A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1596. 



as the case did stand, certainely knowen to be of no 

 wealth in the world, and it was some sixe or seven miles 

 distant over against Cadiz, in a maner as Paules is against 

 Southwarke, on the other side of the Bay, in a part of 

 Andaluzia, subject to the territory of the Duke de 

 Medina Sidonia. 



Moreover, at the same instant they did appoint that 

 worthy knight Sir Amias Preston, and some others in 

 some convenient Barkes, to transport over to the sayd 

 Towne safely and in good order, a hundred or moe 

 of the better sort of ancient gentlewomen, and marchants 

 wives, who were suffered to put upon themselves, some 

 of them two, yea, some three sutes of apparell, with 

 some convenient quantitie of many Jewels, Chaines, and 

 other ornaments belonging to their estate and degree. 

 Such was the heroicall liberality, and exceeding great 

 clemencie, of those most honourable Lords Generall, 

 thereby, as it should seeme unto mee, beating downe 

 that false surmised opinion, which hath bene hitherto 

 commonly spread abroad, and setled among the Span- 

 iards : which is. That the English doe trouble them 

 and their countries, more for their golde, riches and 

 pearle &:c. then for any other just occasion. Whereas 

 by these their honourable dealings it is manifest to all 

 the world, that it is onely in respect of a just revenge 

 for the manifolde injuries, and most dishonourable 

 practises that have beene from time to time attempted 

 by them against us and our nation, and also in the de- 

 fence of the true honour of England : which they have 

 sought, and daylie doe seeke, by so many sinister and 

 reprochfull devices, so much as in them lieth, to deface. 



Upon Saturday being the 26. Sir John Winkfield 

 knight was buried, in honourable and warlike manner, 

 so farre foorth as the circumstances of that time and 

 place could permit. At whose funerals the Navie dis- 

 charged a great part of their Ordinance, in such order, 

 as was thought meete and convenient by the Lords 

 Generals commandement. 



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