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1589. there, in Order to prevent the Passageof all Strangers that Way to the South-Sea. Here they made a Boat, as wellas they could, of the Boards of theirSeven Men Chests, which being finished, they sentSavages.*^ s even armed Men on Land, on theNorth Shoar, who were no sooner land-ed than they were treacherously stainby above a Hundred Savages, in theSight of the two Men who rowed themon Shoar, but cams back alone withthe Boat.
After this, they fell back again tothe North-East-ward of Port Famine, toa Road where they refreshed themselveswith Muscles, and took in Water andWood: Here, likewise, they tookin the Spaniard, whom I just be-fore mentioned, and then failed for-wards again into the Streight. TheyThey are di- passed, seven or eight Times, tenft re fed by Leagues Westward, beyond Cape Fro-myrary ward But the North-West Wind andCurrents d c ^ e Current were so vehement againstthem, that they frequently forced themback in two Hours, farther than theycould get up again in eight. /
Th us, after they had spent six WeeksAnd obliged in the Streight, striving against the Furyto return • c f q ie Elements, and having, at sun-dry Times, partly by Casualty, andpartly by Sickness, lost eight and thirtyof their best Men, and three Anchors ;And, besides, having now but one An-chor left, and, which was worst of all,several of their Men mutinous, theyconsulted, tho’ somewhat of the latest,for the Safety of their Lives, to returnwhile there was some Hopes left, andso set Sail out of the Streight home-ward, about the fourteenth of Febru-ary .
They returned back again by theRiver of Plate, and, sailing near the
Coast of Brajil, met with a Portuguese 13^.'
Ship of eighty Tuns, which rode at An- ralcur S e .chor upon the Coast ; And, as soon as Portugshe discovered them, ran herself onGround, between the Island of St. Se-bastian and the main Land: But sheneed not have been under such terrible Ad-,
Apprehensions; For the English, for ; nun
Want of a good Boat, and by Reasonof the bad Weather, could neitherboard her, nor go on Shoar.
From thence they shaped theirCourse,in extream Misery, for the Isles ofCap eVerd, and so passing to the Nzores,the Canaries being somewhat out oftheir Course, the first Land they made,in our Narrow Seas, was the Island of.Hlderney. They run in about eightMiles to the West of Cherbourg, inNormandy, where her only Anchor she Thehad left coming Home, and having yo lo ft-more than six Men left, she run on theRocks and split: But the small and mi-serable Rest of this unhappy Company,being only four Englijhmen, were saved,and returned to England.
Henry III. King of France, being Cam <jesl'this Year assassinated by a Jacobin Stow-Monk, j Henry, King of Navarre, a HenrysProtestant, assumed the Succession, by y^f lC eV rthe Name of Henry IV. Being however dered-opposed by the League, and driven bythe Duke of Mayenne into Normandy, hehad Recourse to Queen Elizabeth for JV ',Succour, which She promised him. Shewas soon afterwards as good as her demand*, .
Word, and sent him not only two an d and obt^j-twenty Thousand Pound in Mony, buta Transport of four Thousand Men, ^under the Command of Peregrine, LordCFilloughby, accompanied by Sir Tho-mas IF'Iford, Sir John Burroughs, SirThomas Drury, and Sir Thomas Basker-ville.
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Sir John Hawkins; and Sir Martin Forbislier’r Expedition on the Coast of Spain,
and to the Islands.
1590. / AUEEN Elizabeth, having nowI | p een b y many happy Instances,Jonson'f m good Effects of a potent Na-
ratls. val Force, and being resolved to securehe gaeen Herself for the future from all Surprize,Trfdvy: was pleased to put her Fleet upon a
better and more regular Footing, than 1it had ever till then been. And
She assigned the certain yearly Sum a J e !f 0 f, ,,of eight Thousand nine Hundred and kee ping is 'seventy Pounds for the Repair of it. A Rep a,r 'Sum then reckoned very considerable ;
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