ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1586. 



with it, of purpose to refresh themselves after their 

 wearinesse, and to take in such supply of fresh water & 

 victuals, as they needed : they were no sooner entred 

 into the port, but immediatly the king thereof sent a 

 messenger to the ships to knowe what they were, with 

 which messenger the chiefe master of ech shippe repaired 

 to the king, and acquainted him not onely with the state 

 of their ships, in respect of marchandize, but with the 

 late fight which they had passed with the Spanish Gallies, 

 reporting every particular circumstance in word as it fell 

 out in action : whereof the said king shewed himselfe 

 marveilous glad, interteining them in the best sort, and 

 promising abundant reliefe of all their wants, making 

 generall proclamation in the city upon paine of death, 

 that no man of what degree or state soever he were, 

 should presume either to hinder them in their affaires, 

 or to offer them any maner of injury in body or goods. 

 By vertue whereof they dispatched al things in excellent 

 good sort, with al favor & peaceablenesse : only such 

 prisoners and captives of the Spaniards as were in the 

 Citie, seeing the good usage which they received, and 

 [II. i. 289.] hearing also what service they had performed against the 

 foresaide Gallies, grudged exceedingly against them, and 

 sought as much as they could to practise some mischiefs 

 against them : and one amongst the rest seeing an 

 Englishman alone in a certaine lane of the Citie, came 

 upon him suddenly, and with his knife thrust him in 

 the side, yet made no such great wound, but that it was 

 easily recovered. The English company hearing of it, 

 acquainted the king with the fact, who immediatly sent 

 both for the party that had received the wound, and the 

 offender also, and caused an executioner in the presence 

 of himselfe and the English, to chastise the slave even 

 to death, which was performed to the ende that no man 

 should presume to commit the like part, or to doe any 

 thing in contempt of his royal commandement. 



The English having received this good justice at the 

 kings hands, and al other things that they wanted, or 



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