I H.2 Naval Expeditions

i g6p without including the Queen of England,the Earl of Warwick was besieged inHavre de Grace, and none were moreforward in endeavouring to expel theEnglijh from that Place, than those ve-ry Huguenots, who had put it into theirHands. The Earl, having turned out ofit all the French, as well Protestants asPapists, and seized on their Ships, de-fended it, for aTime,with great Bravery}But the Plague doing more Executionamong his Men than the Enemy, hewas obliged, atLength, to surrender thePlace. A Truce ensued, which waskymer iFœ- followed by a Peace the next Year,p ei si40.' ' signed atLroye,on the eleventh of April.

1564. In the Year, 1564. Mr. John Haw-

John Haw- kins, having met with so good Success,

£! n 5 s ec ° n f in his first Undertaking, resolved uponVoyage to the r r »’ jl r X ■

West Indies. a iecond V oyage, lor the Coast or Gui-

Hackluyt, nea, and from thence, with Negroes,.P.Ill.p.501. to E y e Indies.

Votiv p . For this Voyage, he had two Ships,1179. and two Barks, the Jesus of Lubeck, ofShips Names f even Hundred Tuns, the Solomon,of oneair Hundred and forty Tuns, the Fyger of

Their De- fifty, and the Swallow of 30 Tuns. Withpartute. these he departed, on the eighteenth

of OBober, from Fly mouth. The sameDay, they met, about ten Leagues outat Sea, the Minion, one of the Queen’sShips, commanded by Captain DavidCarlot, and the John Baptijl , of Lon-don, who were likewise bound for Gui-nea ; But the Minion, leaving the JohnBaptijl, in the Company of Mr. Haw-kins, went in Search of the Merlin, ofLondon, who had been separated fromthem.

The twenty-first, they had a violentStorm, that continued for three andtwenty Hours, during which they lostCompany of the John Baptist, and theSwallow, and the other three Ships re-ceived considerable Damage. Thetwenty-third they met, with the Swal-low again, ten Leagues to the North-ward of Cape Finijterre.

The Wind continuing contrary, onthe five and twentieth, they put intoFerrol, in Galicia, where they staidfive Days. The six and twentieth, theMinion joined them there, having hadthe Unhappiness to fee the Merlin blowup, and her Hulk funk, all that were

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in her being drowned, excepting a very 156Lfew, whom they took Up miserablyburnt.

The thirtieth, they all set Sail toge-ther ; the fourth of November, they hada Sight of the Island of Madera, and thesixth of Jeneriff. There they staid ’tillthe twentieth,and then departing,arrivedon the five and twentieth, at Cape Blanc, w

on the Coast of Africa. Here theytook in several Refrelhments, particu- 0 fMn&-larly Fish, and departing the six andtwentieth, came the nine and twentieth,to Cape Verd, in the Latitude of four-teen Degrees and a half. Here theyproposed to have taken some Negroes byForce, but the Minion’s Crew betrayedtheir Design, and prevented them. They,therefore, departed, on the seventh ofDecember, and came the next Day tothe Island of Alcatrarsa. Here the twoShips rode at Anchor, while the twoBarks went to the Island of the Sapies,called La Formio, where they landedwith eighty Men in Armour, thinkingto take some Negroes^ but they weretoo nimble for them.

The fourteenth, they came to the I- . ^sland of Sambula, where they staid seve- ^ e psat W vral Days, and took every Day some of bula,the Inhabitants, burning and ravagingtheir Towns. The twenty-first, havingtheir Negroes on Board, and being fur-nished with what Provisions they want-ed, in great Plenty, they set Sail, andarrived the next Day at the River ofCallow fa, at the Mouth of which thetwo Ships came to Anchor, while thetwo Barks, with the John’s Pinnace, andthe Solomon’s Boat, went up the River,and returned with two Caravels, loadedwith Negroes.

The seven and twentieth, the For- j^Byn^Vtugueje having inform'd them of a Townof Negroes, called Bymba, where theysaid they would find a great Quantity ofGold, if they would hazard the Attack,

Hawkins resolved to try his Fortune :

But, by the Carlessness, and Avarice ofthe Men, who separated, every Manhis own Way, in Search of Booty, theyonly brought off ten Negroes, with theLois of seven of their best Men, (amongwhom was Mr. Field, the Captain 01the Solomon) and seven and twenty Men

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gave the English the same Power against the French and Spaniard ; so that the Queen wasFrench, as long as they possessed Calais: Upon forced to excuse their Piracies oath & Spaniards,which (adds he) the Englijh put to Sea, with an by a lpecial Ambaffadour, and to restrain theirincredible large Fleet, and blocked up both the Insolence herein, by a Proclamation.