues to flight yeelding them Sea-roome and endeuouring onely to defend themselues their hauens and Sea-coasts from inuasion Wherefore their intent and purpose was that the Duke of Parma in his small and flat-bottomed ships should as it were vnder the shadow and
neuer seene before And all to ioyne the Kingdome of that land Vnto the Kingdomes that he had in hand Now if you aske what set this King on fire To practise warre when he of peace did treat It was his Pride and neuer quencht desire To spoile that IlaÌ„ds wealth by peace made great His Pride which far aboue the heauens did swel And his desire as vnsuffic'd as hell But well haue winds his proud blasts ouerblown And swelling waues alaid his swelling heart Well hath the Sea with greedy gulfs vnknown Deuoured the deuourer to his smart And made his ships a pray vnto the sand That meant to pray vpon anothers land And now O Queene aboue all others blest For whom both winds waues are prest to fight So rule your owne so succour friends opprest As farre from pride as ready to doe right That England you you England long enioy No lesse your friends delight then foes annoy I haue thought good to adde here the prime reports made by the Spaniards and their friends touching the successe of their Armada as they were printed in Spaine and after published and scorâ—ed in England The true Relation of the successe of the Catholike Armie against their Enemies by the Letters of the Post-master of Logrono of the fourth of September and by Letters from Roan of the one and thirtieth of August and by Letters from Paris of the Kings Embassadour there wherein he declareth the imprisonment of Francis Drake and other great Nobles of England and how the Queene is in the Field with an Armie and of a certaine Mutinie which was amongst the Queenes Armie with the successe of the said Catholike Armie since they entred in the Groyne till they came on the Coast of England with two Ballets compounded by Christouer Brauo a blind man of Cordowa Printed with licence by Gabriel Ramos Beiarano Printer THe newes of England is confirmed here by a Letter of the Gouernour of Roan Hee writeth hee hath in his power the chiefe Pilot of Captaine Drake and that he knoweth that all the English Armie remained ouerthrowne hauing sunke two and twentie Ships and taken fortie and imprisoned Francis Drake hauing giuen them chase almost as high as Abspurge and slaine many by the sword and likewise saith that there was foâ—â—d in Captaine Drakes Ship a Peece of Ordnance of fiue and twentie foot long which discharged a Shot of a hundreth weight at once made of purpose with one onely Shot to sinke our Spanish Admirall and it pleased God although shee was somewhat battered yet was shee repaired againe and ouerthrew the English Armie THe English haue lost aboue fortie Ships in one encounter where they could not flye which was in Luxaten a Hauen in Scotland to the which place since the departure of the Spanish Armies from Calleis the English Armie followed and supposing they went to take that Hauen they got before ours to defend the entrance wee seeing them so neere the English Fleet and that they could not retire as they alwaies did when they pleased to the English Hauen they set vpon them so valiantly that they sunke twentie of their Ships and they tooke twentie 〈◊〉 whole and sound and the rest seeing their destruction fled away with great losse of men and their Ships very much battered and with this they say the Spanish Armie tooke the Hauen where they are very well lodged as euery one affirmeth and so the newes is here I pray God giue them good successe Wee vnderstand by the Post come from Calleis that in England it is forbidden vpon paine of death and losse of goods that no bodie doe write newes from thence to any place which confirmeth the newes aboue I Doe not write newes of the Spanish Armie because they are diuers and would gladly write the very truth Now by the newes which runneth from diuers places as Calleis Deepe and Holland and presumptions from England and other places it is holden for certaine that they fought with the English and broken their heads hauing sunke many of their Ships and taken others and the rest which they say were twentie seuen Ships returned very much battered to the Riuer of London which are all those that could escape There goeth with this Post another Post of Iorge Seguin of Calleis which saith that certaine Masters and Mariners of Zeland did affirme to the Gouernours of Calleis Mounsier de Gorden that our Fleet is in a Hauen or Riuer in Scotland called Trifla where they say there may ride two thousand Ships this is that which commonly is currant here BY newes from London the thirtie six of August it is knowne for most certaine from persons of credite that the Queens Admiral Generall was arriued in the Riuer of London with twentie fiue ships onely without his Admirall Ship which was taken by our Admirall Saint Iohn and it is well knowne in England that to hide the losse of their Admirall Ship they say bee put himselfe in a smaller Ship the better to follow our Armie and it is knowne for certaintie that he saued himselfe in a Boat when he lost his Ship That Drake for certaintie is taken or slaine The same is confirmed by the way of Holland by a Pinnace of theirs And from Austerland that the Queene commanded vpon paine of death that no body should speake of her Fleet and that there was great sorrow in those parts of England and that the Queene had in the field thirtie thousand raw Souldiers betwixt Douer and Margate and that the Catholikes vnderstanding that all their Fleet was dispersed moued a certaine Mutinie which forced the Queene to goe her selfe into the Field and for certaine it is knowne that there is not brought into England neither Ship nor Boat of ours more then the Ship of Don Pedro Valdez and that our Fleet was gone into Scotland and arriued in a Hauen called Trapena Euxaten AFter that I had written this here is arriued a Scottishman which saith that all the Spanish Fleet is arriued in Scotland and that Scottishmen haue taken Armes against the English THat vpon the thirtieth of Iuly without seeing any sayle of the Enemies in the Sea hee came to the Channell sixe leagues from Plimouth where vnderstanding the Enemies were hee gathered together and set in order all the Fleet and sayling the first of August there was discouered some Sayles of the Enemies the which the second day were numbred to bee three score Sayle of which the Duke tooke the wind and passed without any fight although he presented the same to them howbeit they began to shoot at the Rearward but the Duke in the Galleon S. Martin set the Prow of his Ship against the biggest of the Enemies the which being succoured by twentie others fled away of this fight and first encounter there was sunke three Galeasses and foure mightie Galeons of the Queenes there was burnt of ourâ— by negligence of a Gunner the Admirall of
said and valued to bee richly worth aboue foure hundred thousand Duckets At the taking of them I stood in our Gallerie in the Wast-spight with the Reere Admirall and wee halled and called vnto some to inquire of their lading and Merchandize and from what places they came whereby wee learned that they were come from the Hauana very rich and at the least to the value aboue said Whereupon our Reere Aamirall said vnto me in priuate that although wee should be little the better for these rich Prizes yet he was heartily glad for our Generals sake because they would in good sort giue contentment to her Maiestie so that there should bee no repining against the poore Lord for the expense of the Voyage And for my better satisfaction in the value of them I had caused mine owne Prisoner to giue me notice of the Ships wherein hee had Aduentures and according to the Rates thereof set downe vpon his owne knowledge those three Ships could not be so little worth as they all had formerly affirmed Now if wee doe but looke into the husbandrie and prouidence of former Ages and of the mightiest Empire and best gouerned State that euer was wee shall plainely see that they euer â—coke a more strict and iust account of the benefit of their gettings and Victories And that it was an especiall regard of the Roman Consuls and Generals at their returne from a prosperous Warre to render a plentifull gaine into the publique Treasurie which made their State still able to subsist in their great actions And many times their greatest and worthiest Captaines were deepely called in question for imbeseling any part of such gettings as amongst others was that famous Scipio surnamed Africanus prosecuted in that kinde by the Petilâ—j notwithstanding his many great seruices to the Common-wealth But what became of all these our gettings God knowes Onely I heare that there was a Composition made afterwards with her Maiestie for the Cochynella and other Merchandize not to a third part of that it was worth For neither that nor yet any of the other riches could truely come to light or publique knowledge because they were neuer faithfully certified vnder the hands and testimonies of sufficient Officers when they were first taken nor any of that which was preserued fold when wee came home but onely to the Buyers aduantage And yet in Conclusion they that had so played the wise Stewards in so prouiding for themselues and their followers had all the grace and gaine from those that had more carefully and iustly intended the publique Seruice But this generall neglect of truth and merit throughout the world is the cause that so few doe apply to follow those sincere and vnprofitable courses especially seeing how many doe daily by fraud and slatterie finde shorter and smoother wayes to Honours wealth and preferment Euen beyond all measure and expectation The Conclusion of the Worke with some later Aduertisements touching His Maiesties Care for VIRGINIA VVE haue now compassed the World in the Courses of so many Planets euery of which had a peculiar wandering and yet none erring from the publike benefit of the Vniuerse And as in Geometricall compasses one foote is fixed in the Centre whiles the other mooueth in the Circumference so is it with Purchas and his Pilgrimes in this Geographicall compassing they haue their owne motions but ordered in this Circumference from for and by him which abideth at home in his Centre and neuer trauelled two hundred miles from Thaxted in Essex lately adorned and augmented with Franchises by his Maiestie where hee was borne All their lines tend to this Centre and this Centre to the Basis and Ground thereof that is to his Countrey to the honour and benefit wherof he and all his are due All Nations dance in this Round to doe the English service and English Trauellers here enioy the Mayne others the By to attend and with their Trauels to perfect the English at lest the knowledge of the World to the English The Map of England ANGLIA Yea in this English Centre also I haue chosen the Centre of that Centre the Renowmed Name of Queene ELIZABETH to which because Mortalitie hath depriued vs of Her Person wee haue added that of King IAMES the All that is left vs of Queene ELIZABETH and more then that All in further perfection of Sexe and Arts. With those auspicious Names as the faire Starres in the Constellations of both Poles our Pilgrimes begaâ—ne their Progresse by the Light of those two Eyes of Great Brittaine they haue taken view of the World and therefore heere wee end in our Pilgrimage with those two auspicious Names His Maiestie first for Brute is vncertaine hath combined a Trinitie of Kingdomes into an Vnitie Fecit eos in gentem vnam made the Ocean the Wall to his Inheritance hath rooted out the wonted barbarisme of Borderers of Scottish Fewds of English Duells of Irish Bogges hath confirmed and settled those cruder and more indigested beginnings of our prosperitie hath enioyed soueraignetie longer then euer did any of Britaines Soueraignes and still ô still may we long long enioy him hath giuen so manifold securitie against the extreamest and most fatall rigor both in number weight and worth of Royall pledges The Map of Great Brittaine and Ireland ANGLIA SCOTIA et HIBERNIA He is beyond comparison compared with others a meere transcendent beyond all his Predecessors Princes of this Realme beyond the neighbouring Princes of his own times beyond the conceits of subiects dazled with such brightnes Beyond our victorious Debora not in sex alone but as Peace is more excellent then War and Salomon then Dauid in this also that He is and we enioy his present Sunshine in regard of posteritie not onely sowing thereto the fruit of his bodie but of his learned mind like a Salomon indeed by voluminous Writings and not which is more vsesuall to Princes with apophthegme-flashes recorded by others like Saul sometime among the Prophets a Miracle and Oracle both this in polemicall politicall problematicall apocalypticall positiue Theology and Bookes of deuotion also that in that his Royall body hath had the honour not to be polluted with women aboue men aboue Salomon And as wee haue trauelled abroad that wee may bring forraine rarities home wee find no greater raritie abroad or at home then his Maiestie the Father of the Clergie the raiser of so many Families to honour and of honours to Families whose bountie and clemencie none deny let others beware least they perhaps haue euill eyes because his is good so honoured of his Subiects with awfull loue with louing awe that himselfe hath professed no King herein his superiour and we can and all History will professe with vs that England neuer enioyed better daies then vnder her deceased Mother and the present Pater Patriae who hath secured Britaine in peace and prosperitie whiles all Christian Kingdomes haue beene shaken with warres and that which alone hath escaped
