THE EARL OF CUMBERLAND a.d. 



1589. 



So we held on our course for the coast of Spaine 

 with a faire winde and a large which before we seldome 

 had. And upon Twesday following being the 4 of 

 Novemb. we espied a saile right before us, which we 

 chased till about three a clocke in the afternoone, at 

 which time we overtaking her, she stroke sayle, and 

 being demaunded who was her owner and from whence 

 she was, they answered, a Portugall, and from Pernan- 

 bucke in Brasile. She was a ship of som no tuns 

 burden, fraighted with 410 chestes of Sugar, and 50 

 Kintals of Brasill-wood, every Kintall contayning one 

 hundred pound weight : we tooke her in latitude nine 

 and twentie degrees, about two hundred leagues from 

 Lisbone westwards : Captaine Preston was presently sent 

 unto her, who brought the principall of her men aboord 

 the Victorie, and certaine of our men, mariners and 

 souldiers were sent aboord her. The Portugals of this 

 Prize told us that they saw another ship before them 

 that day about noone. Having therefore dispatched all 

 things about the Prize aforesaid and left our long boat 

 with Captaine Davis, taking his lesser boat with us, 

 we made way after this other ship with all the sayles 

 we could beare, holding on our course due East, and 

 giving order to Captaine Davis his ship and the Prize 

 that they should follow us due East, and that if they 

 had sight of us the morning following they should 

 follow us still : if not, they should goe for England. 



The next morning we espied not the sayle which we 

 chased, and Captaine Davis his ship and the Prize were 

 behinde us out of sight : but the next Thursday the 

 sixt of November (being in latitude 38 degrees 30 

 minutes, and about sixtie leagues from Lisbone west- 

 wards) early in the morning Captaine Preston descried 

 a sayle some two or three leagues a head of us, after 

 which we presently hastened our chase, and overtooke 

 her about eight or nine of the clocke before noone. 

 She came lately from Saint Michaels roade, having beene 

 before at Brasill loden with Sugar and Brasile. Having 



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