petition granted vnto them a strong band of men to conduct them which brought them safely from all assaults and ambushes of the Gentiles by the knowen wayes vnto Ierusalem and all other places of deuotion After that these pilgrims new Christian strangers were brought thither they offering vnto our Lord their vowes in the temple of the holy sepulchre returned with great ioy and without all let vnto Ioppa where finding the king they vowed that they would assist him in all things which should seeme good vnto him who greatly commending the men and commanding them to be well entertained with hospitality answered that he could not on the sudden answere to this point vntill that after he had called his nobles together he had consulted with my lord the Patriarch what was most meet and conuenient to be done and not to trouble in vaine so willing an army And therefore after a few dayes calling vnto him my lord the Patriarch Hugh of Tabaria Gunfride the keeper and lieutenant of the tower of Dauid and the other chiefestmen of warre he determined to haue a meeting in the city of Rames to consult with them what was best to be done Chap. 3. WHo being assembled at the day appointed and proposing their diuers opinions iudgements at length it seemed best vnto the whole company to besiege the city Sagitta which is also called Sidon if peraduenture through Gods helpe and by the strength of this new army by land and sea it might be ouercome Whereupon all they which were there present and required that this city should be besieged because it was one of those cities of the Gentiles which continually rebelled were commended and admonished of the king euery one to go home and to furnish themselues with things necessary and armour for this expedition Euery one of them departed home likewise Hugh of Tabaria departed being a chiefe man of warre against the inuasions of the enemies which could neuer be wearied day nor night in the countie of the Pagans in pursuing them with warre and warlike stratagemes all the dayes of his life Immediatly after this consultation the king sent ambassadours to all the multitude of the English men requiring them not to remoue their campe nor fleet from the city of Iaphet but quietly to attend the kings further commandement The same ambassadours also declared vnto the whole army that the king and all his nobility had determined to besiege and assault the city Sagitta by sea and by land and that their helpe and forces would there be needfull and that for this purpose the king and the patriarch were comming downe vnto the city of Acres and that they were in building of engins and warlike instruments to inuade the walles and inhabitants thereof and that in the meane season they were to remaine at Iaphet vntill the kings further commandement were knowen Whereupon they all agreed that it should so be done according to the kings commandement and answered that they would attend his directions in the hauen of Iaphet would in all points be obedient vnto him vnto the death Chap. 4. THe king came downe to Acres with the patriarch and all his family building and making there by the space of fortie dayes engins and many kindes of warlike instruments and appointing all things to be made perfectly ready which seemed to be most conuenient for the assaulting of the city Assoone as this purpose and intent of the king was come vnto the eares of the inhabitants of Sagitta and that an inuincible power of men of warre was arriued at Iaphet to helpe the king they were greatly astonied fearing that by this meanes they should be consumed and subdued by the king by dint of sword as other cities to wit Caesaria Assur Acres Cayphas and Tabaria were vanquished and subdued And therefore laying their heads together they promised to the king by secret mediatours a mighty masse of money of a coyne called Byzantines and that further they would yeerely pay a great tribute vpon condition that ceasing to besiege and inuade their city he would spare their liues Whereupon these businesses were handled from day to day betweene the king and the citizens and they sollicited the king for the ransomming both of their city and of their liues proffering him from time to time more greater gifts And the king for his part being carefull and perplexed for the payment of the wages which he ought vnto his souldiers harkened wholy vnto this offer of money Howbeit because he feared the Christians least they should lay it to his charge as a fault he durst not as yet meddle with the same Chap. 5. IN the meane space Hugh of Tabaria being sent for accompanied with the troopes of two hundred horsemen and foure hundred footmen inuaded the countrey of the Grosse Carle called Suet very rich in gold and siluer most abundant in cattle frontering vpon the countrie of the Damascenes where hee tooke a pray of inestimable riches and cattle which might haue suffised him for the besiege of Sagitta whereof he ment to impart liberally to the king and his companie This pray being gathered out of sundry places thereabout and being led away as farre as the citie of Belinas which they call Caesaria Philippi the Turkes which dwelt at Damascus together with the Saracens inhabitants of the countrie perceiuing this flocking on all partes together by troopes pursued Hughes companie to rescue the pray and passed foorth as farre as the mountaines ouer which Hughes footemen did driue the pray There beganne a great skirmish of both partes the one side made resistance to keepe the pray the other indeuoured with all their might to recouer it vntill at length the Turkes and Saracens preuailing the pray was rescued and brought backe againe which Hugh and his troopes of horsemen suddenly vnderstanding which were on the side of the mountaines incontinently rid backe vpon the spurre among the straight and craggie rockes skirmishing with the enemies aud succouring their footemen but as it chanced they fought vnfortunately For Hugh being vnarmed and immediatly rushing into the middest of all dangers and after his woonted manner inuading and wounding the infidels being behinde with an arrowe shot through the backe which pierced thorough his liuer and brest he gaue vp the ghost in the handes of his owne people Hereupon the troopes of the Gentiles being returned with the recouered pray and being deuided through the secret and hard passages of the craggie hilles the souldiers brought the dead bodie of Hugh which they had put in a litter into the citie of Nazareth which is by the mount Thaber where with great mourning and lamentation so worthie a prince and valiant champian was honourably and Catholikely interred The brother of the said Hugh named Gerrard the same time lay sicke of a grieuous disease Which hearing of the death of his brother his sicknesse of his body increasing more vehemently through griefe he also deceased within eight dayes after and
