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THE VOYAGE OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE EARL OF CUMBER-
LAND TO THE AZORES*, ETC. -WRITTEN BY THE EXCELLENT MaA-
THEMATICIAN AND ENGINEER MASTER EDWARD WRIGHT.
[Haxruyr, II. 155. Second Part. ]}
THE Right Honourable the Earl of Cumberland having at his own charges pre-
pared his fmall fleet of four fails only, viz. the Victory, one of the Queen’s fhips royal ;
the Meg and Margaret, {mall fhips, (one of which alfo he was forced foon after to fend
home again, finding her not able to endure the fea,) and a {mall caravel; and having
afflembled together about four hundred men (or fewer) of gentlemen, foldiers, and failors;
embarked himfelf and them, and fet fail from the Sound of Plymouth in Devonthire, the
eighteenth day of June 1589, being accompanied with thefe captains and gentlemen
which hereafter follow :
Captain Chriftopher Lifter, a man of great refolution, captain Edward Carelefs, alias
Wright, who in Sir Francis Drake’s Weft Indian voyage to St. Domingo and Carthagena
was captain of the Hope; captain Bofwell, M. Mervin, M. Henry Long, M. Partridge,
M. Norton, M. William Mounfon, captain of the Meg, and his vice-admiral, now
Sir William Mounfon, M. Pigeon, captain of the caravel.
About three days after our departure from Plymouth we met with three French
fhips, whereof one was of Newhaven, another of St. Malo’s and fo finding them to be
leaguers and lawful prizes we took them, and fent two of them for England, with all
their loading, which was fifh for the moft part from Newfoundland, faving that there
was part thereof diftributed amongift our {mall fleet, as we could find ftowage for the
fame; and in the third all their men were fent home into France. The fame day and
the day following we met with fome other fhips, whom (when, after fome conference
had with them, we perceived plainly to be of Rotterdam and Embden, bound for Ro-
chelle) we difmifled. >
The twenty-eight and twenty-ninth days we met divers of our Englifh fhips, return.
ing from the Portugal voyage, which my Lord relieved with victuals. ‘The thirteenth day
of July, being Sunday, in the morning, we efpied eleven fhips without fight of the coaft
of Spain, in the height of 39°, whom we prefently prepared for, and provided to meet
them, having firft fet forth captain Mounfon in the Meg, before us, to defery whence they
were. The Meg approaching near, there pafled fome fhot betwixt them, whereby, as
alfo by their admiral and vice-admiral putting forth their flags, we perceived that fome
fight was likely to follow. Having therefore fitted ourfelves for them, we made what
hafte we could towards them, with regard always to get the wind of them, and about
ten or eleven of the clock we came up tothem with the Victory. But, after fome few
fhot and fome little fight paffed betwixt us, they yielded themfelves, and the matters of
them all came aboard us, fhewing their feveral paffports from the cities of Hamburg
and Lubeck, from Bremen, Pomerania, and Calice.
They had in them certain bags of pepper and cinnamon, which they confefled to be
the goods of a Jew in Lifbon, which fhould have been carried by them into their
country to his fa€tor there ; and fo finding it by their own confeffion to be lawful prize,
the fame was foon after taken and divided amongf{t our whole company, the value where-
of was efteemed to be about four thoufand five hundred pounds, at two fhilllings the.
pound.
* Thefe ifles properly belong to Europe, as lying nearer Portugal than any other country. See
Pinkerton’s Modern Geog. vol. i..p. 601.
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