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A13959 A relation of such things as were obserued to happen in the iourney of the right Honourable Charles Earle of Nottingham, L. High Admirall of England, his highnesse ambassadour to the King of Spaine being sent thither to take the oath of the sayd King for the maintenance of peace betweene the two famous kings of Great Brittaine and Spaine: according to the seuerall articles formerly concluded on by the constable of Castilla in England in the moneth of August, 1604. Set forth by authoritie. [Treswell, Robert]. 1605 (1605) STC 24268; ESTC S118681 33,987 72

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Hoie of all such necessarie prouisions as they were like to vse in the voyage and hauing that night and the next morning dispersed her luggage some in one shippe and some in another and being returned to to the shippes about tenne of the clocke a warning peece was giuen and about two howers after they weyed and sailed all that day being Friday the fifth day of Aprill vntill the next day being Saturday and then being becalmed were faine to cast ancor againe That night the winde comming faire they weied ancor and so failed all that night till the next day the winde againe altering they lay at anchor till towards the euening and then set forward sayling vntill tenne of the clocke the next day and then cast ancor About tenne of the clocke in the euening they weyed ancor againe and so sailed with a faire winde that night and the next day On Wednesday as we sailed his Lordship commaunded to hayle a Barke which was discouered to be a Barke of Barnstable in Deuonshire and came from Bayon in Fraunce who declared for newes that there was a yongue Prince borne in Spayne Now it should seeme his Lordship had receaued vnderstanding by letters from the right Honourable the Vicount Cramborne his Highnesse principall Secretarie deliuered to him whilest we laie at road before Douer that his comming was expected and prouision made for him and his companie by the King of Spayne at Saint Anderas His Lordship hauing sent his prouision of Horses Coches Lytters Hangings and other his rich furniture and necessaries together with his Herbengers and other Officers to the Groyne in seuerall Hoies appointed for that purpose the Kings shippe called the Aduantage being their Conuoy His Highnesse presents likewise vnder the charge of Thomas Knoell one of his Maiesties Ecquery and appointed messenger for the deliuerie thereof to the King of Spaine in their said companie And being vncerteine whether the Kings designes were aswell knowen to the said Herbengers and the rest as to himselfe he commaunded captaine Morgan and one Master Pet a Master Shipwright and a very good Mariner to goe on bord the Resistance being a shippe of London and one appointed for cariage of prouision in this iourney to make what way they possibly could for the Groyne to commaund the said shippes prouisions and people to meet him in the mouth of the harbour thence to beare in his company for Saint Anderas But the said shippe was becalmed as was the rest of the fleet likewise and could make no way but kept company with vs till Sunday morning after which time we had no more sight of her till her comming to the Groyne which was the next day after our arriuall there On Munday morning earely the land was discouered by the fleet and about fower of the clocke in the afternoone they arriued into the road of the Groyne being a very safe and pleasant harbour We were no sooner descried from the lande but the Gouernour of the towne Don Lewys de Carilla de Toledo Seigneur Peynte Corde de Carazena and Gouernour of Galicia had commaunded to make ready for interteyning his Lordship which was most royally performed being vpon entrance into the harbour first saluted from a fort on the North side the towne with twentie great peeces of Ordinance Then from the fort lately builte vpon the rocke with sixe and twentie peeces of great Ordinaunce and from the towne and castle with thirtie great peeces of Ordinance at least His Lordship comming to ancor with the rest of the shippes gaue them their whole broad sides Immediatly vpon his Lordships arriuall the Gouernour of the Towne sent the foure principall officers Commanders of the Towne together with his Brother don Iohn de pacheco and Don Lewis de Carilla de Toledo his only sonne to giue his Lordship the welcome wherein they demeand themselues so exceeding kindly and with the most affable and respectiue speeches that might be excusing their slender entertainment by reason of their late vnderstanding of his Lordships comming to the Groyne for that they had intelligence his Lordship meant to haue gone to Saint Anderas After a short time spent in complement with these Commanders the Gouernour himselfe being accompanied with diuers personages of worth came aboard in a barge which seemed to haue been made of purpose for this vse The Rowers and Mariners thereof being clad in blew silke Cassoks and Caps and the barge couered with blew veluet and newly painted reported to his Lordship that the King his master had especially written to him in these words That he should haue respect what person he was that was comen Ambassadour from whom he was come and to whom he was sent and this he should do euery thing for the honour of these three persons without sparing any thing that might be fitte for his Lordships entertainment And therefore the Gouernour intreated his Lordship to go on Land which he refused to do that night but being much importuned he promised to go on shore the next day During the Gouernours abode on the ship there came many on board likewise and they of all conditions Doctors of Law Churchmen Friers and of all other sorts of people who all seemed much to wonder and admire the greatnesse and neatnesse of that Galeon as they termed her exceedingly commending and applauding the same At the departure of the said Gouernour from the shippes his Lordship gaue many pieces of ordinance which were againe receaued and answered from the towne and forts The whole towne indeed being but a hold and fort but very strong That night they sent from the towne vnto his Lordship a present of fish fruit bread and such like commodities as the country yeelded excusing that they were not able to shew their loue in better sort vnto his Lordship for that Munday the day of his arriuall being Saint Markes day with them and the Fishermen as then not going to sea and also hauing feasted as that day for ioy of the birth of the yong Prince they were the more vnfurnished of better present and more fitte for his entertainment On Tuesday the sixtienth day of April his Lordship prepared to go on shore to his lodging which was prepared for him at the gouernours house which house is the whole pleasure of the towne for that it ouerlooketh the whole harbor and is seated in the heart of the towne The gouernour likewise hauing taken great care to receiue his Lordship in the most honourable manner and therefore had vpon intelligence of our comming to the Groyne caused to be builded a bridge of Timber aboue forty yards long and painted the same yellow red and blew and garnished the same with many pencels of silke of like colours very formally and planted the way into the towne with bowes of Baies and Orange trees and strewed the same with rushes and flowers The whole company of the towne and many more of the Country being as was supposed drawen thither for