f.86 The V O Y 
vours to procure the Writings and Proofs relating to 
the Goods aboard the Prize-fliips, that the Aftion and 
4C Seizures may be approved by the Officers of the Admi- 
“ raky above-mentioned ; to which Officers he is to deliver 
thofe Proofs, together with the Prize ; and alfo to ac- 
sc quaint them with the Day, Hour, and Place of the 
* c Sea, in which the Ship was taken : But if he fhould be 
“ compelled by Strefs of Weather* or Enemies, to make 
£C into another Port, he muft inform the above-mentioned 
<s Office of Admiralty of all thefe Things ; and, by the 
Direction and Appointment of the fame, pay the tenth 
44 Part of the Value of the Prize, the Expences in unload- 
“ ing the Goods, and Warehoufe-room, being firft de- 
44 ducted. 
64 Upon thefe Conditions we do allow and grant, to the 
44 above-named Captain George Sbelvocke , the free Ule of 
44 our C<efarean and Imperial Flag, Arms, and Enfign 
44 and we command our Generals, Governors, and chief 
44 Commanders, by Sea or Land, and all the Officers and 
44 Attendants of our Ports, (and we alfo defire of the 
44 Governors, Commanders, and Attendants, and Officers 
44 of our Allies, and neutral Princes) that they kindly 
4 4 receive the faid Captain George Sbelvocke into the Ports 
44 or Stations of their Jurifdidlions, protedt him with their 
44 Patronage, and allow and permit him freely to fail, pafs 
44 and repafs, and adt in an hoftile manner againft our 
44 Enemies, under the Limitations above-mentioned, for 
44 we think it expedient for our Imperial Service ; nor 
44 fhall we adt otherwife towards the Subjedts, or any 
44 Commanders of Ships of our Allies, or neutral Princes, 
44 but treat them with the fame Favour and Protedlion : 
44 In Teflimony of which, we have ordered and com- 
44 manded thefe Prefents, fubfcribed by our own Eland, 
44 and authorized by the Seal of our Imperial Arms, and 
44 under- written by Ramundus aVilina Perlas , Marquis of 
44 Rialp , our Secretary of State, as ufual, to be made. 
44 Given in our City of Vienna, 1 6 July, A.D. 1718 , of 
44 our Government of the Empire 5. of Spain 13. of Bo- 
44 hernia and Hung aria 5. 
44 Charles.” 
44 The faid Captain George Sbelvocke may make ufe of 
44 this Imperial Commiffion in waning againft the Spa- 
44 niards , and any Subjedts of the Poffeffor of that Crown ; 
44 but not againft any other Power, though even Enemies 
44 to the Chriftian Name, on either Side of the Equinoctial 
44 Line, nor do them the leaft Injury. Done at Brujfels, 
44 the 28th of Sept. 1718. 
44 Castillon.” 
3. A Commiffion once obtained from his Britannic Ma- 
jefty, the Ships returned to their old Names, the Succefs 
and Speedwel , but another Revolution happened of a more 
extraordinary Natijre, which was, the turning Captain 
Sbelvocke out of his Command, and making him but fecond 
in this Expedition. This was, in all Probability, owing 
to fome little Miftakes in his Condudt when he made that 
fhort Trip to Flanders, as well as to the Change of Cir- 
cumftances, which might have inclined the Proprietors to 
prefer another Officer, fince now the whole Fate of the 
Expedition depending on the perfedl Knowledge of, and 
right Condudt in, the South Seas, a Man of another Turn 
was neceffary, This Officer, who was thus preferred to 
Captain Sbelvocke, was a Perfon we have often mentioned 
before ; viz. Captain John Glipperton , who, in Captain 
Dampier’s Voyages, is called Clippington , who ferved under 
him in the Capacity of a Mate, and of whofe Adventures, 
after his Separation from Damper , we have already given 
a Detail : But, as we are now to accompany him a 
fecond time round the World, it may not be amifs to give 
a farther Account of him ; the rather, becaufe what I de- 
liver, is from unqueftionable Authority, having been fa- 
voured with many Lights in compiling of this Voyage. 
