Amity with Us Our Heirs or Successors whether he Merchants of Our East Land Russia Turkey Companie of London the Merchants of the Company of Merchant-Adventurers of London or of any or either of them do or may Trade and into and from all other Ports and places whatsoever beyond the Seas for the time being in Amity with Us Our Heirs and Successors whether any of the Subjects for the time being of Us Our Heirs and Successors for such time or times do or may Trade Traffick or Commerce in as full ample and beneficial manner as Wee Can grant the same Saving allways to Us Our Heirs and Successors from the said Men and Inhabitants of Our said County of Cornwall their Factors and Agents to be duly paid unto Us Our Heirs and Successors to Our and their Use All such Customs and other Duties and Payments upon and for their Merchandizes and Goods to be Exported and Imported as shall from time to time become due and payable to Us Our Heirs and Successors in that respect Likewise saving all Rights Duties or Payments any way belonging too or in respect of the Dutchy of Cornwall Yielding and Paying thereof unto Us Our Heirs and Successors the Sum of Four Shillings of Lawfull English Money to be paid unto the hands of the Sheriff of the County of Cornwall at the Feast of All Saints Yearly And hereby for Us Our Heirs and Successors Willing and Commanding that all the Officers and every the Ministers of what Nature Condition or Degree soever and all other the Subjects of Us Our Heirs and Successors whom these shall or may any ways concern to take Special notice to all intents and purposes as they and every of them shall respectively answer the contrary at their perills And Wee do hereby for Us Our Heirs and Successors further Promise and Grant unto the aforesaid Men and Inhabitants of our said County of Cornwall as well present as to come that if and as often as any doubts or questions shall happen to arise for touching or concerning the Validity of these Our Letters-Patents That then and so often upon the Humble Petition of the foresaid Men Inhabitants of Our said County of Cornwall to Us Our Heirs Successors exhibited orupon Notice or Certificate to Us Our Heirs and Successors by the Learned of Councel of the aforesaid Men and Inhabitants of Our said County of Cornwall touching any Defeet requisite to be Amended We Our Heirs and Successors will Graciously Grant Other Letters-Patents unto the said Men and Inhabitants of Our said County of Cornwall with such and so many Amendments Explications Amplifications and Additions as by the said Council of the aforesaid Men and Inhabitants of Our said County of Cornwall shall be advised and thought fit And which any way may tend to the Confirmation of These Our Letters-Patents or to the Perfection of Our Intention before in these Presents any way appearing And Wee further Will And by these Presents for Us Our Heirs and Successors do Grant unto the a foresaid Men and Inhabitants of Our said County of Cornwall as well Present as to Come that these Our Letters Patents or the Inrolement thereof shall be in all things Firm Valid Good and Sufficient and Effectual in the Law against Us Our Heirs and Successors as well in all Courts as elsewhere within Our Kingdom of England without any Confirmation Licenese or Toleration from Us Our Heirs or Successors any way hereafter to be procured or obtained Notwithstanding the not finding of Office or Offices Inquisition or Inquisitions by which Our Title in the Placit ought to be found before the making of these Our Letters-Patents And Notwithstanding that the aforesaid Men Inhabitants of Our County of Cornwall in Constitution of Law be not reputed a Corporation or Body-Politick nor Capable in Law to hold the Priviledge of these Presents Granted any Statute Act Ordinance Proclam ' or Provision heretofore Had Made Enacted Ordained or Provided or any other Thing Câ—e or Matter soever to the Contrary hereof in any wise Notwithstanding In Witness whereof Wee have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness Our self at Oxford the Twenty Sixth day of January in the Nineteenth Year of Our Reign Per bre ' de Privato Sigillo A True Account of His Majesties Particular Grace and Favour to the Loyal Towns Burroughs within the Dutchy of Cornwall by the Mediation of the Right Honourable John Earl of Bathe Lord Lieutenant High Steward of the said Dutchy and Lord-Warden of the Stanneries c. Whitchall December 12. 