AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1576. 



secretary of Carthagena, who (being a man of some note) 



was put to his ransome, which was payd in gold : the 



rest were dismissed freely. And after passing by divers 



The Isle of Islands, we arrived at an Island called S. Francisco, 



5. Francisco, being in the mouth of the great bay, called the 



Honduras. And within two dayes next after our 



arrivall there, William Coxe and divers others (which 



for certaine causes shalbe namelesse) came aboord the 



ship wherein the captaine then was, and disposessed 



him as well of the sayd ship, as of the treasure in the 



A conspiracie same, and forthwith put our captaine with violence on 



against the shore, where he and one Germane Weiborne fought 



aptatne. together, and were both wounded. After this our 



captaine desirous to come on boord, was resisted by the 



persons aforesayd, who answered him that he should 



not come on boord till they were ready to depart. Our 



men had appointed ten persons of their company for the 



keeping of this Island of S. Francisco : but about 



breake of the day, on a certaine morning, sixtie Spaniards 



arriving secretly in the Island, surprised our people on 



the sudden, what time there were thirtie of our men 



[III. 530.] on shore ; in which surprise they slew our captaine, 



M. Andrew M. Andrew Barker with eight others, namely, one 



^othrdaheb ^^^^^ °^ Bristol, and Michael our Chirurgian, Richard 



the Spaniards °^ Bristol, Thomas Sampoole, Thomas Freeman, 



Thomas Nightingale, Robert Jackson, Walter Newton ; 



and the captaines boy and one other were hurt. Now 



after that William Coxe, and the rest (which were 



aboord the barke) perceived that the captaine, & some 



others were slain, he received them that were living 



into the ship, having before that time refused some of 



them. After this misfortune they went to an Island 



distant from thence a league, where Coxe devided a 



chaine of gold (which was found in the captaines chest 



after his death) amongst the company. After this Coxe 



Truxilh^ Went in a pinesse (which wee tooke at the Isle of Sant 



sacked by the Francisco) with certaine others of our men in a skyffe, 



English. to the towne of Truxillio, in the bay of Honduras, 



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