JOB HORTOP A.D. 



1568. 



who sent foure priests to the Island, to examine and 

 confesse us, who said, that the viceroy would burne us, 

 when wee were examined and confessed according to the 

 lawes of the countrey. They returned to the Bishop, 

 and told him that we were very good Christians. The 

 Bishop certified the viceroy of our examinations and 

 confessions, and said that wee were good Christians, 

 therefore he would not meddle with us. Then the 

 viceroy sent for our master, R. Barret, whom he kept 

 prisoner in his pallace, untill the fleete was departed for 

 Spayne. The rest of us he sent to a towne seven leagues 

 from Mexico called Tescuco, to card wooll among the 

 Indian slaves, which drudgery we disdained, and con- 

 cluded to beat our masters, and so wee did : wherefore 

 they sent to the viceroy, desiring him for Gods sake 

 and our Ladies, to send for us, for they would not 

 keepe us any longer, they said that we were devils and 

 no men. 



The viceroy sent for us, and imprisoned us in a house 

 in Mexico, from thence he sent Anthony Goddard, & 

 some other of our company with him into Spaine, with 

 Lugon, the General that tooke us : the rest of us staied in 

 Mexico two yeres after, and then were sent prisoners into 

 Spaine, with Don Juan de Velasco de Varre, admirall and 

 generall of the Spanish fleet, who caried with him in his 

 ship, to be presented to the K. of Spaine, the anatomie of 

 a giant, which was sent from China to Mexico, to the 

 viceroy Don Martin Henriquez, to bee sent to the king 

 of Spaine for a great wonder. It did appere by the 

 anatomie, that he was of a monstrous size, the skull of 

 his head was neere as bigge as halfe a bushel, his necke- 

 bones, shoulder-plates, arme-bones, and all other linea- 

 ments of his other partes, were huge and monstrous to 

 behold, the shanke of his legge from the ankle to the 

 knee was as long as from any mans ankle up to his wast, 

 and of bignesse accordingly. 



At this time, and in this ship, were also sent to be 

 presented to the king of Spaine, two chestes full of earth 



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