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FLICKE’S VOYAGE TO THE AZORES. 821
Our prizes were laden with fugars, elephants’ teeth, wax, hides, rice, Brafil, and
eufer, as by the teftimony of John Evefhham himfelf, Captain Whiddon, Thomas
Rainford, Bejamin Wood, William Cooper, mafter, William Cornifh, mafter, Thomas
Drake, corporal, John Ladd, gunner, William Warefield, gunner, Richard Moon,
John Drew, Richard Cooper of Harwich, William Beares of Ratcliffe, Jolin Row of
Saltafh, and many others, may appear.
4 REPORT OF MASTER ROBERT FLICKE, DIRECTED TO MASTER THOMAS
BROMLEY, MASTER RICHARD STAPER, AND MASTER CORDALL, CON-
CERNING THE SUCCESS OF A PART OF THE LONDON SUPPLIES SENT
TO MY LORD THOMAS HOWARD TO THE ISLES OF THE AZORES, 1591.
[Haxtuyr, Vol. Il. p. 176. Second Part. ]
WORSHIPFUL, my hearty commendations unto you premifed: by my laft of the
twelfth of Auguft from this place, { advertifed you particularly of the accidents of our
fleet until then. It remaineth now to relate our endeavours in accomplifhing the order
received for the joining with my Lord Thomas Howard, together with the fuccefs we
haye had. Our departure from hence was the feventeenth of Augult, the wind not
ferving before. ‘The next day following I caufed a fag of counfel to be put forth,
whereupon the captains and matters of every fhip came aboard, and I acquainted them
with my commiffion, firmed by the Right Honourable the Lords of Her Majefty’s Coun-
cil; and with all the advertifements of Sir Edward Denny, of my Lord’s determination
to remain threefcore leagues to the weft of Fayal, fpreading north and fouth, betwixt
thirty-feven and a half, or thirty-eight and a half degrees. And, not finding him in this
height, to repair to the Ifles of Flores and Corvo, where a pinnace of purpofe fhould
flay our coming until the laft of Auguft, with intent after that day to repair to the coatt
of Spain, about the height of the Rock, fome twenty or thirty leagues off the fhore.
The which being advifedly confidered of, having regard unto the fhortnels of time, by
reafon of our long abode in this place, and the uncertainty of the weather to favour us,
it was generally holden for the belt and fecureft way to meet with my Lord, to bear .
with the height of the Rock, without making any ftay upon the coatt, and fo direétly for
the iflands, which was accordingly fully agreed and performed. The twenty-eighth
day we had fight of the Burlings, and the twenty-ninth, being thwart of Peniche, the
wind ferving us, without any {tay we directed our courfe weft for the iflands. The
thirtieth day we met with captain Royden in the Red Role, fometime called the Golden
Dragon, feparated from my Lord of Cumberland in a ftorm: who certified us of fifty
fails of the Spanifh king’s armadas to be gone for the iflands, but could not inform us
any news of my Lord ‘Thomas Howard, otherwife than upon prefumption to remain
about the iflands, and fo we continued our courfe, the wind ftanding with us.
The fourth of September we recovered Tercera, and ranged along all the iflands,
both on the fouth and north fides the fpace of four days: during which time it
was not our hap to meet with any fhipping, whereby either to underftand of my Lordy
or of the Indian fleet: hereupon we directed our courfe to the weft fron Fayal, ac-
cording to the inftructions of Sir Edward Denny. ‘he eleventh day in the plying to
the weftwards we defcried a fail out of our main-top, and in the afternoon between two
and
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