LINSCHOTEN'S LARGE TESTIMONY a.d. 



1589-91. 



the English men had bene before the gates of Lisbon : 

 whereupon the king gave us commandement that we 

 should put into the Island of Tercera, and there lie under 

 the safety of the Castle until we received further advise 

 what we should do, or whether we should saile : for that 

 they thought it too dangerous for us to go to Lisbon. 

 Those newes put our fleet in great feare, and made us 

 looke upon eche other not knowing what to say, as being 

 dangerous for them to put into the road, because it lieth 

 open to the sea : so that the Indian ships, although they 

 had expresse commandement from the king, yet they 

 durst not anker there, but onely used to come thither, 

 and to lie to and fro, sending their boates on land to 

 fetch such necessaries as they wanted, without ankering : 

 but being by necessitie compelled thereunto, as also by 

 the kings commandement, and for that we understood 

 the Erie of Cumberland not to bee farre from those 

 Islands with certaine ships of warre, we made necessitie 

 a vertue, and entring the road, ankered close under the 

 Castle, staying for advise and order from the king, to 

 performe our voyage, it being then the 24. of July, 

 and S. James day. 



The day before the Erie of Cumberland with 6. or 

 7. ships of war, sailed by the Island of Tercera, and to 

 their great good fortune passed out of sight, so that 

 they dispatched themselves in all haste, and for the more 

 securitie, tooke with them 4. hundred Spaniards, of those 

 that lay in Garrison in the Island, and with them they 

 sayled towards Lisbon, having a good wind : so that 

 within 1 1 daies after they arrived in the river of Lisbon 

 with great gladnes & triumph : for if they had stayed but 

 one day longer before they had entred the river, they 

 had all beene taken by Captaine Drake, who with 40 

 ships came before Cascais at the same time that the 

 Indian ships cast anker in the river of Lisbon, being 

 garded thither by divers Gallies. 



While I remained in Tercera, the Erie of Cumb. came 

 to S. Marie, to take in fresh water, and some other 

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