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The life & death of the valiant and renowned Sir Francis Drake his voyages and discoveries in the West-Indies, and about the world, with his noble and heroick acts / by Samuel Clark ...
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Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.
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his Importunate suit and to find the Spaniards work at home sent a Fleet with him under the Command of Sir John Norris for the Land-service and Sir Francis Drake for the sea In which Voyage they both performed much Noble service both by sea and land and returned in safety unto Plimouth The Last Voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the West-Indies ANno Christi One thousand five hundred ninety five He undertook another Voyage to the West-Indies wherein himself and Sir John Hawkins were Generals Sir Thomas Baskervile Collonel General Sir Nicholas Clifford Lieutenant General Arnold Baskervile Sergeant Major And Nicholas Baskervile Barkley Grimston Rush Boswel Plat Chichester Stanton and Fenton were Captains August the eight and twentieth Anno Christi One thousand five hundred ninety five They embarked at Plimouth and sailed towards the Grand Canados meeting with nothing in the way worth mentioning And September the six and twentieth They arrived at the Port of Canados otherwise called Saint John de Cruz where in Boats and Pinnaces they attempted to Land But the Enemy who waited for their coming had so intrenched themselves in the very place where they should have put ashore so plied them both with their small and great shot from the Castle Town and this intrenchment that with the loss of some of their men they were forced again to their Ships From thence they departed to a place where they watered in which place some of their men straying into the Country from their friends were met with and slain by those Barbarous People and torn with dogs they keep on purpose to destroy men that come to water there This Island yields store of Wine Wheat and other Grain Conies Partridges c. From thence passing towards the West Indies they saild by the Island called Martinino inhabited by Barbarous People called Canibals From thence to Dominica where they had store of Tobacco for Hatchets and Knives c. November the twelvth they cast anchor against a great Fort within three or four miles of Porte-Richo from whence they were plyed with great shot Here died that brave Sea Captain Sir John Hawkins to the great grief of all the rest The same day also Sir Nicholas Clifford Captain Stratford and Captain Brown were wounded with a great piece of Ordinance as they sat at Supper with Sir Francis Drake whose stool also was struck from under him as he was drinking a Cup of Beer yet by Gods Providence he and all the rest escaped And that night Sir Nicholas Clifford died of that wound and Captain Brute Brown a day or two after The Spaniards had barred up the Harbor by sinking a great Ship therein from which they had drawn long masts on both sides to the Forts which defended the Passage within which were there five Spanish Ships filled with Muskitiers and stored with Ordnance yet Captain Baskerville putting his men into boats Pinnaces attempted to enter by force fir'd one or two of those Ships but with a shower of small shot was beaten back with the loss of many of his men From hence sailing to the Continent they burnt Rio de la Haak the inhabitants wherof offered thirty four thousand Ducats to redeem the same but over prising the Pearls they brought it was refused they also burnt down some other Villages thereabout Here in a religious House they found some treasure Pearl and Marchandize which they carried away In this Country was great store of Beeves Goats Sheep Horses Asses c and also Store of Fowl as Pellicans Red Sea Fowls like unto Crane December the nineteenth They came to Santa Martha out of which all the inhabitants were fled But the English following them into the Woods found some treasure and other things of some value when they departed they set the Town on fire December the five and twentieth They came to Nombre de Dios and the same Day Captain Arnold Baskervile died They landed about a mile from the Town and when they came to it the enemy gave them a bravado of shot and then ran away Having before conveighed away all their treasure and goods Yet something they found in the woods as Oyl Wine Vinegar Meal and Linnen-cloth On Munday after Sir Thomas Baskervile with six hundred men began their journey by Land towards Panama hoping there to furnish themselves with the Spanish Treasure But when they had laboured a day or two and encountred with many difficulties thorow narrow dirty and most cumbersomways being assailed on both sides with many Volleys of shot out of the Woods they came to a Fort in a very narrow passage where only one man could pass a breast where the enemy slew their men as fast as they came and hearing that there were two more such Forts betwixt that and Panama they were constrained with the loss of many of their best men and much grief to return to their ships and set fire upon Nombre de Dios. January the tenth they came to Scoday and took a Spanish Frigate that was sent to give Intelligence of their being upon the Coast but found nothing of worth in her Then the General caused his sick men to be carried a shoar and to have the best comfort they were able to give them Also there they built four Pinnaces and took in fresh water Here were great store of Wild-beasts in this Island but no Inhabitants January the eight and twentienth Anno Christi One thousand five hundred ninety five Died this famous and renowned Captain Sir Francis Drake of a Flux and grief for his bad successes in this Voyage His Death was exceedingly lamented by all the Company His Corps being put into a Coffin of Lead was let down into the Sea the Trumpets in a doleful manner Ecchoing out their lamentations for so great a loss and all the Cannons in the Fleet were discharged according to the Customes of Sea-Funeral Obsequies The rest of the Fleet came safe to their desired haven in their Native Country of England April One thousand five hundred and ninety six Sir Francis Drakes father when he fled into Kent as you read in the beginning of this Life was fain to shelter himself in the Hull of a ship where many of his younger sons were born He had twelve in all as it pleased God to give to most of them their first being upon the Water so the greatest part of them died at Sea only the youngest though he was as far as any of the other yet died at home whose Posterity yet inherits that which by himself and this Noble Sir Francis the Eldest Brother was hardly yet worthily gotten Soli Deo Triuni Gloria Among other Verses made in his Commendation I have long since Read these GReat God of Prowess Thunderbolt of War Bellona's darling Mars of Chivalry Bloody Enyo's Champion Foe-mens fear Fames stately Pharos Mapp of Dignity Joves Pearl Pearls pride Prides foe Foes enemy Spains shaking Fever Regent of Wars