conquered foe 1905 Iohn Drake liued 15 moneths with the savages 1186. His mishaps 1440 1441. His fame gotten by his iourney to the West Indies and about the World 1916 Drano a River neere Orenoco It s vnhealthy passage 1250 Dreames sceming ominous 1191 Drinke to some poison to other bodies beneficiall although the very same 1173. Great drinkingmatch by the Indians 1285. Drink made of roots great want of drink 1364. It s quality and varietie among the Indians 1381. Drinking esteemed by those of Peru the greatest courtesie that can be offered by King or Subiect 1473. Strange drinking 1519. Drinke made of Berries at the Bermudas 1739. Drinke made of Plummes in Virginia 1784. Scarcitie of drinke 1143 Drowth extraordinarie in new-New-England 1866 Drugs in Guiana 1276 Drunkennesse a vice of Savages 1189 1473. Drunkennesse like to ouerthrow an English Armie 1916 Ducks the curiousnesse of making their nests in the Magellane Streights 1385 Dudley viz. Sir Robert Dudley his voyage and successe to Trinidada and the coast of Paria c. 1186 Duke of Medina his kindnesse to the English 1834. His yearely tribute of the Fishers of Tunny-Mullit and Purgos 1837. His preparation for the Spanish Fleet in Anno 1588 1895 Duke of Parma his forces in 88 1902. His apparell for horses 1903. His vaine hope of the Crowne of England 1907 Duke of Medina is prohibited the Court because hee returned without the English Crowne 1910 Duke of Parma's force against England 1895 Capt. Du Pont his voyages into the New-found-lands 1643 A Dutchmans courtesie to the English 1261. Dutchmens treachery to the Englishmens inhabiting Virginia 1841 Dutchmens fals-heartednesse 1721 And abuse of Capt. Smith by ioyning to Powhatan 1723. Their treacherie frustrateth his attempt for the surprizall of Powhatans house 1725. Their plot to kill Capt. Smith and fruitlesse issue 1726. Their continued base treacherie and deserved pension one comming to a miserable and among the English the others having their braines beaten out by Savages 1729 E. EArle of Essex his worthy acts 1917. His valorous chalenge in Portugall Voyage 1924. His voyage to the Iles. of Azores 1935. His trouble travell and arivall Hee taketh three Spanish Ships 1937 Earth medicinable earth like guâ—me in Virginia 1765. Earth red like terra sigillata 1765 Earth-quakes 1476 Earth-quakes frequent in Tercera 1670. A terrible Earth-quake in S Michaels I le and the dreadfull effects thereof 1678 1679 Ease and efferainate life enemies to great practices 1436 East-India warres disburden the Spaniard of West India gold and silver 1815 Ecatepeck supposed the highest mountaine in the world from the top whereof are discerned the north and South seas 1177 Eclipses what conceited to be by some Americans 1462 Echro an Iland neere Port-Ricco 1267 Eggs very hard and sounding like Bels 1306 Ekinnick a kinde of worme that poysoneth the water 1286 Elephants how taken by the Aethiopians 1234 El estado de Arauco the description thereof the fiercenesse of the inhabitants and their opinion of the Spaniards 1442 El Caâ—â—o the Port of Lima 1446 Capt. Ellis his relation of Sir Richard Hawkins his voyage 1416 Q. Elizabeths providence in repairing her Army Royall 1903 Q. Elizabeth denounced excommunicate by Pope 〈◊〉 her subiects are discharged from loyalty and allegeance 1892. Her enemies abroad are disappointed traitors at home taken in their owne pâ—t â—bid Her triumph after the deliverance in 88. 1912 Q. Elizabeths Encomium 1823 Q. Elizabeths martial affairs 1181 Elizabeth-Bay 1386 Elizabeths Ile in Virginia 1648 Its description being thought fit and commodious for plantation 1649. At large 1651. vide Ile of Elizabeth Elizabeth her manifold dangers and gracious deliverances 1890 Elizabeth Iles inhabitants described their ornaments nature proportion wittinesse courtesie yet theeverie 1651. The description of the climate ibid. Embalming by the Indians how well performed 1459 Embassage from the English to the Massasoyt chiefe Commander of the Savages in Pacanokick 1851 Embroderie exercised among the Savages 1560 Emeralds of inestimable worth 1420 1446. An Emerald as big as an Estriches Egge and therefore was adored by the Indians 1481. Emerald store 1560 Emeria the easter most part of Dorado 1247 Enemies to bee kept in awe as the Spaniards by the Earle of Cumberland at Port-Ricco who though he meant not to spoile their towne yet told them not so much 1186 Enemies taken among the Savages are commonly killed and eaten 1217 1218 Engines in warre by the Indians performed 1361 Englishmens discoveries of America 1813 An English Pilots treacherie and adherence to the Spaniards 1773 Englands gaine by Salt-fish Poore-Iohn Salmonds and Pilchards 1837 Englishmen rather desirous to bee renowned for mercy and clemencie then for dreadfull conquest 1959 English miracles by Captain Smith in Virginia such as the Spaniard vsed in the Indies 1727 English-Bay in the Magellane streights the description of the inhabitants 1388 English Captiues delivered by the Duke of Medina 1934 English Nauy returneth from Azores Iles 1968 English forces mustered 1903 English gallants reprehended for their vnprouidence in going to warre 1942 English inhabiting the River Wiapoco 1270 Englishmen chusing rather to trust God and the Sea then the deuill and the Spaniards 1186 Englishmen striking terrour in the Charibes 1273. Take possession of the Mountaine Gomerigo 1278 English mens nature 1440 Englishmen slaine in Virginia by the treacherie of the Indians and the cause why 1841 Englishmens encounters in New-England 1841 Englishmen cheat the Indian of their victuals and turne savage 1865 Englishmens throats cut by the Portingals 1959 English fugitiues appointed to giue the first onset against their owne Nation 1908 Englishmen sinke the Spanish ships or take them 1673 1674 English Fleet set forth and successe 1676 English returne from the pursuit of the Spaniards 1910 English ships by their nimblenesse farre exceeding the Spanish Galliasses 1905 English victory ioyned with courtesie 1677 English famine and mortalitie in Virginia 1690 English souldiers dye with drinking of water 1927 E 〈…〉 sh desire a battell with the Portingals 1924 English forbidden to furnish the Spaniard with munition 1927 Enmity imparted by sending a rattle Snakes-skinne full of arroweâ— 1854 Entertainment how strange among the Savages of Pores 1208 1292. Among Brasilians Enuy espyeth more inpretended then in professed enemies 1959 Eparigotos enemies to the Epuremi in India 1248 Epeoya a great Iland in Brasile 1241. Called by the Indians Sapeawera ibid. Epuremi Indians neere the River Orenoco 1248 Equibone a towne at the foot of Marwin in America inhabited by the Arwaccas and Parawagotos Savages 1283 Eregooda a place neere Orenoco 1248 Escudo an Iland 1185 Estanca that is a farme place where slaues keepe cattle and make Cassani bread among the Indians 1146 Estechemins Savages in Canada enemies to the Irocois 1607 Estriches tame 1230 Eteowbo a mountaine in America 1214 Etepararange a mountaine abounding with gold 1229 Etaoca a place in America 1219 Etapuca a great mountaine in America 1214 Etamatiqua a Cape in Brasile its fitnesse for Navigation 1238.
1624. Frenchmen baptize Indians 1644. French yearely repaire to the New-found Land for Traine-oyle 1884. French Kings wrongs to England 1892. French Ambassador plotteth with Moody about the death of Queene Elizabeth 1893. Frenchmen displanted from Uirginia by Captain Argall 1808 1809. Frenchmen seise on part of the King of Spaines Armada 1910 Fresh-water-springs in the New-found Land 1886 Fryer Marco de Niza accompanied with diuers other their voyage into New Mexico and the adioyning coasts and lands 1560 1561 seq Fryers that shewed more charity to the Indians then some mariners of our English nation 1828 Captaine Frobisher his 〈◊〉 and prosperous conflict with the Spanish Armada in 88 and rewarded with the order of Knighthood 1907 Fruits poisonous 1213. Good fruits how discerned from the bad in the Indies 1379. Fruits gathered 3 times in the yeare 1527 Fuego one of the Ilands of Gape Verde the fruitâ— therein fiery â—â—ll and naturall fortification 1371 Funerals among the Indians of Wiapoco 1264 Furres very good bought for kniues 1â—â—2 Furres rich and sweetest of any thing 1505 Fyall or Fayall a towne in the Azores the fertilitie bignesse dwellings and taking thereof by the Lord of Cumberland 1143 G. GAboretho an Indian towne 1364 Gachepe a high land neere the entrance into the riuer Canada 1606. The description and bignesse thereof 1616 Galliaces in number 4 in the fleet in 88 vnder the command of Dom Vgo de Moncada 1900. They are described 1901 Gallies and their power in fighting 1183. Gallies of Anda-luzia seise on a Barke of Plimouth 1925 Gallions comming to the West Indies were cast away on the I le Guaddopâ— 1833. Galleons of the Fleet in 88 described 1901. A Gallion burnt in the Portingall voyage 1918 Games vsed among the Massasoyts 1852 Garcillasco de la Voga his relation of the ancient Kings and Lawes of Peru before the Spanish conquest 1454 seq Gardens of Gold 1465 1466 Garone a riuer in Florida 1603 Gates viz. Sir Thomas Gates his ariuall in Virginia 1732 Gates his Bay in the Bermudas 1739. Sir Thomas Gates wrack and redemption on the Iland Bermudas largely related 1734 seq His endurance of a grieuous storme 1734 1735 1736. Ariuall at the Iland 1737. His care for the Virginian Colonie sending Rauens there and care and toyle to furnish Pinaces for a voyage 1742 1743. His punishment and pardon of mutinies and conspiracie against him 1743. His crosses by a second mutiny 1744. By a third ibid. His punishing of a factious fellow 1745. His Letters to Sir George Summers containing his desire of furthering a Plantation and reclaiming the factions 1745 1746. His religious orders in Bermudas 1746 and possessing it for the King of Englands with good rites and ceremonies ibid 1747. His setting sayle for Virginia and ariuall there 1748. His miserable welcome ibid. His assuming the Presidâ—â—cy there 1749. His speech to the distressed Company with its acceptation 1749. his proposing orders to the Colony 1749. His aliotting times of labour 1750. Purpose to leaue the Country 1751. Resigning the Presidency 1754 vnto the Lord De la Ware ibid. His returne for England 1756. His testimonie vnder oath of the state of Virginia 1757 1758 Gawaâ—ba the north west point of Port-Ricco somewhat dangerous for nauigation 1170 A Generall should bee couragious in fight and courteous in victorie 1411 The Generals authority among the Spaniards 1413 Geneuera Riuer 1416 Gentlemen in what manner made knowne and styled among the Brasilians 1297 Sir George