AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1596. 



vertues, Fidem, & Taciturnitatem : so much commended 

 by the old writers. And if there was ever any great 

 designement, in this our age, and memorie, discreetly, 

 faithfully, and closely caried, I assure my selfe it was 

 this, and though it were but in respect of that poynt 

 onely : yet for such faithfull secrecie, it deserveth 

 immortall praise. 



All this while, our ships, God be thanked, kept in a 

 most excellent good order, being devided into five 

 squadrons : that is to say. The Earle of Essex, the 

 Lord Admirall, the Lord Thomas Howard, the Lord 

 Warden Sir Walter Raleigh, and the Admirall of the 

 Hollanders. All which squadrons, albeit they did every 

 day separate themselves of purpose, by the distance of 

 certaine leagues, as well to looke out for such shippes 

 as were happily under sayle, as also for the better pro- 

 curing of sea-roome : yet alwayes commonly eyther 

 that day, or the next day, towarde evening, they came 

 all together, with friendly salutations and gratulations one 

 to an other : which they terme by the name of Hayling : 

 a ceremonie done solemnly, and in verie good order, 

 with sound of Trumpets and noyse of cheerefull voyces : 

 and in such sort performed as was no small encourage- 

 ment one to the other, beside a true report of all such 

 accidents, as had happened in their squadrons. 



Hitherto, as I sayde, our journey was most prosperous, 

 and all our shippes in very good plight, more then that 

 the Mary Rose, by some mischance, either sprang or 

 spent her foreyarde, and two dayes after Sir Robert 

 Crosse had in a manner the like mischance. 



Nowe being thus betweene the North cape, and cape 

 S. Vincent, and yet keeping such a course a loofe, that 

 by no meanes, those from the shoare might be able to 

 descrie us : The tenth of June, a French Barke, and a 

 Fleming comming from the coast of Barbaric were 

 brought in by some of our companie : but they were 

 both of them very honourably and well used by the 

 Lords Generall : and so after a fewe dayes tarrying, were 



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