1684. THe Right Honourable the Earl of Bathe being lately at His Government of Plymouth to Settle by His Majesties Command the Affairs of that Garison and the Militia of Cornwal under His Lieutenancy the several Towns and Burroughs within the Dutchy of Cornwal who had Uuanimously and with great Chearfulness resolved to Surrender their Charters and Franchises to His Majesty made their Applications to His Lordship as their Lieutenant to Intercede with His Majesty that they might by reason of the great distance be excused from their Personal Attendance with their Surrenders and Charters To which His Majesty being pleased to Condescend the said Corporations delivered their Surrenders to His Lordship for His Majesties Use humbly praying Him to lay them at His Majesties Feet Which His Lordship at His return hither having done accordingly with a Petition on their behalf His Majesty was pleased Graciously to accept of them and to Command His Lordship to assure the said Corporations That He very well remembred the Duty and Loyalty of that County in the worst Times of Rebellion and was well pleased with this fresh Demonstration of it by them Which above-mentioned Signification of His Majesties Pleasure was by His Majesties Command Ordered to be Printed in the Gazette and which was done accordingly To the King 's Most Excellent Majesty The Humble Petition of John Earl of Bathe Your Majesties Lieutenant of Cornwal and Lord Warden of Your Majesties Stanneries c. Sheweth THat the Mayors and Burgesses of the several Towns and Burroughs within Your Majesties Dutchy of Cornwal against whom Writs of Quo Warranto were lately Issued have Unanimously with great Chearfulness and some Emulation who should be most forward excepting only one small inconsiderable Burrough expressed an entire Submission and Deference to Your Royal Pleasure and have Desired and Entrusted Your Petitioner to lay the respective surrenders of their Franchises and Privileges and the Charters by which they claim the same with their customs and Prescriptions at Your Majesties Royal Feet Humbly beseeching Your Majesty to Grant and Confirm their Ancient Franchises and Privileges with such Additions Alterations and Reservations as Your Majesty in Your Great and Royal Wisdom shall think fit The small Revenues of the greatest part of the said Burroughs and the signal Loyalty and Sufferings of them all and of all Cornwal in general with the great distance of their Habitations
the fort of Florida And after that Sr John Norris marched from Peniche in Portugall with a handfull of Souldiers to the gate of Lisbone being about 40 English miles Where the Earl of Essex himself and other valiant Gentlemen braved the City of Lisbone encamped at the very gate from whence after many days abode finding neither promised party nor provision to batter they made retrait by Land in despight of all their Garrisons both of Horse and Foot In this sort I have a little digressed from my first purpose only by the necessary comparison of theirs and our actions The one covetous of honour without vaunt of ostentation the other so greedy to purchase the opinion of their own affairs and by false Rumors to resist the blust of their own dishonours as they will not only not blush to spread all manner of Untruths But even for the least advantage be it but for the talring of one poor Adventurer of the English will celebrate the Victory with Bonfires in every Town always spending more in Faggors then the purchase was worth they obtained When as we never thought it worth the consumption of two Billets when we have taken Eight or Ten of their Indian Ships at one time and Twenty of the Brasill Fleet Such is the difference between true Valour and Ostentation and between Honourable Actions and frivolous Vain glorious vaunts But now to return to my purpose The Lord Thomas Howard with Six of her Majesties Ships Six Victualers of London the Bark Ralegh and two or three other Pinnaces riding at Anchor near unto Flores one of the Westerly Islands of the Azores the Last of August in the afternoon had intelligence by one Captain Middleton of the approach of the Spanish Armada Which Middleton being in a very good Sailer had kept them Company three days before of good purpose both to discover their Forces the more as also to give advice to my Lord Thomas of their approach He had no sooner delivered the news but the Fleet was in sight many of our Ships Companys were on Shore in the Island some providing balast for their Ships others filling of Water and refreshing themselves from the Land with such things as they could either for Money or by Force recover By reason whereof our Ships