JOB HORTOP 



miseries, as by this discourse appeareth, I came home to 

 this my native countrey of England in the yeere 1582. 

 in the moneth of February, in the ship called the Landret, 

 and arrived at Poole. 



The travailes of Job Hortop, v^hich Sir John 

 Haw^kins set on land v^ithin the Bay of 

 Mexico, after his departure from the Haven 

 of S. John de Ullua in Nueva Espanna, the 

 8. of October 1568. 



Ot untruely nor without cause said Job 

 the faithfull servant of God (whom the 

 sacred Scriptures tell us, to have dwelt 

 in the land of Hus) that man being 

 borne of a woman, living a short time, 

 is replenished with many miseries : which 

 some know by reading of histories, many 

 by the view of others calamities, and I by experience 

 in my selfe, as this present Treatise insuing shall shew. 

 It is not unknowen unto many, that I Job Hortop 

 pouder-maker was borne at Bourne, a towne in Lincoln- 

 shire, from my age of twelve yeeres brought up in Red- 

 riffe neere London, with M. Francis Lee, who was the 

 Queenes Majesties powder-maker, whom I served, until 

 I was prest to go on the 3. voyage to the West Indies, 

 with the right worshipful Sir John Hawkins, who 

 appointed me to be one of the Gunners in her Majesties 

 ship called the Jesus of Lubeck, who set saile from 

 Plimmouth in the moneth of October 1567. having with 

 him another ship of her Majesties, called the Minion, 

 and foure ships of his owne, namely the Angel, the 

 Swallow, the Judith, and the William and John. He 

 directed his Vice-admiral, that if foule weather did 

 separate them, to meete at the Hand of Tenerif. After 

 which by the space of seven dayes and seven nights, we 

 had such stormes at sea, that we lost our long boats and 

 a pinnesse, with some men : comming to the Isle of 



445 



A.D. 

 1568. 



