LXNSCHOTEN'S LARGE TESTIMONY ad. 



1589-91. 

 whereby they all desired that he might be Viceroy. But 

 when he once had received his patent with full power & 

 authoritie from the king to be Viceroy, he changed so 

 much from his former behavior, that by reason of his 

 pride, they all began to feare and curse him, and that 

 before hee departed out of Lisbon, as it is often seene 

 in many men that are advanced unto state and dignitie. 



The 20 of Januarie 1591. there was newes brought out 

 of Portugall into Tercera, that the Englishmen had taken 

 a ship that the king had sent into the Portugal-Indies, 

 w l advise to the Viceroy for the returning againe of the 

 4 ships that should have gone to India, & because the 

 ships were come backe againe, that ship was stuffed and 

 laded as full of goods as possible it might be, having like- 

 wise in ready money 500 thousand duckets in roials of 

 8, besides other wares. It departed from Lisbon in the 

 moneth of November 1590. & met with the Englishmen, 

 with whom for a time it fought, but in the end it was 

 taken and caried into England with men & all, yet 

 when they came there, the men were set at libertie, and 

 returned into Lisbon, where the captaine was committed 

 prisoner ; but he excused himselfe and was released, with 

 whom I spake my selfe, & he made this report unto me. 

 At the same time also they tooke a ship that came from 

 the Mine laden with gold, & 2 ships laden with pepper 

 & spices that were to saile into Italy, the pepper onely 

 that was in them, being worth 1 70 thousand duckets : all 

 these ships were caried into England, & made good 

 prise. 



In the moneth of July 1 59 1 . there hapned an earth- [II. ii. 185.] 

 quake in the Hand of S. Michael, which continued from 

 the 26 of July, to the 12 of August, in which time no 

 man durst stay within his house but fled into the fields, 

 fasting & praying with great sorow, for that many of 

 their houses fel down, and a towne called Villa Franca, 

 was almost cleane razed to the ground, all the cloisters 

 & houses shaken to the earth, and therein some people 

 slaine. The land in some places rose up, and the cliffs 



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