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[ 1580. The same Day the Ship was hawl- the following Verses on the Main-mast, jgge*ed up j some Winchester Scho] ars set up in Praise of Drake :

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Camden, "'Plus ultra, Herculeis ihferibas, Drace, Columnist

Et, Magno, die as, Hercule major ero.

Drac.e, pererrati novit quem terminus Orbis,

Quemque femel Mundi vidit ut er que Polus,

Si taceanf homines, faciant te Sidera notum :

Sol nescit Comitis non memor ejj'e fui.

Digna Ratis quœ Jlet radiantibus inclyta Stellis ;

Supremo Cœli Vertice digna Ratis.

Of the Persons who accompaniedjDrake, in this Grand Expedition roundthe World, I find Mention .made, byName, only of Thomas. Drake, SirFrancis's Brother, Thomas Hood, Tho-mas Blacoler, John Gripe, George aMusician, Crane , Fletcher, Gary, T.Moone, John Drake, John Thomas, Ro-bert Winterly, and Oliver t he Gunner.J $ 79 ‘ In the Year 1579, a Rebellion innden. Ireland being fomented by the King ofSpain, who sent over three Ships, anda small Body of Men, to the Assistanceof- the Rebels ; These Ships lying ata Place called St. Mary Wick, in Kerry,Peninsula of Ireland, were attacked,taken, and carried off, by ThomasCourtney, an Englijh Gentleman, whoby Accident lay in a Man of War atAnchor hard by.

The same Year, AmuratKCham,Emperour of the Turks, upon Treatybetwixt William Harbourn, an English-man, and Mujlapha Beg, a Turkijh Bas-saw, granted, That the Englijh Mer-chants might freely trade throughoutthe Turkijh Dominions, in like Manneras the French, Venetians, and otherNations did. Whereupon, the EnglijhMerchants, by the Queen’s Privilege,afterwards granted , associated them-

selves into a Company, called the ijjfyTurky Company. This Company hassince continued a very advantageousTrade to Constantinople, Smyrna, Alep-po, Angori, Scio, Petrazzo, Alexan-dria, Egypt, Cyprus, and several Placesin AJia, for Spices, Cotton, raw Silk,

Mohair, Tapistries, Indian Dye, Grapesof Corinth, or Currants, Soap, andmany other Merchandizes; of whichfee more in the next ensuing Chapter.

This Year, likewise, Captain Ri-chard Whitburn, of Exeter, was em-ployed by Mr. Cotton, a Merchant of^XSouthampton, to fish, on the Great Bank . p-(of Newfoundland ) ; But, his Compa-nions not being able to endure therica.Cold, he put into Trinity Harbour,where they killed Store of Fish, Deer,

Bears, Beavers, Seals, Otters, Sea-Fowl,

&c. and,having made a tolerable Voyage,returned to England.

In the Year 1580. the Lord Greydeparted for Ireland, as Lord Deputy,and a large Transport of choice Troopswas sent over with him: And in No-vember following, some Spaniards andItalians, sent by the Pope, to fomentthe Rebellion, having seized a Fort inthe West of Ireland, he recovered theFort, and put them all to the Sword-

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