Chap. IX.

during the Reign os§L}teen Elizabeth.

1 .b^o. of'Drake Reviv’d almost agrees, differssomething from other Relations. Hefays, he came under the Line, thetwelfth of July 5 the sixteenth fell inwith the Coajl of Guinea ; the twenty-fecond of August , the Height of theCanaries, the eleventh of September theHeight of Tercera ; the four and twen-tieth in Sight of Scilly ; and the five andtwentieth to Plymouth. Being, if notthe first of all who could challenge hisGlory, yet questionless the first butMagellan, whom Death cut off in theMidst of his Voyage. At his Returnhe found, that, in the Couffe of his Voy-age, he had lost one natural Day in hisReckoning.

Such adventurous Voyages as theseonly have been generally attended with greatCruelties and Irregularities, especiallyon, the Part of the Commanders j It was,therefore, reckoned a Virtue in Drake,that his Adversaries could lay no Crimeto his Charge, but only his puttingDoughty to Death, his leaving a Portu-guese, whom he had taken upon theCoast of Africa, to the Cruelty of thethe Spaniards, at Aguatolco, and hisinhumane setting a Negro- Maid, givenhim by a Spaniard, whose Ship he hadspared, astioar on an Iiland, after stiehad been gotten with Child in his

Ship.

Ih^f°ur T h e Queen received Captain Drakevery graciousty, and the Ship, being'tcy.een. brought round to Deptford, was laid upin a Dock there, and, as it were, con-secrated, with great Ceremony, as aMonument of so successful a Navigation,about the World ; at which Time theQueen honoured the Captain, with herPresence, on Board, at Dinner, andconferred upon him the Dignity ofKnighthood. Bestowing on him, at thesame Time, for his Coat of Arms, A-zure waving between two Stars, withthe Globe of the Earth, and a Shipwith a Girdle, encompassing the Earth,for a Crest.

suffers re _ Amidst these Honours done to Drakes pt % ttc ' % his Sovereign, he had the Mortifi-,s Pre- cation to be looked upon by many nobetter than a Pyrate, and several of thechief Men at Court refused to accept theGold which he offered them, becausef S Pats (said they) it was gotten by Pyracy.c %pls«doul Hon Bernardino de Mendoza , thew] ‘sf* of Spanish Ambassiidour in England, wasvery loud with his Complaints, and de-manded Restitution. The Answer the

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Queen gave him, which was none of the i£-8o*

most Satisfactory, was as follows:

" That th eSpaniards, by their hard Camclt . n" Dealing w ith the Eagli/h, whom rhe ^ueMs" they had prohibited Commerce, con- Answer.

" trary to the Law of Nations, had" drawn these Mischiefs upon them-" selves. That Drake should be forth" coming, to answer according to Law,

" if he were convicted, by good Evi-" dence and Testimony, to have com-" mitted any Thing against Law and" Right. That those Goods were laid" by purposely, that Satisfaction might" be made to the Spaniards, tho’ the" Queen had spent a greater Sum of" Mony than Drake had brought in, a-" gainst those Rebels whom the Spa-" mard had raised and encouraged a-" gainst her, - both in Ireland and Eng-" land. Moreover, ssie understood not" why her or any other Prince’s Sub-“ jects should be debarred from the In-“ dies, which ssie could not persuade" herself the Spaniard had any just Ti-" tie to, by the Bissiop of Rome’s Do-" nation, (in whom she acknowledged no" Prerogative, much less Authority, in“ such Cafes, so as to lay any 27 e upon“ Princes, who owed him no Obedience or“ Observance, or, as it were, to infeoff" the Spaniard, in that new IVmid, dnd" invest him with the Poffejfon thereof )

" nor yet by any other Claim, than as“ they had touched, here and there,

“ upon the Coasts, built Cottages, and" given Names' to a River or a Cape ;tf which Things cannot entitle them to" a Propriety. So that this Donation" of what is another Man’s, which is of<<r no Validity in Law ; and this ima-" ginary Propriety, cannot hinder o-" ther Princes from trading into those" Countries, and, without Breach" of the Law of Nations, from trans-<( porting Colonies into those Parts" thereof, where xfe Spaniards inha-" bit not, (forasmuch as Proscription" without Pojsefjion is little worth ) nei-" ther from freely navigating that vast" Ocean, seing the Use of the Sea and" Air is common to all. Neither can" a Title to the Ocean belong to any" People or private Persons; total-" much as neither Nature nor Publick" Use and Custom permitted any Pos-" session thereof.” But ssie talked o-therwise, upon other Occasions. How- SÆever, a large Sum ot Mony was after-wards paid, on that Account,, to PedroSe bur a, a Spaniard ,

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