308 Eliz. Naval Expeditions ? &c .ofthe .English.,' I^qok

1^94. then made for England, arrived at.St. Eves, in Cot nival, the fifth of May,a 585.. Having, with his Fleet, daringthe Course of this Voy age, taken, funk,and burnt nine Spanish EMips, whichwas; a considerable Loss to them ; Butof little or no A dvantage to him.

Jones’s- Voyage to the Gulph of St.

Lawrence, &c..

Hackbyc, . T "" Voyage was performed by aP.III./.194. lmail Bark or five and thirty luns,commanded by Mr. Rice Jones, whichsailed from Brifiol, the fourth of Npril,of this Year. The nineteenth of May,they fell in with Cape d’Efpere, on theCoals of Newfoundland, in the Heightof seven and forty Degrees. The twen-tieth, they were athwart of Cape Raz,from whence they set their CourseNorth-west for Cape St. Mary, on theEast Side of the great Bay of Placentia.

From thence, they shaped theirCourse for the Iflands of S. Pedro, and,entering into the Harbour there, foundtwo Ships of Sibiburo, fishing for Cod,where they stay’d two Days, and bal-lasted their Ship. Coming out of theHarbour’s Mouth, they laid their Ship

the Lee, and, in two Hour’sSpace, took with their Hooks three, orfour Hundred Cod, for their Provision.

, They then departed from the 1 Hands of 'S. Pedro to enter the Gulph of St. Laity~re,nee, between Cape Briton and those1 Hands.

Coming into the Bay of St. George,they found the Wrecks of two Bifc,

ayan

Ships, out of which they took seven oreight Hundred Whale-Fins, and someIron Bolts and Chains of their Main andFore-Shrouds. Having dispatched theirBusiness in the Bay of St^Geo/ge's, andstaid there ten Days, being informed,that the Whales, when they werewounded in the Grand Bay, and after-wards escaped, were wont to Ihoot them-selves on Shoar on the Hie of stffump-tion, or Nats cot ec, at the Mouth of thegreat River which runs up to Canada,they shaped their Course thither, andarrived there about the Middle of June ;But finding themselves deceived in theirInformation, they returned to the Bayof Placentia, where they made theirVoyage, to their Satisfaction, by Fishingfor Cod ; And, returning to England, ar-rived in the River of Brifiol, the fourand twentieth of September .

CHAP. XLVIIT.

Sir Martin Forbilherb Expedition to Brest, in Bretagne, with, the Death os' that

brave Commander.

1594 -

Camden-Sir WilliamMonson'j-Tratls.

Sir MartinForbishersent with aSquadron toBrest.

HE Queen having sent SirJohn Norris, in the Year 1991.with three Thousand Soldiers, toBreft, to alsist the King of Francein those Parts against the League, theKing of Spain, who was the Upholderof that Faction, had sent Don Juan deMquila, with the like Number ofTroops thither, to joyn with the Dukede Merceur, who was on that Side. TheSpaniards had fortified themselves verystrongly near the Town of Brest, andwere in Expectation of fresh Succoursfrom Spain, by Sea, which the King ofFrance fearing, had desired Naval As-sistance of the Queen.

Her Majesty considering, that theSpaniards having the Haven of Brest toentertain their Shipping in, mightprove Her most dangerous Neighbours,

readily granted the French King’s De-mand, and Sir Martin Forbijher, with aFleet, (according to Camden ) of tenMen of War, were sent thither; ButSir fVilham Monfon says, only with fourof her Ships, viz.

The Vanguard, commanded by SirMartin himself.

The Rainbow, Captain Fenner.

The Dreadnought, Captain Clifford ;

And,

The Quittance, Captain Savill.

These Ships had Orders to makegood that Harbour.

, The French League being this Yeardissolved, and Norris having been cal-led Home, to give the Queen an Ac-counts in Person, of the State of theWar in Bretagne, was remanded backthither, with Orders to seize on the

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