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 compass of these 1600 yeeres . Don Sebastian the king) the duke de Avero, the two bishops of Coimbra & of Porto, the Marques of Irland sent by the Pope as his Commissary generall, Christopher de Tavara, and many others, cap. 13. IT is further also to be remembred, that divers otherEnglish gentlemen were in this battell, whereof themost part were slaine; and among others M. ChristopherLyster was taken captive
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 compass of these 1600 yeeres . Don Sebastian the king) the duke de Avero, the two bishops of Coimbra & of Porto, the Marques of Irland sent by the Pope as his Commissary generall, Christopher de Tavara, and many others, cap. 13. IT is further also to be remembred, that divers otherEnglish gentlemen were in this battell, whereof themost part were slaine; and among others M. ChristopherLyster was taken captive, and was there long detainedin miserable servitude. Which gentleman although atlength he happily escaped the cruel hands of the Moores;yet returning home into England, and for his manifoldgood parts being in the yeere 1586. employed by thehonourable the Earle of Cumberland, in a voyage in-tended by the Streights of Magellan for the South sea,as Viceadmirall, (wherein he shewed singular resolutionand courage) and appointed afterward in divers placesof speciall command and credite, was last of all miserablydrowned in a great and rich Spanish prize upon the coastof Cornwall. 294 REPORTS OF CHINA c. Certaine reports of the province of China learnedthrough the Portugals there imprisoned, andchiefly by the relation of Galeotto Perera, aGentleman of good credit, that lay prisonerin that Countrey many yeeres. Done out ofItalian into English by Richard Willes. His land of China is parted into , the which sometimes were echone a kingdome by it selfe, but thesemany yeeres they have bene all subjectunto one King. Fuquien is made by the the first Shire, because theretheir troubles began, & they had occasionthereby to know the rest. In this shire be 8. cities, butone principally more famous then others called Fuquieo,the other seven are reasonably great, the best knowenwhereof unto the Portugals is Cinceo, in respect of a haven joyning
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