A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1596. 



English and Spanish tongue, what were the true, just, 

 and urgent causes, that at this time provoked her 

 Majestie, to undertake the preparing and setting forth 

 of this so great a Navie, annexing thereunto a full 

 declaration, what was their good will and pleasure should 

 be done and performed of all them that ment not to 

 incurre their owne private present daungers, or else were 

 willing to avoyde her Majesties future indignation and 

 displeasure. 



Likewise now, at the same instant, their owne most 

 provident and godly decrees, which they had devised for 

 the honest cariage of every particular person in their 

 degrees and vocation, were made knowen to all men, and 

 published in sundry writings, with divers great punish- 

 ments, set downe and appointed for the wilfull offenders 

 and breakers of the same. 



Thus then, all things being in very good order and 

 well appointed, the most holy name of our Omnipotent 

 God being most religiously and devoutly called upon, 

 and his blessed and sacred Communion being divers times 

 most reverently and publikely celebrated : These two 

 most noble personages, with all their honorable Associats, 

 and most famous worthy Knights, Gentlemen, Captaines, 

 Leaders, and very willing and expert Souldiers, and 

 Mariners, being furnished with 1 50. good sayle of shippes 

 or thereabout : In the name of the most High & ever- 

 [I. 608.] living God, and with all true and faithful obedience, to 

 her sacred Majesty, to the infinite good and tranquillitie 

 of our Countrey, and to the perpetuall glory, and 

 triumphant renowme of the eternall memory of their 

 honorable names to all posterity, the first day of June 

 embarked themselves, weighed Ancre, and hoysed up 

 sayle, and put to sea onward their journey from the 

 Sownds of Plymmouth. 



The winde, at the first setting foorth, seemed very 

 favourable : but yet in the evening growing very scant, 

 and all that night falling more and more against us, and 

 we having sayled no further then to a certaine place 



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