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that it might please God to look upon their present 

 miserable state, and for his ovvne mercie to relieve 

 the same. The famine encreasing, and the incon- 

 venience of the men that were missing being found, 

 thev agreed amongst themselves, rather than all 

 should perish, to cast lots who should be killed- 

 and such was the mercie of God, that the same 

 night there arrived a French ship in that port, 

 well furnished with vittaile, and such was the 

 policie of the English that they became masters 

 of the same, and changing ships and vittailing 

 them they set sayle to come into England. 



*^ In their journey they were so farre northwards, 

 that they saw mighty islands of yce in the sommer 

 season on which were hawkes and other foules to 

 rest themselves being weary of flying over farre 

 from the maine. They sawe also certaine great 

 white foules with red bils and red legs, somewhat 

 ^ bigger than herons, which they supposed to be 

 storkes. They arrived at S. Ives in Cornewall 

 about the ende of October, from thence they 

 departed unto a certain castle belonging to Sir 

 John Luttrell, where M. Thomas Buts, and M. 

 Rastall, and other gentlemen of the voyage, were 

 very friendly entertained ; after that they came to 

 the Earle of Bathe at Bathe, and thence to Bristol, 

 so to London. M. Buts was so changed in the 

 voyage with hunger and miserie, that Sir William 

 his father, and my Lady his mother, knew him not 

 to be their sonne, until they found a secret mark. 



