ANDREW BARKER ad. 



1576. 

 Chester, whereupon his goods were confiscat, his factor 

 John Drue was attached, and he also (the said captaine 

 Roberts) being as they supposed Barkers partner, was 

 in like sort to be imprisoned. In fine all the foresaid 

 commodities appertaining to the said Andrew and his 

 brother M. John Barker and others to the value of 1700 

 pound and upwards (as it doth appeare by proofes of 

 record in the Admiralty) were utterly lost, being con- 

 fiscat to the said inquisition. Howbeit captaine Roberts 

 by the meanes of a frier was delivered out of prison 

 (which cost him all the marchandize he brought with 

 him in his ship) and so returned with dead fraight to 

 the summe of 200 pound that afterwards Andrew Barker 

 discharged. In recompense of which injurie (for that 

 no suite prevaileth against the inquisition of Spaine) & 

 also to recover his losse of the Spaniards themselves, 

 at his owne charge with the help of his friends hee 

 furnished two barkes for the West Indies, the greater of 

 which barkes was called the Ragged staffe, himselfe being 

 captaine, & Philip Roche Master thereof, the other named 

 the Beare had one William Coxe of Limehouse for her 

 Master and captaine. And thus all our company being 

 imbarked at Plimmoth on Whitsonday in the beginning 

 of June, we set forward, & in our course we met with a 

 ship of London, & afterwards with another ship, but 

 tooke nothing from either of them. Our first arrival 

 was at one of the Island of Cape Verde, named Del sal, 

 vz. the Isle of salt, where we tooke certain fishes Ida del sal. 

 called Tortoises : and there we remained one night 

 and halfe the day following. And from thence wee 

 came to the Isle of Maio, being distant from Isla del [HI. 529.] 

 sal, 14 or 15 leagues, where we tooke in fresh water The Isle of 

 and traffiqued with certaine Portugals inhabiting in 

 that place, of whom we had some victuals for knives 

 and beades : and there we remained one day and one 

 night : but our trumpetter was trecherously slaine by 

 those Portugals, in revenge of which murther we set Two villages 

 on fire two of their small villages. From this Island ^"^^^• 



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