A.D. 



1588. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



that our will and pleasure is, that the said trade and 

 trafique shal cease, and be no longer continued into the 

 saide coasts and partes of Guinea before limited : then 

 immediatly from and after the ende of sixe moneths 

 [II. ii. 126.] next insuing, after such signification & notification so to 

 be given to any of the said Company and societie, as 

 is aforesaid, or otherwise to our Officers in our ports 

 of Exeter or Plimouth, by them to be notified to such 

 as shall have interest in this speciall privilege, these our 

 present letters Patents, and our graunt therein contained 

 shall be utterly voyde, and of none effect, ne validitie 

 in the lawe, to all intents and purposes : any thing before 

 mentioned to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. 

 Witnesse our selfe at Westminster, the thirde day of 

 May, in the thirtieth yere of our Reigne 1588. 



A voyage to Benin beyond the Countrey of 

 Guinea, set foorth by Master Bird and Master 

 Newton Marchants of London, with a shippe 

 called the Richard of Arundell, and a Pinesse ; 

 Written by James Welsh, who was chiefe 

 Master of the said voyage, begunne in the 

 yeere 1588. 



Pon the twelft of October wee wayed our 

 ankers at Ratcliffe and went to Blackwall. 

 And the next day sayling from thence, 

 by reason of contrary winde and weather, 

 wee made it the 25. of October before 

 wee were able to reach Plimouth, and 

 there we stayed (to our great expense of 

 victuals) for lacke of winde and weather unto the 14. of 

 December. 



On Saturday the said 14. of December we put from 



thence, and about midnight were thwart of the Lizart. 



Rio del oro is Thursday the second of January wee had sight of the 



in 22. degrees, i anc j ne ere Rio del oro, God be thanked, and there had 



and 47. mm. 22> degrees Q f latitude, and 47. minutes. 



45° 



