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" Fleet. Offering to make their Es- People were in a Flame, the Met- 1568." cape, they were discovered, and se- chants murmured loudly, and the" verely stocked: Then imprisoned a whole Nation was impatient for a" Year, in the Contrectation House, in War, that they might be revenged up-" S evil j But breaking Prison were tak- on the Spaniards for their Treachery.

" en, and by the Inquisition sentenced: Nevertheless, the Queen did not think" Robert Barret and John Gilbert, to it proper, at that Time, to strew her" be burnt ; Job Hor top and John Bone Resentment, for Fear of being engag-" to the Gallies, for ten Years, and as- ed farther than the Situation of her" ter that to perpetual Imprisonment. Affairs would permit; tho’ these Out-Others were adjudged to the Gallies, rages could not but be very grievous“ some eight, some five Years. Hor- to her.

" top served twelve Years, in Hunger, In the mean Time Mary , Queen of Rapin.

" Thirst, Cold, and Stripes, and after Scots , having been obliged to resign P? mde ”‘

" four Years Imprisonment, in his the Crown to her Son, and submit to O yscotsfr<?-" Fool’s Coat, was redeemed to the a Confinement, from which she after tiring tvEir" Service of Hernando de Soria, from some Time escaped, and was defeated gland fir" whom, after three Year’s Service by the Regent of Scotland, at the Bat- ^ hel(er>

" more, lie stole away, and landed at tie of Glafcow, unfortunately for her,

“■ Portjmouth, in December, 1590. after retired into England, and put herselftc three and twenty Years miserable under the Protection of Queen Eliza-" Bondage. beth. The Queen, after several Deli-

" As for David Ingram^ Travels to berations with her Council, whatMea-“ the North-Parts, (fays Purchas) Hack- sures were to be taken in this impor- Ts detained“ luyt published them in his first Edi- tant Matter; resolved at last, for her ^f^ abetl1 ’" tion ; But some Things in his Report own Safety, to detain her: And from ”umpire° 0 ™ eS

“ having seemed incredible, he left this Time, Elizabeth became an \Jm- the Affairs

them out in the next.” pire of the Affairs of Scotland, an Ad- "/Lcotland.

Hawkins, himself, with the Rest vantage so great, that she took everyof his Company, were first endangered Opportunity of improving it. (a)by a vehement Storm, after that with About this : Time,Queen Elizabeth ^.-ElizabethFamine, his Men dying continually} So again resolved to give Assistance to the the

that the Rest, not being able to manage oppressed Huguenots, in France, and, S uenoS '

the Ship, and the Winds crofting, seek- upon their humble Supplication foringto relieve themselves at Ponte vedra, Aid, sent them a Hundred Thousandnear Vigo, in Spain, with fresh Meat, Crowns of Gold, with a good Train ofthey grew diseased, and many of them Artillery. The Protestants, in thedied. They were thereby, likewise, Low Countries, being likewise hardlyin Danger, of being betrayed, a second used by the King of Spain , many Fie- And suffersTime, tothcSpariards, which they hard- mijh Families fled to England, for Re-ly escaping, arrived in England, the fuge, and the Queen gave them Li - t0 pj t i etwentieth of January , 1596. berty to settle in several Towns , England.

Hawkins concludes his Relation of where they contributed very much tothis unfortunate Expedition, by saying, the Encrease of the Trade of this Na-that if all the Miseries and Troubles of tion. {b)

this melancholly Voyage were to be This Year, 1568. Mr. Arthur Ed- Harris'scompleatiy and thoroughly written, it wards, Agent, Lawrence Chapman, and Collection,Would require a laborious Man with his other Servants of the Ruffian Company, A ^^525,fen, and as much Time, as the Author made a fourth Voyage to Persia, where 13 a fourthhad, who wrote the Lives and Deaths of they obtained some new Privileges, Voyage tothe Martyrs. written in Letters of Gold and Azure, Persia.

The News of this no sooner arriv- by which several Abuses, to the Disad-e d in England, than all the Seafaring vantage of their Trade, were rectified.

The

Ji v- {a) The Proceedings upon this Umpirage aretoo tedious, as well as too foreign to the De-n - %n of this History, to find Place here ; But thep curious Reader may find them impartially stated

Q>il (l( n j? Rapin , and Mr. Tindal’s Notes on that Hi-

story. j n Qamden , however, are the severalLetters, Declarations, Answers, Protests, (sic.Which are omitted in Rapin.

{V) They fettled a t Norwich, Colchosier, QamdenSandwich, Maids one and Southampton, which

turned to the great Advantage oi England ; for

they were the first that brought into the Nationthe Art of making,Bays and Says, and otherWoollen Manufactures of the like Kind.