A.D. 



[ 577- 



The number of 

 men in this 

 voyage. 



The con- 

 demned men 

 discharged. 



The first arri- 

 vall after our 

 departingfrom 

 England. 



A Mine of sil- 

 ver found in 

 Orkney. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Gravesend, and prepared us as good Christians towards 

 God, and resolute men for all fortunes : and towards 

 night we departed to Tilbery Hope. 



Tuesday the eight and twenty of May, about nine of 

 the clocke at night, we arrived at Harwitch in Essex and 

 there stayed for the taking in of certaine victuals, untill 

 Friday being the thirtieth of May, during which time 

 came letters from the Lordes of the Councell, straightly 

 commanding our Generall, not to exceede his complement 

 and number appointed him, which was, one hundred and 

 twentie persons : whereupon he discharged many proper 

 men which with unwilling mindes departed. 



He also dismissed all his condemned men, which he 

 thought for some purposes very needefull for the voyage, 

 and towards night upon Friday the one and thirtieth of 

 May we set saile, and put to the Seas againe. And 

 sayling Northward alongst the East coasts of England 

 and Scotland, the seventh day of June we arrived in Saint 

 Magnus sound in Orkney Hands, called in latine Orcades, 

 and came to ancker on the South side of the Bay, and 

 this place is reckoned from Blackwall where we set saile 

 first leagues. 



Here our companie going on lande, the Inhabitants of 

 these Ilandes beganne to flee as from the enemie, where- 

 upon the Lieutenant willed every man to stay togither, 

 and went himselfe unto their houses to declare what we 

 were and the cause of our comming thither, which being 

 understood, after their poore maner they friendly en- 

 treated us, and brought us for our money such things as 

 they had. And here our Goldfiners found a Mine of silver. 



Orkney is the principall of the Isles of the Orcades, 

 and standeth in the latitude of fiftie nine degrees and 

 a halfe. The countrey is much subject to colde, answer- 

 able for such a climate, and yet yeeldeth some fruites, 

 and sufficient maintenance for the people contented so 

 poorely to live. 



There is plentie ynough of Poultrey, store of egges, 

 fish, and foule. 



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