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 . f a yere, and in the end, a Portugal! Caravel comming thither, his master laded the same with Negroes, and he obtained leave of his master to goe in the same Caravell, & by that meanes arrived at Lisbone, and from thence came into England the 17 of October, 1584, leaving behinde him of his companie alive, Richard Hacker, John Baker, John Mathew, and a boy, with two others which
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 . f a yere, and in the end, a Portugal! Caravel comming thither, his master laded the same with Negroes, and he obtained leave of his master to goe in the same Caravell, & by that meanes arrived at Lisbone, and from thence came into England the 17 of October, 1584, leaving behinde him of his companie alive, Richard Hacker, John Baker, John Mathew, and a boy, with two others which were gone beyond Saint Domingo: all which, as he saith, were so sicke and diseased, that he judgeth them to be long before this time dead. 412 THE ESCAPE OF THE PRIMROSE 1585. The escape of the Primrose a tall ship of London,from before the towne of Bilbao in Biscay:which ship the Corrigidor of the same Pro-vince, accompanied with 97 Spaniards, offeredviolently to arrest, and was defeated of hispurpose, and brought prisoner into England. Whereunto is added the Kings Commission for a generallimbargment or arrest of all English, Netherlandish,and Easterlings ships, written in Barcelona the 19of May T is not unknowen unto the world whatdanger our English shippes have latelyescaped, how sharpely they have beeneintreated, and howe hardly they havebeene assaulted: so that the valiancie ofthose that mannaged them is worthyremembrance. And therefore in respect|of the couragious attempt and valiant enterprise of theship called the Primrose of London, which hath obteinedrenowne, I have taken in hande to publish the trueththereof, to the intent that it may be generally knowento the rest of the English ships, that by the goodexample of this the rest may in time of extremitie ad-venture to doe the like: to the honour of the Realme,and the perpetuall remembrance of themselves: Themaner whereof was as followeth. UPon Wednesday being the sixe and twentieth dayof May 1585, the ship
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