A.D. 

 1568. 



Augustine de 

 villa nueva a 

 most thanke- 

 lesse traytour. 



The Spanish 

 vice-admirall 

 fered. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



them : but the faithlesse Spanyardes, in costly apparell 

 gave of the basest of their company, as afterwardes it 

 was well knowen. These things finished, proclamation 

 was made on both sides, that on payne of death no 

 occasion should be given, whereby any quarel should 

 grow to the breach of the league, and then they peaceably 

 entred the port, with great triumph on both sides. 



The Spaniards presently brought a great Hulke, a 

 ship of sixe hundred, and mored her by the side of the 

 Minion, and they cut out ports in their other ships, 

 planting their ordinance towards us, in the night they 

 filled the Hulke with men, to lay the Minion aboord, 

 as the sequel did shew, which made our General doubt- 

 ful of their dealings : wherefore, for that he could speake 

 the Spanish tongue, he sent Robert Barret aboord the 

 Vice-roy, to knowe his meaning in those dealings, who 

 willed him with his company to come in to him, whom 

 he commanded presently to be set in the bilbowes, and 

 forthwith a Cornet (for a watchword among the false 

 Spaniards) was sounded for the enterprising of their 

 pretended treason against our Generall, whom Augustine 

 de villa nova sitting at dinner with him, should then 

 presently have killed with a poynado which hee had privily 

 in his sleeve, which was espyed and prevented by one 

 John Chamberlayne, who tooke the poynado out of his 

 sleeve. Our General hastily rose up, and commanded 

 him to be put prisoner in the Stewards roome, & to be 

 kept with two men. The faithlesse Spanyards, thinking 

 all things to their desire had bene finished, suddenly 

 sounded a Trumpet, and therewith three hundred 

 Spaniards entred the Minion, whereat our General with 

 a loude and fierce voyce called unto us, saying, God and 

 Saint George, upon those traiterous villaines, and rescue 

 the Minion, I trust in God the day shalbe ours : and 

 with that the Mariners & souldiers leapt out of the Jesus 

 of Lubeck into the Minion, and beat out the Spanyards, 

 and with a shot out of her fiered the Spaniards Vice 

 admirall, where the most part of 300. Spanyards were 



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