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1594. commend them to Mercy; Theyshould have swam on Board, with someof their Pearls and Jewels, at least, a-bout them. The Seamen would thenhave been careful of such preciousLives, and would not have let themgone to the Bottom, if there had beenany Way possible to keep them aboveWater; But they had divested them-selves of what lhould have pleaded intheir Favour ; And for Want of theseAdvocates miserably perished.

After the English quitted the Car-rack, she burnt all that Day, and thenext Night; But the next Morning,the Fire reaching sixty Barrels of Pow-der, which were under the lowermostDeck, split her all in Pieces.

And all the Tii E whole Number thus lost andPeople de- destroyed amounted to eleven Hundredft roy ed. Men, the two aforementioned only ex-cepted ; Tho’ by Hackluyfs Accountit would seem as if some more weresaved ; For he says, that those whowere taken up, besides the two abovementioned, were set asiioar at Flores.On the Side of the Englijh, some fewSoldiers, with the Vice-Admiral, werekilled, and the Admiral desperatelywounded; Who, likewise, died of hisWounds, soon after his Return. ThisBattle was fought open off of the Soundbetween Fiat and Pico , six Leagues tothe Southward.

After this Disaster, they sailed forFlores , where they refreshed, and, onthe nine and twentieth of June , disco-

C H A P.

Lancaster’^ andVenneFs Ex

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verecl the other Carrack, of fifteen Hun- 1^94-dred Tuns, which they supposed to bethe St. Philip, a Spanijh Man of War,which made them engage with thegreater Caution. They sent their Boaton Board, to summon her to yield tothe Queen of England' s Ships, underthe Command of the Far! of Cumberland, f entth reaming them, that, in Cafe of a Re- another Ca ffusil, they should incur the same Fate rack -as the Cinque Llagas, which they infor-med them off by their two Prisoners.

The Answer of the Commander of theCarrack, Don Lewis de Cofynio, was;

" If your General has been at the Burn-" ing of the Cinque Llagas, so have I" been at the burning and taking of the" Revenge, belonging to the Queen of" England. Therefore, let him do" what he dare for his Queen, and I" will do what I am able for my King;"

With which Answer he ordered theBoat immediately to depart.

Upon this, the Fight was begun again,but soon put a Stop to by a Calm ; Itwas afterwards renewed, and the Car-rack boarded, for two Hours together;

But after site was terribly shattered, theEnglijh Commanders being most of themkilled, the Men began to be remiss,and left the Battle, when the Advan-tage was on their Side. They thenmade the best of their Way for England,where they arrived in September, hav-ing done much Damage to the Enemy,with little or no Advantage to them-!selves.

XLVI

'sedition to the Goaf of Brasil.

I N the Year, 1594. Captain JohnLancaster, who was sent out withthree Ships and a Pinnace, or Gally-Frigat, in Pieces, for the private Ac-count of some Merchants of London, inRevenge for the Spaniards having seiz-ed some of their Effects, was successfulagainst them, on the Coast of Brajil.These three Ships were :

Thy. Consent, of the Burden of twoHundred and forty Tuns, or there a-bouts, Admiral, commanded by Lan-cafter himself.

The Solomon, of one Hundred andseventy Tuns, Vice-Admiral, Captain

Edmund Barker, of London, Command-er : And

The Virgin, of sixty Tuns, command-ed by Mr. John Audley, of Poplar, nearLondon.

With these Ships, and two Hundred t^ c s eTand seventy-five Men and Boys, he set depad 1 'Sail from Dartmouth, the last of Novem-ber. They were hardly fifty Leaguesfrom the Coasts, before Lancafer wasseparated from the two other Ships, ina Storm, They met, however, again atCape Blanco, and by that Time had,together, taken nine and thirty Spanijhand Portuguese Ships, of several Sorts;

Camden.

Hackluyt,

P. Til. p.

708.