ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



i 57 8. 



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The same in English. 



Here came also to Don Sebastian the King of 

 Portugal 600. Italians, whom the Pope sent under 

 Thomas the conduct of the * Marques of Irland : who being 

 Stukeley was arrived at Lisbone with three tall ships, proffered his 



wrongfully service to the king, and promised to attend upon him 



indued with . ., c 



this title in the warres > &c - 



[II. ii. 68.1 He divided the whole Armie into 4. squadrons : upon 

 the right wing stood the first squadron, consisting of men 

 lightly armed or skirmishers and of the souldiers of 

 Tangier, Generall of whom was Don Alvaro Perez de 

 Tavara : the left or midle squadron consisted of Ger- 

 manes and Italians, under the command of the Marques 

 of Irland, &c. cap. 7. 



Of Noblemen were slaine in this battell (besides Don 

 Sebastian the king) the duke de Avero, the two bishops 

 of Coimbra & of Porto, the Marques of Irland sent by 

 the Pope as his Commissary generall, Christopher de 

 Tavara, and many others, cap. 13. 



IT is further also to be remembred, that divers other 

 English gentlemen were in this battell, whereof the 

 most part were slaine ; and among others M. Christopher 

 Lyster was taken captive, and was there long detained 

 in miserable servitude. Which gentleman although at 

 length he happily escaped the cruel hands of the Moores ; 

 yet returning home into England, and for his manifold 

 good parts being in the yeere 1586. employed by the 

 honourable the Earle of Cumberland, in a voyage in- 

 tended by the Streights of Magellan for the South sea, 

 as Viceadmirall, (wherein he shewed singular resolution 

 and courage) and appointed afterward in divers places 

 of speciall command and credite, was last of all miserably 

 drowned in a great and rich Spanish prize upon the coast 

 of Cornwall. 



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