being all pestered and romaging every thing out of order very light for want of balast and that which was most to our disadvantage the one half part of the men of every Ship sick and utterly unserviceable For in the Revenge there were Ninety diseases in the Bonaventure not so many in health as could handle her Main-Sail For had not Twenty men been taken out of a Bark of Sr George Careys his being commanded to be sunk and those appointed to her she had hardly ever recovered England The rest for the most part were in little better State The Names of her Majesties Ships were these as followeth the Defiance which was Admiral the Revenge Vice-Admiral the Bonaventure commanded by Captain Crosse the Lion by George Fenner the Foresight by Mr Thomas Vavasour and the Crane by Duffild the Foresight and the Crane being but small Ships only the other were of the middle size the rest besides the Bark Ralegh commanded by Captain Thin were Victuallers and of small force or none The Spanish Fleet having shrouded their approach by reason of the Island were now so soon at hand as our Ships had scarce time to weigh their Anchors but some of them were driven to let slip their Cables and set sail Sr Richard Granvill was the last that weighed to recover the men that were upon the Island which otherwise had been lost The Lord Thomas with the rest very hardly recovered the Wind which Sr Richard Granvill not being able to do was persuaded by the Master and others to cut his Main Sail and cast about and to trust to the Sailing of the Ship for the Squadron of Sivil were on his Weather-Bow But Sr Richard utterly refused to trun from the Enemies alledging that he would rather choose to dye then to dishonour himself his Country and her Majesties Ship persuading his Company that he would pass through the two Squadrons in despight of them and enforce those of Sivil to give him way Which he performed upon divers of the formost who as the Mariners term it sprang their Luff and fell under the Lee of the Revenge But the other course had been the better and might right well have been answered in so great an impossibility of Prevailing Notwithstanding out of the greatness of his mind he could not be persuaded In the mean while as he attended those which were nearest him the great San Philip being in the Wind of him and coming towards him becalmed his Sails in such sort as the Ship could neither make way nor feel the Helm so huge and high-carged was the Spanish Ship being of a Thousand and Five Hundred Tuns who after laid the Revenge abord When he was thus bereft of his Sails the Ships that were under his lee luffing up also laid him abord of which the next was the Admiral of the Biscaines a very mighty and puissant Ship commanded by Brittandona the said Philip carried three tire of Ordinance on a side and eleven Pieces in every tire She shot Eight forth-right out of her Chase besides those of her Stern-Ports After the Revenge was entangled with this Philip. four other boorded her two on her Larboord and two on her Starboord The Fight thus beginning at three of the Clock in the Afternoon continued very terrible all that Evening But the great San Philip having received the Lower Tire of the Revenge Discharged with Cross-bar shot Shirted her self with all diligence from her sides utterly misliking her first entertainment Some say that the Ship Foundred but we cannot report it for truth unless we were assured The Spanish Ships were filled with Companys of Souldiers in some Two Hundred besides the Mariners in some Five in others Eight Hundred In ours there were none at all besides the Mariners but the Servants of the Commanders and some few Voluntary Gentlemen only After many enterchanged Vollies of Great Ordinance and Small Shot the Spaniards deliberated to enter the Revenge and made divers attempts hoping to force her by the Multitudes of their Armed Souldiers and Musketters but were still repulsed again and again and at all times beaten back into their own Ships or into the Seas In the beginning of the Fight the George Noble of London having received some Shot thorow her by the Armadas fell under the Lee of the Revenge and asked Sr Richard what he would Command him being but one of the Victualers and of small force Sr Richard bid him save himself and leave him to his fortune After the Fight had thus without intermission continued while the Day lasted and some hours of the Night many of our Men were slain and hurt and one of the great Gallions of the Armada and the Admiral
