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NOTES ANET QUERIES. 



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saide Sir Frauncis Dfake in the yeare of our Lorde God 

 one thousande Fyve hundred Eightie Eighte did in fighte 

 or otherwise in warlike manner uppon the narrow Seas 

 take a certayne Spanishe Shipp whearin one Don Pedro 

 de Valdes then was and did not the saide Don Pedro de 

 Valdes yeld hymselfe prisoner unto the saide Sir Frauncis 

 Drake — sett downe as neare as yo'' can the manner howe 

 the saide Don Pedro was taken by the said Sir Frauncis 

 Drake and whate Speaches and parlyes passed betweene 

 the saide Don Pedro and the saide Sir Frauncis Drake or 

 betweene the said Don Pedro or anj'e of his companye 

 and anye other of the saide Sir Frauncis Drakes Com- 

 pany or associatts att or before the tyme thatt the saide 

 Don Pedro submytted or yelded hymself as prisoner to 

 the saide Sir Frauncis Drake. 



"3 Item whate other Spanyardes besides the saide Don 

 Pedro de Valdes did the saide Sir Francis Drake take as 

 prisoners uppon the narrow seas in the said yeare 1588 

 uppon the takinge of' the said Spanishe Shipp whate bee 

 theire names that were so taken whate men of accompte 

 weare they esteemed to bee and in whate sorte and 

 manner yeilded the saide Don Pedro or anye others and 

 to whom declare yo"" whole knowlidge touchinge the pre- 

 misses. 



" 4 Item did not the Qiieenes Ma''" that then lived 

 allow the saide Don Pedro to bee the prisoner of the saide 

 Bir Frauncis Drake and did shee not appoynte hym to 

 have the custodie or chafdge and goverment of liym dhd 

 •was not the saide Don Pedro comitled to the custodie of 

 the foresaide Richarde Drake by the appoyntment nomy- 

 nacion or meanes of the saide Sir Frauncis Drake. 



" 5 Item whate some or somes of monye did the saide 

 Eicharde Drake or any other for hyin or to his use or by 

 his appoyntment receave of the saide Don Pedro or of Sir 

 Edwarde Wynter Enighte or of other psOh or psons for 

 or in Respecte of the Kansome of the saide Don Pedro 

 and when and wheare was the same monye paied and by 

 Vhom was the saide money so paied or whate Ransome 

 tvas theare paied for any other Spanyarde taken in the 

 saide Shipp w"i the saide Don Pedro. 



" Item was not the saide money paled to the saidei 

 Richard Drake in the behalfe or by the appoyntment of 

 the saide Sir Frauncis Drake or for the use or behalfe of 

 the saide Sir Frauncis Drake. 



" Item what some or somes of monye was theare paied 

 to the saide Richarde Drake fbt the dyfett or other ex- 

 pences of the saide Don PedrO whilest hee was kepte pri- 

 soner in the house of the saide Richarde Drake. 



" Deposicions of witnesses taken at Exeter the Seaventh 

 day of October in the yeare of the RaJgne of our Sove- 

 raigne Lord James by the grace of God of England 

 Fraunce and Ireland 'Kinge Defender of the Faith &c 

 the Third and of Scotland the xxxix* before John 

 Fowell Esquyei- and Gregorie Huckmore gent by vertue 

 of his Highnes Comyssion out of his Highnes Court of 

 Exchequer to them and others dyrected fot the jfexa- 

 mynacon of Witnesses in a Cause dependinge in the 

 said Courtt betwene Thomas Drake Esquyer p^ and 

 Frauncis Drake Esquyer and Jone Bodenham defend*' 

 as followeth : 



" James Baron of Stonehouse in the Countie of Devon 

 yeoman aged Fiftie seaven yeares or thereabouts produced 

 to be examyned to the Inter on the pte of the p^ and 

 thereunto sworne. 



"To the first Iflterrogatorie he saith that he doeth 

 knowe the pties p'ahd defend'* and did khowe S'' Frauncis 

 Drake Knight and Richard Drake Esquyer mencoued in 

 the Interrogatorie both deceassed. 



