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1550. his Brother, Sir Edward Hasings, todislodge, or otherwise annoy them :But a Peace ensued before they cameto Action.

j 1 1 55 I * In 1551. a large Bark, called the

Auchcr, commanded by Roger Boden-4 trading ham, was hired by a foreign Merchant,ts a I e up Ar j elm Salvago, for a trading Voyagee heights. U p Streights, and particularly, toCandia and Chio, a Thing not verycommon in those Days. Hackluythas given the Captain’s Journal, withan Account of his narrow Escape fromthe Turks, at Chio.

^ 2 "^ first T h e earliest Account we have of any^Gui 1 ™ 311 Englishman having been on the Coast ofc nea ' Guinea, is of one Thomas Windham.y a ° ' of . v °- He first made two Voyages to the CoastVol' 1 i n of Ajrick, one in this Year 1551. of^ ol - Vol. which there are no Particulars; And' k- 146. the other the Year following, withthree Sail, to the Port of Zaphin, or Sa-fin a, and Santa Cruz, whence hebrought Sugar, Dates, Almonds, andMolosses.

Under this Year we find the follow-VI'j ing Note in King Edward's Diary.hftpyf " July 1. Whereas certain Flemijhjl^'onsTt' " Ships, twelve Sail in all, fix tall Men(a - " of War, looking for eighteen more

“ Men of War, went to Dies, as it" was thought to take Monsieur le Ma-" rechal, by the Way, Order was giv-“ en, that six Ships being before pre-,c pared, with four Pinnaces and a Bri-" gantine, should go, both to conduct“ him, and also to defend, if any Thing" should be attempted against England," by carrying over the Lady Mary.

“ A Brigantinb sent to Dies, to" give Knowledge to Monsieur le Ma-" rechal, of the Flemmings coming, to“ whom all the Flemmings veiled their" Bonnet. ( lowered their Topsails.) Al-" so the French Ambassador was adver-ts tifed, who answered, that he thought" himself sure enough, when he came" into the Streams, terming it so.

“ The French-men landed at Rye, as" some thought, for Fear of the Flem-“ mings, lying at the Land’s End;“ chiesly because they saw our Ships" were let by the Wind, that they could" not come out.

“ Th e nine and twentieth of August," certain Pinnaces were prepared to“ fee that there should be no Convey-" ance over Sea, of the Lady Mary,

" secretly done.

“ September the third, the French" Ambassador came . to declare—that

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“ the Emperour—staid certain Ships of 1551.“ the French going a fishing to the New*

" sounds Land. Furthermore he sent a“ Dozen Ships, which bragged they" would take the Dowager of Scotland,

“ which Thing staid her so long at" Dies. Whereupon his Master had“ taken the whole Fleet of Antwerp,

“ convoying it to his Country, into his“ Ports, by ten Ships, he had sent" forth, under Baron de la Garde.

“ February the 29th, a Flemming" would have searched the Falcon,

" for Frenchmen ; But the Falcon" boarded the Flemming, and took“ her.

“ March the First, Order was gi-" ven, for the Defence of the Mejr*

“ chants, to fend four Barks and two" Pinnaces to Sea.

“The six and twentieth, Harry" Dudley was lent to the Sea, with“ four Ships and two Barks, for“ Defense of the Merchants, who“ were daily before robbed. As soon“ as he came to Sea, he took two Pi-“ rate-Ships, and brought them to" Dover.

I n the Year 15 53 ' Mr. ThomasJVindham, of whom I made Mentionin the Year i«i, made his third Voy-age to Guinea. He failed from Forts- to Guinea.mouth, with three Ships, taking along CoL ot Y°~with him Anthony Anes Pintado, a For- i

tuguese, who was the Promoter of that Fol. Vol.Voyage. They traded for Gold along v - P-the Coast of Guinea, and proceeded asfar as Benin, where they were pro-mised a Loading of Pepper; But boththe Commanders, and most of theMen,dying, thro’ the Unfeafonablenefs ofthe Weather, the Rest, reduced toabout forty, returned to Plymouth, withone Ship, and little Wealth.

In this Year, Mr. John Locke made Hackluyt,a Voyage in the Ship Matthew Gonjon, ^^Locke'designed from London for Leghorn, and jr 0 y' a g e toCandia ; from whence Mr. Locke's In- Jerusalem,tention was to go to Jerusalem ; But and backthat Ship being stopp’d, under some a % ain 'Pretext, by the Spaniards, at Cadtz,he was obliged to take a Ship calledthe C avail a of Venice to pursue his De-sign. Hackluyt gives a Journal of hisVoyage, to his Return to Vmice.

On the sixth of J Ay, of this Year, The King’sdied the truly pious Prince, King Ed- Death.i ward VI, the Miracle of his Age, hal-ving reigned but six Years,. fiveMonths,, and nine Days.

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