wrote a Letter to his Majesty wherein he confirmed to him under his Hand what he had Promised and Agreed in his Treaty with your Lordship viz. That he would Employ all the Power he had to set the King upon his Throne and that without Conditions This Letter was delivered to his Majesty at Breda by your Noble Brother Mr Bernard Granvill If ever Letter were wellcome to a Prince this had Reason to be so since it contained no less then a humane Assurance that his Majesties Travels were at an End and that the time was come that Allmighty God would Restore him to his Crowns Kingdoms from which his Majesty was so long so Unjustly kept by most Bloody Usurpers Your Lordship is not only happy in the Conscience of your own Actions and Virtuous Examples of those who are gone before you but in the most hopefull Prospect you have of your Descendents For my Lord Landsdown treading in the Steps of his Brave Ancestors hath been already Courting Honour in the Wars of Hungary where he hath distinctly signalized himself in all those great Occasions particularly at Kornenberch where the Duke of Loraine Defeated Twelve Thousand Spahyes in a rase Campagne at the Releiving of Vienna which was Besieged by an Army of Two Hundred Thousand Combattants At the Battel of Baracan where the King of Poland his whole Army had been Certainly lost if the Duke of Loraine with whom my Lord Lansdown then was had not come in turn'd the Day at the very instant that fortune was Declaring for the Infidels lastly at the taking of Gran the Second City of the Kingdom and now he is retnrn'd Home with Laurells a lasting Monument of his Achievements being Dignified with the Quality of Count of the Empire and Honoured to bear his Paternal Coat of Arms upon the Roman Eagle But it is an Epistle My Lord that I am writing and not a History and therefore I will Conclude humbly Intreating your Lordship to give your Patronage to these Verses which I Conceive I have some Right to Dispose of since by the fate of Survivorship they belong to me who am the only man Living of All those Names you find here Except one Right Reverend Lord whose Obliging consent is Obtain'd to this Edition And therefore I cause them to be Reprinted and Consecrated to the Immortall Memory of your most Noble Father as the greatest Testimony I am able to give your Lordship of the Honour I have for you your Family Desiring further your Lordships Pardon for Presuming to Reprint and Bind in One Volume together with the said Verses a Letter from his Late Majesty the Royal Martyr to Sr Bevill Granvill your said Noble Father and another with his said Majesties most Gracious Parent to the County of Cornwall with his Present Majesties Warrant given to your Lordship at Brussells for your Signal Services already Printed in the History of his Majesties Restauration and a particular account of his said Majesties Grace and Favour to the Loyal Towns Burroughs within the Dutchy of Cornwall upon your Lordships Favourable Mediation for your Country-men Together with the relation of that Famous Sea-fight of your aforesaid Great Grandfather Sir Richard Granvill Written by the incomparable Sir Walter Raleigh I am From the Inner-Temple Nov. 1. 1684. My Lord Your Lordships most Humbly Devoted Servant Henry Birkhead TO THE MEMORY of Sir BEVILL GRANVILL IT is not He. I 'le not believe mine Eye He that could never Fear can never Dye Dust Sweat and Bloud mixt in that Face conspire To say 't is GRANVILL Trust 'em not The Fire That warm'd his Brest was Vestall Star born Light Flame that no Ocean Day that fear'd no Night It is not He. But weeping Truth says 'T is That Corps of Glory can be None 's but His. So hovers Valour o're that Brow so yet As after Tempests empty'd Clouds still Threat Terror leaps from those Eyes and Rebells Run The Souldier lives still though the Man be gone The Man Courage said More But Honour sitting With Fame in Councell found it far more fitting The World should know him Mortall that he Fought On equall terms that to the Field He brought Nothing Impenetrable but his Mind Knew Danger and despis'd it Since we find Cowards Secur'd Act Valour All else than Speaking Him more Death was to prove Him Man Then when as a Destroying Angell sent To Mow a Guilty Nation down He lent Blow's like to Whirl winds LANDS-DOWN saw Him Stand Not with a Pike but Thunder-bolt in 's hand GRANVILL against an Army He being one Cannon Horse Foot Himself So Fixt and grown Unto the Hill H 'had Gain'd and now made good That like another Hill or Rock He stood Fort to Himself and Us Stronger then all Cow'rds Love Loose Steep Mountain Wood