I THE VOYAGE TO CADIZ ad. 



1596. 



tthere was never thing more resolutely perfourmed of the 

 itcouragious English, nor more shamefully lost of the 

 Wbragging Spaniard. 



^ Of what wealth this towne should be, I am not able to 

 ^resolve the asker : for I confesse that for mine owne part, 

 -il had not so much good lucke, as to be partaker so much 

 <as of one pennie, or penny worth. Howbeit my ill 

 ^fortune maketh that towne never a whit the poorer. But 

 ,as it should appeare by the great pillage by the common 

 |SOuldiers, and some mariners too, and by the goodly 

 furnitures, that were defaced by the baser people, and 

 thereby utterly lost and spoyled, as not woorth the 

 ,carying away, and by the over great plenty of Wine, 

 JOyle, Almonds, Olives, Raisins, Spices, and other rich 

 'grocery wares, that by the intemperate disorder of some 

 of the rasher sort were knockt out, and lay trampled 

 under feete, in every common high way, it should 

 appeare that it was of some very mighty great wealth 

 to the first owners, though perchance, not of any such 

 great commoditie to the last subduers, for that I judge 

 that the better part was most ryotously and intemperately 

 spent and consumed. A disorder in mine opinion very 

 much to be lamented, and if it might be by any good 

 meanes remedied, in my conceit, it were a most honour- 

 able device. 



The Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday following, the 

 Lords Generall spent in counsell, about the disposing of 

 all matters, aswell touching the towne and prisoners, as 

 also concerning all other matters, thought meete of them 

 in their honourable wisedomes, and in all that meane 

 while did shew such honourable bounty and mercy, as is 

 not able to be expressed. For not onely the lives of 

 every one were spared, but also there was an especial 

 care had, that al the Religious, as wel men as women, 

 should be well and favourably intreated, whom freely 

 without any maner of ransome or other molestation, they 

 caused to be safely transported over to Port Saint Marie, 

 a towne in a manner as fayre as Cadiz : but at that time, 

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