Chap XXII. from the Conquest, to the Death o/'J^Mary I.

r 5 2 3* Scotch Ships, that lay in the Havens:But the Scots run their Ships on Shoar,and the Englijh followed with Boats,landed, and set them on Fire. Antho-ny Points had, at the same Time, theCommand of a considerable Fleet toguard the Western Seas. Sir PFilliamhad the Fortune to meet with twelveFrench Ships, which had several Per-sons of the first Quality of Scotland onBoard, among whom was the Archbishopof Glascow, and pursuing them, oblig-ed them to retire, for Shelter, into thePorts of Boulogne and Dies, after havinglost two of their Ships. Here he lefta Number of Ships sufficient to blockr them up, and sailing with the Remain-

der of the Fleet, along the Coasts ofRations' France, landed in several Places, and° 0 n Jst Coasts Hid the Country Waste wherever herailce - came. His last Exploit was at Treport,which he attacked, and burnt the Sub-urbs, and then, having destroyed allthe Ships in the Harbour, and made avery great Booty, returned, with theShips under his Command, to the CoastsPuke „/of England, (m) The Duke of AlbanyCe ;Sy de- was, however, too cunning for the Ad-miral, and, notwithstanding all hisPrecautions, got to Scotland, with hisTroops. Finding it was impossible forhim to do it while the English Fleetkept the Sea, he feigned to desist fromhis Design, put his Troops into Quar-ters remote from the Coasts, and dis-persed his Tranfports: But no soonerwas the Admiral returned, with hisFleet, into England, not suspecting theDeceit, than the Duke assembled hisShips and Troops, and embarking a-bout the Middle of September arrived inScotland the four and twentieth of that^ Month, (n)

°linfh. Holinshead makes Mention, underPi ^afe° tC ^ this Year, of one Duncan Campbell, aFn. eta ' Scotch Pyrate, being taken at Sea, aftera long Fight, by John Arundel, Esquire,of Cornwall.

In the Year 1525. Francesco Pizarro,t f> y?the a &P aniard , residing at. Panama, first at-Q, Utfl Sea 6 tempted the Discovery of the South Sea-Coast, and in a second Voyage, in 1530.came to, and conquered the vastEmpireof Peru.

In the Year 1526. Sebastian Cabot,who made the great Discovery, inNorth America, for King Henry VII.being now in the Span i/h Service, sailedfrom Cadiz with four Ships, designingfor the Molnccos, thro' the Streights ofMagellan: But, when he came uponthe Coast of Brastl, his Provisions be-gan to fail, and the Men to mutiny,both which Things obliged him to layaside his first Design, and run up theRiver (then call’d of Salts, now) ofPlate ; and going up it thirty Leagues,he came to the Island of St, Gabriel, andseven Leagues above it, to the Riverof St. Salvador, where he landed andbuilt a Fort, in which he left some Men,whilst he discovered higher. ThirtyLeagues farther up, he found the Riverof Zarcarane, and erected another Fort,which was called by his Name. Thencontinuing the fame Course, after run-ning up two Hundred Leagues, he cameto the River Paroguay, up which heturned, leaving the great River, and,at the End of thirty Leagues, found aPeople, that tilled the Ground, whichhe had not seen there before; And theyopposed him so vigorously, that he wasforced to return down the River, afterlosing eight and twenty of his Men.Herewe must leave him a while,to shew, that,this same Year, James Garcia was sentfrom Galicia with one Ship, a smallTender, and a Brigantine, to discoverthis same River of Plate, and came Up-on that Part of the Coast of Brastl,which for it’s Rocks and Shoals is calledAbrelojo, (or, Open your Eyes') at theEnd of the Year.

Ax the Beginning of the Year 1527.he came into the River of Plate, andthere found two of Cabot' s Ships; Butsent back his own to carry Slaves intoPortugal. He then run up the River,and found Cabot in that of Paroguay ,where he lost his Men, and they return-ed together to the Ships. Cabot sentone of them back into Spain, with anAccount of what he had discovered, theReasons why he did not go to the Mo-luccas, and some Silver and Gold, de-siring to be reinforced, and to have

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{fn) Of this Sir William Fitz Williams (faysMr. Secretary Burchett ) it was observed, thatthere was not a serviceable Man under him whoseName he knew not, not a Week passed but hepaid his Ships, not a Prize but his Seamen sharedin, as well as laamfclf, it being his Rule that nonefought well, hut those who did it; for a For-tune,

(») The Year lyaz- was memorable for thePope’s giving the Title of Defender of the Faith,to King Henry, and his Successors, for ever. TheOccasion of it was a Book written by the King,against Martin Luther , in Defense of the sevenSacraments .of the Church of Rome,

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1526.

SebastianCabot’s Voy-age to theRiver ofPlate.

Introd. tothe Col. ofVoyages insix Vol. iriFol.