a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



589-91. 



remooved from one place to another, and some hils were 

 defaced and made even with the ground. The earth- 

 quake was so strong, that the ships which lay in the 

 road and on the sea, shaked as if the world would have 

 turned round : there sprang also a fountaine out of the 

 earth, from whence for the space of 4 daies, there flowed 

 a most cleare water, & after that it ceased. At the same 

 time they heard such thunder & noise under the earth, as 

 if all the devils in hell had bin assembled together in that 

 place, wherewith many died for feare. The Hand of 

 Tercera shooke 4 times together, so that it seemed to 

 turne about, but there hapned no misfortune unto it. 

 Earthquakes are common in those Hands, for about 20 

 yeres past there hapned another earthquake, wherein 

 a high hill that lieth by the same towne of Villa 

 Franca, fell halfe downe, & covered all the towne with 

 earth, and killed many men. The 25 of August the 

 kings Armada comming out of Ferol arrived in Tercera 

 being in all 30 ships, Biskaines, Portugals and Spaniards, 

 and 10 dutch flieboats that were arrested in Lisbon to 

 serve the king, besides other small ships & pataxos, that 

 came to serve as messengers from place to place, and to 

 discover the seas. This navie came to stay for, and con- 

 voy the ships that should come from the Spanish Indies, 

 and the flieboats were appointed in their returne home, 

 to take in the goods that were saved in the lost ship that 

 came from Malacca, and to convoy them to Lisbon. 



The 13 of September the said Armada arrived at the 

 Hand of Corvo, where the Englishmen with about 16 

 ships as then lay, staying for the Spanish fleet, whereof 

 some or the most part were come, and there the English 

 were in good hope to have taken them. But when they 

 perceived the kings army to be strong, the Admiral being 

 the lord Thomas Howard, commanded his Fleet not to 

 fal upon them, nor any of them once to separate their 

 ships from him, unlesse he gave commission so to do : 

 notwithstanding the viceadmirall sir Richard Greenvil 

 being in the ship called the Revenge, went into the 



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