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“ Firs, He doubted, that the Por-“ fuguese had a great Number of Ship-" ping in Swalley- Road.'
“ Secondly, He feared, whether our" Merchants had Friendship with the" Country People or not, by Reason" of the Discord, which was between" them, at the Dolphin ’s Preparations" for England, which was the last" News he heard from thence.
" 'Thirdly, He doubted that the“ Portugufe had made Peace with the" Gazurats, and had planted Ordnance“ on Shoar, on Swalley- Sands; He also" doubted what was become of CaptainWeddeP'a Fleet, for he assured himselfif there were any Friends at thatTime in Swalley- Road, they wouldnot luffer the Portuguese to ride there;For he supposed that the Portuguesehad been in Fight with them theYear past, and had either put themto the worst, or else, for Want ofMunition, to effect another Fight,they were forced to repair to OrmusCastle, for Succour, until Supplycame out of England.
" All which being proposed, andthe Readiness and great Charge of allthree Ships well considered, it wasconcluded to set Sail, which we did,the Wind being Northerly, and the
_ Tide of Flood come, we stood for
® ea ’ an< ^ Portuguese Admiral andtai, t- «c Vice-Admiral, sailing better than the“ Rest, fetched us up about four in the" Afternoon, at which Time the Lion“ being foremost of our Fleet, the E-<c nemy’s Admiral shot one Piece of" Ordnance at her, for which site an-“ swered three or four, but could hard-" ly reach farther than half Way. The“ Portuguese finding his Ordnance bet-" ter than ours, both Admiral and" Vice-Admiral plied upon the Lion," for the Space of half an Hour, at" which Time she received mLhy Shot," both in her Hull and Rigging. OurMaster , Richard Swanley, seing their" Advantage, caused to bruise Main-fail, and edge within Musket-shot of“ them both, and there maintainedFight with them till Sun-set, and re-ceived no Hurt at all.
“ All which Time, and an Hourafter, being calm, the other twoShips of the Enemy were at least aLeague astern, the Palsgrave, andDolphin all this Time being righta-head, kept on their Course, onlyplying their Stern-Pieces. The Portu -
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■guese seing them still stand away,came both aboard of us, the one inthe one Quarter, and entered at leasta Hundred of their Men, havingFire-pots, and the other, in the other, ^rdfton]and threw divers Sorts of Fire-works all Sides at jupon our Decks. The Frigats (as once.many as could lay about us, threwFire-Pots in, at the Ports, and stuckFire-Pikes in her Sides, all which(by the great Mercy and A distanceof God,) we still put out. Our Ad-miral and Vice-Admiral, in this ourMisery, were quickly out of Sight,the Cause whereof is best known tothemselves.
“ This Conflict remained from eightat Night, 'till about eleven, inwhich Space, our Master, RichardSwanley, was stain, and four more ofour Men were also slain j Three ofof our Master’s Mates, and twentymore were exceedingly burnt, theRest almost wearied, and more dis-comforted by Reason our Fleet hadleft us ; And, in short, we werein that Case, that the Word wasgiven, to blow up the Ship, hadnot God, in his Wisdom, stayedit, by putting it in the Mind ofsome of our Men, to let fall an An-chor, which being done, the Tiderunning very strong brought our Shipto so strong a Bitter, that the Fast,which the Portuguese had upon us,brake, whose unexpected sudden De-parture from us, left fifty or sixty oftheir Men upon our Poop, who still p;s ty or p X xmaintained the Fight in such Sort, ty of the E-that we were forced to blow them 5 s i enup, which Blast tore all the Stern Up 'of our Ship in Pieces, from the mid-dle Deck upwards.
" The Portuguese being all repuls-ed, and the Fire put out, we used Port:u -all Diligence, for the clearing our ZhflloT^Ship, and getting up our Main-top-sail-Yard, which then lay upon ourDeck, as likewise getting new Sails toour Yards, the former being all burntand torn; All which being done, aswell as Haste would give Leave, weexpected their coming again the nextTide; But they hoping we would ei-ther have burnt or funk, only left fiveFrigats without Shot of us, and them-selves, with the other two Ships, thatwere before astern, stood after thePalsgrave and Dolphin, and in short ^e ItheZSpace fetched them up, and fought Slips .with them all that Night, they stand-