THE TAKING OF THE < MADRE DE DIOS ' a.d. 



1592. 

 starched calicos, course white calicos, browne broad calicos, 

 browne course calicos. There were also canopies, and 

 course diaper-towels, quilts of course sarcenet and of 

 calico, carpets like those of Turky ; wherunto are to be 

 added the pearle, muske, civet, and amber-griece. The 

 rest of the wares were many in number, but lesse in 

 value ; as elephants teeth, porcellan vessels of China, 

 coco-nuts, hides, eben-wood as blacke as jet, bedsteds of 

 the same, cloth of the rindes of trees very strange for the 

 matter, and artificiall in workemanship. All which piles 

 of commodities being by men of approved judgement 

 rated but in reasonable sort amounted to no lesse then 

 150000 li. sterling, which being divided among the ad- 

 venturers (whereof her Majesty was the chiefe) was 

 sufficient to yeeld contentment to all parties. The 

 cargazon being taken out, and the goods fraighted in 

 tenne of our ships sent for London, to the end that the 

 bignesse, heigth, length, bredth, and other dimensions of 

 so huge a vessell might by the exact rules of Geometricall 

 observations be truly taken, both for present knowledge, 

 and derivation also of the same unto posterity, one M. 

 Robert Adams, a man in his faculty of excellent skill, The capacity 



omitted nothing in the description, which either his arte anddm ™ ilom 

 . . . o r . ' ... . of the Madre 



could demonstrate, or any mans judgement thinke woortny j e ^ m 



the memory. After an exquisite survey of the whole 



frame he found the length from the beak-head to the 



sterne (whereupon was erected a lanterne) to containe 165 



foote. The breadth in the second close decke whereof [II. ii. 199.] 



she had three, this being the place where there was most 



extension of bredth, was 46 foot and 10 inches. She 



drew in water 3 1 foot at her departure from Cochin in 



India, but not above 26 at her arrivall in Dartmouth, 



being lightened in her voyage by divers meanes, some 



5 foote. She caried in height 7 severall stories, one maine 



Orlop, three close decks, one fore-castle, and a spar-decke 



of two floores a piece. The length of the keele was 100 



foote, of the maine-mast 121 foot, and the circuite about 



at the partners 10 foote 7 inches, the maine-yard was 106 



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