ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1589-91. 



and seperate themselves one from the other, where wind 

 and weather would drive them untill the 15 of March 

 for that in all that time they could not have one day of 

 faire weather to anker in, whereby they endured much 

 miserie, cursing both the silver and the Hand. This storme 

 being past, they chanced to meet with a small English 

 ship of about 40 tunnes in bignesse, which by reason 

 of the great wind could not beare all her sailes : so 

 they set upon her and tooke her, and with the English 

 flag in their Admirals sterne, they came as proudly into 

 the haven as if they had conquered all the realme of 

 England : but as the Admiral! that bare the English 

 flag upon her sterne was entring into the road, there 

 came by chance two English ships by the Hand that 

 paied her so well for her paines, that they were forced 

 to cry Misericordia, and without all doubt had taken 

 her, if she had bene but a mile further in the sea : 

 but because she got under the Fortresse, which also 

 began to shoot at the Englishmen, they were forced 

 to leave her, and to put further into the sea, having 

 slaine five or sixe of the Spaniards. The Englishmen 

 that were taken in the small shippe were put under 

 hatches, and coupled in bolts, and after they had bene 

 prisoners 3 or 4 dayes, there was a Spanish Ensigne- 

 bearer in the ship that had a brother slaine in the Fleet 

 that came for England, who as then minding to revenge 

 his death, and withall to shew his manhood on the 

 English captives that were in the English ship, which 

 they had taken, as is aforesayd, tooke a poiniard in his 

 hand and went downe under the hatches, where finding 

 the poore Englishmen sitting in boltes, with the same 

 poiniard he stabbed sixe of them to the heart : which 

 two others of them perceiving, clasped each other about 

 the middle, because they would not be murthered by 

 him, & threw themselves into the sea and there were 

 drowned. This acte was of all the Spaniards much 

 disliked and very ill taken, so that they caried the 

 Spaniard prisoner unto Lisbon, where being arrived, the 



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