JOB HORTOP A.D. 



1568. 

 we met with a Spaniard, a small ship, who was bound for 

 Santo Domingo : he had in him a Spaniard called 

 Augustin de villa nueva, who was the man that betrayed 

 all the Noble men in the Indies, and caused them to be 

 beheaded, wherefore he with two Friers fled to S. 

 Domingo : them we tooke and brought with us into 

 the Port of S. John de Ullua. Our Generall made great 

 account of him, and used him like a Noble man : howbeit 

 in the ende he was one of them that betrayed us. 

 When wee had mored our ships, and landed, wee 

 mounted the Ordinance that wee found there in the 

 Ilande, and for our safeties kept watch and warde. The 

 next day after wee discovered the Spanish fleete, whereof 

 Lu9on a Spanyard was Generall : with him came a Span- 

 yard called Don Martin Henriquez, whom the king of ^^« Martin 

 Spaine sent to be his Vice-roy of the Indies. He sent ^f ^^^'f''""' 

 a Pinnesse with a flagge of truce unto our Generall, to yjce^j-o^, 

 knowe of what Countrey those Shippes were that rode 

 there in the King of Spaines Port ; who sayd, they were 

 the Queene of Englands ships, which came in there for 

 victuals for their money : wherefore if your Generall will 

 come in here, he shall give me victuals and all other 

 necessaries, and I will goe out on the one side of the 

 Port, and he shall come in on the other side. The 

 Spanyard returned for answere, that he was a Vice-roy, 

 and had a thousand men, & therefore he would come 

 in. Our Generall sayd, If he be a Vice-roy, I represent 

 my Queenes person, & I am a Vice-roy as well as he : 

 and if he have a thousand men, my powder and shot 

 will take the better place. Then the Vice-roy after 

 counsell among themselves, yeelded to our Generals 

 demaund, swearing by his King and his Crowne, by 

 his commission and authority that he had from his King, 

 that hee would performe it, and thereupon pledges were 

 given on both parts. Our Generall bearing a godly and 

 Christian minde, voyde of fraude and deceit, judged the 

 Spanyards to have done the like, delivered to them sixe 

 gentlemen, not doubting to have received the like from [III. 490.] j 



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