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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57347	Sir Walter Rawleigh his apologie for his voyage to Guiana by Sir Walter Rawleigh.	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.	1650 (1650)	Wing R154; ESTC R234010	21,925	72

SIR WALTER RAWLEIGH HIS APOLOGIE For his voyage To GUIANA By Sir Walter Rawleigh Knight LONDON Printed by T. W. for HUM MOSELEY and are to be sold at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-Yard 1650. Sir Walter Rawleigh his Apologie IF ill successe of this Enterprise of mine had bin without Example I should have needed a large discourse and many arguments for my Justification But if the atempts of the greatest Princes of Europe both among themselves and against the great Turk are in all moderne Histories left to every eye to peruse It is not so strange that my selfe being but a private man and drawing after me the chaines and Fetters whereunto I have been thirteen yeares tyed in the Tower being unpardoned and in disgrace with my Soveraigne Lord have by other mens errours failed in the attempt I undertooke For if that Charles the Fifth returned with unexampled losse I will not say dishonour from Algire in Africa If King Sebastian lost himselfe and his Army in Barbary If the invincible Fleet and forces of Spaine in Eighty Eight were beaten home by the Lord Charles Howard Admirall of England If Mr. Strozzi the Count Brizack the Count of Vinnnoso and others with the Fleet of fifty eight sayle and six thousand Souldiers encountered with far lesse numbers could not defend the Terceres Leaving to speake of a world of other attempts furnished by Kings and Princes If Sir Francis Drake Sir Iohn Hawkins and Sir Thomas Baskervile men for their experience and valour as Eminent as England had any strengthned with divers of her Majesties ships and fild with Souldiers at will could not possesse themselves of the Treasure they sought for which in their view was imbarked in certaine Frigotts at Puerto Rico yet afterward they were repulsed with fifty Negroes upon the Mountains of Vasques Numius or Sierra de Capira in their passage towards Panania If Sir Iohn Norris though not by any fault of his failed in the attempts of Lysbone and returned with the losse by sicknesse and otherwise of eight thousand men What wonder is it but that mine which is the last being followed with a company of Voluntiers who for the most part had neither seen the Sea nor the Warres who some forty Gentlemen excepted had we the very scumme of the World Drunkards Blasphemers and such others as their Fathers Brothers and freinds thought it an exceeding good gaine to be discharged of them with the hazard of some thirty forty or fifty pounds knowing they could not have liv'd a whole yeare so cheape at home I say what wonder is it if I have failed where I could neither be present my selfe nor had any of the Commanders whom I most trusted living or in state to supply my place Now where it was bruted both before my departure out of England and by the most men beleived that I meant nothing lesse then to go to Guiana but that being once at liberty and in mine owne power having made my way with some Forraigne Prince I would turne Pyratt and utterly forsake my Countrey My being at Guiana my returning into England unpardoned and my not takeing the spoile of the Subj of any Christian Prince hath I doubt not destroyed that Opinion But this is not all for it hath been given out by an hypocritticall Theife who was the first Master of my shipp And by an ungratefull Youth which waited upon me in my Cabbin though of honourable worthy Parents and by others That I carryed with me out of England twenty two thousand peices of twenty two shillings the peice and thererefore needed not or cared not to discover any Mine in Guiana nor make any other attempt elsewhere Which Report being carried secretly from one to an other in my ship and so spread through all the ships in the Fleet which staid with me at Trenidado while our Land-Forces were in Guiana had like to have been my utter overthrow in a most miserable fashion For it was consulted when I had taken my Barge and gone a shoare either to discover or otherwise as I often did That my ship should have set saile and left me there where either I must have suffered Famine been eaten with wilde beasts or have fallen into the hands of the Spaniards and been flayed alive as others of the English which came thither but to trade only had formerly been To this Report of Riches I make this Protestation That if it can be prooved either now or hereafter that I had in the world either in my keeping or in my power either directly or indirectly in trust or otherwise above one hundred peices when I departed London of which I had left forty five peices with my wife and fifty five I carried with me I acknowledge my selfe for a Reprobate a Villaine a Traitor to the King and the most unworthy man that doth live or ever hath liv'd upon the earth Now where the Captaines that left me in the Indies and Captaine Baily that ran away from me at Cancerota have to excuse themselves objected for the first That I lingered at Plimouth when I might have gone thence and lost a faire Wind and time of the yeare or to that effect It is strange that men of fashion and Gentlemen should so grosly bely their owne knowledge And that had not I lived nor returned to have made answer to this Faction yet all that know us in Plimouth and all that we had to deale withall knew the contrary For after I had stayed at the Isle of Wight divers daies the Thunder Commanded by Sir Warram St. Leger by the negligence of her Master was at Lee in the Thames and after I arrived at Plimouth Captaine Pennington was not come then to the Isle of Wight and being arrived there and not able to redeeme his Bread from the Bakers he rode back to LONDON to intreat help from my wife to pay for it who having not so much money to serve his turne she wrote to Mr. Wood of Portsmouth and gave him her word for thirty pounds which shee soone after payd him without which as Pennington himselfe protested to my wife he had not bin able to have gone the journey Sir Iohn Ferne I found there without all hope of being able to proceed having nor men nor mony and in great want of other provision insomuch as I furnished him by my Cozen Herbert with a hundred pounds having supplied himselfe in Wales with a hundred pounds before his coming to Plimouth and procured him a third hundred pound from the worthy and honest Deane of Exeter Doctor Sutcliffe Captaine Whitney whome I also stayed for had a third part of his victualls to provide insomuch as having no mony to help him withall I sold my Plate in Plimouth to supply him Baily I left at the Isle of Wight whose arrivall I also attended here some ten or twelve daies as I remember and what should move Baily only to leave me as he did at the Canaries from