A. D. 15 19. g^ 



ides, he arrived at the ifles which he called the Philippines, where he 

 loft his life in a Ikirmifli; but the fhips failed on for Tidore, one of the 

 Molucco ifles, where they arrived in the 27th month after their firll 

 fetting out from Spain, and where (contrary to what the Portuguefc 

 had given out, to deter others from coming thither) they found the fea 

 1 02 yards in depth, though the Portuguefe had (as fome write) fpread 

 reports of its being io ihallow, that there was no navigating it, befide 

 continual darknefs, rucks, &c. Here the Spaniards firft tafted the fpices 

 at their fountain-head, and traded with the king and people of Tidore 

 for them, in exchange for their own cargo of cloth, glafles, &c. to a vaft 

 profit ; thence they returned home, with only one of their (hips, by the 

 Cape of Good Hope (one fhip being taken by the Portuguefe, and the 

 other left leaky) and arrived at Seville in September 1552 ; being the 

 firft who had ever failed quite round the globe. 



There having probably been fome diflference, before this time, be- 

 tween England and Genoa, on account of commerce, or perhaps partly 

 for the partiaUty of the Genoefe to France, under the protection and 

 vaflalage of whofe kings they had for fome time paft put themfelves, 

 the French king, amongft his other titles, now ftilmg himfclf lord of 

 Genoa, matters were in this year accommodated ; and we accordingly 

 meet with king Henry VIIl's paflport or fafe-conducl to Luke Spinola, 

 ftiled mafter of the fociety of merchants of Genoa refiding in Eng- 

 land, and to all other Genoefe merchants and their fadors, &c. toge- 

 ther with their carracks, galleys, and ftiips,to refort to any part of Eng- 

 land and its territories, there freely to fell their merchandize, and to 

 buy wool, woollen cloth, tin, lead, &c. ; provided they do not export 

 any merchandize of the ftaple of Calais to any port but to Calais, un- 

 lefs it be through the Straits of Morocco ; any letters of marque, or re- 

 prifals, againft the community, dominion, and city of Genoa, their vaf- 

 fals or fubje6ls, &c. to the contrary notwithftanding. Laftly, this fafe 

 conduct was to continue for five years, even although it ftiould happen 

 in the interim that war flaould break out between England and France. 

 [Fcedera, V. xiii, p. 700.] 



According to Sandoval's hiftory of the civil wars of Spain, in the 

 beginning of the reign of the emperor Charles V, when almoft all the 

 cities of Spain, in this year 1519 (et feq.), made infurredions, on ac- 

 count of the exorbitant exadions of that emperor's Flemiflr favourites, 

 and their carrying much money out of Spain into Flanders, &c. we find 

 -mention made of fundry clothworkers amongft thole rebels, whole army 

 had drawn up articles or conditions to be agreed to by the emperor : 

 Some of them are as follows, viz. 



I) That the cloth imported from other countries fliall be of the fame 

 fize and goodnefs as the cloths wrought in theie kingdoms (of Spain.) 



II) That the merchants and clothiers of the kingdoms (of Spain), 



