MILES PHILIPS A.D. 



1568. 



Spaniards sunke, and one burnt, so that with their 



shippes they were not able to harme us, but from the shore 



they beat us cruelly with our owne ordinance, in such 



sort that the Jesus was very sore spoyled : and suddenly 



the Spaniards having fired two great ships of their owne, 



they came directly against us, which bred among our 



men a marveilous feare. Howbeit the Minion which 



had made her sayles ready, shifted for her selfe, without 



consent of the Generall, Captaine or Master, so that 



very hardly our Generall could be received into the 



Minion : the most of our men that were in the Jesus 



shifted for themselves, and followed the Minion in the 



boat, and those which that small boat was not able to 



receive, were most cruelly slaine by the Spaniards. Of 



our ships none escaped saving the Minion and the 



Judith : and all such of our men as were not in them 



were inforced to abide the tyrannous cruelty of the 



Spaniards. For it is a certaine trueth, that whereas they 



had taken certaine of our men ashore, they tooke and hung 



them up by the armes upon high postes untill the blood 



burst out of their fingers ends : of which men so used, 



there is one Copstow, and certaine others yet alive, who by Copstoweoneof 



the mercifull providence of the almis^hty, were long since * tiazvkins 

 . ^ . . . men vetui"ned 



arrived here at home in England, carying still about with f^^^ Nueva 



them (and shal to their graves) the marks and tokens of Espanna. 



those inhumane and more then barbarous cruell dealings. 



Chap. 3. 



Wherein is shewed, how that after we were escaped 

 from the Spaniards, wee were like to perish with 

 famine at the Sea, and how our Generall, for the 

 avoiding thereof was constrained to put halfe of his 

 men on land, and what miseries wee after that 

 sustained amongst the Savage people, and how againe 

 we fell into the hands of the Spaniards. 



AFter that the Viceroy, Don Martin Henriques, had 

 thus contrary to his faith and promise, most cruelly 

 dealt with our Generall master Hawkins, at S. John de 



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