A.D. 

 1591. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



report of Master Robert Flicke directed to 

 Master Thomas Bromley, Master Richard 

 Staper, and Master Cordall concerning the 

 successe of a part of the London supplies sent 

 to my Lord Thomas Howard to the Isles of 

 the Azores, 1 591 . 



Orshipfull, my heartie commendations unto 

 you premised : By my last of the twelfth 

 of August from this place I advertised 

 you particularly of the accidents of our 

 Fleete untill then. It remayneth now to 

 relate our endevours in accomplishing the 

 order received for the joyning with my 

 Lorde Thomas Howard, together with the successe wee 

 have had. Our departure from hence was the seventeenth 

 of August, the winde not serving before. The next day 

 following I caused a Flagge of Counsell to be put foorth, 

 whereupon the Captaines and Masters of every shippe 

 came aboord, and 1 acquainted them with my Com- 

 mission, firmed by the Right honourable the Lordes of 

 her Majesties Counsell, and with all the advertisements 

 of Sir Edward Denny, of my Lordes determination to 

 remaine threescore leagues to the West of Fayal, spread- 

 ing North and South betwixt thirtie seven and a halfe or 

 thirty eight and a halfe degrees. And not finding him 

 in this heighth to repaire to the Isles of Flores and 

 Corvo, where a Pinnesse of purpose should stay our 

 comming untill the last of August, with intent after that 

 day to repaire to ye coast of Spaine, about the heigth of 

 The Rocke, some twentie or thirtie leagues off the shoare. 

 The which being advisedly considered of, having regard 

 unto the shortnesse of time, by reason of our long abode 

 in this place, and the uncertainety of the weather to favour 

 us, it was generally holden for the best and securest way 

 to meete with my Lorde, to beare with the heigth of The 

 Rocke, without making any stay upon the coast, and so 



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