James L Naval Expeditions, &c of the English, Book 111
1613. under the Broad Seal, forbidding Fo-v h- reigners, and all others, frequentingthe Coast of Greenland , sent out seven466. 713. Ships upon this Trade, They met there7 l6 ‘ with fifteen Sail of large Ships, two ofthem Dutch, and the Rest French, Spa-nijh, and Flanderkins ; besides four Eng-lish Interlopers, all which they drovefrom the Coast; But spent so muchTimein doing it, that they, in some Mea-sure, lost their own Voyage, and cameHome some Hundred Tuns dead Freight,they caught, however, sixteen Whales.Baffin, in his Account of this Voyage,fays, besides these, they obliged theForeigners to catch several Whales forthem. They discovered, likewise, Hope-'discovered. Ist an d, and other Islands to the East-ward.
Marriage of T h e Beginning of this Year was like-Elizabetl. wife celebrated the Marriage of Frede-rick, V. EleBor Palatine, with thePrincess Elizabeth, the King’s eldestDaughter, with all the Magnificence andSolemnity imaginable, from which Mar-riage descended our present IllustriousRoyal Family.
The first East-India Voyage, set forthby the United Stocks of the Company, (st)
Sb/ C /.psto6. 1 AM now to give a brief Account ofHams ’sCcl. the first Voyage set forth by the unitedp. /. p. 143. Stocks of the East India Company. Thechohs * 1 ^ eeC for this Voyage consisted of fourDownton’r Ships, the New Tears-Gift, of six Hun-Voyagetothe dred and fifty Tuns, Admiral, com-East-Indies. manc ] ec ] by Captain Nicholas Downton,chief Commander in this Expedition,the HeBor of five Hundred Tuns, Vice-Admiral ; the Merchants Nope, of threeHundred Tuns, and the Solomon oh twoHundred Tuns. This Fleet set Sail inthe Beginning of the Year 1614.,
When this little Fleet came, in OBo-ber, to Sur at, they found the Indians inopen War with th ePor fuguese, and theysoon found they should be obliged to takea Part in it, or give over all Thought ofTrade. The eighteenth of January,{615. the Portuguese Vice-roy came in
Sight, with his Fleet, which in the E- i 6 i 3 *vening they made to be six Gallions,
; three Ships, two Gallies, and sixty Fri-gats, a very unequal Match for fourShips; However, they courageously re-solved to wait the Event. Nay theyhad the Boldness to begin the Attack,with one Ship, the Hope ; The Portu-guese had the Courage to engage herwith their three Ships, two Gallies andalmost all the Frigats, to whose Assist-ance the Galleons were likewise hastn-ing. They boarded the Hope ; But nosooner did the other three English Shipscome up, than these valiant Conibat-tants fairly leaped over board, trustingto their own Ships to fish them up asthey could, and their whole Fleet asvaliantly gave over the Fight soon after.
A great Number of their Men weredrowned, and a much greater (at leastthe more considerable Part of them forQuality) lost their Lives in this Encoun-ter, on Board the Hope.
Not trusting their Force to be suffici- The Forw-ent against the formidable English Fleetof four Merchant-Ships, the Portuguese ed by thesent for Supplies, but upon their Ar- English,rival had not the Courage to attack theEnglijh, otherwise than at a Distance,by sending down Fire-ships upon them,which they did several Times, and, be-ing unsuccessful in this Attempt likewise,soon after retreated. By an Accountthey got from Damon, the Portuguesehad sent three Hundred and fifty of theirDead, to be buried there; And, by amodest Computation, there cannot havebeen less than a Hundred more killedand burnt in the Ships, besides thosewho were drowned. The English, hav-ing finished their Commerce, set Sailfrom Surat, but were hardly got to Sea,on the third of March, when they foundthemselves pursued by a fresh Portu- The Port*guefe Fleet. They drew them out to %sz&dartSea, and then. halted to offer them Bat- Battlestie, but the Portuguese chose rather to decline it-sheer off, than to run the Hazard of sounequal a Fight, as not more, perhaps,than ten to one. (r) They thereforesuffered the Englijh to pursue their Voy-age
(b) So Harris calls it; and adds. . Note thatHarrts. .now the Order of Reckoning of the Voyages isaltered ; Those that are remaining being not setforth by particular Ships, Stocks or Factories ;But by a joint Stock, in which the whole .Compa-ny was concerned : So that we call this the firstVoyage upon the joint Stock,
(c) Domingo Francisco, a Portuguese , who Purchaswas afterwards taken in Su/ally Road, gave thefollowing Account of the Force of this Fleet.
(1.) The six Gallions: The All Saints, 800.
Tuns, 300 Men, 28 Guns ; The St. Bennet,
700 Tuns, 150 Men, 20 GunsThe St. Law-rence, six Hundred Tuns, i< 3 o. Men, 18 Guns;