Carow his valour in the voyage to the Azâ—res Iles 1840 Master George Pâ—rcies relation of the south colony of Virginia 1685 et se qu. He is Deputy Gouernor in the absence of the Lord De la Ware 1763 Master George Thorpe too courteous to the Sauage-Uirginians cruelly repaid 1789 Saint George one of the Ilands of the Azores the situation and description thereof 1672 S. George one of the Bermudas or Sommer Ilands 1794 George Fenner his valorous encounter with the Spanish Armada 1906 Georges Fort a plantation neere the riuer Sagadoâ— in Mawooshen 1874 Giboya a great land Snake without poyson in Brasile 1303 Gilbert viz. Sir Humfrey Gilbert his ariue at the New-found land 1882. Lost one of his Ships at the Iles of Canady and returning for England was ouerwhelmed in the Sea ibid. Captaine Bartholmew Gilbert his voyage to Uirginia with the occurrents therein 1656 1657 et seq He is slaine and foure men more by the Indians 1658 Gilbert-point on the coast of the New-found Lands 1648 Ginge a towne of Sauages in the Indies 1364 Ginoloa an Indian Prouince the description and situation thereof 1563. The fruitfulnesse thereof commodities inhabitants and their workmanship and apparell their long haire tall stature great valour and weapons 1563 1564 readinesse in them to heare the Gospell their Baptisme and Ca 〈…〉 sme subiection to the Deuill and familiarity with him their houses ingenuity and adoration of Castles with Mats and couerings of Reeds 1564. Their formes of maâ—iages and Polygamy education of children fashions in making Knights adopting sonnes manner of burialls ibid. et 1565 Ginger plentifull in Port-Ricco 1171 Ginger how it groweth 1178 Gironde a riuer of Florida discouered by the French 1603 Glasses sold deare 1232 Guamanga a City in the south sea 60 leagues from Lima 1416 Gnats 1359 Goauar Riuer 1248 God acknowledged by the Aethiopians and called Cari-pongoa 1233. by the Brasilians Tupan 1290 Godwin-sands 1149 Gomeribo a mountaine in Guiana very fruitfull possessed by the English 1278. deliuery thereof to an Indian as tenant to the King of England 1279 Gomora one of the Canary Ilands 1833 Iohn Goodmans voyage and distresse in New England 1848 Gold which is strange very much dispraised 1814 1815. Gold in Port-Ricco 1165 1170. In Topimo 1560 Gold-getters shall haue many corriuals ibid. Gold ready tried of great valew in the Riuers of Port-Ricco 1170 Gold in no valew 1189 Gold among the Topinaques 1229 among the Pories store 1229. Gold 1230 1231 1232 1358. In Affrica 1237. The manner of purifying it in the Indies 1242. and plenty there ibid. Gold in Guiana how and how pure 1249 1261. Gold in shew 1255. in the Riuer Aracow 1263. Gold how greedily desired 1277. Gold store in the mountaine Oraddo and plaine of Mumpara 1284. Gold gathered two wayes 1395. Plenty of gold ibid. Gold procureth trechery 1415. Gold great store 1419. Gold shipped from Cartagena for the Spaniard euery yeare how much 1420 Gold is not alwaies the greatest eleuation of the Country where it is 1814 1815 A Gold-desirer how serued by the Indians 1391. The desire of gold makâ—th Christians infamous among Pagans 1449. Gold called by them the Christians god 1450. Gold not valued 1526 Golden Country 1231 A golden chain of incredible weight and bignesse 1480. Infinite store of gold in Perâ— 1490. 1491 1494. A gold-wâ—dge the greatest that euer was naturally found lost in the Sea 1571 Gosnols voyage to Uirginia their resolution to plant
a Citie in the West Indies taken by the English its description aire dewes greatnesse Church want of Glasse-windowes doores standing of their Quire in the lowest part of the Church 1144. Fortification 1165. Healthinesse ibid. Its situation 1169 And fortification 1418 Saint Iohns head the easterly part of Port-Ricco 1169 Captaine Iohn Smith his discoverie of Russels Iles Point-Ployer and Limbo Iles in Virginia 1712. His entertainment by the Savages with courtesic and trcacherie his mens desire of returne 1713. His many Savage bickerings endanger by a stinging Fish and safe returne 1714. His setting forth againe and encounter with the Savages 1714 1715. The loue hee received from Mosco that Savage ibid. His fight with the Tapahonecks 1716. His great tempests yet safe returne 1716. His assuming the presidencie of Virginia 1716. His opposition by the Councell iourney to Powhatan onely with foure 1717. His strange entertainment ibid. His provision for Nansamund proiect for Powhatan and setting forth 1720. His discourse and passages with Powhatan 1721 1722. His escaping death amidst his treacherous vassals ibid. His abuse by some treacherous Dutchmen 1723. His great danger with fifteene men by a multitude of Indians ibid. His valiant evasion and forcing them to composition captinating their King in the midst of them ibid. 1724. His poysoning by the Vassals of Powhatan and escape 1725. His death plotted by Dutchmen his escape encounter and captivating the King of Paspahigh and other bickerings 1726. His progresse in the plantation hinderance and desire of remouall thereof 1727 1728. His hatred by vpstart plantationers escaping their plots and revenge on them 1729. His suppressing mutinies appeasing concluding peace endanger by powder 1730 1731. His endanger of murther grieuous torture returne for England and the cause with the consequents 1731 1732. His accusers and accusation 1731. His innocencie 1732 Master Iones his endeuours furthering the plantation of New-England 1867 Ippoa a place neere the great Iland in America 1212 Irasing a place seven leagues from Mexico 1414 Irocois Savages in Canada 1607 Their River and manner of fortification with stakes 1612. Their further description provision and townes and warres with their vanquishment and affrighting with a musket-shot 1643 Iron extolled aboue gold 1814 Isla del Gallo an Iland 1444 Itshuera a towne of the Caribes one dayes iourney from the head of the River Marwin 1285 Saint Iuan de Lua achiefe part in Noua Hispania 1432 Iuan de Ofnate his discoverie of the North from old Mexico his armie and preparation 1563. His losse and revenge of his Nephew his building a towne and possession for Spaine 1566 Iuan Fernandes Ilands their situation and plenty 1393 Iucatan how so called 1455. The inhabitants tortured and consumed by the Spaniards 1581 1582 1583 Iumanos Indians 1561 Saint Iuo de Vllua a Port towne 1418 Iuana the second Iland in Orenoque 1248 Ixtatlan a place in New-Spaine 1558 Iyanough a Governour among the Savages of Pechanochick 1853 Saint Izabella one of the Iles of Salomon 1447 K. KAiwaire a towne inhabited by the Careebees in the River Marwin in America 1283 Kebec a place in New-France wherein was a plantation of the French begun by Capt. Champlaine 1642. The naturall fruit and commodities thereof ibid. Kecoughtan a towne of Savages in Virginia 1687. The inhabitants maner of entertainment dancing Orations 1687 Kenebek a towne vnder the Dominion of Apomhamen in Mawooshen 1874 Ketangheanycke a town vnder the Sagamos Octoworth 1875 Capt. Keymish his voyage to Guiana 1269 Kiarno a towne of the Sauages 1286 Kietitan a god of the Savages 1862 Kine very strange in Brasile living in water without hornes or vdders 1243. Kine strange neere Quiuira with bunched backs 1561 A Kings distinction from others among the Amazons is by a crowne of feathers a woodden sword or a chaine of Lyons teeth 1288 Kings bodies how bestowed after death by the Peruans before the Spanish conquest 1464 Kings dying among the Floridan Indians and Tartarians two yong men are slaine to wait vpon them in the next world 1553 King Iames his name nothing respected among the Spaniards 1834. His faithfulnesse to the Queene of England his wise answere to her Embassadour 1912. His gracious letters to the Earle of Southhampton touching the Silke-wormes and Silke-grasse in Virginia 1787 I0 King Englishman one that lived fifteene yeares at Santos 1203 Kimbeki a River in New-France 1625 Knaw-saw an Iland how situate 1184 Knights how chosen and created among the ancient Emperours of Peru and who thought worthy of Knighthood 1474 Kniuets adventures accidents 1192 He finds a chest of Rials 1203. Loseth his toes by frost 1204. Narrow scaping death 1205 1206. His danger by a Sea-Monster 1207. Eateth Whale 1207. His escaping all his fellowes slaine 1207. His comming to the River Ianero and escaping from drowning by a woman his life there 1208. His slaverie in a Sugar-mill nakednesse shame and flight to the wildernesse his life there 1208. His perill by a Savage 1208. By a Sharke-fish 1209. His disastrous flight and wracke 1209. In danger of starving ibid. His imprisonment condemnation pardon 1210. His wounding the Factor flight iourney and fortune 1210. His fearfull travels through the wildernesse and manifold dangers there 1210 1211. His returne to his old master after many perils 1212. Kils a great dangerous Snake 1215. Is stocked and brought to execution saved 1216 Passeth in a weake vessell through a River that ran vnder-ground 1217. His escape all his fellowes devoured ibid. His nakednesse 1218. Returne againe to his Portingall Master his danger ibid. 1219. His adventure vnder-water 1220. His escape and voyage to Angola in Africa his sending backe againe ibid. His plot and dangerous discoverie 1221. Saveth his master from drowning ibid. Is imprisoned 1222. Escapeth drowning 1223. Ariveth at Lisbon his sicknesse there 1224. One and twenty times let blood 1225. His recoverie imployment and imprisonment ibid. Kniues and Hatchets deare sold amongst the Indians 1229 1208 A Knife bought eight women 1249 Kuskara waock a river in Virginia the inhabitants thereof 1694 L. LAbour well imployed hath its reward one time or other 1832 La Buena Ventura an vnhealthy place in Peru 1446 La Canela a Country in Peru 1415 Lacana a miserable towne in Florida 1553 Laguada a towns in Port-Ricco 1170 Lake of a hundred leagues in length 1644 A Lake wondrous great 1612. A Lake of 80 leagues 1614. Many others ib. 1615. One of three hundred leagues 1616. La Loma de Camana a very fertile soyle in America the description thereof 1420 La Mocha an Iland in America 1443 Lampere a fortified Citie of the Carios in the Indies taken by the Spaniards 1352 Lancerota the town and Castle taken by the Earle of Cumberland 1151 1155. It is one of the greatest Ilands of the Canaries 1155 The chiefe towne in it described 1156. The inhabitants armes situation commodities latitude their severall haruests Church Religion ibid. Language of Savages 1237. A thousand languages of Savages
