. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres . tes of the continent: & othermatters most worthy the observation. The voyage of Robert Tomson Marchant, intoNova Hispania in the yeere 1555. with diversobservations concerning the state of the Coun-trey: And certaine accidents touching him-selfe. Obert Tomson borne in the towne ofAndover in Hampshire began his travaileout of England in An. 1553. in themoneth of March: who dep
. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres . tes of the continent: & othermatters most worthy the observation. The voyage of Robert Tomson Marchant, intoNova Hispania in the yeere 1555. with diversobservations concerning the state of the Coun-trey: And certaine accidents touching him-selfe. Obert Tomson borne in the towne ofAndover in Hampshire began his travaileout of England in An. 1553. in themoneth of March: who departing outof the citie of Bristoll in a good shipcalled The barke yong, in companie ofother Marchants of the sayde citie, within8. dayes after arrived at Lisbone in Portugall, where thesayd Robert Tomson remained 15. dayes, at the end ofwhich he shipped himselfe for Spaine in the sayd shippe,and within 4. dayes arrived in the bay of Cadiz inAndalusia, which is under the kingdom of Spaine, &from thence went up to the citie of Sivil by land, which is20. leagues, and there hee repaired to one John Fieldshouse an English Marchant, who had dwelt in the saidcity of Sivil 18. or 20. yeres maried with wife and 338. ROBERT TOMSON ad. 1555-children: In whose house the said Tomson remainedby the space of one whole yeere or thereabout, for twocauses: The one to learne the Castillian tongue, the otherto see the orders of the countrey, and the customes ofthe people. At the end of which time having scene thefleetes of shippes come out of the Indies to that citie,with such great quantitie of gold & silver, pearles,precious stones, suger, hides, ginger, and divers otherrich commodities, he did determine with himselfe toseeke meanes and opportunitie to passe over to seethat rich countrey from whence such great quantitie ofrich commodities came. And it fell out that withinshort time after, the sayd John Field (where the saydTomson was lodged) did determine to passe over intothe West Indies, himse
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