g/j.8 Eli x. Naval Expeditions, &c of the English, Book 1L

1596. and their Circumstances and several Re-lations one to the other. To which hehas added a Table of these Rivers, theNations, Towns and Captains, and o-ther Circumstances of them, with Re-flections on the Service the Settlement ofa Trade there might and would be of, tothe English Nation.

Mr. Key- "To conclude (fays he) your Lord-mis'i Ac- “ ship (meaning Sir Wliter Raleigh,count of Gm- ( c Lord of the Stanneries, &c.) has" paid for the Discovery and Search" {viz. of the Country of Guiana) both" in your own Person, and since by" me. You have framed it, andmould-" ed it ready for Her Majesty, to set" on Her Seal. If either Envy or Ig-" norance, or other Device, frustrate" the Rest, the Good which shall grow" to our Enemies, and the Loss which" will come to Her Majesty and this" Kingdom, after a few Years, will" shew itself. We have more People," more Ships, and better Means, and" yet do nothing. The King of Spain" has had so sweet a Taste of the" Riches thereof, as notwithstanding* c he is Lord of so many Empires ana" Kingdoms already, notwithstanding“ his Enterprizes or France and Flan-" ders, notwithstanding he attended" this Year a Home-Invasion $ Yet hetc sent eight and twenty Sail to Trini-te dada, ten whereof were for that" Place and Guiana , and had some" other Ships ready at Cadiz, if they" had not been set on Fire, by Her“ Majesty’s Generals, and your Lord-" ship.

" In a Word, the Time serves, the 1596*" like Occasion seldom happens, in" many Ages, the former repeated" Considerations do all jointly together" importune us, now or never, to make" ourselves rich, our Posterity happy,

" our Prince every Way stronger than" our Enemies, and to establish our& Country in a flourishing and peace-<( able State. O then let not such an" Indignity rest on us, as to deprave so" noble an Enterprise with false Ru-" mours, and vain Suppositions, to" sleep in a Matter of so great Impor-" tance, and renouncing the Honour,

" Strength, Wealth and Sovereignty of" so famous a Conquest, to leave all to" the Spaniards.

Notwithstanding the seeming lit- Hackluyt,tie or no Success of this Voyage, Sir 111 AWalter Raleigh was not discouraged 52 ‘from pursuing the Design; But, whe-ther spurred on by any private Intelli-gence of Discovery made by Mr. Key-mis, or in Hopes of carrying the Dis-covery farther, he fitted out, this Year,a -Pinnace, called the Watte, which secSail, the fourteenth of OBober, fromLime-houfe, but did not get clear ofWeymouth, ’till the seven and twentiethof December. As there is little or no-thing more in -the Account we have ofthis Voyage, than in that of Keymis's,and it tended much to the same Pur-pose, I shall only add, that after hav-ing made some farther Discoveries, theShip returned safe to England, and ar-rived at Plymouth, the eight and twen-tieth of June, of the following Year.

C HAP. LVI.

Sherle y’j Expedition to the West-Indies.

1596.

Hackluvt,P. lll.p.

HIS Expedition was underta-ken by Sir Anthony Sherley , Kt.and designed for the Island of, St. Thomas. The Ships fitted

/s De/fa out for this Service were :

Vorceofthe The Bevice, Admiral, of threeieet. Hundred Tuns.

Th e Gallion, Vice-Admiral, of two

Hundred aridforty Tuns.

The George, Rear-Admiral, of oneHundred and sixty Tuns.

The Arch-Angel, of two Hundredand fifty Tuns.

The Swan, of two Hundred Tuns.

The George-Noble, of one Hundredand forty Tuns.

The Wolf, of seventy Tuns.

T h e Mermaid, of one Hundred andtwenty Tuns.

Th e Little John, of forty Tuns, aGaily, and a Pinnace.

This Fleet departed from Hampton,the twenty-third of April, being victu-alled for ten Months, and having nineHundred Sailors and Soldiers on Board.

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