bee seene thirty leagues into the Sea 1434 Moyemon a large towne in the River Marwin 1283 Muccambro an Iland and Mountaine in Guiana 1272 Mumpara a plaine abounding with graines of gold 1284 Murther how punished in Guiana 1272. In Brasile 1342 Murther punished by the Indians with present death 1870 Muskitoes their venemous stinging 1556 Muso a towne in new Granada the exceeding benefit thereof to the King of Spaine 1420 Muske of a Crocodiles Cod 1228 Muske-Snake a sweet smelling Serpent of Brasile 130â— Mutinie like to receiue its deserved reward 1201 Mutinie the ouerthrow of a voyage 1260 Mutiny among the Spaniards 1436 Among the French in Florida 1603. Among the English in Virginia 1729 1730. In the Bermudas 1743 Mutinga aboundeth with Myues 1203 Mutton-Port 1620 N. NAguatex a towne in Florida 1553 Namaschet a towne vnder Massasoyt 1851. The Namaschets courteous entertainment of the English ibid. Names encreased according to the number of persons slaughtered among the Indians 1226 Names altered amongst the Indians according to their acts and disposition 1869. Names of certaine Englishmen assistants in the Plantation of the New-found-land 1888 Names of the English Knights fighting at the siege of Cadiz 1933. Names of the Captaines and chiefe officers in the Voyage to Azores 1939 Nansamund a River in Virginia 1692 Nanohiggansets threaten the English 1853. Their great superstition in doing sacrifice to their god Habbamoqui 1868 Naruaez his voyage ariuall at Dominica Saint Iago The Trinitie his shipwracke there his comming to the land of Marles 1500 1501 1499. His taking possession of a towne in Florida for the King of Spaine 1501. His ariuall at Apalachen and entertainment there his surprisall by other Indians his comming to Ante 1502 1503. His distressed successe 1504. And losse of men by the Indians ibid. His misery by thirst 1505. His companies extreame weaknesse 1509. With insufferable famine and mortalitie 1508 Napetuca a towne in Florida 1533 Naragooc a towne in Mawooshen 1875 Nations that are barbarous licenced by the Popes Bull to be subdued by violence 1602 Nauarre ouerthroweth the forces of the French King at the battell of Courtras 1942 Nauy of Queene Elizabeth sent to the Azores 1939 Navigation the advancement of Nations 1820 Nauigators instrâ—â—tions 1368 1373 Nausets a company of the Savages in new-New-England a hundred strong 1849 Nebamocago a towne bordering on the River Aponeg in Mawooshen 1874 Negligence like to endanger the losse of a great prize 1145 The Portingals for the West Negro's rebelling against the Spaniards 1434 Neguiwo an I le neere the River Sagodohoc in Mawooshen 1874 Nepios certaine inhabitants of Trinidad 1247 Niewoc an Ile in Mawooshen 1874 Neredoshan a towne on the River Aponeg 1874 Nets made to carie travelling strangers from towne to towne in Brasile 1242 New-France a great part of it thought to be sandie ground as far as Virginia 1634 1635. New-Frances commodities presented the King of France 1641. The inhabitants when first christened 1644 New-France inhabited by the Frenchmen because they hope to get a passage thence to China 1642 1644. The manner of trading in New-France 1626 New-Frances diseases how they may be escaped 1624 1625. New France the bounds thereof 1603. The probabilities of gold Mines there 1621. Diamonds Turkie stones there 1621. Grapes Fish and Cedars 1622 New-Mexico the towns thereof and building the inhabitants and their worshipping the Deuill 1561 Capt Newports voyage to Virginia and returne for England 1186 1705 1706. His supposed preiudice to the English plantation there 1717. His opposing Capt. Smith ibid. His proceeding to discouer Monacan in Virginia and successe 1778 New-England the New-found-land discouered and implanted by the English 1827. The climat very temperate agreeable to the bodies of the English making them liue longer then in other countreys the soyle fertile variety of nourishing hearbs and roots the coast full of commodious harbours and havens many Iles fit for plantation wood of all sorts in abundance 1831. The people haue our English Nation in good estimation and are tractable in trading the Sea is stored with all kind of Fish diuersity of wild foule Doues in great aboundance in time of Strawberries abundance of rich Furs 1831 1832. Great shews of Amber-greece and Pearle store of Whales in the Sea thereabout ibid. New-England described 1870. English corne and cattle prosper there 1878 New-found-land described the fertility of the soyle the temperature of the aire conueniencie of the Baies the inhabitants their nature and customes 1885. Herbs and flowers pleasant and medicinable great increase of corne store of Deere and other beasts great store of land and water-foule 1885. Store of trees fit to build with 1886. Great probabilitie of Mynes and fish in great abundance ibid. New-Plimmouth abounding with divers commodities of great worth and very necessary for mans sustenance Timber of all sorts diuers Mines of vnknowne worth store of fish Beauers and others 1840 Nicaragua Province 1446 1576 Saint Nicholas Bay 1146 Nicholas Sanders his slanders against Q. Elizabeth Hee obtaineth to be the Popes Nuncio entereth Ireland winneth Desmon runneth mad and dyeth miserably 1893 Nicorago a River 1185 Nilco a Province or territory in Florida one of the richest in all that country the townes inhabitants and commodities thereof 155â— Noblemen imployed in the voyage to the Azores 1939 Noble Personages voluntaries in 88. vnder the King of Spaines banner 1901 Nondacao a province in Florida wel inhabited the commodities thereof 1553 Norrack a Province neere the River Arwi in Guiana 1271 Gen. Norris his materiall education Generall of all the English Forcesâ— Martiall in the field vnder Conte Hohenlo Martiall of the field in England Generall of the Army in Frisland Lord President of Munster in Ireland 1916. Winneth great honour fame by his wel ordered retrait in the service before Gaunt 1962. His death 1968 Mr Norwoods relation of the Bermudas and the English plantation there 1797. seq Noert a famous Navigator among the Dutch 1191 Norumbega River and the fabulous narrations thereof 1625 Nose lost in cold weather 1â—05 Noua Galitia 1526 Noua Scotia a prosperous plantation by the dexterity of Sir Samuel Argall 1828. Noua Scotia a plantation in America 1871. Abundance of Strawberries and all kind of wild foule and very pleasant countrey 1873 Nunnez his relation of the Fleet which Pamphilo Naruaez was gouernour of in India 1499. seq His shipwracke 1500. His disastrous fortune by famine sicknesse labour and nakednesse amâ—ng the Indians 1509 1510. His comming after divers perils to the Indians-Auauarez 1514. His mishaps there and dangerous escaping of burning 1515. His curing the sicke by prayer and raising one from the dead 1516. His comming to the Harbudaos and the hungry shifts hee made there 1517 1518. His repute among the Savages their feare and admiration of him 1521 1522 1323. His travell to the South Sea and occurrents 1524 c. His meeting with his country-men 1526. His ariuall at Compostella and Mexico 1528
Nunno de Guzmans his expeditions 1556. seq His taking possession for the King of Spaine in the River of Purification his erecting crosses killing and converting Indians burning hereticks 1556 1557. Travels and discoveries of divers Provinces bickerings with Indians comming neere the South Sea and purpose touching the Amazons 1558 1559 Nutmeg-trees 1309 Nuts in the ground 1650 O. OAres of what fashion among the West-Indians 1158. Oares of the Indians of the New-found-land 1880 Oaths and Blasphemie against God and our Lady forbidden in the Spanish Armado 1902. Oâ—ths how punished among the English in Virginia 1719 Ocagna a place in America where is abundance of gold 1419 Ocawita a pretty bigge Iland in Orenoque 1248 Ochete towne 1534 Ochus a Floridan Province 15â—5 Ocoa a towne in Hipaniola 1186 1418 Ocute a towne in Florida 1556 Oecope a high mountaine 1â—48 Offrings amongst the Indians to the Diuell by the intercession of their Priest Powah 1868 Olmoleigh River 1254 Olynda a towne in Brasile 1238 Olypho a mount in the Indies 1253 Omitlan a Province of the greater Spaine in America the description of the countrey soyle and noisome serpents the discoverie and taking possession thereof by the Spaniards 1559 Opechankanow a great King amongst the Indians taken by an Englishman in the midst of his armie 1841. And in his own house 1723 172â— His plots and perfidie against Captaine Smith hansomely repelled ibid. Opâ—ortunities neglected 1196 Oraddo a moâ—ntaine plentifull for gold 1284 Oranges their soveraigne vertue 1378. Good against the scuruie 1763 Order observed in the Spanish Fleet 1â—05 Ordnances best for Ships whether long or short pieces 1403 Orenâ—que a Riuer in Americâ— described 1156 1247 1248 1249 seq Organs a place in the West-Indies abounding with gold mines 1222 1242 Orillano a Spanish Captaine his discoveries 1415 Oâ—ange a strange kinde of disease 1671 Ostriches as tall as a man 1189 Ouercharging pieces of Ordnance and other pieces how preiudiciall 1397 1398 Ouigondi a towne of Savages in the Northerne America 1638 Oxenhams voyage to the West-Indies his attempts and travels to the South Sea his prizâ—s and misfortune 1180 1414 Oxen woolled like sheere in Florida 1550 Oxen Bunch-back'd and very strangâ— descriâ—ed which are meat drinke 〈◊〉 houses fire vessels 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mâ—â—sters whole substance 1561 Oxâ—◠〈◊〉 by their name in in T 〈…〉 like men 1â—69 1670 Oxefi 〈…〉 1313 1314 Oyste 〈…〉 g 〈…〉 t and havâ—nâ— Pearlâ—s in thâ—m 131â— Oysteâ—s the 〈◊〉 sustenance of om 〈…〉 I 〈…〉 〈◊〉 for a quarter of a yeâ—râ— together 1â—09 P. PA 〈…〉 〈◊〉 E 〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 his Acts Temple 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1471 1472 Pacaba Province 1549 Pafallaya Province 1644 Paâ—embos or Piembos an Indian Savage Nation 1â—53 Palisema Province 1â—49 Palma one of the Canary Ilands 1833 Palmeto tree and the fruit thereof described 1173 1375 Palmes excellent to cure the Haemeroides 1332 Pamauâ—ke River 1692 Panaçe yuawe apacone a greâ—t Mountaine so called 1â—13 Panama the situation descriâ—tioâ— â—nd riches thereof 1180 1418 1444 Panâ—co a Province dispeopled by the Spaniards 1580 Panaguiri Indians â—f Bâ—aâ—lle 1â—00 Panobscot a towne vpon the River Ramassoc 1874 Paoo River 1248 Paps which certaine people haue reaâ—hiâ—â— vnder their wast and neere to thâ—ir knees 1299 Papayes a kinâ—e of fruit like an Apple of a waterish taste good against the Fluxe 1172 Papemena River 1248 Parabol River 1351 Paracuona River 1213 Paratee Port 1212 Paraeyua River 1209 1211 1213 1237 1242. Paramaree a towne in the River Marwin 1283 Paranapiacano a Mountaine full of Snakes and wilde beasts 1210 1212 Parker viz. Capt. William Parker his voyage and taking of Saint Vincent and Puerto Bello 1243 1244 1245 Parrats Parochettoes wonderfull plentifull 1172 1264 1304 1305 1372. A strange relation of a Parrat in America 1329 Parâ—y his treason against Queene Elizabeth in what manner reuealed 1893 Partridges as bigge as Geese 1329 Pasini a towne in the River Marwin 1283 Passaos Cape 1400 Patogones people of great stature like Giants 138â— Patoâ—a Prouince described 1536 Patawomeck a River sixe or seven miles in breadth and nauigable an hundred and forty miles 1693 Patent of the French King to Monseur de Monts for the inhabiting of the Countreys of La Cadia Canada and other places in New-France 1619 1620. New Patents thought on concerning the plaÌ„tation of new-New-England 1830 A patent for the plaÌ„tation of New-found-land An. 1610 1876 Patents granted by his Maiesty of England for Virginia's plantation 1683 1684 1787 1777 Pat xet a border of New-England inâ—abited by the English 1849 Painting much vsed by the Indians 1229 1358 Payen River 1285 Payta Iland how situate 1400 446 Peace Musicall signes thereof amongst the Indians 1533 Pearles plentifull 1419 1560 1661 1843. Pearle-fishing performed with incredible torture of the Indians 1586. Pearles of wonderfull bignesse 1411. The best Pearles where found and how knowne ibid. Pearles found in Muscles and Oysters 1205 1235 1315 1316 Pease which are venemous 1206 Pedro Sermiento a towne in the Straits of Magellane 1416 Pedro Ordonnes de Ceuallos a Spanish Priest his observations concerning the West-Indies 1420 1421. seq Peionas a Savage Nation 1363 Pemaquid River 1874 Pemptegoet 1625 Penguin Iland the situation and description thereof 1187 1191 1384 1385 Penguins described and how taken 1385 Pentecost Harbour 1660 People of the Kine certaine Indians so called their admirable proportion agilitie beauty behauiour c. 1523 People of Harts other Indians so called 1524 1525 Pepper hotter and stronger then the blacke Pepper vsed with vs 1173 Peritoqua a River that goeth to Saint Vincent Iland in Brasile 1241 Pert viz. Sir Thomas Pert his American travels 1177. seq Peru language and letters 1454 The originall lines conquests lawes and Idolatries of the ancient Kings of Peru. 1454 1455. seq The first voyage to Peru 1455. Names and traditions of Peru ibid. The wrongs which the inhabitants of Peru haue sustained by Spanish cruelty 1590. Spanish forces forts and townes in Peru 1418 1419. The discouery commodities and Provinces of Peru 1419 1443 1444 1445. Neuer any raine in some parts of Peru and the cause thereof 1444 The admired plenty of gold in Peru 1490. Peruan expeditions by the Spaniards and their successe in such enterprises 1450 1451. The Peruans their opinion of God and reverence in the very naming of him 1450 Petiuares or Petiwares certaine Savages in the Indies their nature stature region religion superstition diet rites of childbirth c. 1225 1226. Their man-eating butchering Captiues and the manner thereof 1226. Their language and how to trade safely with them 1237 Petutan River 1525 Philippina Ilands discouered 1446 Philiâ— and Iacob towne 1563 Physicke hath the same operation in England and vnder the Lâ—ne 1157. Indian Physitians their esteeme and manner of curing 1509 Piache towne and River 1542 Pianita towne 1211 Pico one of the Ilands of the Azores the description and commodities thereof 1672 1638. The high hill of Pico which is more then
