A REPORT OF ROBERT FLICKE a.d. 



1591, 



ought to be directed, and that it was not in mee any way 

 to dispose thereof untill the same were finally determined 

 at home. Hereupon they mutined and at last grew into 

 such furie, as that they would have it or els breake downe 

 the cabbine, which they were also readie to put in practise, 

 whereby I was forced to yeeld, least the Spaniards which 

 we had abord being many perceiving the same, might 

 have had fit opportunitie to rise against us, which, after 

 their brawles were appeased, they sought to have put in 

 execution. 



By the last advise from Castile the Generall of the 

 kings Armada which is lately come to sea hath received 

 commaundement to joyne his Fleete with those of the 

 Indies, and for to stay altogether at Tercera untill the 

 1 5 of October : for that 6 pataches with 7 or 8 millions 

 of the kings treasure will come by that time, or els they 

 stay their comming from Havana until January next, or 

 the kings further pleasure therein to be knowen. These 

 Pataches are said to be of 300 tuns the piece, and to cary 

 30 pieces of brasse, and also of saile reported to have 

 the advantage of any shipping. 



There perished of the Indies Fleete sunke in the sea 

 before their comming to Flores 1 1 sailes, whereof the 

 General was one, and not one man saved. And it is 

 by the Spaniards themselves presupposed that the stormes 

 which we had at Flores & at Tercera have devoured 

 many more of them, whereof in part we were eye 

 witnesses. And so what by the seas and our men of 

 warre I presume that of 75 sailes that came from Havana, 

 halfe of them will never arrive in Spaine. 



The 1 1 day of October at night we came to anker in 

 the sound of Plimouth, and the next morning with our 

 Prize came into Cattewater : for which God be thanked : 

 for that a vehement storme arose, and with such fury 

 increased, as that the Prize was forced to cut over her 

 maine maste : otherwise with the violence of the storme, 

 her ground tackle being bad, she had driven on shore : 

 which was the most cause that moved me to put in here ; 



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