A.D. 

 1568. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



licence to sell as much ware as might furnish our wants, 

 and that there might be of either part twelve gentlemen 

 as hostages for the maintenance of peace : and that the 

 Hand for our better safetie might be in our owne 1 

 possession, during our abode there, and such ordinance \ 

 as was planted in the same Hand which were eleven | 

 peeces of brasse : and that no Spaniard might land in 

 The peace con- the Hand with any kind of weapon: these conditions at 

 eluded. ^^ £j.st he somewhat misliked, chiefly the guard of the 



Hand to be in our owne keeping, which if they had had, 

 we had soone knowen our fare : for with the first North j 

 winde they had cut our cables and our ships had gone 

 ashore: but in the ende he concluded to our request, 

 bringing the twelve hostages to ten, which with all speede 

 of either part were received, with a writing from the 

 Viceroy signed with his hande and sealed with his seale 

 of all the conditions concluded, & forthwith a trumpet 

 blowen with commandement that none of either part 

 should be meane to violate the peace upon paine of 

 death : and further it was concluded that the two Generals 

 of the fleetes should meete, and give faith ech to other 

 for the performance of the premisses which was so done. 

 [III. 524.] Thus at the end of 3 dayes all was concluded & the fleete 

 entered the Port, saluting one another as the maner of 

 the sea doth require. Thus as I said before, thursday we 

 entred the Port, Friday we saw the fleete, and on munday 

 at night they entered the Port: then we laboured 2. daies 

 placing the English ships by themselves & the Spanish 

 ships by themselves, the captaines of ech part & inferiour 

 men of their parts promising great amity of al sides : 

 which even as with all fidelitie it was ment on our part, so 

 the Spaniards ment nothing lesse on their parts, but from 

 the maine land had furnished themselves with a supply of 

 men to the number of 1000, and ment the next thursday 

 being the 23 of September at dinner time to set upon us 

 on all sides. The same Thursday in the morning the 

 treason being at hand, some appearance shewed, as 

 shifting of weapon from ship to ship, planting and bending 



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