fifteene miles in length out of the top whereof issue often flames of fire like Aetna and is thought to bee higher then the Pike of the Canaries 1672 Pigs without tayles 1189 Pigmies of Brasile dwelling in Caues 1231 1300 Pigru certaine Indians of Brasile 1299 Pillars of stone which are worshipped by certaine Indians 1603 Pines an excellent and delicious fruit 1172 Pinos an Iland on the South side of Cuba 1836 1185 Pipicorwarra Mountaine 1285 Pirats English and Spanish 1412. Misprision of that terme Pirats and what a Pirat is ibid. Pitch plentifull and how made 1556 1281 Plantines a fruit growing on a shrub betwixt an hearb and a tree in tast like an Apple Iohn 1173 1371 Plants adored by Indians 1479 1560. Plants that haue the sense of feeling 1280. Venemous plants 1525 Plantations in New-England 1832. In New-Plimouth 1842. The necessaries required for plantation 1621 1631 Plate River 1141 12â—2 Plumbe-drinke 1784 Plumbs that are venemous 1230 Pocahontas daughter to King Powhatan her being baptized and maried to an English-man 1841 1760. Her vertuous life and death 1774 Poeticall Savages 1292 Polizado a Port in new-New-England 1844 Pome-citrons so great as that two or three of them will load a horse 1173 Pomegranats medicinable 1794 Popaian Province 1446 Popes authoritie derided by the King of Peru 1445 1452 Porco a place plentifull for Gold 1419 Pories certaine Sauages so called 1213. Their stature diet complexion habitation lodging c. 1229 Portingals their cruelty to the Savages 1297 1321. seq Divers of them massacred by Savages 1189 1117. Portingall Ships surprizâ—d by Sir Bernard Dâ—ake and brought into England laden with Fish 1883. The Portingals exquisitenesse in steering 1379 Port-Ricco the situation and description thereof 1153 1169. seq 1415. It is the key of the West-Indies 1166. The fortification thereof 1161. Fight betwixt the inhabitants thereof and the English 1162 Port St Iulian 1187 1194 1383 Port-Famine lying at the mouth of the Straits of Magellane 1204 1233. The inhabitants their commodities coldnesse of the climate c. 1232 1233 Porto Bello the situation and description thereof 1601 1245. The surprizing thereof by Captaine Parker 1245 Porta la Spaniola 1247 Port de la Heue 1640 Poâ—t Saualet 1640 Port-desire 1193 1194 1232 1391 Port-Royal 1621 1631 163â— The French plantation remoued from Saint Croix thither 1626 Porto Sequero 1438. Porto oâ— Plata 1418. Port Fortune 1635 Porto Reale 1418. Port Calua 1224. Port Negro 1873. Port Valparizo 1393. Porto Docalno 12â—8 Port du Rossignoll 1630. Port du Mouton 1630. Port-Folly 1873 Possession Bay 1261 Possowne a strange beast which reassumes her yong ones into her belly at pleasure 1772 Potosâ—i a mountaine in Peru the inhabitants thereof rich mines multitude of Spanish treasure and Spaniards there 1214 1420 1421 1365 Potossi a place rich in Mines yeelding great store of treasure to the King of Spaine 1419 Powah an Indian Priest 1868. The Powahs inuocation of the Diuell and offering sacrifices to him ibid. Powels voyage from the Summer-Ilands to the Indies 1804 Powder and shot how abominable to some Savages 1854. Straw-powder eaten by some Indians and needy Spaniards 1524 Powhatan River 1689 Powhatan the Virginian Empero 〈…〉 his subtiltie flatterie practices c. 1721 1722. Hee becomes subiect to the English governour 1841. His person attendance guard treasure wines authority lawes 1703 1704. His policy and Coronation 1778. His diuers treacherous practices against the English 1711 1722 1724 1725 1756. His enuy to the English plantation 1750. His death 1775 Poxe how cured 1308 1310 Point of St Matthew 1606. Point of all the Divels Point-Care 1648. Point-Comfort 1687 Poison on trees 1525. Poison cured by a certaine leafe 1276. by a plant 1310 1311 Prayer made by Q. Elizabeth after her deliuery from the Spanish inuasion 1928 Pretious-stones variety and abundance 1224 1231 Priests and Iesuits alwayes chiefe actors in projecting and effecting treasons 1894. Virginian Priests 1358 1701 1274. their authority and manner of life 1771 President of Siuill his cruelty to the English Captiues 1835 Priguica a beast like a shag-haird dog in face like a woman the laziest of all beasts 1303 Pringe his voyage set forth by the Merchants of Bristoll to Uirginia 1654 sequ his discouery of Fox-Island Whitson-Bay and Mount Aldworth 1654 1655. his danger by Sauages and safe returne 1656 Prodigies portending desolation of the ancient inhabitaÌ„ts of Peru 1482 Prophecy amongst the Indians concerning the destruction of their country 1482 Prosperity the effects thereof 1192 Prouidence of the English in New England in hoarding vp corne vnder ground 1844 Prouisions soundnesse or defect proueth the furtherance or ouerthrow of a voyage 1396. the mischiefe of corrupt or scanty prouisions 1396 1397 Pueblo de los Angelos 1418 Puerto Viciâ— 1400 Puerto Seguro 1190 Puerto Santo 1186 Puerto Vieio 1446 1481 Puma Iland the place where the Spaniards build their principall shipping in the Indies 1400. Neere it is the River Lima which is medicinable ibid. The inhabitants grosse Idolaters worshiping Lyons Tygers and other beasts 1480 Punta de Olynda 1238. Punta de laraya 1242. Punta de Santa Elena 1400. Punta de Augussa ibid. Purging plants in the Bermudas 1801. A purge for the Ague 1311 1379 Purification of Mary a River so called in New-Spaine 1556 Putapayma an Iland farre vp within the River of Orenoco 1248 Q. QVebec strait 1611. Along the coa 〈…〉 of Quebec are Diamonds in the Rocks of Slate ibid. Quereiuâ— a Bird of admirable beauty and great esteeme amongst the Indians 1305 1306 Querna Vaca a towne in the Marquesado of Hernan Cortes thirteene leagues from Mexico 1418 Quibiquesson a famous Riuer in Mawooshen 1873 Quigaute a great Province and a very plentifull Countrey 1548 Quillacu the most miserable of all Nations neither having good land nor Aire nor water whence growes a Proverbe applyed to couetous Misers Hee is a veâ—y Quillacu 1479 Quillacena or Iron-nose Province a vile brutish lousie people without Religion eating any Carrion 1479 Quintera Bay a place of good anchoring but an open Bay 1394 Quipana a towne fiue dayes iourney from Tulla 1550 Quires Province 1561 Quiriciguig and Quirigma certaine Indians of Brasile so called 1300 Quito the first Citie of the Kingdome of Peru 1419 1420 1479 Quiuira Province the situation and description thereof 1561 Quiyoughcohanocke two Rivers so called and how situate 1692 Quizquiz Province 1546 R. RAines very vnwholsome happening in the way betwixt the Canaries and West-Indies 1157. Continuall raines at some times of the yeare vpon the coast of Guiana 1270. Countreys where it never raineth 1420. Prodigious raines of sand and ashes 1476. Exceeding cold raines 1554 A Rainbow appearing by Moone-light and differing in colour from those of the Sunne 1949 1951. The forme of a Rainbow vnder a Caue 1631 Ramassoc a great River in Mawooshen 1874 Rancheria an excellent place for Pearle-fishing 1146. It is assaulted and taken by the English ibid. Rapahanna a
from Iames Towne in Virginia to the I le of Hogs 1724 Scuruie reigning in New France 1642. and vnder the Aequinoctiall 1202. its cause effects signes and remedie 1373 1374. great raigning of it among Mariners 1374. the things that are discommodious or beneficiall to the patient 1623 1763 Scuruy-grasse 1191. its medicinable operations 1624 Sea blacke in colour beyond the line 1157. a Sea-monster like a man of complexion like a tawny Indian 1187. another strange Sea-monster 1207 Sea-water warme the ayre being cold 1627. Sea made fresh by a violent intermixture of riuers in Florida 1555. Sea-scum like pitch and vsed like pitch called Coper in Florida 1556. Sea discommodious for meats in sickness 1624. Sea danger 1223 Sea-fire a meteor seene commonly in temposts the diuers opinions and names thereof 1737 The Sea worshipped by some Indians 1471 Sea-faring mens errors 1368 Sea-fights 1183 1186 1402 seq the requisitenesse of armour in Sea-fights 1408. a Sea-fight betweene the Spanish and English at vnequall hand the successe largely related 1780 1781 1784 Sea-hawking 1376 Sea-voyages require a Princes purse 1942 Sea-stratagem of the English hauing good effect 1908 Sea-snakes 1315 Seale-land 1440 Seales great store 1187. their nature and description 1386 Seasons falling vnequally vnder the same parallel 1637 Sea-men their seuerall offices 1403 Seminaries erected at Rome and Rhemes 1893 Security is dangerous 1635 St. Sebastian Iland 1200 Seed-time in New England 1866 Segouni abeast in Brasile 1243 Selinama riuer 1284. directions to trauell there 1286 Seralta an ancient Commander in Port Râ—cco 1166 Serpents called Iebua 1226. a serpent called Cobrus in Brasile as big as a man twenty foot long his strange feeding rotting and reviving 1243. A Serpent called Cururijuba thirty foot long its description 1317 1318. Serpents that are armed with plates not pierceable by an arrow ibid. Serpents called Guararici which being heard sing by the indians causeth them to dye so strong is their imagination 1318. a huge Serpent 1350. two great Serpents 1603 Shadden a towne of the Arwaccas in the West Indies 1285 Shambles of mans flesh among the Spaniards in the Indies 1280 Sharke a fish so called described 1376 Sheathing of Ships requisite 1387 Shawakotoc a riuer in Mawooshen 1875 Sheepe why s 〈…〉 in Port-Ricco 1172. Sheep vsed for cariages as horses in the Indies called Amidas 1362. Sheepe as big as horses with huge hornes and small tayles neere Mexico 1560 one horne waigheth 50 pound 1561 Shels of Pearle curiously wrought by nature 1381 Sherleys voyage 1168 Showers of gold 1395 Shooting at Sea how aduisedly to be vndertaken 1369 Sicknesse its cause and remedy 1251. Sicknesses vnknowne in New France 1623 Sicknesse in Guiana 1261. Sicknesse preuented by good dyet 1624. sicknesse destroying the whole Country in Pataxâ—t in New England 1849 Sickene Mountaine 1286 Sierra Leona a country so called 1141 Shipwracks 1355 1356 1440 1560 1673 1674 1676 1677 Ships how most conueniently built for warres or Merchandise 1405 1406. ships vnprofitably built of Cedar in the Bermudas 1747. ships taken by Sr. Francis Drake at the Cascois in the Portingall voyage 1923. ships of great worth taken by the English at the fight before Cadiz 1930. in ships whether race-building be commodious for men of warre 1409 Silk-wormes in Florida 1603. in the Bermudas 1739 Silk-grasse in Virginia 1758 Silley an I le on the west of England 1247 Siluer in Florida presented to the French by the Inhabitants 1603 Smiarra a towne neere the Fort of Marwin inhabited by the Arwacca Sauages 1283 Sir Samuel Argal by vertue of commission with much valour and discretion dispossessed the French of their vsurped possession in the New found Land 1828. his departure from the coasts of Virginia 1830. His inuention of trade with the Uirginia Sauages 1763 Skin as ruffe as Buffe on men 1280 Skuls of dead men layd in the windowes of houses among some Indians perchance to put them in mind of mortality 1560 Slate good store in Canada affording Diamonds 1610 1611 Sleeping-hearbe 1312 Smiths Iles before Uirginia 1691 Capt. Smith of Plimouth his disasterous voyage with sudden returne by the vnmercifulnesse of a raging tempest his second aduentures to the Westerne Ilands hee is chased by the French Pyrates is taken prisoner and the voyage ouerthrowne 1829. Captaine Smiths suspition by the Councell of Virginia his behauiour and clearing there from 1706. his care for the Plantation and furtherance thereof his discouerie of the riuer 1707. he fights and kils sauages is taken by them brought to the Emperour threatned death and saued by the Kings daughter returneth to the Plantation 1708 1709. his second arriuall at Powhatans court 1710. his better desire then power to benefit the plantation 1711. his striking terror in the Sauages ibid. his departure for a discouerie 1712 Iohn Smith his voyage to new-New-England finished in the space