2 §6 Eliz,

Naval Expeditions T &c of the English

CHAP, XLT.

An Account of the Taking of two Spanish Ships, loaded with Quicksilver, &c„by Captain Th'omas White, with some other Occurrences of the- Tear , 1592.

1592. Hfrl H E fix and twentieth of July »Vol Ck ri y p L of this Year, 1592. CaptainII? p. 193.* ThdmaS White; returning from

Barbary , in the Ship called theAmity <sk London, and feeing the Heightfef f hi'rty-fix Degrees, or there -abouts, atfour th the Morning, he got Sight of twoShips, being distant from him aboutthree or four Dengues. About seven,he came up with them,'and finding them•lying about hCables Length one fromthe other, in a proper Posture to receivehim, the Fight-began. It was continu-ed, with great Fury, during the Spaceof five I lours, in which Time the Aini-Ty receited in ; ber-Hiill, Masts, and•Sails, two and thirty Cannon-Balls, -and■'above five Hundred Musket and Har-quebufs-Shot, which they told aster the'Fight. f _ :

CA p r'A in''White, perceiving by 'thisTrine, that they were-a- Match- for' him'at h Distance, refolved Ho-bosrd'Sns of'them, wBifcayan, then lying ai-head ofthe other, which fee did w ith great-"Re-solution, and, after an HoUr’s close andfoarp Eight, stowed all'-her Men. EhebtherShip,'which Was 'a-'Fly-boat, de-fended hetfel f stoutly 'for Tome iTinYe'longer, knd had so rhahy -Men •> kilied,that the Œnglijh could perceive theDlbbd ftreaming'oiit >of theirstfoupper-holes. ''At Leiigth, both 'Shipshavingfotrfehdred, Captain * White - O-de-fedtheir' Captains' and' Masters to 'come- >onBoard his SHip/'afid -then- sent-> seme*,ofhis own Men on Board their Ships, tostrike their Sails and man them. Hemade one Hundred and fix and twentyPrisoners, and found eight dead Menupon their Decks; But what Numberof Dead they had before thrown overBoard, I do not find. Captain Whitehad at first but two and forty Men and aBoy, of which two were killed, andthree wounded.

These two Prizes were loaded withfourteen Hundred Chests of Quicksilver,a Hundred Tuns of Wine, and a great, j’Quantity of Bulls or Indulgences, gilt *Miflals, or Service-books, and otherthe like spiritual Trinkets.

Or what Value these Prizes were tQ i£9 2 *the Captors, I do not find, but we havean Account, in Hackluyt, of the Dam-age the Spaniards sustained by the Lossof them, which, for the .Singularity ofit, I shall insert.

By the taking of this 'Quicksilver,

(says my Author) the King of SpaiyJost, for .every Hundred-weight of it,the like Weight of Silver, whidh was tphave been delivered to him, by the Ma-sters of the Mines in .America, amount-ing to six Hundred Thousend Pounds.

By. taking of his Indulgences, beingtwo .Millions and seventy-two Thou-sand, for .Living and Dead, .designedfor the Provinces of Nuem Hifp.am.ci,Jucatan, Guatemala, .the .Honduras,

-andethe BMilippines, ctaxed at. two Rialseach; And for eighteen Thousand more,taxed at four Ryals each, together a•Hundred -and 1 seven Thousand, seven-Hundred Pounds. In all seven :Hun-■ dred and seven Thouland, seven 1 Hun-dred Pounds.

:Ten Bundles of gilt Miflals and• BrCviaries, ifor the.King’s; Account, ..not.taxed. .

> BLsri>LS^ ! the Hundred sifons , ofWine, designed for the Use of ntfee; Fleet.

A Patent granted for idiTtade toGuinea.

■ In- the Month of May; of this;; Year, tiffiQueen ■ Elizabeth granted .a- P^ent, or t9 yspecial License, to Thomas Gregory, ofTaunton , in the County of Sommerfet,and to Thomas Pope, and other Mer-chants, to traffick to Guinea, from theNorthermost Part of the River of Non-ma, to the Southermost Parts of theRivers of Madrabumba, and Sierra Le-ona, and to other Parts as well to theSouth-East as to the Northwest, for acertain Number of Leagues, thereinspecified, amounting to a Hundred orthereabouts,. This Patent was grantedfor the Term of Ten Years, as appears