"To the second and third Interrogatories lie saith that 



he this depon* in tbe yeare of our Lord God 1588 was a 

 shipp bord with the said S'' Frauncis Drake his then 

 Master uppon the narrow Seas when the fight was be- 

 tweene the Spanyshe Fleete and the Englishe Kavye att 

 which tyme he doeth well remember that one of the com- • 

 pany of the Shipp in w""^ his said Master then was did 

 discrye a Shippe of the said Spannyshe Fleete wherein 

 the said Don Pedroe then was to l3e a little a loffe from 

 his said Masters Shipp which he made knowne unto 

 the said S'' Frauncis Drake and thereuppon the said S'' 

 Frauncis Drake commanded a ScifFe or Pynnys to be sent 

 aborde the said Don Pedroes Shipp and to soinon the said 

 Spannyshe Shipp to yeld and withall to delyver these 

 wordes or the like in effect (videli't) that if the Captayne 

 of the said Shipp would come aboard the said S' Frauncis 

 Drakes Shipp and yeeld he should have fayre warres or 

 otherwise after his comynge aboarde if he should refuse 

 to yeelde to the said S"^ Frauncis then the said S"^ Frauncis 

 prOmysed that he should safely retorne unto his owne 

 Shippe whereuppon the said Scifi^e or Pynnys rowed unto 

 the foresaid Don Pedroes Shippe and shortlie after the said 

 Don Pedroe came aboarde the said S"^ Frauncis Shippe 

 accompayned with two other Spaynierds of name (vide- 

 li't) Don Vascoe and Don a Lanscoe and with dyvers other 

 Spaynierds whose names this depon' now remembreth 

 not — And beinge a boarde in the. said Shippe the said S' 

 Frauncis Drake intertayned the said Don Pedroe in his 

 Cabbyne and there in the hearinge of this depon' the said 

 S'' Frauncis Drake did will his owne Interpreter to aske 

 the said Don Pedroe in the Spannyshe tonge whether he 

 would yeeld unto hym or noe And further to tell hym if 

 he would not yelde he would sett hym aboarde agayne— 

 Whefeuppon the said Don Pedroe paused a little while 

 with hymself and afterwards yelded unto the said S"^ 

 Frauncis Drake and remayned with him as a prysoner — 

 And soe likewise did Don Vascoe and Don a Lanscoe and 

 thereuppon the said S"" Frauntis Drake sent dyvers of his 

 gent and others aboarde the said Don Pedroes Shippe 

 and tooke possession thereof and willed the said Span- 

 nyshe Shippe with her Souldiers and Marryners that 

 were then within her to be brought within some Harbour 

 because the said S"^ Frauncis Drake was then to followe 

 the Spannyshe fleete — But carried the said Don Pedroe 

 and the foresaid Don Vascoe and Don a Lanscoe and 

 dyvers other Spaynyerds whose names this depon* now 

 remembreth not in his owne Shippe And afterwards 

 doubtinge that he should have byn compelled to followe 

 the said Spannyshe Fleete further towardes the North 

 caused the said Don Pedroe and other his company to be 

 inbarke and sett a shore att severall tymes for England. 



" 4 To the fourth Interrogatorie this depon' saith that 

 the said Don Pedroe Don Vascoe and Don a Lanscoe Were 

 all three comytted to the custodie of the said Richard 

 Drake by the appoyntment of the said S"" Frauncis Drake 

 as this Depon' verely thinketh (^sic) beleeveth because the 

 said M"' Richard Drake was one that the said S'' Frauncis 

 Drake did specially account and regarde of, as his trustie 

 frynde And more to this Inter he cannot certaynly depose. 



" 5, 6, 7 To the fifte, sixth, and seaventh Inter he can- 

 not certaynly depose. 



" John VoWell 

 Gre. Hockmore'." 



J. J. B. 



THE WOGAN i-AMIL*. 



This family, which gave a chief justice to Ire- 

 land, and supplied one of the judges on the trial 

 of King Charles I., was for centuries the most 