of 6 moneths with gaine of fifteene hundred pounds 1838 Snakes-hearb excellent good against the poyson of Snakes 1311 Snakes eaten 1210. snakes verie venemous 1212. A dangerous snake kild 1215. its quality ib. name Sorocueu 1230 its description 1231. Snakes without poyson 1303. their plenty and diuersitie in Brasile 1303 1304. with their names ibid. 1317 1318 Snakes of thirty foot long called Amara worshipped 1457 1478. Snakes worshipped in Topira 1560. Snakes worne about the neckes of the Virginians 1698 Snowes exceeding great in Florida 1551. Snowes made vse of in stead of drinke 1561. Snowes as good as a furd-gowne for fruits 1636 Soacatino a towne in Florida very poore and destitute of prouision 1554 Socke riuer 11â—6 Sodomites burnt by the Indians 1558 Somme-riuer in Florida discouered by the French 1603 Sommerset-Iland in the Bermudas 1796 Sir George Sommers ariuall at the Bermudas and death 1733. his care for the suruay of those Ilands 1738. his departure from Uirginia to the Bermudas 1754 Sommer Ilands commodities at large 1794 1795. Vide Bermudas Somma a place in America 1222 Soto a Spaniard his parentage time of his flourishing nature and dignity 1528 1529. his voyage to Florida at large related and discouery 1530 the company of his ships and number of his S 〈…〉 iers his ariuall at Florida and at the towne Vâ—â—â— and meeting with Indianized Christians there 1530 1531. his comming to Paracossi Acela Tocaste Cale townes in Florida his newes of Gold and Maiz 1532. his approach at other seuerall townes in America-Florida and seuerity to the Indians 1533 1534. his many bickerings with the Indians his resolution for the Prouince of Ochus 1535. hee pretends himselfe to be the sonne of the Sunne 1536. his ingratitude to an Indian Princess that had vsed him his company kindly 1538 1539. burieth a letter neere a Pine-tree to giue direction to his lost followers 1537. carieth the Caciques with them till hee was out of their countries 1541. the course of his trauels 1542. his skirmish and losse by the Indians 1543. his other Indian occurrents 1546 1547 1548 1549 et seq his
mountaines 1284 Wages detaining how turbulent 〈◊〉 a yoyage 1â—96 Want of water in New-England causing some of our men to famish 1844 Waratiua a riuer in Brasile its description for Navigation 1440 Want of bread in the English Army 1921 Io. Want a schismaticall and seditious fellow in the Bermudas 1743 Wareteena a place in America 1212 Warooca a towne of the Arwacca 〈◊〉 Savages in the Indies 1285 Warraskoyat Indian-Virginians 1692 Warres between the Portingals and the Indians its effects 1321 Warres made for the water 1364 Warres betweene the Indians and Spaniards in Chili 1443 Warriers that haue killed men among the Savages of Tuppan haue as many holes board through their visage in token of honour 1189 Warlike Fleets set forth by the English Deborah the Q. Elizabeth 1891 Water that is salt dangerously drunk 1143. Strange kinde of watering 1146. Water-drinking endangereth many 1178. Want of fresh-water 1188. Water too much drunke kils Will. Pitcher ibid. Salt-water cureth sores 1207 Water vnwholsome and deadly 1248 Water burning and tasting like brimstone 1â—75 Water venemous 1379. Water very hot in a lake of Florida 1549. Bad waters breeding sundry diseases 1623. Waters that being drunke caused teeth to fall in two houres space 1624. Watry ground the supposed cause of vnhealthinesse in Port-royall among the French 1632. Water sacrificed to by the Virginians in time of tempest 1702. Water want in Virginie 1712. Water wanting in the English armie 1966 Watry iourneys 1359 Wayanasses Savages so called in the West-Indies 1211. Their complexion cowardlinesse painting lodging Tobacco chiefe towne 1228 Waanawazons Canibals in America 1213. Their simplicity stature feeding lazinesse women 12â—0 Waymores Savages in Brasile their stature valour rudenesse swiftnesse man-eating 1227. Wayâ—â—quazons called by the Indidians Iocoex are Brasilian Savages their habitation stature women-warriours lodging iarres man-eating 1228 Weaknesse of the English in New-England causing the Indians to insult 1848 Wealth bred ambition among Captaines 1145 Weannocks Indians in Virginia their number of fighting men 1692 Weeaâ—opona a towne of the Arwaccas in America 1285 Weeping in salutation an expression of obedience in some Indians of Florida 1553 Three Wels one very hot another scalding hot a third temperate neere a cold Hill 1243 Werowances the title of a King in Virginia 1692 Werawocomoco River in Virginia 1692 West-winds constanâ—ly 1658 Master Wests plantation at the Fals in Virginia 1730 West-country voyage in twelue ships with a good returne 1840 Westons men abuse the Savages of Massacheusets which caused much vnkindnesse to the English 1857. Their misery among the Savages 1863 Capt. Weymoths voyage to Virginia 1659. seq His danger by sandy and rocky Shoales escape and ariuall at Pentecost harbour 1659 1660 A Whale very great eaten by Anthony Kniuet 1207. Whales haue open heads whereat they breathe their battaile with the Sword-fish 1313 1376 1377 1685 A Whale worshipped 1471 Whale-fishing in the Bermudas and its benefit 1797 Whitson-Bay in Virginia 1654 Capt. Rich. Whitbornes Voyages to the New-found-land 1882. His voyage to Lisbone is taken by a French Pirate 1883 Whelps drest and eaten 1202 Whittingtons communication with the Indians 1881 Wia a River in Guiarâ—a 1261 Wiapogo River 1250. Its commodities 1261 1263 1264. at large threescore leagues broad supposed the biggâ—st in the world 1267 1268. It s situation and strength 1270. English plant there ibid. Wiaumli a River to the North of Orenoco 1249 Wiawia a towne in the West-Indies 1280. Or Wia Wiam 1283. T is inhabited by the Yaios and other Savages 1283 Wighcocamoco river in Virginia 1694 Wighsacan a medicinable plant in Virginia 1695 Wikeries are Indians that inhabite the Plaines of Samia 1248 Mr Will. Strachy his relation of Sir Tho Gates voyage and of the Colony of Virginia 1734 seq William Morgan his happy most strange deliverance 1943 Wild-geese in great Shoales 1845 Willowes 1316 Mr Wilsons relations at large 1661 1262. seq Wine ouerthroweth more then the enemy 1349. The Wine of the Nauy in 88. 1991 Wine causeth ambition dissention 1151 Extreame winds 1175. In the straits of Magellane 1194. An exceeding winde by Sea and Land 1500. Winds that piâ—â—â—â— iron and stone 1671 Winter not durable by Christians Witawamack an insulting slaue among the Savages opprobrious to the English 1859 Wines connted a dignitie among the Savages the hauing of many of them only permitted to the King and those that haue proved themselues braue fellows 1188 1217. Wiues and children sold for Hatchets and Kniues 1208. Wiues put away for adultery 1870 Sir Io. Winkfield dyeth at the fight in Cadiz in warlike manner buried 1932 Wolues in new-New-England pursuing our English Dogs 1849. Wolues in the New-found-land faning and playing with English masty dogs 1885 Womens strange entertaining straners among Savages 1717. Women dancing starke naked 1618. Indian womens modestie yet familiaritie 1158 1159. Women got by valour among the Savages 1209. Women Archers 1226. 1228. Women with vgly bodies and good faces 1228. Eight women bought for a red-hasted knife 1249. A woman roasied 1272. Women starke naked 1268 Women goe before men in Brasile 1292. Their agreement there among themselues their chastitie if maried but â—oosenesse vnmaried 1341. A womans price amongst the Carios of the West Indies 1357. Women toile among some Indians 1382. Women that revenge the wrong of their husbands not solitarily by themselues called Amazons 1437. Women nâ— not Kings daughters might not enter the Temple of the Sunne among the ancient inhabitants of Peru 1465. Womens vsage and habite among some Indians of Florida 1524. Women amongst the Indians put to vile slavery 1869. Women not suffered to enter any of the Ships of the King of Spaines Armada 1901 Wonders of the new World 1477. Wood-bind a plant running on trees like a Vine that causeth a vehement and harmlesse purging 1801 Wood that maketh fish drunkâ— 1â—72 Wood of all colours 1670 Wood as hard as iron ibid. Words of the Savages language in Virginia 1667 Wormes how killed in the bodie 1311 Wormes breeding great-torment 1251. Very pernicious in Brasile but killed by Garlicke 1382. Wormes poysoning water 1286. Wormes deuouring the flesh 1365. Wormes very preiudiciall to ships without sheathing vnder the Aequinoctiall 1387 Wounds how cured 1310 1311 Wyanesses a towne in the West-Indies 1208 Wyapocoories inhabitants in a Province of Guiana 〈…〉 1 Wywaypanami Indians with 〈…〉 ulders higher then their heads 〈…〉 85 X XAlisco a Province neere the South Sea 1559. The great losse of inhabitants in it by the Spanish inhumane cruelty 1581. Eight hundred townes burned in those Realmes by Spaniards ibid. Xalpa Province discouered by the Spaniards 1559 Xaltenango Province 1559 Xaqua a harbour in the Iland of Cuba 1500 Xaragua a dominion in the I le Hispaniola its King and Lords traiterously burnt by the Spaniards thâ— Queene hanged the youths thrust through or having their legs cut off they that fled condemâ—ed to perpetuall slauerie 1572 Xualla a Province in Florida 1539 Y. YAes
returne from the Strait Grieuous storme Saint Vincent Captaine Barker and foure and twentie others slaine The Roe-bucke commeth in Brasilian Coast full of shoalds and barres Mastâ—r Candishes high spirit His intention His pretence Necessitie 〈◊〉 small sâ—â—ps 〈◊〉 the BSpanâ— câ—ast Portugal Pilots vndertaking for Spirito Sancto His ignorance Three Ships His counsâ—ll not followed Their vnseasonable eagernes His instructions to Captain Mâ—â—gan The place described Mad Mutiners They land Captaine Morgan slaine Many others slaine or hurts Ten braue men lost Cowardly basenesse 25. men slaine others wounded Purpose for S. Sebastian Da 〈…〉 able designs The Roe bucke forsaketh him He commeth to S. Sebastians Their manifoâ—d wants Mutinous murmuring His perswasions Mutiner punished An Irish rascall and traiâ—or to his fellowes Cap. Candishes weakenesse His purpose for S. Helena Sailors disobedience Scarsity of victuall Desperate thoughts Master Lockeâ— death Cap. Candisheâ— Will. Mistris Annâ— Candish Flemmish prize satisfied with English price Sâ—orbuto Iapandâ—rs Portugall hanged Brasil Cape Frio Ilha Grande Poâ—tentuous prâ—sageâ— of ill â—nd from so ill beginning Saint Sebastian Vnruly demeanour Santos takeâ— Hoâ— Anthonis Kniuet found a chist of siluer Iohn King English man Iesuites Colledge The Generall by two sauages first scarred and after instructed The Daintie would haue returned from Santos to England Mutinga mynes Iâ—panders peâ—fidie S. Vincent At the riuer of Plate we had a great storme In this storme the Crow a smal Boat of 20. tun sunke before our eyes with twelue men a boy The Roe-bucke lost her boat with two men and wee lost ours with three men And at the Straits we took the Desires long Boat for the Admirall Murmuring Port Desire Magellan Straits Port Famine Current Barke like Sinamon Naked Sauages Miserable coâ—d Anthonie Kniuet lost his toes in the Straits Strait and deepe Riuer Muscles with Pearles Harris his hard hap How we returned from the straits of Magellan Generall Candish commeth againe to Port Famine where bee setteth eight men on shoare and would haue set mee on shoare with them had it not beene for Captain Cocke How I got feeling againe of my limmes after we came out of the straits How the Desire and the Blacke Pinnosse goeth away from vs. Of a great storme we had coÌ„ming backe How the Generall stâ—ooke mee dead against his will They come to Santos againe The Portugals kill our men See Cap. Candish before S. Sebastian The Roe-bucke come to vs at Santos Portugals aduice Spirito Santo Portugall hanged 80. men slaine 40. wounded Ro-bucke fleeth S. Sebastian Anthony Kniuet left for dead Venemous Pease Kniuetâ—erâ—â—â—â—d â—erâ—â—â—â—d w 〈…〉 ha 〈◊〉 〈…〉 st 〈…〉 me â—ut 〈◊〉 the water Whale They are taken and slaine He escapeth Henrie Barway He is sent to a Sugar-mill He fleeth His new Master Wyanasses Iawarapipo Pories Strange entertainment of strangers His danger by a Sauage Hospitall fidelitie in Sauages Riuer Paraeyua He returneth to his