RENIGER, BOREY AND PUDSEY 



Which Martin Cockeram, by the witnesse of Sir John 

 Hawkins, being an officer in the towne of Plimmouth, 

 was living within these fewe yeeres. 



An ancient voyage of M. Robert Reniger and 

 M. Thomas Borey to Brasil in the yeere of 

 our Lord 1540. 



Have bene certainly informed by M. 

 Anthony Garrard an ancient and wor- 

 shipfull marchant of the citie of 

 London, that this commodious and 

 gainefuU voyage to Brasil was ordi- 

 narily and usually frequented by M. 

 Robert Reniger, M. Thomas Borey, 



A.D. 



1540-42. 



and divers other substantial and wealthie marchants of 

 Southampton, about 60. yeeres past, that is to say in 

 the yeere 1540. 



A voyage of one Pudsey to Baya in Brasil 

 anno 1542. 



Lso the worshipfull M. Edward Cotton 

 of Southampton Esquire gave mee 

 more particularly to understand, how 

 that one Pudsey of Southampton, a 

 man of good skill and resolution in 

 marine causes, made a voyage in like 

 maner 62. yeeres agoe to Baya de 

 todos los Santos the principall towne of all Brasil, 

 and the ^eate of the Portugal vice-roy and of the 

 bishop, and that he built a fort not farre distant from A fort built 

 that place, in the foresaid yeere 1542. ^\%^^^[^h 



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