Fie was born at Yarmouth, in the County of Norfolk and 
his Relations being moft of them Seafaring People, he was 
from his Infancy bred up in that way •, and, having failed 
in almoft all Sorts of Veffels to moft of the Ports of 
Europe , once to th t-BVeft Indies , and once round the Globe, 
he had by this means gained great Experience, and was 
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allowed, by all who knew him, to be an able Pilot, aa 
experienced Seaman, and an Officer as capable of condudt* 
ing the Expedition he undertook, as any Man then in 
Great Britain. It is true. Captain Glipperton had his 
Faults ; as, indeed, who is without them ? but they were 
very far from being either grofs in themfelves, or dangerous 
to other Men. He was^ a blunt, rough, free-fpoken Sailor, 
had not much the Air of a Gentleman, and, therefore, he 
never affedted it ; was free and eafy amongft his Seamen ; 
and, though he was fomewhat paffionate, yet he was foon 
appealed, and was reac y to repair any Injury or Injustice 
he had done in Heat of Blood. Fie had a ftridt Regaru to 
what he took to be his Duty, was a Man of honeit run- 
ciples, and had a great deal of Juitice and Humanity in 
his Nature. His Circumftances were out indifferent, which 
induced him to undertake this Voyage for tne Raffing 
himfelf, and his Family, which he left during this time m 
Ireland. The Character Captain Clipper ton had obtained 
amongft the Merchants for his Skiil, Fidelity, and fteady 
Courage, recommended him to the Proprietors of this 
Expedition, who, having now advanced upwards of fifteen 
thoufand Pounds towards it, thought proper to put him 
into the Succefs , and intruft him with the chief Command.} 
leaving Captain George Sbelvocke in the Speedwel , where he 
had under him, as his fecond Captain} a Perfon we have 
often mentioned before, viz. Captain Simon Hatley , the 
fame whom Captain IFoodes Rogers left among the Galla- 
pagos Hands, and who was a long time afterwards Prifoner 
among the Spaniards. 
4. The Inftrudtions thefe Gentlemen received, were in 
Subftance theft 1 That they fhould proceed with all ima- 
ginable Diligence to Plymouth ; from whence they were to 
Fail, with the firft fair Wind, for Cape Horn , or the 
Streights of Magellan, and to make their Paflacte either 
round that Cape, or through thofe Streights, as fhould to 
them appear moft convenient ; then to fail into the South 
Seas, cruife on the Coafts of Chili , Peru, and Mexico., 
and endeavour, if poffible, to meet the Acapulco Ship. 
To prevent all Difputes and Diforders, their Proprietors 
directed the Captains to adhere fteadily to thefe three 
Maxims : Firft, To be careful, above all things, not to 
feparate from each other ; becaufe that would, in all Pro- 
bability, prove the Ruin of their Voyage. They were 
next injoined to undertake nothing of Importance without 
holding a Council of Officers, ftating the Queftion in 
Writing that was to be debated, drawing up the Refoiution, 
with the Reafons upon which it was grounded, in concife 
Terms, and obliging every Officer prefent to fign it. They 
were, laftly, diredbed to call a Council in the lame manner, 
as foon as poffible, after any Adtion had happened, or any 
Prize of Confequence been taken, in which the -Condudt 
of the Officers concerned might be examined, and a true 
Judgment paffed upon it on the Spot, fubfcribed by the 
Perfons affifting at the Council, to prevent all Poffibility of 
Difpute. That neither of the Commanders might take 
Offence at the Stridtnefs of thefe Rules, or not enter fuffi- 
ciently into the Motives of them, the laft thing the Pro- 
prietors did, was, to prefent each of the Captains with Mr. 
Rogers' s Voyage, that they might never be at a Lofs for 
proper Precedents throughout the Expedition. But thefe 
Precautions proved in a great meafure ufelefs, ‘fince the 
Expedition wore an unfortunate Afpedt from the Begin- 
ning ; for the Ships were obliged to lie three Months at 
Plymouth, waiting for a Wind : During which time, all 
Things fell into Confufion, and Fadlions were formed, in 
which the Crews of both Ships were involved, as one of 
the Hiftorians of this Voyage rightly observes, from the 
Captains down to the Cabin-boys. Captain Sbelvocke 
highly ftomached the Affront that had been offered him, in 
giving his Ship, and the chief Command, to another 
Perfon ; and Captain Glipperton being a boifterous Man, 
knowing Sbelvocke’s Refentment, having himfelf ftrong 
Paffions, and not being able to conceal them, there was 
nothing but Debate and Dilputes ; fo that every Poll car- 
ried up Complaints to the Proprietors, and brought down 
Inftrudtions, Reproofs, and Exhortations to Concord and 
Harmony, fo long as they remained in Port. It is cer- 
tainly a very tedious and troublefome Office, to be obliged 
to Rcord thefe fort of Quarrels ; but, as the Fate of the 
Voyage 
