A REPORT OF ROBERT FLICKE a.d. 



1591. 



directly for the Islands which was accordingly fully agreed 

 and performed. The 28 day wee had sight of the Bur- 

 lings, and the 29 being thwart of Peniche, the winde 

 serving us, without any stay we directed our course West 

 for the Islands. The 30 day we met with Captaine 

 Royden in the Red-Rose, sometime called the Golden 

 Dragon, separated from my Lorde of Cumberland in a 

 storme : who certified us of 50 sayles of the Spanish 

 kings Armadas to be gone for the Hands, but could not 

 informe us any newes of my Lord Thomas Howard, 

 otherwise then upon presumption to remaine about the 

 Islandes, and so wee continued our course the winde 

 standing with us. 



The 4 of September we recovered Tercera, and ranged 

 along all the Islands, both on the South and North sides 

 the space of foure dayes : during which time it was not 

 our hap to meete with any shipping, whereby either to 

 understand of my Lord, or of the Indian Fleete : here- 

 upon we directed our course to the West from Fayal, 

 according to the instructions of Sir Edward Denny. The 

 1 1 day in the plying to the Westwards we descried a sayle 

 out of our maine toppe, and in the afternoone betweene 

 two and three of the clocke having raysed her hull, the 

 weather became calme, so that the ship could not fetch 

 her. I sent off my Skiffe throughly manned, furnished 

 with shot and swords, The Cherubin, and the Margaret 

 and John doing the like. Upon this the sayle stood off 

 againe, and the night approching, our boates lost her and 

 so returned. In this our pursute after the sayle the 

 Centurion being left a sterne, the next morning wee 

 missed her, and spent that day in plying up and downe 

 seeking her. And for as much as every of the ships had 

 received order, that, if by extremity of weather or any 

 other mischance they should be severed from our Fleete, 

 they should meete and joyne at Flores, we, according to 

 the instructions of Sir Edward Denny, proceeded to the 

 finding of my Lord Thomas Howard, being in the heigth 

 appointed and not able to holde the same by reason of 



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