oâ—d Master Endangered by a Sharke Master Hawkins at Cape Friâ— Another douâ— ble disâ—ster of sense and lossâ— His imprisonment Condemnation to be hanged Iesuites saue him Imprisoned againe Dissolute resolution He fleeth againe Danger oâ— taking in a Carauala Solâ—men miser iâ— sociâ—s hâ—bâ—isse dolâ—riâ— His wandrings I suppose by Leâ—pards he â—â—eanâ—th thâ—t spâ—â—ted bâ—â—st wâ—â—ch othâ—rs call a Tigre Pianita Hee commeth to his old host Senate of Sauages Iaquerequere Sauage faith Antonie Kniueâ— is bound by the Canibals and brought to his Master Paraeyua Wereob His next aduenture thorow the desarts A faire Riuer Two Sauages Apparell strange Their strange habitâ— Stranger â—akâ—dâ—esse His entertainment His returne Ambiâ—ious malice in sauages Expâ—dition agaâ—â—st the Taymayas Danger of drowning Ilha Grande Whale ouerturneth a Canoa A Caniball captaiâ—e with eightie followers Three dayes ascending a Mountaine Snakâ—s very venemous R. Paracuona how passed Mountayne of foure dayes iourney His danger of death R. Pâ—â—aâ—â—a He loseth hiâ— way Tapnyas Waanawasons Poysonous fruit Fortie dayes iourney vp a Riuer Of Spirits that possessed the Indians and killed them Master Kniueâ— told mee that he heard one Indian vpon occasion of such possession conferring with the Spirit and threatning if the Spirits vsed them so ill they would turne to the Christians and thereupon the Spiâ—iâ— left the person so possessed Strange disease Hard seruiâ—ude Mâ—serable famine 180. men lost Mountaine of blacke round stones Steep descent Ground Hony Ant beare M. of greene stones R. Iawaâ—y which floweth from Potossâ— Vomits and death The enemies town forsaken Snake which leapes at the fire The Snake killed Worse Snakes aliue He is set in the Stockes He is brought to execution Honest Portugals intercede A new aduenture Fishing with golden hooks Faire Ston 5. Golden Riuers Glistering Mountaine Tamandros are the Ant-beares Hideous aduenture Câ—arons Fâ—râ—y The Indians kils the Portugals and after eate them Diuellish Butchers Hatred of the Tamoyes to the Portugals Tamominos He teacheth them to fight Topinaques Mountâ—ine of Goâ—d His rich apparell He perswades them to seeke new habitations New discoueries of this wandering Nation Amazons not a on 〈…〉 breasted Nation but warlike women Battell of Sauages Carijos They are assailed by the Portugals He returneth to his Mâ—ster The Portugals kill 10000. and captiue 20000. Indians Vaytacasses Tale of Saint Thomas sauouring like Saint Francises Legend Old Captaines High spirit of a Sauage What became of the 13. men so many M. Iane reckoneth lost out of Cap. Dauis his Ship Andrew Towers deuise His mad aduenture Massangano a Portugall Fort in Africa â—ee And. Battell Hâ—â— escape to Angola He is taken sent backe to Brasill Nil habet insoeliâ— paupertas duâ—ius â—â—se Qâ—ám quòd ridicnlos hom 〈…〉 es facit Captain Cocke Heixts perfidiousnesse to his Countrimen Heixts miserable deaâ—h Two Dutch ships He saueth his Master Foure Hollanâ— ships Perfidiousnes of Portugals Flemming taken trecherously Mynes of gold Siluer Myne The Organs Mortalitie Diuers frayes dangers of the Author which here followed as in other places of the Historie for breuities sake are omitted Legge swolne with the aire Danger at Sea Mamaluke or Mestizos Riuer of toadâ— Nine tuns of siluer Places on the Coast. A storme Army of Sauages Ambergreece This Thomas Turner I was acqu 〈…〉 ed with and receiued of him some notes which follow after M. Knâ—uet A. Kniâ—et arriueth at Lisbonâ— His sicknesse The Petiuâ—res described No set forme of Religion Warres Region Diet. Râ—tâ—â— of childe birth Sharkes deâ—oured by Sharkes Crocodiles how and why taken Crab-lice Abausangaretam See the former §. The Wayanasses Painting Tabacco The Topinâ—ques Canibals called Pories Small Cocos The Molopaques beaâ—deâ— Sauages and ciuiller then others Houses seuer 〈…〉 Gold Riuer Parâ— Mynes Faire wome 〈…〉 Mâ—â—leâ—â— The Motayâ—â— Weeping w 〈…〉 come W 〈…〉 D 〈…〉 The Lopos Gold in plentie The Wayanawasons simple sauages Venemous plum Mâ—ny straits Tâ—me Estridges Riuer Iawary Menuaâ—e Gold Cristall and Iemmâ—s The Serpent Sorocueu described his stâ—ange forme and qualities Two moneths trauell
besides these Reed-Palmes Silke-wormes Other Trees Prickle-peare Waters No Springs then found since Wells haue bin there digged which ebbe and flow with the Sea c. Fish Salt made there 5000. fishes taken at a hale Cause of their wholsomnesse No vnscaled fishes Whale and Sword-fish Cater-tray beare the bell away Medio tutissimus ibis Fowles Wild Swans Web-footed Fowle They call it of the cry which it maketh a Cohow Wild Hogges how first found out and taken Tortoises H. Rauens voyage from Bermuda to Virginia Cap. Win. L. Lawarre Sir George Summers his suruay and other industrie He builds a Pinnace R. Frubbusher builds another Power of example Mutinous conceptions Conspira 〈…〉 Iohn â—ant and 〈◊〉 Another Mutinie Conscience greatest enemy to conscience Stephen Hopkins condemned and pardoned Third Mutiny Euill as it hath a deficient cause so in and before the effects defects are found H. Paine his Mutinus behuiour His execution Diuers of Sir G Summers compâ—ny flâ—d into the woods Sir T. Gates his letter to Sir G. Summers Waters and Carter stand out and are left behind Religious exercises performed by Master Bucke The most holy ciuill and most naâ—urall possession taken of the Bermudas by exercise of Sacraments Marriage Child-birth c. Children named Bermuda and Bermudas Saylers misorder Cedar ill for shipping Crosse set vp for a memoria His Maiestieâ— Picture Signe of Land Chesipiack Bay The long Boat sent by Rauens câ—st away Algernoone Fort M. George Percy Miserable shewes of welcome Old Patent yeelded vp Their miseries in 〈…〉 ed. Ipsi sibi causa malâ—rum Orders established which continued for their short stay the particulers are here omitted They contained a Preface and 21 Articles for Pietie Loyaltie and Politie conuenient to the Colonie Men blamed but not all the Country freed Prou. 6. The Courtrey co 〈…〉 ed. Rem acu tetigit True cause of misery in Virginia Times of labour vnder Sir T. Gates Note The hopes of Virginia Sir T. Gates his care Pohatans policy Sauage Spies Basenesse of our people Mischiefes of Mariners Pursers fraud Remedy The Colony when they came within foure dayes of staruing Purpose to leau the Country The highest pitch lowâ—st depâ—h of the Colonies miseries scarsly escaping the iâ—wes of deuouring desperation Hopes morning L. La Waarr arriuall Description of the seate and site of Iames Towne The Fort c. described The Houses Barke Roofes Vnhealthfulnesse of Iames Towne Commission red Lord La Warrs tiâ—le Sir T. Gaâ—es Lieutenant Generall His speech Prouisions brought Counsell chosen sworne Colonysworn Officers appointed Sir G. Summers vnderâ—aketh to bring prouisions from Bermudas * Ad Gracaâ— Calendaâ— Can a Leopard change his spots Can a Sauage remayning a Sauage be ciuill Were not wee our selues made and not borne ciuill in our Progenitors dayes and were not Caesars Britaine 's as brutish as Virginians The Romane swords were best teachers of ciuilitie to this other Countries neere vs. Grassesilke English Armes treasured by Powhatan Message to Powhatan Powhatans homâ—ge King of Weroscoick taken Prisoner Sir T. Gates bound for England Lord Lawarre Iune 19. 1610. 23. degrees 21 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 33. degr 〈…〉 30. minutes 32. degrees He speakes with the Adm 〈…〉 ll They faile toward Cape Cod West 〈…〉 atio 〈…〉 gr 〈…〉 A great fog 40. deg 56. mi. 47. fathoms water Water like vna greene grasse They take fish A great fog Sounding Great fog and raine 100. Cods taken The Ship d 〈…〉 th They stand for the Riuer of Sagadahoc Verie foggie weather The thick fog continueth The fog continueth The fog conâ—inueth A Rocke of Marble halfe a miâ—e about 〈◊〉 of Seales The smal rocky Iland lieth in 44. degrees Many Ilands in eight fathoms water August 3. Resonable store of â—â—sh Seale Rocke in 43 deg 41 mâ— Here turneth home Thick and foggie weather 41. deg 44. mi. Cape Cod. â—â—e shoâ—dâ—s of Cape Cod. The middle of the Sholâ—es in 41 deg 50. mi. 15. degrees of westâ—â—ly Variation 12. degrees of westerly Variation 11. degrees of westerly Variation 12 degrees of Westerly variation 13. deg 25. mi. of Westerly variation Many shoales 12. leagues to the South of Cape La Warre Cape Charles Lord La Warres many sicknesses Orenges and Lemons good remedie for the Scuruie Master George Pâ—â—cie Depu 〈…〉 〈◊〉 â—â—e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sir T. Dale Marshall 200. leâ—t there Trade by Cape Argoll Three Forts Sir T. Gates his second voyage 100. Kine and 200. Swine sent K. and R. Pa tamack Sir T. Gates Sir T. Dale The Deliuerance This was in the Riuer of Nansamund His Voyage to Sir T. Smiths Iland Dela War Bay His first Voyage to Patowomec and Penbrooke Riuer Ayapassus the weroance of Pastancie * Cap. Web Ensigne Swift Rob. Sparkes two Boyes 1100. bushels of Corne. The second voyage to Penbrooke Riuer Note Great store of Oxen in Penbrooke Riuer A Myne A medicinable Earth A water that hath the taste of Allum An Earth like Gumme A red Earth like Terra sigillata The greaâ— King Patowomeck Ensigne Swift Pocahuntis taken 7. men freed His third Discouery Kerned Salt found May 12. 1613. Euery mans care is no mans Proprietie is a proper painestaker Sir Thom. Dales good gouernment Bermuda Citie Deere haue 3. or 4. Fawnes at a time Apossumes Strange store oâ—â—owle as before in Ouiedo A Frigâ—â—s lading taken at one draught Faire flowres Crabs Sir Tho. Dales going to Virginia A. 1 1 〈…〉 eight weekes Retchlesse wretches His care and imploiment R. Nansamund Wise seuâ—ritie remedie to slothâ—ull sccuritie Arriuall of Sir Tho. Gates with sixe ships Henrico built by Sir T. Dale Bermuda a city Hundreds set out and distinguished French displanted Long discourses followed in the Author but Virginia is brought to such an abridgement that I haue no heart to follow him or others in that kind Prince Henry Sir T. Dales iourny to Powhatans Country This is more at large deliuered with the particular circumstances which I for breuitiâ— haue omitted by M. Hamor Pocahuntas behauiour and report Opachankanâ— now their king worker of the massaâ—râ— Pocahuntaâ— baptised of Matoâ— so I haue heard she was properly named 〈◊〉 first called Rebecca They called the English Tossantessas and so would themselues be called The particulars and articles of agreemâ—nt are in M. Hâ—amors Booke here omitted Sir T. Dales report of Virginia In another letter to the Committees he writeth that foure of the best Kingdoms of Christendome put all together may no way compare with this country either for commodities or goodnesse of soile Master Alexander Whitaker was son to that worthy of Polemicall Diuine Doctor Whitaker Master of S. Iohns Col. in Cambridge Whatshadowes of men are the most in this age that the best deseruing should neede apologies instead of panegyrikâ—s They which for doing suffer ill cry whore first and by deprauing iustice seek to be iust Their Priâ—sts and manner of liuing Yet Namantack in his returne was killed in Bermuda by another Sauage his
