ROGER BODENHAM 



A.D. 



1564. 



A voyage made by M. Roger Bodenham to S. [iii. 455.] 

 John de Ullua in the bay of Mexico, in the 

 yeere 1564. 



Roger Bodenham having a long time lived 

 in the city of Sivil in Spaine, being there 

 married, and by occasion thereof using 

 trade and traffique to the parts of Bar- 

 bary, grew at length to great losse and 

 hinderance by that new trade begun by ^ ''^^'"^ trade 

 me in the city of Fez: whereupon being fif^^J^p^J 

 returned into Spaine, I began to call my wits about mee, u jioger 

 and to consider with my selfe by what meanes I might Bodenham. 

 recover and renew my state ; and in conclusion, by the 

 ayde of my friends, I procured a ship called The Barke 

 Fox, perteining to London, of the burden of eight or 

 nine score tunnes ; and with the same I made a voyage 

 to the West India, having obteined good favour with 

 the Spanish merchants, by reason of my long abode, 

 and marriage in the countrey. My voyage was in the 

 company of the Generall Don Pedro Melendes for Nova 

 Hispania : who being himselfe appointed Generall for 

 Terra Firma and Peru, made his sonne Generall for 

 New Spaine, although Pedro Melendes himselfe was 

 the principall man and directer in both fleets. We all 

 departed from Cadiz together the last day of May in 

 the yere 1564: and I with my ship being under the 

 conduct of the sonne of Don Pedro aforesayd, arrived 

 with him in Nova Hispania, where immediatly I tooke 

 order for the discharge of my merchandise at the port 

 of Vera Cruz, otherwise called Villa Rica, to be trans- 

 ported thence to the city of Mexico, which is sixty and 

 odde leagues distant from the sayd port of Villa Rica. 

 In the way are many good townes, as namely, Pueblo 

 de los Angeles, and another called Tlaxcalan. The city 

 of Mexico hath three great causeyes to bring men to 

 it, compassed with a lake, so that it needeth no walles, 



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