AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1582. 



and durst not for my life once to stirre abroad for feare 



of being knowen : and being thus at my worke, within 4* 



dayes after I heard one of my fellowes say, that he heard 



there was great inquiry made for an Englishman that came 



home in the fleete : what an heretique Lutheran (quoth I) 



[III. 487.] was it, I would to God I might knowe him, surely I 



would present him to the Holy house. And thus I kept 



still within doores at my worke, and fained my selfe 



not well at ease, & that I would labour as I might to 



get me new clothes. And continuing thus for the space 



of 3. moneths I called for my wages, and bought me all 



things new, different from the apparell that I did weare at 



sea, and yet durst not be overbold to walke abroad : and 



after understanding that there were certaine English ships 



at S. Lucar bound for England, I tooke a boat and went 



aboord one of them, and desired the Master that I might 



have passage with him to goe into England, and told him 



secretly that I was one of those which Captaine Hawkins 



did set on shore in the Indies : he very courteously 



prayed me to have him excused, for he durst not meddle 



with me, & prayed me therefore to returne from whence 



I came. Which when I perceived, with a sorowful heart, 



God knoweth, I tooke my leave of him, not without 



watry cheekes. And then I went to S. Mary port, 



which is 3. leagues from S. Lucar, where I put my selfe 



to be a souldier to goe in the king of Spaines Gallies, 



which were bound for Majorca, and comming thither in 



He commeth the end of the Christmas holidayes, I found there two 



home in an^ English ships, the one of London, and the other of the 



^m^lfntn West countrey, which were ready fraighted and stayed 

 jrom Majorca. ^ • ' y /-rt a /r r 1 1 • i 



but for a faire wmd. To the Master or the one, which 



was of the West countrey went I, and told him that I 



had bene 2. yeeres in Spaine to learne the language, and 



that I was now desirous to goe home and see my friends, 



for that I lacked maintenance : and so having agreed with 



him for my passage, I tooke shipping. And thus through 



the providence of Almighty God, after 16. yeeres absence, 



having sustained many and sundry great troubles and 



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