Fartherskirmishes*gitb the

drench.

One of theShips castto/jay.

GhAp. LXI. during the 'Reign

159*7. pair a Pinnace of seven or eight Isuns,which they had with them. The twelfthof June, they cast .Anchor .under ,,theNorth-East End of thejfiandof Menego,where they caught, great Store of Cod ;As they did, the sixteenth, at Brian’sIsland. The eighteenth, they came tothe Island of Ramea, where they foundfour Ships, two of St, Malo, and .two ofSibiburo, with which the Hopewell hadseveral Scuffles, at first to their. .Advan-tage; But, in the End, ^hey were oblig-ed to leave the Island, with the Toss oftheir Pinnace, and an Anchor and Ca-ble.

The Chancewell,. which had been se-parated from the Hopeivell some Timebefore, had the Misfortune to by cast a-way, on the three and twentieth.,, onthe Main of Cape Briton , and her Wreckpillaged by the French, who strip’d herMen to the very Shirts; And, in thisPlight, eight of them, in their Shallop,■Andpitta- met the Hopewell, after they came. fromthe Island of Ramea. They, therefore,sailed immediately to the Road, wherethe Chancewell was lost,, as well to takein the Rest of the Men, a? to •, sayewhat they could of the Remains of theWreck. ^

The Hopewell met afterwards with agreat Biscay an, of three Hundred, Tuns,whose People had been the most busy;in pillaging their Companion ; ;! And,,what with good Words and Threats to-gether, got a good Part of what theyhad stoln back again.

^Spanish The eighteenth of July, they tooktaken: a gp an ifc Ship, off of St. Lawrence’s,with their Boat, in which was only the -Master and sixteen Men: But beforethey could bring her to their own Ship,

1 597 -

Jrt of hersods reco-rd.

of en Elizabeth,

- - ■ • f'if, > -j • yj;

some of the chief of them were surpriz-ed in their Boat, by some Barks of St.

John de- Luz-yiiyd were thereupon, to Rut lost a-save their Lives, obliged to restore the satn '

Ship.

The five and twentieth, being in the A large ErgHarbour of \ Cape St. Mary’s, they at- ta-

tacked a Ship belonging to Belli fe , of en "twoHundred Tstns,'.and above fortyMen, which, after a sharp Engagement,they boarded and took; And, in her,

Mr. Leigh, after having got what Fishand Oyl he could, returned to England,where he arrived the Beginning of Sep- And broughttember, having before dispatched the t0 ^ n S !and -Hopewell to the Azores,

This Year there was an Interruption Camden.of the Trade and Nayigation between Il Jff ru P ttcnEngland and Germany. The Hans- % a vigatiinTowns had interposed so effectually between En-with the Emperour, that the English S Iand andMerchants, called Adventurers, were ■ œan y"prohibited all Traffics' in Germany ; Be-cause (as was alledged ) they practisedtheir Trade, and fold their Wares there,by the Laws of England, and not thoseof the Empires. The Queen having ap-plied to the Emperour, and to the Prin-ces of the Empire , tp . have this Edictsuspended, and Matters brought to aComposition, but without Effect, sheissued out a Proclamation in London, thatthe fame Day the English were com-manded to leave* Germany, those of theHanse-towns . should be > prohibited totrade or tarry in London,, or any otherPlace within, the Ringdom of - England ;and the Lord Mayor of, London was or-dered to dispossess all those of theHanse-towns,• of their Abode in the City,called the Steel-Vard.

CHAP. LXI,

The tenth, and moji considerable ofall the Earlof Cumberland’* Expeditions?with some other Occurrences of the Tear, 1598. (a')

5^98, H IS Expedition was the most ’till. then fitted out by.-Subjects alone.

F c urobSv I considerable of any we find per- There went out; at this Time, in all, Purchasstformed by the Earl, whether no less than twenty. Sail, several of Vol. IV. p.kf t . Ex - we consider the Transactions of which were hisLordlhip’s own Ships, ^William

it, or. the Number of dhipS that com- - and the Rest Furnished chiesly at his MonfonV'Ft t. p . ’ posed his Fleet, which was the largest Charge, without any of the Queen’s. . Trails,

' The

(a) Pu rch as, and, probably from him, Har- the Capitulation proposed by the Inhabitants of

ris have placed this Voyage in 1596. . But this is Flares wasupoil the fame Footing as that granted ”>

an apparent Mistake; And besides, the former them, the Year before, by the Earl ot Essex,

contradicts himself, in the latter Part of his Re- which was ifl the Year 1597. as the Reader has

lation taken from Doctor Layfield , where he fays seen above.