ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1586. 



usage and interteinement that he himselfe had received 

 in London, at the time that the duke of Alenson, 

 brother to the late French king was last in England : 

 and after he had well drunke, hee tooke his leave, speak- 

 ing well of the sufficiencie and goodnesse of our shippes, 

 and especially of the Marchant Royal, which he confessed 

 to have seene before, riding in the Thames neere Lon- 

 don. He was no sooner come to Don Pedro de Leiva 

 the Spanish general, but he was sent off againe, and 

 returned to the English Admirall, saying that the plea- 

 sure of the Generall was this, that either their Captaines, 

 Masters and Pursers should come to him with speed, or 

 else hee would set upon them, and either take them or 

 sinke them. The reply was made by M. Wilkinson 

 aforesaid, that not a man should come to him : and for 

 the bragge and threat of Don Pedro, it was not that 

 Spanish bravado that should make them yeeld a jot to 

 their hinderance, but they were as ready to make resist- 

 ance, as he to offer an injurie. Whereupon Cavallero 

 the messenger left bragging, and began to perswade them 

 in quiet sort, and with many wordes, but all his labour 

 was to no purpose, and as his threat did nothing terrifie 

 them, so his perswasion did nothing moove them to doe 

 that which hee required. At the last he intreated to 

 have the Marchant of the Admirall caried by him as a 

 messenger to the Generall, that so he might be satisfied, 

 and assured of their mindes by one of their owne com- 

 pany. But M. Wilkinson would agree to no such thing, 

 although Richard Rowit the marchant himselfe seemed 

 willing to bee imployed in that message, and laboured by 

 reasonable perswasions to induce M. Wilkinson to graunt 

 it, as hoping to be an occasion by his presence and 

 discreet answeres to satisfie the Generall, and thereby to 

 save the effusion of Christian blood, if it should grow 

 to a battel. And he seemed so much the more willing 

 to be sent, by how much deeper the othes and protes- 

 tations of this Cavallero were, that he would (as hee 

 was a true knight and a souldier) deliver him backe 



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