MILES PHILIPS A.D. 



1580-82. 

 all the Spaniards in Mexico, and there were found to be 

 the number of 7000 and odde housholders of Spaniards 

 in the citie and suburbs, and of single men unmaried, 

 the number of 3000 and of Mestizoes, which are counted 

 to be the sonnes of Spaniards borne of Indian women, 

 twenty thousand persons, and then was Paul Horsewel & 

 I Miles Philips sent for before the Viceroy, and were 

 examined if we did know an English man named Francis 

 Drake, which was brother to Captaine Hawkins : to which 

 we answered, that Captaine Hawkins had not any brother [III. 483.] 

 but one, which was a man of the age of threescore yeeres 

 or thereabouts, and was now governour of Plimmouth in 

 England. And then he demanded of us if we knewe 

 one Francis Drake, and we answered, no. 



While these things were in doing, there came newes 

 that all the Englishmen were gone, yet were there eight 

 hundred men made out under the leading of several Cap- 

 tains, wherof two hundred were sent to the port of S. 

 John de Ullua, upon the North Sea under the conduct of 

 Don Luys Suares, two hundred were sent to Guatimala 

 in the South sea, who had for their captaine John Cortes, 

 two hundred more were sent to Guatulco, a port of the 

 South sea, over whom went for captaine Don Pedro de 

 Robles, and two hundred more were sent to Acapulco, 

 the port where it was said that Captaine Drake had bene. 

 And they had for Captaine doctor Robles Alcalde de 

 Corte, with whom I Miles Philips went as interpreter, 

 having licence given by the Inquisitors. When we were 

 come to Acapulco, we found that Captaine Drake was 

 departed from thence, more then a moneth before we 

 came thither. But yet our captaine Alcalde de Corte 

 there presently embarked himselfe in a small ship of 

 threescore tunne or thereabout, having also in companie 

 with him two other small barkes, and not past two 

 hundred men in all, with whom I went as interpreter in 

 his owne ship, which God knoweth was but weake and ill 

 appointed, so that for certaine, if we had met with 

 Captaine Drake, he might easily have taken us all : We 



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