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Voyages and travels mainly during the 16th and 17th centuries ...
Voyages and travels mainly during the 16th and 17th centuries Author:Charles Raymond Beazley Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Captain Nicholas Downton. The firing and sinking of the stout and warlike Carrack, called Las Cinque Llagas or The Five Wounds [of the Cross at Calvary, ... more »usually called the Stigmata] by three tall ships set forth at the charges of the Right Honourable [george Clifford" the Earl of Cumber Laud and his friends, [cf. II. 27]. JN the latter end of the year 1593, the Right Honourable [GEORGE CLIFFORD,] Earl of CUMBERLAND, at his own charges and his friends', prepared three tall ships, all at [an] equal rate and either [each] of them had [the] like quantity of victuals and [the] like number of men: there being embarked in all three ships, 420 men of all sorts. The Royal Exchange went as Admiral [Flag Ship]; wherein Master GEORGE CAVE was Captain. The May Flower, Vice Admiral, [was] under the conduct of [Captain] Wll.LIAM Anthonie. And the Samfson, the charge whereof, it please his Honour to commit unto me, Nicholas Downton. The directions were sent to us to Plymouth; and we were to open them at sea. The 6th of April 1594, we set sail in the Sound of Plymouth, directing our course toward the Coast of Spain. The 24th of the said month, at the Admiral's direction; we divided ourselves East and West from each other, being then in the height of 43 [North]: with commandment at night to come together again. The 27th, in the morning, we descried the May Flower and the little Pinnace [the Violet] with a prize that they had taken ; being of Vianna [do Castello] in Portugal, and bound for Angola in Africa. This Bark was of 28 tons; having some 17 persons in the same. There were in her, some 12 n. K. 5 146 The Carrack Fights 3 English Ships. [Cap'-N- butts of Galicia wine; whereof we took into every ship a like Commodities Part: with some Rusk in chests and barrels, w...« less