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Captain John Hawkins two first Voyages to the West Indies with otherVoyages and Occurrences, to the Tear 1567.
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A of Mr. William Hawkins, ofPlymouth, who was in great E-steem with Ring Henry VIII. asa principal Sea-Commander, and ofwhose Voyages I have already given anAccount in that King’s Reign. He hadmade several Voyages to the Canary-I-Jlands, where he got all the Intelligencehe was able to procure, of the State ofthe Wefi-Indies, of which he had beforereceived some Knowledge, by the In-structions given him by his Father. A-mong otherThings, he was assured, thatNegroes were a very good Commodityin HiJ'paniola, and that they were easilyto be had, in great Numbers, on theCoast of Guinea. Having opened hisMind to his Friends, he soon round Ad-venturers for this Undertaking, amongwhom were Sir Lionel Ducket , Sir Tho-mas Lodge, Mr. Gunfbn, his Father inLaw, Sir William Winter, Mr. Brom-field and others.
' Three Ships were provided for thisEnterprise ; The Solomon, of one Hun-dred and twenty Tun, commanded byMr. Hawkins himself, as General; The.Swallow of one Hundred Tun, ThomasHampton , Captain, and the Jonas, aBark of forty Tuns. In this small FleetMr. Hawkins took only a HundredMen.
H e departed from the Coast of Eng-land, in the Month of OBober, 1562.and failed first to Teneriff, where hetook in several Refreshments. Fromthence he went to Sierra Leona, by theNatives called Tagarin, on the Coast ofGuinea , where he made some Stay ;And, during that Time, got into hisPossession, partly by the Sword, andpartly by other Means, upwards ofthree Hundred Negroes, besides severalCommodities, which that Country af-fords.
W 1 th this Booty, he set Sail for Portdjabella, in the Island of HiJ'paniola, in
the W’st-Indies, where he found a good ^
Vent for his Englisth Commodities, and ^ ’
some of his Negroes. But was always And go es toobliged to be upon his Guard against the Westthe Treachery of the Spaniards. fndies;
From Port Isabella, he went to Puer-to de Plata, where he likewise trassick- T sfi^ cks t0ed, but still in Danger. Thence he Advanta ^ e -sailed to Monte Chrijli, another Port onthe North-side of Hijpaniola, where hewas allowed to traffick peaceably, andfold the Rest of his Negroes. He madeso good a Return, that he not only loa-ded his three Ships, with Hides, Gin-ger, Sugar, and a good Quantity ofPearls: But he freighted two Hulksmore, with Hides and other Commodi-ties, which he sent to Spain. Havingthus finished his Commerce, he wentout by the Islands of the C aycos, with-out entring farther into the . Bay ; Andso returning with good Success, andgreat Advantage to himself and his Co- An ^ retur,fS -partners, arrived in England, Septem-ber, 1563. 1563..
The good Effects of the great Prepa-rations the Queen made were shortly af-ter seen; When, in the War she enteredinto inBehalf of theProtestants of France, ^ EJ „ :
besides the Land-Forces which she sent z ^ e th aidsinto Normandy, a Squadron of Englijh the Prote-Ships were ordered to their Assistance.
They scoured the Seas, and took so y/^Englifh.great Numbers of Prizes from the French, take a greatas almost wholly put a Stop to their many Prizes’-Trade. ^ ^
By Virtue of the Treaty, which Camden.Elizabeth had made with th eHuguenots,the Beginning of this Year, she was putin Possession of Havre de Grace, and Partof the six Thousand Men, which she had puttransported into Normandy, were placed mt0 fistin Garrison there, under the Command Hands of therof the Earl of Warwick, as Governour: English :The Remainder of these Troops enter-ed into Diep,
T H E Year 15 6 3. (d) the Huguenots,having made Peace with their King,
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(d) Camden fays, in his Account of theTransactions of this Year, that the French, hav-ing published a Proclamation, giving Liberty to
all Frenchmen, to assault, seize and plunder anyEnglishman , as long as they held Possession ofNew-Haven {Havre de Grace). The Queen
gave: