

LINSCHOTEN'S LARGE TESTIMONY a.d. 



1589-91. 

 king of Spaine willed he should be sent into England, 

 that the Queene of England might use him as she 

 thought good : which sentence his friends by intreatie 

 got to be reversed, notwithstanding he commanded he 

 should without all favour be beheaded : but upon a good 

 Friday the Cardinall going to masse, all the captaines 

 and Commanders made so great intreaty for him, that 

 in the end they got his pardon. This I thought good 

 to note, that men might understand the bloody & dis- 

 honest minds of the Spaniards when they have men 

 under their subjection. 



The same two English ships which folowed the 

 Spanish Admirall till he had got the Fort of Tercera, 

 as I sayd before, put into the sea, where they met with 

 another Spanish ship being of the same Fleet, that had 

 likewise bene scattred by the storme and was onely 

 missing, for the rest lay in the road. This small ship 

 the Englishmen tooke, and sent all the men on shore, 

 not hurting any of them : but if they had knowen what 

 had bene done unto the foresayd English captives, I 

 beleeve they would soone have revenged themselves, as 

 afterward many an innocent soule paied for it. This 

 ship thus taken by the Englishmen, was the same that 

 was taken and confiscated in the Hand of Tercera by 

 the Englishmen that got out of the Hand in a fisher 

 boat (as I said before) and was sold unto the Spaniards 

 that as then came from the Indies, wherewith they 

 sayled to S. Lucar, where it was also arrested by the 

 duke, and appointed to go in company to fetch the 

 silver in Tercera, because it was a ship that sailed well, 

 but among the Spaniards Fleet it was the meanest of 

 the company. By this means it was taken from the 

 Spaniards and caried into England, and the owners had it 

 againe when they least thought of it. 



The 19 of March the aforesayd ships being 19 in 

 number, set saile, having laden the kings silver, and 

 received in Alvaro Flores de Quiniones, with his com- 

 pany and good provision of necessaries, munition and 



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