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1586. 



againe in safetie to his company. Albeit, M. Wilkinson, 

 which by his long experience had received sufficient 

 triall of Spanish inconstancie and perjurie, wished him 

 in no case to put his life and libertie in hazard upon 

 a Spaniards othe. But at last, upon much intreatie, hee 

 yeelded to let him go to the General, thinking in deed, 

 that good speeches and answeres of reason would have 

 contented him, whereas otherwise refusall to do so, 

 might peradventure have provoked the more discontent- 

 ment. 



M. Rowit therefore passing to the Spanish Generall, 

 the rest of the Gallies having espied him, thought in 

 deed that the English were rather determined to yeelde, 

 then to fight, and therefore came flocking about the 

 frigat, every man crying out, Que nuevas, que nuevas, 

 Have these English men yeelded ? the frigat answered, 

 Not so, they neither have, nor purpose to yeeld, onely 

 they have sent a man of their company to speake with 

 our Generall : and being come to the Gallie wherein he 

 was, he shewed himselfe to M. Rowit in his armour, his 

 guard of souldiers attending upon him in armour also, 

 and began to speake very proudly in this sort : Thou 

 Englishman, from whence is your fleete, why stand ye 

 aloofe off, knowe ye not your duetie to the Catholique 

 King, whose person I here represent ? Where are your 

 billes of lading, your letters, pasports, and the chiefe of 

 your men? Thinke ye my attendance in these seas to 

 be in vaine, or my person to no purpose ? Let al these 

 things be done out of hand as I command, upon paine of 

 my further displeasure and the spoyle of you all : These [II. 

 wordes of the Spanish Generall were not so outragiously 

 pronounced as they were mildly answered by M. Rowit, 

 who tolde him that they were al Marchantmen, using 

 trafique in honest sort, and seeking to passe quietly, if 

 they were not urged further then reason. As for the 

 king of Spaine, he thought (for his part) that there was 

 amitie betwixt him and his soveraigne the Queene of 

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