A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1586. 



upon disagreements we still spent the early mornings 

 in fiering the outmost houses : but they being built very 

 magnificently of stone, with high loftes, gave us no small 

 travell to ruine them. And albeit for divers dayes together 

 we ordeined ech morning by day breake, until the heat 

 began at nine of the clocke, that two hundred Mariners 

 did nought els but labour to fire and burne the said 

 houses without our trenches, whilst the souldiers in a like 

 proportion stood forth for their guard : yet did wee not, 

 or could not in this time consume so much as one third 

 part of the towne : which towne is plainely described and 

 set forth in a certaine Map. And so in the end, what 

 wearied with firing, and what hastened by some other 

 respects, wee were contented to accept of five and twentie 

 thousand Ducats of five shillings sixe pence the peece, for 

 the ransome of the rest of the towne. 



Amongst other things which happened and were found 



at S. Domingo, I may not omit to let the world know one 



Most unsati- very notable marke & token of the unsatiable ambition of 



able Spanish ^^^ Spanish king and his nation, which was found in the 



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kings house, wherein the chiefe governour of that Citie 

 and Countrey is appoynted alwayes to lodge, which was 

 this : In the comming: to the Hall or other roomes of 

 this house, you must first ascend up by a faire large paire 

 of staires ; at the head of which staires is a handsome 

 spacious place to walke in, somewhat like unto a gallery : 

 wherein upon one of the wals, right over against you as 

 you enter the said place, so as your eye cannot escape the 

 sight of it, there is described & painted in a very large 

 Scutchion the armes of the king of Spaine, and in the 

 lower part of the said Scutchion, there is likewise described 

 a Globe, conteining in it the whole circuit of the sea and 

 the earth wherupon is a horse standing on his hinder 

 part within the globe, and the other fore-part without the 

 globe, lifted up as it were to leape, with a scroll painted 

 in his mouth, wherein was written these words in Latin, 

 Non sufficit orbis : which is as much to say, as the world 

 sufficeth not. Whereof the meaning was required to be 



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