ROGER BODENHAM 



confirmed his youth and minde in the studies of good 

 learning, when Sir Henry Knevet was sent ambassadour 

 from the mighty Prince Henry the 8. to the Emperour 

 Charles the fift, he went with him as his familiar friend, 

 or as one of his Councell. At which time the said 

 Charles the 5. passing over from Genoa and Corsica to 

 Alger in Africa in warlike sort, with a mighty army by 

 sea, that honorable Knevet the kings ambassadour, 

 Thomas Chaloner, Henry Knolles, and Henry Isham, 

 right worthy persons, of their owne accord accompanied 

 him in that expedition, & served him in that warre, 

 wherin Thomas Chaloner escaped most wonderfully with 

 his life. For the gaily wherein he was, being either 

 dashed against the rockes, or shaken with mighty 

 stormes, and so cast away, after he had saved himselfe 

 a long while by swimming, when his strength failed him, 

 his armes & hands being faint and weary, with great 

 difficulty laying hold with his teeth on a cable, which 

 was cast out of the next gaily, not without breaking 

 and losse of certaine of his teeth, at length recovered 

 himselfe, and returned home into his countrey in safety. 



The voyage of M. Roger Bodenham v^ith the 

 great Barke Aucher to Candia and Ohio, in the 

 yeere 1550. 



AD. 

 1550. 



N the yeere 1550. the 13 of November 

 I Roger Bodenham Captaine of the 

 Barke Aucher entered the said ship at 

 Gravesend, for my voiage to the Hands 

 of Candia and Chio in the Levant. The 

 master of my ship was one William 

 Sherwood. From thence we departed to The Barke 

 Tilbery hope, and there remained with contrarie windes ^^chcr goeth 

 untill the 6. of January 1551. The 6 of Januarie, the •^''■^'''''^'• 

 M. came to Tilbery, and I had provided a skilfull pylot 

 to cary me over the lands end, whose name was M. 

 Wood, and with all speede I valed downe that night 



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