AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1564. 



lacked nothing, but that I should deliver them the 

 armour which I had in my custodie, for feare least ^ I 

 might use them to their disadvantage (being so villan- 

 ously abused by them :) wherein notwithstanding I 

 would not yeeld unto them. But they tooke all by 

 force, and caried it out of my house, yea and after 

 they had hurt a Gentleman in my chamber, which 

 spake against their doings, they layd hands on mee, 

 and caried mee very sicke, as I was, prisoner into a 

 shippe which rode at ancker in the middest of the 

 Laudonniere River, wherein I was the space of fifteene dayes, 

 kepti^.dayes attended upon with one man onely without permission 



prisoner by hts r r • • r 



ownesouldiers. *^^ ^^7 ^^ ^7 servants to come to visite mee: rrom 

 every one of whom, as also from the rest that tooke 

 my part, they tooke away their armour. And they 

 sent mee a passeport to signe, telling me plainely 



[III- 335-] after I had denied them, that if I made any difficulty, 

 they would all come and cut my throat in the shippe. 

 Thus was I constrained to signe their Passe-port, and 



Trenchant a forthwith to grant them certaine mariners, with Tren- 



skiifull pilot. ^^^^^ ^^ honest and skilfull Pilot. When the barks 

 were finished, they armed them with the kings 

 munition, with powder, with bullets, and artillery, 

 asmuch as they needed, and chose one of my Sergeants 

 for their Captain, named Bertrand Conferrent, and for 

 their Ensigne one named La Croix. They compelled 

 Captaine Vasseur to deliver them the flag of his ship. 

 Then having determined to saile unto a place of the 

 Antilles called Leauguave, belonging unto the king of 

 Spaine, and there to goe on land on Christmasse night, 

 with intention to enter into the Church while the 

 Masse was sayd after midnight, and to murder all 

 those that they found there, they set saile the eight of 

 December. But because the greatest part of them by 

 this time repented them of their enterprise, and that 

 now they began to fall into mutinies among them- 

 selves, when they came foorth of the mouth of the 

 river, the two barks divided themselves ; the one kept 



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