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So8 CUMBERLAND’S VOYAGE TO THE AZORES.
fome of them alfo were hurt by the inhabitants. The friary there containing and
maintaining thirty Francifcan friars (among whom we could not find any one able to
{peak true Latin,) was builded by a friar of Angra in Tercera of the fame order, about
the year of our Lord 1506. The tables in the hall had feats for the one fide only, and
were always covered, as ready at all times for dinner or fupper.
From Wednefday in the afternoon, at which time we entered the town, till Saturday
night, we continued there, until the inhabitants had agreed and paid for the ranfom of
the town two thoufand ducats, moft part whereof was church-plate.
We found in the platform eight-and-fifty iron pieces of ordnance, whereof three-
and-twenty (as I remember), or more, were ready mounted upon their carriages, be-
tween barricadoes, upon a platform towards the fea-fide ; all which ordnance we took,
and fet the platform on fire, and fo departed: my Lord having invited to dinner in the
Victory, on the Sunday following, fo many of the inhabirants as would willingly come
{fave only Diego Gomes the governor, who came but once only to parley about the
ranfom); only four came, and were well-entertained, and folemnly difmiffed with found
ot drum and trumpets, and a peal of ordnance : to whom my Lord delivered his letter,
fubfcribed with his own hand, importing a’requeft to. all other Englifhmen to abftain
from any further molefting them, fave only for frefh water and victuals neceflary for
their intended voyage. During our abode ‘here (viz. the eleventh of September) two
men came out of Pico, which had been: prifoners there: alfo at Fayal we fet at liberty
a prifoner tranflated from St. Jago, who: ‘was coufin to a fervant of Den Anthonio
King of Portugal, in England: thefe prifoners we detained with us.
On Monday we fent our boats afhore for frefh water, which (by reafon of the rain
that fell the former night,) came plentifully running down the hills and would other-
wife have been hard to be gotten there. -On:Tuefday likewife, having not yet fuffi-
ciently ferved our turns, we fent again for frefh water, which was then not fo eafy to
be gotten as the day before, by :reafon ofa great wind; which in the afternoon in-
creafed alfo in fuch fort, that we thought it not fafe to ride fo near the land’;: where-
upon we weighed anchor, and fo departed N. W. and by W., along the coaft of Fayal
ifland. Some of the inhabitants coming aboard to us this day, told us, that always about
that time of the year fuch winds W. S. W. blew on that coaft,
This day, as we failed near St. George’s Ifland, a huge fih lying ftill a little under
water, or rather even therewith, appeared hard by a-head of us ; the fea breaking upon
his back, which was black coloured, in fuch fort as deeming at the firft it-had been a
rock, and the fhip ftemming direétly with him, we were put in‘a fudden fear for the
time: tll foon atter we faw him move’ out of the way.
The fixteenth of September, in the night, it lightened much, whereupon there fol-
lowed great winds’ and rain, which continued the feventeenth, eighteenth, nineteeth,
twentieth, and twenty-firft of the fame. “The twenty-third of September we came again
into Fayal-road to weigh an anchor, which (for hafte and fear of foul weather we had
left there before, where we went on fhore to fee the town, the people (as we thought)
having now fettled themfelved there again.: but notwithftanding many of them through
too much diftruftfulnefs, departed and prepared to depart with their packets at the firit
fight of us; until fuch time as they were aflured by my Lord, that our coming was not
any way to injure them, but efpecially to have frefh water, and fome other things needful
for us, contenting them for the fame. i
So then we viewed the town quietly, and bought fuch things as we defired for our
money, as if we had been in England. ‘And they hetped to fill us in frefh water, re-
ceiving for their pains fuch fatisfaction as contented them. aa
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