SIR JOHN HAWKINS 



A.D. 



1564. 



The voyage made by M. John Hawkins Esquire, [ni. 501.] 

 and afterward knight, Captaine of the Jesus of 

 Lubek, one of her Majesties shippes, and 

 Generall of the Salomon, and other two barkes 

 going in his companie, to the coast of Guinea, 

 and the Indies of Nova Hispania, begun in 

 An. Dom. 1564. 



Aster John Hawkins with the Jesus of 

 Lubek, a shippe of 700. and the Salomon 

 a shippe of 140. the Tiger a barke of 

 50. and the Swallow of 30. tunnes, being 

 all well furnished with men to the 

 number of one hundreth threescore and 

 tenne, as also with ordinance and victuall 



requisite for such a voyage, departed out of Plymmouth 

 the 18. day of October, in the yeere of our Lord 1564. 

 with a prosperous winde : at which departing, in cutting 

 the foresaile, a marveilous misfortune happened to one 

 of the officers in the shippe, who by the pullie of the 

 sheat was slaine out of hand, being a sorowfull beginning 

 to them all. And after their setting out ten leagues to the 

 sea, he met the same day with the Minion a ship of the 

 Queenes Majestic, whereof was Captaine David Carlet, 

 and also her consort the John Baptist of London, being 

 bounde to Guinea also, who hailed one the other after 

 the custome of the sea with certaine pieces of ordinance 

 for joy of their meeting: which done, the Minion de- 

 parted from him to seeke her other consort the Merlin 

 of London, which was a sterne out of sight, leaving in 

 M. Hawkins companie the John Baptist her other 

 consort. 



Thus sayling forwards on their way with a prosperous 

 winde untill the 21. of the same moneth, at that time 

 a great storme arose, the winde being at Northeast about 

 nine a clocke in the night, and continued so 23. houres 

 together, in which storme M. Hawkins lost the companie 



9 



October 18. 



The Minion, 

 the John Bap- 

 tist, and the 

 Merline bound 

 for Guinea. 



