A.D. 



1597- 



The castle of 

 Cabodelo be- 

 sieged by the 

 French. 



The garison 

 of Fernam- 

 btuk. 



The countrey 

 ofPetigu-ar 

 rebelleth 

 against the 

 Partugals. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



of warre, which came upon this coast : and he tolde 

 me that he had served your Majestie in the warres 

 of France. Likewise he told me that he left me 

 seven great ships Frenchmen of warre riding at an 

 anker in Rio Grande, and that there were 13 french 

 ships of warre more, which had given battery to the 

 castle of Cabodelo, and landed 350 soldiers all in 

 white armour, and the battery continued from Friday 

 untill the Munday following both by sea and land, 

 and great store of Frenchmen were slaine, and two 

 Captaines of the French. On our side the Captaine 

 of the castle was slaine, and other two Portugals 

 hurt : other harme they had none. There were but 

 twentie Portugals in the castle, and five pieces of 

 ordinance. They ment to have kept the castle, and 

 to have traded with the Indian people. So seeing 

 they could not take the castle, they hoysed sayles, 

 and went from thence to Rio Grande : and beino- 



o 



altogether they are in number 20 saile at an anker 

 in Rio Grande. And some of them determine after 

 they be new trimmed and drest, and have taken in 

 fresh victuals, and stayed there untill Easter, then to 

 depart from thence to the Honduras, and so to burne 

 and spoyle some townes thereabout. 



I certified Manuel Mascarenhas of these informations 

 by my letters, requesting him to send me with all expedi- 

 tion those souldiers which were in garison in Fernambuck 

 to ayde me, and to defende this Captaineship from the 

 enemie. But the Friers of The Covent would not 

 consent thereunto, nor suffer them to be sent unto 

 me. So I was forced to make shift with those souldiers 

 only which I had in my government and tooke them with 

 me, and marched to the place where the enemies were 

 entrenched, and upon Whitsunday in the evening about 

 three of the clocke, having in my company a Negro of 

 the countrey of Petiguar, which was our guide, he 

 brought us where the enemies campe was ; and presently 

 I did assault them, and slew great store of them, burning 



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