SIR JOHN HAWKINS ad. 



1564. 



The successe of this Voiage in part appeareth [H. ii. $6.] 

 by certaine briefe relations extracted out of 

 the second voyage of Sir John Hawkins to 

 the West Indies, made in the sayd yeere 

 1564. which I thought good to set downe 

 for want of further instructions, which hither- 

 to I could not by any meanes come by, albeit 

 I have used all possible indevour for the 

 obtaining of the same : Take them therefore 

 in the meane season as foloweth. 



Aster John Hawkins, with the Jesus of 

 Lubeck a ship of 700. tunnes, and the 

 Salomon, a ship of 7 score, the Tiger a 

 barke of 50, and the Swalow of 30 

 tunnes, being all well furnished with 

 men to the number of one hundred 

 threescore and ten, as also with ordi- 



nance and victuall requisite for such a voiage, departed 

 out of Plimmouth the 18 day of October in the yeere 

 of our Lord 1564. with a prosperous winde : at which 

 departing, in cutting the foresaile, a marvellous misfor- 

 tune happened to one of the officers in the ship, who 

 by the pullie of the sheat was slaine out of hand being 

 a sorowfull beginning to them all. And after their 

 setting out 10 leagues to the Sea, hee met the same 

 day with the Minion a ship of the Queens Majesties, 7he Minion 

 whereof was captaine David Carlet, & also her consort °f the Q ueene - 

 the John Baptist of London being bound to Guinea like- 

 wise, who hailed one the other after the custome of the 

 sea, with certaine pieces of ordinance for joy of their 

 meeting : which done, the Minion departed from him 

 to seeke her other consort the Merline of London, which 

 was a sterne out of sight, leaving in M. Hawkins com- 

 panie the John Baptist her other consort. 



Thus sailing forwards on their way with a prosperous 

 wind until the 21 of the same moneth, at that time a 



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