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fercem* -and, ' "being • departze^^om being 1 equal. But"their' '}dy Ws ssopnflwnro “if. f-ViAiV PrMiVrp for Shorn " ‘STr shared : For Gomino- nn with those Shins'

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.thence., “in their Course for SparnfHit abated ; ^pr coming up .with those Ships,Richard Levison, with his 'few.:$bips> 'he found them to -Be:; £/' " "

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the Help of the twelve Hollanders tr .may very well account this.-not the. leastJ great £r-Frror or.Negligence that has beehci) su-

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mitted in our Expeditions. -For -if.-theHollanders had kept Touch, according

Sir William

This was,' however, : no-" Discourage meritto Hs farther Searchstfter the'.) Spansards:

And,the' next Day, He gave Chafe to.oneShip'alone, that cajhe out oF t‘He IncHey, j^iwhich he took, .dio^Fe-Fad beerf stetter -without her; For Ae brought him sofar to the Teeward,MK,'theTai^-Mgh^the GMions passed'tp;the Wind-ward, not And, Jadeto their Promise, and the Queen’s Ships above eight or ten ^eagues)off , as '-theyFad been .fitted out with -Care, and’ in afterwards heard, by an EngltjEVmnice, e p^

Time, they had made Her Majesty wsticjb met them, and ; qam'e : Tiito sthhirMistress of more Treasure than any of Company the Day following. .. TheseHer Progenitors ever enjoyed. Misfortunes ljghtdr^ upon, Sir i Richard

, Sir Richard Lev ism’s Design against first, and after upon' Sir William, mightseeking him i the India- Fleet, notwithstanding his have been sufficient Reasons to discour-known Valour and Conduct, being thus age them ; But they, knowing the Ac-frustrated, and, by the Remissnefs of cidents of the Sea, and that Fortunethe Dutch chiefly, crossed, he plied to- could ps well laugh as weep, havingwards the Rock, to meet Sir William good Ships under Foot, their MenMonson , being the Place appointed, be- found and in Health,., -and Plenty oftwixt them. But Sir 'William, havipg Victuals, did not doubt, but that somespent fourteen Days thereabouts, and of the Wealth, which the two Indieshearing no Tidings of him, went round sent yearly to Spain, would yet fall toto the Southward Cape, where he was their -Shares. : , : •

likewise frustrated of a. most promising Upon the first Dry of to be- He

Expectation; For meeting with certain gin their new Fortune) with a new*^*UFrenchmen , and Scotch, at the same In- Month, Sir Richard Levifm} and Sirstant, he discovered three Ships of ours ' WiBianr 'Monson, "who ’-Ibme'few-’FKghtssent by Sir Richard to look him. These before had met accidentally at Sea, wereFrench and Scotch Ships came from St. close on Board the Rock, where theyLucar, and reported, that five Gallions took two Ships of the Eajl Country,were ready, the next Tide, to set Fail bound for Lrsbon, and whilst they A w &reGets Intelli- for the Indies ■, They likewise told him rummaging these Ships,they espied aCa-gence of the of two others, that departed three Days ravel coming from Cape Espichel, bear-Gallions: before, in which went Don Pedro de ing with them, which, by Signs sheValdez, to be Governor of the Havana, made, they perceived had a Desire towho had been Prisoner in England, in speak with them. Sir Richard imme-1588. diately chased her, and left Sir William, swo

These two latter Ships were met with the two Easier lings, to cruise a- * rn & S taone Night by the War-spight, whereof bout the Rock, ’till his Return. TheCaptain Sommers was Captain ; But whe- Caravel being fetch’d up, gave Account,ther it was by the Darkness of the Night, that a large Carrack, of sixteen Hon-or any other Casualty, I know not, they dred Tuns, was just arrived at Gezimbra,escaped. near St. Ubes, richly laden from the

This News of the five Gallions, and Eajl-Indies, and that there were eleventhe three Ships of the Queen’s, so hap- Gallies, in the fame Harbour, three of

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covered five Ships, which in Respect of sent by two Ships of ours, the Non-pareil zimbratheir Number and Course, be made and the Dreadnought, which lay there-Reckoning to be the; five Gallions, and abouts, to look out the Admiral,thought that Day should be a full Deter- With what Joy they received thisruination and Trial of the Strength and News, may be imagined, Sir R ichardPower, betwixt the English and the Spa- made Signs to Sir William, to stand withnijh Ships, their Number and Greatness him, and least the Signs should not be

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