LOPEZ VAZ AD. 



1572-87. 

 better shift for themselves : but before they had finished 

 their pretended worke, the Spanish souldiers set upon 

 them, and tooke fifteene of them that were sicke : but 

 the rest fled, whom the Spaniards pursued among the 

 mountaineSj and in the end the Negros betraied them, 

 and they were all taken and carried to Panama. Where 

 the Justice asked the English captaine, whither he had 

 the Queenes license, or the license of any other Prince or 

 Lord ? And he answered that he had none, but that he 

 came of his owne proper motion. Which being knowen 

 to the Justice, the Captaine and his companie were con- 

 demned and were all put to death at Panama, saving the 

 Captaine himselfe, the Master, and the Pilot, and five boyes, 

 which were caried to Lima, where the Captaine and the 

 two other men were executed, but the boyes are yet living. 



The king of Spaine having intelligence of these matters, ^'^n-e made 

 sent 300 men of warre against those Negros who had ^S^^^^^ ^^^^ 

 assisted the Englishmen, which Negros before were slaves n^^ -^^ii, 

 unto the Spaniards, and (as is aforesaide) fled from their 

 masters into those mountaines, and so joyned themselves 

 to the Englishmen, thinking by that meanes to be re- 

 venged of the Spaniards crueltie. 



At the first comming of these three hundred souldiers 

 they tooke many of the Negros, and did great justice 

 on them according to the qualitie of their offences. But 

 after a season the Negros grew wise and wary, and pre- 

 vented the Spaniards sd, that none of them could be 

 taken. Whereof the king being advertised by his 

 Captaines, as also how the countrey was full of moun- 

 taines and rivers, and very unhealthfull, insomuch that 

 his souldiers died, he wrote unto his said Captaines to 

 make an agreement with those Negros, to the ende the 

 countrey might be in quiet. And so they came to agree- 

 ment with the Captaines of the Negros, and all was 

 appeased. Afterward the Negros inhabiting two places 

 which the Spaniardes allotted unto them, the kings par- 

 don was proclaimed unto all those which before the day 

 of the proclamation thereof had runne fi-om their Masters, 



