1591. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



intending now here to discharge the goods without 

 further adventure, and have certified thus much unto my 

 Lord Admirall, and therewith also desired to understande 

 the direction of the Lords of the Counsell together with 

 yours, insomuch as my Lord Thomas Howard is not 

 returned. How the rest of our consorts which were 

 separated from us by weather have sped, or what Prizes 

 they have taken, whereof there is much hope by reason 

 of the scattering of the West Indian Fleete, as yet we 

 are able to say nothing. And thus expecting your 

 answere, and for all other matters referring me unto 

 the bearer Captaine Furtho, I end. Plymouth the 24 of 

 October. 1591. 



Your worships loving friend 



Robert Flicke. 



A large testimony of John Huighen van Lin- 

 schoten Hollander, concerning the worthy 

 exploits atchieved by the right honourable the 

 Earle of Cumberland, By Sir Martine Fro- 

 bisher, Sir Richard Greenvile, and divers 

 other English Captaines, about the Isles of the 

 Acores, and upon the coasts of Spaine and 

 Portugall, in the yeeres 1589, 1590, 1 59 1 , 

 &c. recorded in his excellent discourse of 

 voiages to the East and West Indies, cap. 96. 

 97. and 99. 



He 22 of July 1589 about Evening, 

 being by the Islands of Flores & Corvo, 

 we perceived 3 ships that made towards 

 us, which came from under the land, 

 which put us in great feare : for they 

 came close by our Admirall, and shot 

 divers times at him, and at another ship 

 of our companie, whereby we perceived them to be 

 Englishmen, for they bare an English flago^e upon their 



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