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818 CUMBERLAND’S VOYAGE ’¥O THE AZORES.
nefs of that nation appeared in this, that their fmall children run ufually in the midft of
winter up and down the ftreets bare-footed and bare-legged, with no other apparel (many
times) fave only a mantle to cover their nakednefs.
The chief officer of their town, they call their fovereign, who hath the fame office
and authority among them that our mayors have with us in England, and hath
his ferjeants to attend upon him, and bear the mace before him as our mayors.
We were firft entertained at the fovereign’s houfe, which was one of thofe four that °
withftood the earl of Defmond in his rebellion. They have the fame form of common
praver word for word, in Latin, that we have here in England. Upon the funday the
fovereign cometh into the church with his ferjeant before him, and the fheriff and
. others of the town accompany him, and there they kneel down every man by himfelf
privately to make his prayers. After this they rife and go out of the church again to
drink, which being done, they return again into the church, and then the minifter be-
ginneth prayers.
Their manner of baptizing differeth fomething from ours: part of the fervice belong-
ing thereto, is repeated in Latin, and part in Irth. ‘The minifter taketh the child in
his hands, and firft dippeth it backwards, and then forwards, over head and ears into
the cold water, in the midft of winter, whereby alfo may appear their natural hardnefs,
(as before was fpecified). They had neither bell, drum, nor trumpet, to call the pa-
rifhioners together, but they expect till their fovereign come, and then they that have
any devotion follow him.
They make their bread all in cakes, and for the tenth part, the bakers bake for all the
town.
We had of them fome ten or eleven tons of beer for the Victory, but it proved like a
prefent purgation to them that took it, fo that we chofe rather to drink water
than it. -
The twentieth of December we loofed from hence, having well provided ourfelves of
frefh water, and other things neceflary ; being accompanied with Sir Edw. Dennie, his
lady, and two young fons.
This day in the morning, my lord going afhore to difpatch away fpeedily fome frefh
water, that remained for the Victory, the wind being very fair for us, brought
us news that there were fixty Spanifh prizes taken and brought to England. For
two or three days we had a fair wind, but afterwards it feanted-fo, that (as I faid
before) we were fain to keep a cold Chriftmas with the bifhop and his clerks.
After this we met with an Englifh fhip, that brought us joyful news of ninety-one
Spanifh prizes, that were come to England, and forrowful news withal, that the laft
and beft prize we took, had fuffered fhipwreck at a place upon the coaft of Cornwall,
which the Cornifh men call Als Efferne, that is Hell-cliff, and that captain Lifter, and
all the men in the fhip were drowned, fave five or fix, the one half Englifh, the other
Spanifh, that faved themfelves with {wimming ; but notwithftanding much of the goods
were faved, and referved for us, by fir Francis Godolphin, and the worfhipful gentle-
men of the country there. My lord was very forry for captain Lifter’s death, wifhing
that he had loft his voyage to have faved his life.
The twenty-ninth we met with another fhip that told us the fame news, and that fir
Martin Frobifher, and captain Reymond had taken the admiral and vice-admiral of the
fleet that we efpied going to Tercera haven. But the admiral was funk with much
leaking, near to the Idy Stone, a rock that lieth over againft Plymouth found, and the
men were faved.
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