THE VOYAGE TO CADIZ ad. 



Kere it is to be wished (and perchance of some too it 

 is looked for) that every mans particular worthy acte in 

 this dayes service, with the parties names also, should be 

 put downe, that thereby both they and their good deserts 

 might be registred to all posteritie : and for my part I 

 would it were so, and wish I were able to doe it. But 

 for that I confesse it is a matter that passeth my power, 

 yea, and for that I thinke it also a thing impossible to 

 be precisely perfourmed by any other, I am to crave 

 pardon for that I rather leave it out altogether, then 

 presume to doe it maymedly : and in this point I referre 

 the Reader onely to the Mappe that is set foorth of 

 this journey, where it is in some parte conveniently 

 touched and specified. 



The Towne of it selfe was a very beautifull towne, and 

 a large, as being the chiefs See of the Bishop there, and 

 having a goodly Cathedrall Church in it, with a right 

 goodly Abbey, a Nunnery, and an exceeding fine College 

 of the Jesuites, and was by naturall situation, as also by 

 very good fortification, very strong, and tenable enough 

 in all mens opinions of the better judgement. Their 

 building was all of a kind of hard stone, even from the 

 very foundation to the top, and every house was in a 

 manner a kind of a fort or Castle, altogether flat-roofed 

 in the toppe, after the Turkish manner, so that many 

 men together, and that at ease, might walke thereon : 

 having upon the house top, great heapes of weighty 

 stoanes piled up in such good order, as they were ready 

 to be throwen downe by every woman most easily upon 

 such as passed by, and the streetes for the most part so 

 exceeding narrow, (I thinke to avoide the intolerable 

 great heat of the Sunne) as but two men or three at 

 the most together, can in any reasonable sorte march 

 thorough them, no streete being broader commonly then 

 I suppose Watling streete in London to be. 



The towne is altogether without glasse, excepting the 

 Churches, yet with faire comely windowes, and with faire 

 grates of iron to them, and have very large folding leaves 



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