Spanish arguments to requite good with euill a Act. 24. 14. By the way which they cal heresie so worship wee the God of our fathers beleeuing all things written in the Law c. b They make the schisme or rent which vniustly excommunicate cut off from the body of Christ as Io. 9 Sinite illos coeci sunt c. c Hinc ille lacrymae d Withlie and all shee reiceted the title of supreme head to auoid from appearance of this euill and declared her selfe to challenge onely power ouer all her subiects to command thé to do their duties execute their offices excluding forrain iurisdiction as Dauid Salâ—mon Constantine her predecessors had done exercising power ouer Priests not in the Priesthood e O impudency What King of England euer sought the Popes confirmation King 〈◊〉 by Papall Arts made himselfe triburary but without and against his subiects conâ—ent as Ma. Paris Râ—â—endouer then liuing testifie at larg 〈…〉 at writing being burnt and disclaimed the subiects also rebelling against the Author thereof f Quia totum telâ—m non recepâ—â—â—et Shee wronged them much in souâ—ng her throat from their blades g Vnnaturall Prince which not content with inheritance would haue made conquest of the Prouinces so to swallow all their priuiledges and subiect them to forraine inquisition and rule so buying with 100. millions of treasure and the liues of 400000. Christians the losse of those which would haue bought and sought to be his subiects if hee would haue kept the oathes which the Pope dispensed with twice made to them and ruled as his predecessors had done h The Pope confesseth hee gaue entertainment to the Queenes Fug tiues and for their sakes thus roared The Spaniard entertained her Fugitiues and she might not admit those whom he would not suffer to obey him as his Ancestors had done i A mighty cruell forgery of his Holiness k Who is here the inuader disturber of peace And whereto tends all this but to disanull peace l Quis tulerit Gracchos dei seditione querentes m Boner c. was ill handled because they were not so handled as they had handled Cranmer Ridley c. n See M. Camdens History 〈◊〉 A. 1568. seq where those occurrents are otherwise related o Ap. 2. 2. Thou hast tried them that say they are Apostles and are not and hast found them liers p How much more did Hezekiab â—osias in demolishing the meanes of superstition how holy soeuer at their first institutioÌ„ So the brasen Serpent a Diuine type of Christ crucified was demolished c. q Uis dicam quid sis magnus es ardelio Pitie she promoted not Cardinal Allen or Father Parsons the one to Lambeth the other to Tib. I should say the Broad Seale r What a faire deliuerance from this tyranny should we haue had by the Spanish Whips and Kniues s We had indeed bin miserable had we falne into the hands of such Physicians t The holinesse of three Popes curse her and the holy and blessed Trinitie blesse her u Dutie and faith acknowledged and yet denied Is not this babbling x But God will not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vaine y Yet this is the first commandement of promise so contrary are Gods blessing and the Popes cursing Eph. 6. 2. z A false Prophet for neither did England euer prosper more or feare the Pope or Spaniard lesse or so much loue or honour Her or any of her progenitors as Her Maiesty after this such a blessed haruest God raised out of this Cursers cursed seed a The Duke of Medina Generall of this Fleet was of another mind who being told of Catholikes in England which would take his part c. answered That he must make way howsoeuer for his Master And were not Count Egmond and Count Horne and others Papists which D'Alua executed There were 700. English Fugitiues in Parmas Army for this inuasion Qui omnium despicatissime habiti the baggage of the Armies estimate nor was respectgiuen to Stanly and Westmerland Traitors of note Sed pro impietate in Patriam omni adâ—tu prohibiti tanquam pessima auspicia merito non siâ—e detestatione reiecti saith Camden They were excluded all Councells of Warre for men vse to loue the Treason and hate the Traytor Matth. 26. 54. â—udas â—scarioâ— went to the chiefe Priests here the chiefe Priest preuents the Traitor couâ—â—aâ—ts for more then 30. pieces before he be sollicited with what will you giue me 〈…〉 e â—ewish Priestâ— were dul compared to these Romish * Hâ—â—ly Fa th 〈…〉 * Pro thesauro carbones The Pope grants that liberally which is alâ—â—ly The Armie of Biscay of which is Captain Generall Ian Martines of Ricalda The Armie of the Gallyes of Castille of the which is Generall Iaques Flores de Valdes The Armie of the Ships of Andelo 〈…〉 zie of the which is Cap. Don Pedro de Valdes This Pedro de Valdes was taken and prisoner in England The Armie of Ships come from the Prouince of Gipouzce of which is Generall Michell de Oquendo The Armie of the East of the which is chief Martin de Vâ—â—tendâ—na The Armie of Hulkes in the which is Cap. Iohn Lopez of Medina Pataâ—â—es and Zabâ—es where in Don Antony of Mendoza commandeâ—â— The foure Galeaces of Naples which are giueÌ„ in charge to Dom Vgo de Moncada A description of the Galeons A description of the Galliasses The great Oâ—d nance bullets Gunpowder and other furniture The iâ—prouision of victuals other things necessary 32000. personâ— in the Nauie A Spanish terza consisteth of 3200. souldiers Baggage of the Amada The cause of the Iourney Their Shrift For auoiding blasphemy and raging oathes and others Debarring play The preparation of the Duke of Parma to aide the Spaniards Her Maiesties warlike preparation by Sea Her Maiesties Land-forces Catholike Roman The prepa 〈…〉 on of the vnited Prouinces The Spanish 〈◊〉 etâ—â—let saile vpon the 19 of May. O multum dilect Deo tib militat aether coâ—iurati vâ—nâ—unt ad classica venti c. Gains valour They set saile from the Groine vpon the 11. of Iuly The Spaniards come within keâ—â—ing of England Cap. Fleming The L. Admirals short warning vpon the 19. of Iuly The 20. of Iuly Gods great mercy to England For had not Flemming brought word the Queenes Nauie had easily beene oppressed nor could it so soon be ready had the Spaniards then taken their opportunitie The 21. of Iuly Galeon forsaken The 22. of Iuly Don Pedro de Valdez with his ships and company takeÌ„ Virtus in hoste laudanda 55000. duckets A great Biscaine ship taken by the English The 23. of Iuly Slow motions of the great Spanish ships Admirals hot fight Captaine Fenners valour A great Venetian ship and other â—mâ—ll ships taken by the English 12000. English Mariners and Souldiers The 24. of Iuly Want of Powder Spanish order The 25. of Iuly Terrible fight The 26.
Port Royall where his Boate was split presently in peeces and he made shift to climbe so steepe a Rocke by night as would haue troubled the strongest man in 〈…〉 le to haue done by day He discerned in the morning where he was and without other refreshing then water which he tooke temperately or might else haue drunk his last he got in halfe a day to a friends house He was liuing Anno 1622. Some treasure in Dollers to the value of twentie pounds was found the remainder of some Wrack The Company sent M. Daniel Tucker to be Gouernour hee set saile in the George accompanied with the Edwin some preparation was made to resist but he at last was receiued and acknowledged in May 1616. Somewhat hee had to doe to bring them to their workes which yet he effected their day worke till nine in the morning and then staying till three in the afternoone they began againe continuing till sun-set Besides meat drinke and clothes they had for a time a certaine kind of brasse Money with a Hog on the one side in memory of the Hogs there found at first landing Hee by Master Richard Norwoods helpe laid out the eight Tribes in the Mayne which were to consist of fiftie shares to a Tribe each share twentie fiue Acres He began to plant some of the Colony on speciall shares and appointed Bailiffes to each Tribe Hee held a generall Assise in his second moneth at Saint Georges where for sedition Iohn Wood a Frenchman was hanged He sent the Edwin to Trade with the Natiues of the West Indies for Cattel Corne Plants which had it been continued might happily haue bin more beneficiall to the Plantation then the Magazines from hence She returned with Figs Pines Sugar-canes Plantans Papawes and diuers other plants which were presently replanted and since haue increased by the Gouernours commendable husbandry Seuerity by the conceit thereof produced an admirable fact Fiue men which could by no meanes get passage for England resolued to aduenture an escape viz. Richard Sander Mariner chiefe plotter William Goodwin a Ship Carpenter Tho. Harison a Ioyner Iames Baker Gentleman and Henry Puet These insinuated to the Gouernour that they would build him a Boat of two or three Tuns with a close Deck fit to fish in all weathers Hee glad to see them so obsequious furnished them with necessaries whatsoeuer they could desire Shee was fitted and gone the euening before hee sent for her to see as was reported how shee could saile This was most true and Botelias his aduenture from Goa in the East Indies to Lisbon was not so admirable a triall Barker had borrowed a Compasse Diall of M. Hughes leauing a Letter to him to haue patience for that losse whereby their aduenture was intimated The Gouernours threats were not in that remotenesse so terrible as the two present swelling Elements whom yet they found more gentle then a French Pickaroone who in stead of succour which they desired tooke from them what they liked leaning them not so much as a Crosse-staffe to obserue with and so cast them off They continued their course till their victuall began to faile and the knees of their Boat were halfe hewed away for fire wood They at last arriued in Ireland where the Earle of Tomund entertained them and caused the Boat to be hanged vp for a Monument hauing sayled 3300. miles thorow the Ocean by a right line without sight of any Land This fortunate Sanders in the rifling of a Ship taken in the East Indies bought a Chest for three or foure shillings but would for want of a Key haue sold it againe for lesse But one day hauing little to doe hee broke it open and found therein 1000. pounds sterling or so much gold as bought him in England a good estate which leauing with his wife he returned againe to the East Indies The Company sent Captaine Powell in the Hopewell after he had landed his passengers in Summer Iles to trade in the Indies who by the way fell foule on a Brasillman and afterwards a Frenchman on him but hee got safe to the Ilands and told what he had done The Gouernour kept his second Assize and made a proclamation against the killing of coheires Powell is againe sent to the West Indies from thence with thirteene or fourteene men Hee made triall but in vaine for the Whale-fishing for which and to which purpose the Company soone after sent the Neptune In the beginning of his second yeere he called the third azise in which one was hanged two others condemned but reprieued The Rat Tragedy was now terrible some Fishes haue been taken with Rats in their bellies catched as they swam from I le to I le One Henry Long with sixe others being on fishing a sudden storm arose with terrible thunder and the Boat was tossed ouer the Rocks the fiâ—h tossed ouer-boord and Long with two others escaped the rest drowned one of the three being demanded what he thought in the present perill answered hee said nothing but Gallowes claime thy right which within halfe a yeere fell out accordingly Powell returned with three Frigats laden with Meale Hides and Munition The Master and Gouernour contending both were dispossessed by a stronger power Waters with twelue men were sent to Virginia and would no more returne to Summers Iles. A. 1618. arriued there the Diana with men and prouision and the first Magazine a course I heare not much applauded by the Planters here or in Virginia the companies honest care seeming by some others dishonestie frustrate This Ship fraught with 30000. weight of Tobacco gaue by the good sayle thereof encouragement to the Aduenturers The Gouernour building a house of Cedar in the best Land appropriated it to himselfe to the griefe of others there of whom Master Hughes could not by threats nor imprisonment be so pacified but that here to the Company hee approued his cause Two men and a Gentlewomen thinking to make their escape in a Boat to Virginia were neuer heard of after Sixe others attempted the like but were apprehended araigned condemned and one of them hanged The Gouernours hard dealings so much complained of caused him in the Blessing to returne to excuse himselfe and to get that house assured him leauing Captaine Kendall to supply his place The Gilli-flower and the Treasurer were sent By the Sea-flower which went to Virginia a Preacher was sent to the Ilands and newes of a new Gouernour Captaine Kerby came in with a small Barke from the West Indies A Dutch Frigot was cost away on the Westerne shoare the people saued by the English Captaine Butler the new Gouernour arriued in the Warwicke the twentieth of October 1619. The Redoubt a platforme of the Kings Castle at the same time whiles the New Gouernour and old Planters were feasting aboord accidentally was consumed with fire The next month came in the Garland which had come