A.D. 



1553- 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Divers voyages made by Englishmen to the 

 famous Citie of Mexico, and to all or most 

 part of the other principall provinces, cities, 

 townes and places throughout the great and 

 large kingdom of New Spaine, even as farre 

 as Nicaragua and Panama, & thence to Peru : 

 together v^ith a description of the Spaniards 

 forme of government there : and sundry 

 pleasant relations of the maners and customes 

 of the natural inhabitants, and of the mani- 

 fold rich commodities & strange rarities found 

 in those partes of the continent : & other 

 matters most worthy the observation. 



The voyage of Robert Tomson Marchant, into 

 Nova Hispania in the yeere 1555. with divers 

 observations concerning the state of the Coun- 

 trey : And certaine accidents touching him- 

 selfe. 



Obert Tomson borne in the towne of 

 Andover in Hampshire began his travaile 

 out of England in An. 1553. in the 

 moneth of March : who departing out 

 of the citie of Bristoll in a good ship 

 called The barke yong, in companie of 

 other Marchants of the sayde citie, within 

 8. dayes after arrived at Lisbone in Portugal], where the 

 sayd Robert Tomson remained 15. dayes, at the end of 

 which he shipped himselfe for Spaine in the sayd shippe, 

 and within 4. dayes arrived in the bay of Cadiz in 

 Andalusia, which is under the kingdom of Spaine, & 

 from thence went up to the citie of Sivil by land, which is 

 20. leagues, and there hee repaired to one John Fields 

 house an English Marchant, who had dwelt in the said 

 city of Sivil 18. or 20. yeres maried with wife and 



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