SIR FRANCIS DRAKE ad. 



1585. 



his Governor did desire to take a course for the common 

 benefit of the people and countrey, his best way were 

 to come and present himselfe unto our noble and 

 mercifull Governour sir Francis Drake, whereby hee 

 might bee assured to find favour, both for himselfe and 

 the inhabitantes. Otherwise within three dayes wee 

 should march over the land, and consume with fire all 

 inhabited places, and put to the sword all such living 

 soules as wee shoulde chance upon : so thus much he 

 tooke for the conclusion of his answere, and departing, [III. 538.] 

 hee promised to returne the next day, but we never 

 heard more of him. 



Upon the foure and twentieth of November, the 

 Generall accompanied with the lieutenant generall and 

 sixe hundred men marched foorth to a village twelve 

 miles within the land, called Saint Domingo, where the 

 Governour and the Bishoppe with all the better sort 

 were lodged, and by eight of the clocke wee came to 

 it, finding the place abandoned, and the people fled 

 into the mountaines : so we made stand a while to ease 

 our selves, and partly to see if any would come to 

 speake to us. 



After we had well rested our selves, the Generall 

 commaunded the troupes to march away homewards, 

 in which retreat the enemie shewed themselves, both 

 horse and foote, though not such force as durst encounter 

 us : and so in passing sometime at the gase with them, 

 it waxed late and towards night before we could recover 

 home to S. lago. 



On Munday the sixe and twentieth of November, 

 the Generall commaunded all the pinnesses with the 

 boates, to use all diligence to imbarke the Armie into 

 such shippes as every man belonged. The Lieutenant 

 generall in like sort commanded Captaine Goring and 

 Lieutenant Tucker, with one hundred shot to make a 

 stand in the market place, untill our forces were wholly 

 imbarked, the viceadmiral making stay with his pinnesse 

 & certaine boats in the harbour, to bring the sayd last 



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