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1568.

A fifthVoyage.

The Englilhassaulted hythe Tartars :

Eli£, Naval Expeditions , &c 0 /"the English, Book ft

sent from

2?«f obtain aViffory overthem.

The Englilhtreacherouslyattacked andworsted bythe Cossacks.

Hackluyt,P. I.st 3%9-hstfeq.

Harrh .

The fame Year, Thomas Banijler andGeoffrey Ducket , likewise Servants ofthat Company, undertook the sameVoyage, They embarked, on the thirdof July, at Tere,slave, in aBark of seven-ty Tun, called the Thomas Bonadventure,having thirteen Erglijh and forty Ruffi-ans on Board. About forty Miles onthis Side AJlracan, they were assaultedby the Nagayan Tartars, in eighteenBoats, to the Number of threeHundredMen, armed with Swords and Spears,and some with Bows and Arrows. TheFight continued two Hours, and theyso galled the Tartars, with their Fire-arms, that they were obliged to retire,with the Loss of two Hundred of theirMen. This Success was followed by aprosperous Continuation of their Voyage,and Success of their Trade in Persia,where they continued till the Year1573. (c) But an unlucky Adventurein their Return bereaved them of theFruits of their Labour. Setting SailftomBibil, on th eCafpian Sea, the eighthof May , 1573. they beat up and down,with contrary Wind, till the eight andtwentieth, when, being at Anchor up-on the Flats, they were attack’d by aHundred and fifty Ruff an Qoffacks (aSort of Outlaws) who came up to them,in divers Boats, and, under Colour ofFriendship, entered their Vessels unsus-pected. They were no sooner on Board,than they flew several of the Ruff ans.Ducket, with some English, who wereunder the Spar-Deck behaved so gal-lantly, that they scoured the Hatches,flew 14 of the Cossacks, and wounded a-bout thirty more. But being overpower-ed with Numbers, and all sorely wound-ed, they were, at Length, obliged tocapitulate, and surrender their Ship andCargo, to save their Lives. They af-terwards found about an eighth Part oftheir Goods buried under Ground. Forfarther Particulars of these two Voyages,fee Harris, as above, and Hackluyt.

Towards the Close of this Year, anAccident happened, which set theQueen at Variance with the King ofSpain, and the Duke of Aha. A

(c) While they were in Persia , the Sophypurposing to send a great Sum oi Mony to Mec-ca in Arabia , for an Offering to Mahomet, wouldnot send any of his own Coin, but sent to theEnglijh Merchants to exchange it for theirs, giv-ing this Reason for it; " That the MerchantsMony was gotten by good Means, and was

-

Biscay , with a Spamlhf

T driven ft.Low- French P

Sum of Mony bein&

on some Vessels of

Passport from the King, for the

Countries , in Order, as it was said, to rates int".

raise a Bank there, these Ships were the Lns ,

attacked in their Passage, by French Pi- Harboef

rates, but with great Difficulty escaped

into Plymouth, Falmouth and Southamp «

ton. The Queen, at first, protected

them, and suffered the Mony to be M" n t l

landed; But upon Information that the

Duke of Aha intended to seize that

Mony, to enable him to carry on the

War, she was before-hand with him,

and laid hold of it by way of Loan,

giving Security for the Re-payment of

it, as soon as it should appear that it

belonged to the King of Spain. Re- . $

prizals were made by Spain and Re ^ rt

the Duke, and the Englijh, in their

Turn, made Seizures on the Spa-

nijh and Flemijh Ships and Effects.

The Duke of Aha prohibited all ,J

Commerce with England, and Philip, The. J

King of Spain, endeavoured to bribe fifties K.

the Duke of Norfolk, to raise a Rebel -tempt

lion there , while the Earl of Or- bauchrp

EngW 11

mond did the same in Ireland ; But

blemef-

The

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do gff a

these two Lords discover’d his Intrigues, Camde"'to the Queen; And it is incredible,with what Alacrity the Englijh there-upon put to Sea, and fell upon allMerchants-Ships belonging to the Spa-niards. The Damages they did, bytheir continual Cruising, were so great,that theQueen, fearing to be involved ina formal War, was forced to put a Stop _ aJto their Depredations, by publishing a ,,Proclamation, to forbid the Buying ofany Goods or Merchandize so taken, gjsst'Sir Walter Raleigh, however, observes,that when the Goods of our EnglijhMerchants were attacked by the Dukeof Aha, in the Netherlands, and byKing Philip, in Spain, the Queen arrest-ed, likewise, the Goods of the LowDutch in England, that amounted to agreater Value.

Whilst the Englijh Commerce was

ad-"

J

interrupted in this Manner in Spain andthe Low Countries, it was near being Cas stquite lost in Muscovy , by the Avarice of

the

" therefore worthy to be made an Oblation to" ttieir Holy Prophet; but his own Mony wasf. < /r tten ^ Fraud, Oppression and dishonest

„ r \ ea " s ’ and therefore was not fit to serve for“ lo holy a Use.