460
1620.
furchas,Vol. IV. p.1783.
James I. Naval Expeditions, Scc. of the English, Book III*
End, and sent a Letter signed by theCouncil to all the Nobility, and theLord Mayor, but that not having anygreat Effect, he summoned a Parlia-ment to demand an Aid : The Diffe-rences between the King and this Par-liament, and the remarkable Proceed-ings thereupon, are very particularlyrelated in Rapin.
Continua rr on of Supplies sent toVirginia, in 1621, and 1622.
Ships.
Tuns. Perf. Cat.
August
1622 April,
May,
The EUanor,
30
10
George, .
180
120
Charles ,Marmaduke,
120
80
100
80
Temperance,
80
5 °
, Warwick,
160
IOO
fyger,
Sea-flower,
40
40
140
120
Flying Hart,
200
60
ber, Discovery,
60
20
Bona Nova,
200
Lo
Hopewell,
60
20
God-speed, ;
150
IOO
Gift os God,
140
IOO
Primrose,
80
60
Charity,
80
3 °
Bonaventure,
50
10
White Lion,Furtherance,
180
40
180
80
Marg. and John,
160
80
James,
120
80
portunity, in the following Manner.The filth Night after their being taken,they had a great Storm The Captain.in the Distress, lending his Hand tostrike the Sails, two of the English gavehim a Toss over Board. He had al-most got in again, by the Help of aRope he catched Hold of, but wasknock’d down with the Handle of aPump. In the Confusion of the Storm,the Rest of the Turks did not mind it.This done, one of them step’d to theMaster’s Cabbin, passing by six or se-ven Turks, and fetch’d two Cutlashes,with which, surprizing the Pirats, theydrove them from one Part of the Ship toanother, killed two, and made a thirdleap over-board, the other nine theydrove betwixt Decks.
All the Mischief the Turks did themwas the Unshipping the EAhipfiaff, whichthey got again, and putting the Turks(many of them wounded) under theHatches, making Use of them by twoand three at a Time, as they had Occa-sion, they brought the Ship into St. Lu -car in Spain, where they fold the Turksfor Slaves.
The Recovery of the Exchange of Bri-stol, &c.
1621*
And to the Sommer r-Iflands, by theCompany.
1621 May, Joseph, 150 100
July, James, 120 80
August, Concord, 180 70
The Taking and Recovering the ]acob ofBristol.
„ r ^ 2T p . Near the latter End of Otlober, 1621.P.'lsp.WCK the Jacob of Briftol, aShip of one Hun-she Ship dred and twenty Tuns, was after a sharptaken by the Tight, overpowered and taken, by a.irœts. Corsair of Algiers. The Turks took allthe Men out of her but four, and sentthirteen of their own on Board, to bringthe Prize to Algiers, appointing one ofthe Number Captain over the Rest.
The wretched Captives, who wereleft on Board of the English Ship, wereUnder dismal Apprehensions of whatthey must suffer, in Cafe they were car-ried to Algiers. This put their Inventi-on upon the Stretch, how to free them-selves from so terrible a Slavery : And
But rescued Providence favoured them with an Op-tn a Storm . 1
On the first of November, of this Year, Harris’; C^the Nicholas of Plymouth, Burden forty P-1- p- tf 0 'Tuns, John Rawlins, Master, set Sailfrom that Place for the Streights, inCompany with the Bonaventure, of thesame Port, Burden seventy Tuns.
The eighteenth of the fame Month,they came in Sight of Gibraltar, wherethey discovered five Ships making allthe Sail they could towards them. Theysoon perceived they were Pirats, andendeavoured to reach Gibraltar, but invain. For before half the Day wasspent, the Admiral of the Turks came ta k en by ^up with the Ronaventure, and took her, Turks,and the Vice-Admiral, soon after, o-bliged Rawlins to strike. The fameDay, the Admiral put on Shoar twelveof the Bonaventure 's Crew, with someother Englijh Captives taken before:
But the Vice-Admiral ordered Rawlins,and five more, to be brought on Boardhim, leaving three Men and a Boy,with thirteen Turks, aboard the Prize.
The Night after, they had a Storm, inwhich they loft Sight of the EnglijhPrize, the Nicholas. The twenty-se-cond, the Vice-Admiral, with Rawlins
on