Wall Whence His Sword Chas'd them once his Blood do's still Sprinkling the Ground and Hollowing the Hill Where since Drops shed from such a Loyall Vein Rebellion ne're shall dare set Foot again Thomas Masters IS GRANVILL dead or Valour is it He Hath left this World or is it Loyalty Alas both Dye with Him both leave us how Shall none survive but Traitorous Cowards now Good Heav'ns forbid by them the knot 's unty'd Both by his Patern Live both in his Person Dy'd Robert Grave COuld I report Great GRANVILL or repeat Thy famous Actions in thine own stout Heat Could I write as Thou fought'st the World might see Perhaps some Picture of thy Deeds and Thee And thus inspir'd from thy bold flame my Verse At once would come forth rapture and reherse But as those ravish't Prophets who of old Sick of their God and much too frail to hold Their strong Inspirer first felt trance then spoke And utter'd Answers which from Labours broke So meeting Things too high to be exprest I find my self whilest I describe opprest Thou dost at once possess and hinder still Risest and multipliest between my Quill Still bring'st new various Matter to my Dress Which still begins and still shows Endlesness So Homer strove with his Achilles who Should bravelier write or who should bravelier do So what at first He meant an Ode and Song Swell'd to a Work and Story ten years long And what at first was destin'd to one Shade Spread in the Writing and prov'd Iliade Had'st Thou like Others fought by Rule and Line Who call it Valour Wisely to decline Assaults and Dangers and maintain that there Can be no Fortitude where is no Fear Hadst thou beleev'd that They who do ingage Themselves beyond relief fight not but rage Or that when men beyond a mean do stray Their Fury's only Valiant not They We on thy Temples now had planted Bays And Thou had'st liv'd to hear and feel thy Prayse But Thou did'st scorn such Rules and call'dst such Laws Arts how to blemish and desert a Cause Countedst those false whom Others do count wise And their discreet Fear order'd Cowardice Far
from Your Royal Palace gives Your said Petitioner Confidence most humbly to pray in their Behalfs That Your Majesty will be Graciously pleased to excuse their Personal Attendance with their said Surrenders and Charters and to receive them from the Hands of Your said Petitioner and that their several and respective new Charters may pass the Great Seal and other Offices without Fees or other Charges Which Royal Bounty will greatly Encourage Them and all Your Majesties other Loyal Subjects within Your said Dutchy in that Duty and Loyalty which they on this Occasion as their Ancestors with most of their Countrymen in the worst Times of Rebellion to the ruine of their Estates and loss of their nearest and dearest Relations have according to their Duty most readily and faithfully expressed And Your Petitioner shall ever Pray c. BATHE Unto which said Petition His Majesty was Pleased to return this Gracious Answer following by the Right Honourable the Earl of Sunderland His Majesties Principal Secretary of State WHereas the several Towns and Burroughs within the Counties of Cornwal and Devon mentioned in the List hereunto annexed have voluntarily surrendred unto His Majesty by the Hands of the Right Honourable the Earl of Bathe their Lord Lieutenant all their Charters with their Franchises and Priviledges which they hold either by Antient Custom Prescription or otherwise humbly beseeching His Majesty to Regrant them new Charters with such Alterations Additions and Reservations as His Majesty shall think fit His Majesty having taken the same into His Consideration and also the humble Petition of the said Earl of Bathe representing the many Eminent and Signal Services Loyalty and great Sufferings of the said Towns and Country in general during the worst Times of Rebellion which His Majesty himself well remembers and being therefore Graciously pleased to accept of the said Surrenders from the Hands of the said Earl excusing their Personal Attendance His Majesty is pleased to Command Me to signifie His Pleasure That the several New Charters which shall be Granted to the said Towns and Burroughs pass the respective Offices and Seals without Paying Fees Whereof all Persons whom it may concern are to take Notice Given at the Court at Whitehall the 10th Day of December 1684. Sunderland A List of tbe several Surrenders of the Towns and Burroughs within the Dutchy of Cornwal Presented to His Majesty by the Right Honourable the Earl of Bathe CORNWAL LAnceston Truro Lostwithial