time they espied a Beacon on Land unto which they went with their Pinnaces well man'd marching up the River-side at last they saw a fort newly built by the Spaniards whereupon the Leiutenant General took four Companies and marched towards it and though he went as covertly as he could yet the enemy took the Alarm and thinking that the whole force of the English was coming against them they discharged their Pieces and ran away Their flight was discovered to the English by a French man who had been a Prisoner with them whereupon the General himself with many others went to the place and found it empty On the Platform they found thirteen or fourteen pieces of Brass Ordnance and a chest having in it about two thousand pound Sterling lately sent from the King of Spain's treasurer to pay the Souldiers of that place From hence they went to their town about a mile off standing upon the River of S. Augustine and when they landed the Spaniards made some few shot at them and ran away The Sergeant Major finding one of their horses ready sadled and bridled gat up and followed the chase but by one that lay behind a bush he was shot thorow the head and slain His death was much lamented being a Souldier of great experience and courage Here they resolved to go to Virginia to seek out the English sent thither the year before by Sir Walter Rawleigh under Master Ralph Lane their Governour whither they came and at their request carried them back with them to England where they safely arrived at Portsmouth July 28. Anno Christi 1586. The total value which they got in this Voyage was estimated at sixty thousand pounds whereof they that went the Voyage had twenty thousand pounds and the Aventerers the other forty In the Voyage they lost seven hundred and fifty men Amongst whom were eight Captains four Lieutenants six Gentlemen and others The Ordnance gotten of all sorts were two hundred and forty whereof above two hundred were Brass the rest Iron Of Sir Francis Drakes service against the Spaniard in Eighty eight ANno Christi One thousand five hundred eighty eight the King of Spain having gotten together a huge Navy which they tearmed Invincible came for England and Queen Elizabeth of famous Memory for her own preservation prepared another which she committed to the charge of Charles Howard of Effingham Lord Admiral and to our Renouned Drake her Vice Admiral which Navy she sent into the Western parts of England the whole story whereof you may read in my Englands Remembrancer and out of which I shall collect only so much as concerns my present purpose July the twentieth about noon this terrible Fleet of the Spaniards was discried by the English before they looked for it whereupon the Fleet lying in the Road of Plimouth with much difficulty they towed out their ships and being forth they saw the Spanish ships with lofty Towers like Castles seeming at first to make for Plimouth but seeing the English ships got out of the Harbor they steered by towards Calis which the English willingly suffered them to do that they might the more commodiously chase them in the Reer with a fore-right Wind. July the one and twentieth Our Lord Admiral sent before him a Pinnace called the Defiance to denounce War by discharging her Ordnance and himself following in the Ark-Royal set upon the Spanish Admiral as he thought though it proved to be the ship of Alonzo de Levas where fire smoke and Lowd thundring Cannons began the Parley and rending Bullets freely interchanged were the fiery messengers of each others minds Soon after came up Drake Haukins and Forbusher incessantly playing with their Ordnance upon the hind most Squadron of the Enemies which was Commanded by Recalde whose Ship was soon so battered as that it was made unserviceable and thereupon was with much difficulty drawn into the main Fleet. In this medly a great Gallion wherein was Don Pedro de Valdez and some other Noblemen being sore battered by the English shot to avoid the same fell foul upon another ship whereby her fore-mast was broken off and she made unable to follow the rest of the Fleet. But the night coming on our Lord Admiral supposing that they had left nothing aboard in her and fearing to loose sight of the Spaniards passed by her and followed the Lanthorn which he supposed to be carried by Sir Francis Drake as was agreed But this brave Kinght was eagerly pursuing five great Hulks which he judged to be Spaniards yet when he haled them they proved to be Easterlings and friends and so were dismissed July the two and twentieth Sir Francis Drake espied the aforementioned lagging Gallion whereupon he sent forth a Pinnace commanding them to yield otherwise his Bullets without any delay should force them to it Valdez to seem valorous answered that they were four hundred and fifty strong that himself was Don Pedro and stood upon his Honour and therefore propounded certain conditions Drake replyed that he had no leasure to Parley If he would immediately yield well and good If not he should soon find that Drake was no dastard Pedro hearing that it was the fiery Drake whose very name was dreadful to the Spaniards that had him in close presently yielded and with forty of his Companions came aboard Sir Francis his ship where first giving him the Conge he Protested that he and all his were resolved to have died fighting had they not faln into such Noble hands whose valour and felicity was so great that Mars and Neptune seemed to wait on him in all his enterprises and whose Noble and generous mind towards the vanquished had often been experienced even of his greatest Foes Sir Francis to requite his Spanish Complements with English Courtesie placed him at his own Table and lodged him in his own Cabin and the rest of that Company he sent Prisoners to Plimouth where they remained for the space of eighteen months till by payment of their ransoms they obtained their liberty But Sir Drake's men paid themselves well by the Plunder of the ship wherein they found fifty thousand Duckets of Gold which they merrily shared amongst them July the three and twentieth was the greatest fight between these two Fleets And July the four and twentieth the English Fleet was divided into four Squadrons whereof the Lord Admiral in the Ark-Royal led the first Sir Francis Drake in the Revenge led the second Captain Hawkins the third And Captain Forbusher the fourth What notable service these gallant men did perform against that Invincible Armado may be seen in my Book before mentioned The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake into Portugal ANno Christi One thousand five hundred eighty nine Don Antonio who laid claim to the Kingdom of Portugal came into England to crave aid of Queen Elizabeth against the King of Spain who had seized upon that Kingdom for himself and forced the other to fly Queen Elizabeth at