LETTER FROM FRANCIS SUARES ad. 



1594- 

 them to my cousin : for I do determine to settle my 

 selfe here in this countrey. There is come downe from 

 Peru, by this river of Plate, a merchant called Alonso 

 Ramires, and he hath brought downe with him ten 

 or twelve thousand ducats in reals of plate, and is come 

 downe to this place to build him a ship to returne 

 into Spaine ; and there is come in his company a bishop. 

 And thus Jesus Christ send you long health. 



Your loving brother Francis Suares. 



The well governed and prosperous voyage of M. 

 James Lancaster, begun with three ships and a 

 galley-frigat from London in October 1594, 

 and intended for Fernambuck, the port-towne 

 of Olinda in Brasil. In which voyage (besides 

 the taking of nine and twenty ships and frigats) 

 he surprized the sayd port-towne, being 

 strongly fortified and manned ; and held 

 possession thereof thirty dayes together (not- 

 withstanding many bolde assaults of the enemy 

 both by land and water) and also providently 

 defeated their dangerous and almost inevitable 

 fireworks. Heere he found the cargazon or 

 freight of a rich East Indian carack ; which 

 together with great abundance of sugars, 

 Brasil-wood, and cotton he brought from 

 thence; lading therewith fifteene sailes of 

 tall ships and barks. 



N September 1594 the worshipfull M. John Wats, 

 alderman, M. Paul Banning, alderman, & others 

 of worship in the city of London, victualled three 

 good ships; to wit. The Consent, of the burthen of 

 240 tunnes or thereabout. The Salomon, of 170 tunnes, 

 and The Virgin, of 60 tunnes : and appointed for com- 

 manders in this voyage, M. James Lancaster of London, 



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