Bodman Liscard Penryn by the Mayor and Magistrates Penryn by the Portreave and Burgesses Metchell alias Midsholl by Sir John Arundell Lord of the Mannor Metchell alias Midsholl by the Mayor Portreave and Burgesses St. Ives by the Mayor Portreave and Burgesses St. Mawes by Sir Joseph Tredinham Lord of the Mannor St. Mawes by the Mayor and Burgesses Callington by Samuel Rolle Esq Lord of the Mannor Callington by the Mayor Portreave and Burgesses Foy by the Mayor Portreave and Burgesses Grampond Tregony East Loe. West Loe. Camelford Bossing alias Tintagell St. Germans by Mr. Elliot Lord of the Mannor St. Germans by the Portreave and Burgesses Helston Saltash Surrendred before and New Charters according to His Majesties present Regulation DEVONSHIRE PLympton Ashburton Bideford Bradnitch Plymouth Tavestocke Surrendred before New Charters according to his Majesties present Regulation Bathe A REPORT of the Truth of the Fight about the Isles of Azores the Last of August 1591. Betwixt the Revenge One of her Majesties Ships Commanded by Sir Richard Granvill commonly called Grenvill Vice-Admiral and an Armada of the King of Spain Penned by the Honourable Sir Water Ralegh Knight BEcause the Rumours are diversly spred as well in England as in the Low Countrys and elsewhere of this late encounter between her Majesties Ships and the Armada of Spain and that the Spaniards according to their usuall manner fill the world with their vain-glorious vanity making great appearance of victories when on the contrary themselves are most commonly and shamefully beaten and dishonoured thereby hoping to possess the ignorant multitude by anticipating fore-running false reports It is agreeable with all good reason for manifestation of the truth to overcome falshood and untruth that the beginning continuance and Success of this late Honourable Encounter of Sr Richard Granvil and other her Majesties Captains with the Armada of Spain should be truly set down and published without partiality or false imaginations And it is no marvel than the Spainard should seek by false and Slanderous Pamphlets advisoes and Letters to cover their own loss and to derogate from others their due Honour especially in this Fight being performed far off Seeing they were not ashamed in the year 1588. when they purposed the Invasion of this Land to publish in Sundry Languages in Print great victories in words which they pleaded to have obtained against this Realm and spread the same in a most false sort over all parts of France Italy and elsewhere When shortly after it was happily manifested in very deed to all Nations how their Navy which they termed invincible consisting of 140 Sail of Ships not only of their own Kingdom but strengthened with the greatest Argosies Portugal Caracks Florentines huge hulks of other Countrys were by 30. of her Majesties Ships of War and a few of our own Merchants by the Wife Valiant and advantagious Conduct of the Lord Charles Howard High-Admirall of England beaten and shuffled together even from the Lizard in Cornwall first to Portland where they shamefully leâ—t Don Pedro de Valdes with his mighty Ship from Portland to Cales where they lost Hugo de Moncado with the Gallias of which he was Captain from Cales driven with Squibs from their Anchors were chased out of the sight of England round about Scotland and Ireland Where for the Sympathy of their barbarous Religion hoping to find Succour and assistance a great part of them were crusht against the Rocks and those other that landed being very many in number were notwithstanding broken slain and taken and so sent from Village to Village coupled in halters to be shipped into England Where her Majesty of her Princely and Invincible disposition disdaining to put them to death and scorning either to retain or entertain them they were all sent back again to their Countrys to witness and recount the worthy Achievements of their Invincible and Dreadfull Navy Of which the number of Souldiers the fearfull burthen of their Ships the Commanders names of every Squadron with all other their Magazines of provisions were put in Print as an Army and Navy unresistable and disdaining prevention With all which so great and terrible an ostentation they did not in all their Sailing round about England so much as Sink or take one Ship Bark Pinnesse or Cock-boat of ours Or ever burnt so much as one Sheepcote of this Land Whereas on the contrary Sir Francis Drake with only 800. Souldiers not long before landed in their Indies and forced Sant Iago Santo Domingo Cartagena and