a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1586. 



and being there becalmed, our Maister caused the two 

 ship boates to be had out, and they towed the ship, 

 till we were out of sight of the Castle of Malta. The 



Zante. 9 day of Aprill we came to Zante, and being before the 



towne, William Aldridge, servant to Master Thomas 

 Cordall of London, came aboord us, with whom our 

 Master and twelve more of our company, thought to 

 have gone on shoare, but they could not be permitted : 



Patras. so we all came aboord againe, and went to Patras, where 



we arrived upon good Friday, and lay there with good 

 entertainement at the English house, where was the 

 Consull Master Grimes, Ralph Ashley, and John 

 Doddington, who very kindly went with us, and shewed 

 us the pleasures of the towne. 



They brought us to the house of the Cady, who was 



[II. i. 283.] made then to understand of the 20 Turks that wee had 

 aboord, which were to goe to Constantinople, being 

 redeemed out of captivitie, by sir Francis Drake in the 

 West Indies, and brought with him into England, and 

 by order of the Queenes Majestie sent now into their 

 Countrey. Whereupon the Cady commaunded them to 

 be brought before him, that he might see them : and when 

 he had talked with them, and understood howe strangely 

 they were delivered, hee marveiled much, and admired 

 the Queenes Majestie of England, who being but a 

 woman, is notwithstanding of such power and renowne 

 amongst all the princes of Christendome, with many 

 other honourable wordes of commending her Majestie. 

 So he tooke the names of those 20. Turkes, and recorded 

 them in their great bookes, to remaine in perpetuall 

 memory. After this, our foresaid countreymen brought 

 mee to the Chappel of S. Andrew where his tombe or 

 sepulchre is, and the boord upon which he was beheaded, 

 which boord is now so rotten, that if any man offer to 

 cut it, it falleth to powder, yet I brought some of it 

 away with me. 



Upon Tuesday in Easter weeke, wee set out towards 

 Zante againe, and the 24. of April with much adoe, wee 



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