A.D. 



1588. 



[I. 598.] 



Don Pedro de 

 Faldez zvith 

 his ship Iff 

 company taken. 



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unto hee sent foorth his pinnasse, and being advertised 

 that Valdez himselfe was there, and 450. persons with 

 him, he sent him word that he should yeeld himselfe. 

 Valdez for his honors sake caused certaine conditions to 

 be propounded unto Drake : who answered Valdez that 

 he was not now at laisure to make any long parle, but if 

 he would yeeld himselfe, he should find him friendly and 

 tractable : howbeit if he had resolved to die in fight, he 

 should proove Drake to be no dastard. 



Upon which answere Valdez and his company under- 

 standing that they were fallen into the hands of fortunate 

 Drake, being mooved with the renoume and celebritie of 

 his name, with one consent yeelded themselves, and 

 found him very favourable unto them. Then Valdez 

 with 40. or 50. noblemen and gentlemen pertaining unto 

 him, came on boord sir Francis Drakes ship. The 

 residue of his company were caried unto Plimmouth, 

 where they were detained a yere & an halfe for their 

 ransome. 



Valdez comming unto Drake and humbly kissing his 

 hand protested unto him, that he and his had resolved to 

 die in battell, had they not by good fortune fallen into 

 his power, whom they knew to be right curteous and 

 gentle, and whom they had heard by generall report to 

 bee most favourable unto his vanquished foe : insomuch 

 that he sayd it was to bee doubted whether his enimies 

 had more cause to admire and love him for his great, 

 valiant, and prosperous exploites, or to dread him for his 

 singular felicitie and wisedom, which ever attended upon 

 him in the warres, and by the which hee had attained unto 

 so great honour. With that Drake embraced him and 

 gave him very honourable entertainement, feeding him 

 at his owne table, and lodging him in his cabbin. 



Here Valdez began to recount unto Drake the forces 

 of all the Spanish Fleet, and how foure mightie Gallies 

 were separated by tempest from them : and also how 

 they were determined first to have put into Plimmouth 

 haven, not expecting to bee repelled thence by the 



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