JOHN CHIDLEY 



A.D. 



1590. 



A petition made by certaine of the company of 

 the Delight of Bristol unto the Master of the 

 said ship Robert Burnet, one of the consorts 

 of M. Chidley, being in the Streights of 

 Magellan the 12. of February 1589. 



E have thought good to shew unto you 

 (being our Master) our whole mindes 

 and griefes in writing : that whereas our 

 Captaine Matthew Hawlse, and Walter 

 Street doe beginne to take into the 

 Captaines cabin this 12. of Febr. both 

 bread and butter, (such as was put in 

 for the provision of the shippe and company) only to 

 feed themselves, and a few others, which are of their 

 messe : meaning thereby rather to sterve us, then to 

 keepe us strong and in health : And likewise upon the 

 same, hee hath taken into his cabin certaine furniture, 

 as swords, caleevers, and musquets : We therefore not 

 well knowing their intents herein, except by certaine 

 wordes cast out unwares, wee may conjecture, that your 

 death, which God forbid, by them hath bene determined : 

 doe all most humbly desire you being our Master, and 

 having charge of the shippe, and us, this present voyage 

 committed unto you, to consider : First, that by Gods 

 visitation wee have lost 16. men, and that so much the 

 rather because they were - not alotted such necessary 

 provision, as was in the ship to be had. Also to con- 

 sider the great losse of 15. of our men with our boat 

 at Penguin-yland within the Streights of Magellan : and 

 of 7. good and serviceable men besides neere Port 

 famine : and of three anckers, and our Carpenter. Over 

 and besides all these calamities to consider how you 

 have (without all reason and conscience) bene over- 

 thwarted, disgraced, and outcountenanced by your mate 

 Street, and Matthew Hawlse : Also what danger you 

 now are subject unto, your death having bene so often 

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