WILLIAM PARKER 



A.D, 

 1596. 



A voyage of Master William Parker of Plim- 

 mouth gentleman, to Margarita, Jamaica, 

 Truxillo, Puerto de Cavallos situate within 

 the bay of Honduras, and taken by sir 

 Anthony Sherley and him, as likewise up Rio 

 dolce: with his returne from thence, and his 

 valiant and happie enterprize upon Campeche 

 the chiefe towne of Yucatan, which he tooke 

 and sacked with sixe and fifty men, and 

 brought out of the harbour a Frigat laden 

 with the kings tribute, and surprized also the 

 towne of Sebo. 



N the yeere 1596, Master William Parker 

 of Plimmouth gendeman being furnished 

 with a tall shippe and a barke at his 

 owne charges, the ship called the Pru- 

 dence of one hundreth and twenty tunnes, 

 wherein himselfe went captaine, and the 

 barke called the Adventure of five and 

 twentie tunnes, whereof was captain one Richard Hen, 

 departed from the foresayd haven of Plimmouth in the 

 moneth of November, having one hundreth men in his 

 company. 



The first place where wee touched in the West Indies Margarita. 

 was the Isle of Margarita on the coast of Tierra firma, 

 where we tooke a Spanish gentleman and others, who Sixe English 

 for his ransome set at libertie Master James Willis, men redeemed. 

 and five other Englishmen which were prisoners in 

 Cumana, who otherwise were never like to have come 

 from thence. Thus passing from thence, wee sayled 

 over to the Isle of Jamaica, where the second of March 

 we met with sir Anthony Sherley, who before our 

 comming had taken the chiefe towne in the Island, 

 and was now almost in a readines to depart. And here 

 consorting our selves with him, we departed from Jamaica 



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