A.D. 

 1567. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



This Fleete 

 consisted of 6. 

 ships. 



I . The Jesus. 



[III. 470.] 



2. The Myn- 

 ion. 



l.TheWilliam 

 and John. 



4. The Judith. 



5. The Angel. 



6. The Swal- 

 low. 



A discourse written by one Miles Philips Eng- 

 lishman, one of the company put on shoare 

 Northward of Panuco, in the West Indies 

 by M. John Hawkins 1568. conteining many 

 special things of that countrey and of the 

 Spanish government, but specially of their 

 cruelties used to our Englishmen, and 

 amongst the rest to him selfe for the space 

 of 15. or 16. yeres together, until by good 

 and happy, meanes he was delivered from 

 their bloody hands, and returned into his 

 owne Countrey. An. 1582. 



Chap. I . 



Wherein is shewed the day and time of our departure 

 from the coast of England, with the number and 

 names of the ships, their Captaines and Masters, and 

 of our trafique and dealing upon the coast of Africa. 



Pon munday the second of October 1567. 

 the weather being reasonable faire, our 

 Generall M. John Hawkins, having com- 

 manded all his Captaines and Masters 

 to be in a readinesse to make saile with 

 him, hee himselfe being imbarked in the 

 Jesus, whereof was appointed for Master 

 Robert Barret, hoised saile, and departed from Plim- 

 mouth upon his intended voyage for the parts of Africa, 

 and America, being accompanied with five other saile of 

 ships, as namely the Mynion, wherein went for Captaine 

 M. John Hampton, and John Garret Master. The 

 William and John, wherein was Captaine Thomas 

 Bolton, and James Raunce Master. The Judith, in 

 whom was Captaine M. Francis Drake afterward knight, 

 and the Angel, whose Master, as also the Captaine and 

 Master of the Swallow I now remember not. And so 



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