AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1568. 



which were delivered as hostages when as our General 



was betrayed at S. John de Ullua, as is aforesaid, and 



with them wee also found Robert Barret, the Master of 



the Jesus, in which place we remained labouring and 



doing such things as we were commanded, for the space 



of 4 moneths, having but two sheepe a day allowed to 



Almost an suffice US all, being very neere a hundred men, and for 



hundred bread we had every man two loaves a day, of the quantity 



prisoners in °^ ^^^ halfepeny loafe. At the end of which foure 



Mexico, moneths, they having remooved our gentlemen hostages, 



and the Master of the Jesus to a prison in the Vice Roy 



his owne house, did cause it to be proclaimed, that what 



gentleman Spaniard soever was willing, or would have 



any English man to serve him, and be bound to keepe 



him forth comming, to appeare before the Justices within 



one moneth after notice given, that they should repaire 



to the said garden, and there take their choice : which 



[III. 479.] proclamation was no sooner made, but the gentlemen 



came and repaired to the garden amaine, so that happie 



was he that could soonest get one of us. 



Chap. 5. 



Wherein is shewed in what good sort, and how wealthily 

 we lived with our masters untill the comming of the 

 Inquisition, when as againe our sorowes began a fresh : 

 Of our imprisonment in the holy house, and of the 

 severe judgement and sentences given against us, and 

 with what rigour and crueltie the same were 

 executed. 



THe gentlemen that thus tooke us for their servants 

 or slaves did new apparell us through out, with 

 whom we abode, doing such service as they appointed 

 us unto, which was for the most part to attend upon 

 them at the table, and to be as their chamberlaines, & 

 to waite upon them when they went abroad, which they 

 greatly accounted of; for in that countrey no Spaniard 

 will serve one another, but they are all of them attended 

 and served by Indians weekely, and by Negroes which 



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