of beforetime they presently condemne As for example he that neuer saw the sea will not be persuaded that there is a mediterrane sea so doe they measure all things by their owne experience and conceit as though there were nothing good and profitable but that onely where with they mainteine their liues But we are not growen to that pitch of folly that because we haue heard of certeine people of Aethiopia which are fed with locusts being therefore called by Diodorus Acridophagi and of a certaine nation of India also whom Clitarchus Megastenes haue named Mandri as Agatarchides witnesseth or of others that liue vpon frogs or sea-crabs or round shrimps which thing is at this day commonly knowen that I say we should therefore presume to make them a laughing stocke to the common people because we are not accustomed to such sustenance The sixteenth section TEnthly that vnciuill beast casteth our men in the teeth with their good hospitality They do not sayth he carry about mony with them in their purses neither is it any shame to be enterteined in a strange place and to haue meat and drinke bestowed of free cost For if they had anything which they might impart with others they would very gladly Moreouer he maketh mention of certeine churches or holy chappels as of a base thing which many of the Islanders haue built in their owne houses that first of all in the morning they haue recourse thither to make their prayers neither do they suffer any man before they haue done their deuotion to interrupt them These be the things which he hath set downe as some notable disgrace vnto the Islanders And no maruell For filthy swine detest all cleanly ones And hogs vncleane regard not precious stones Which I feare least it may be too truely affirmed of this slanderer as it is manifest out of these two last obiections Howbeit sithens he himselfe is a most sufficient witnesse of his owne vertues we will referre the reader who is desirous to know more of him vnto his booke of rimes against Island wich we haue now examined in our former sections at whose railing filthy speeches we haue bene ashamed on his behalfe insomuch that those things which he with satyrical satyrical nay sathanicall biting and reuiling of our nation hath not blushed to write are irksome for vs to repeat so great abominable is his insolency his reproches so heinous Good God! whosoeuer shall view this cartlode of slanders for we haue mentioned the least part thereof because I was loth to lose my labour or as the wise man sayth to answere a foole according to his foolishnesse whereas in his rimes there is not one word without a reproch will he not iudge the authour of this pasquill to haue bene a most lewde man yea the very drosse of mankinde without pietie without humanitie But here I haue iust occasion to doubt whether the authour of these reuilings hath bene the more iniurious to Islanders or the Printer thereof Ioachimus Leo and whatsoeuer else they be who in their editions dare neither professe their owne name nor the name of their Citie which Leo hath nowe twise if not oftner published the saide pamphlet at Hamburg Doe you suffer this to goe vnpunished O ye counsell and commons of Hamburg What Haue you determined to gratifie Island in this sort which these many yeeres by reason of your aboundant traffique with vs and your transporting home of all our commodities of our beeues and muttons and of an incredible deale of butter and fishes hath bene vnto your Citie in stead of a storehouse In times past also certaine Cities of England and of Holland haue reaped the commodities of this Isle Moreouer there hath bene ancient traffique of Denmarke Breme and Lubeck with the Islanders But they neuer gained by any of their chapmen such commendations and such thanks as are conteined in this libell It hath in your in your Citie I say bene bred brought foorth iterated if not the thirde time published which hath armed other people vnto whom the name of Island was otherwise scarce knowne to the disdaine and contempt of this our Nation and this iniurie offered by a Citizen of yours hath Island susteined these 30. yeeres and more and doeth as yet susteine But many such accidents often come to passe without the knowledge of the magistrate neither do we doubt but that good men are grieued at such infamous libels and do take diligent heed that they be not published for such editions are contrary to the lawe of nature Doe not that to another which thou wouldest not haue done vnto thy selfe and to the lawes Emperial of infamous libels wherein is enioyned a most grieuous penaltie vnto those who inuent write vtter or cause such libels to be bought or sold or do not presently vpon the finding thereof teare them in pieces But now time bids vs to sound a retreat and to returne home vnto thee Island our most deare mother whom neither pouertie nor colde nor any other such inconueniences shall make ircksome vnto vs so long as thou ceasest not to giue heartie and willing entertainment vnto Christ where first we doe earnestly exhort thee to the serious and ardent affection and loue of God and of the heauenly knowledge reueiled vnto vs in Christ that thou wouldest preferre this before all things being enflamed with desire of doctrine and of the worde that thou wouldest not lightly esteeme contemne or hate the holy ministerie and ministers but reuerence cherish and loue them Accompting those that practise the contrary as wicked and prophane and managing all thine affaires both priuate and publique according to the prescript rule of pietie and honestie that vnto this thy states and orders Ecclesiasticall and politique may in all things be conformed and so in either kinde of life relying thy selfe vpon that leuell and line of equitie and iustice and auoyding others who vpon stubbernesse and impietie swerue therefrom That thou wouldest also inflict iust punishments vpon offenders All which we doubt not but the Magistrate will haue respect vnto But especially that thou admittest none to be Magistrates but men of approued fidelitie and honestie and such as may adioyne vnto these vertues others hereto belonging by which meanes inconueniences may fitly be preuented For if this matter be well handled namely that they which are the best of all good men be chosen to beare publique authoritie wicked and vnfit men being altogether reiected the condition of the subiects shal be most prosperous the liues and maners of all men shal proue by so much the more commendable godlinesse also and honestie shal become the more glorious But on the contrary if pastours of Churches be not answerable to their function either in life or doctrine if all men without respect or difference be admitted to the gouernment of the common wealth who aspire thereunto by their owne rashnesse ambition or auarice and desire
should come ouer to him at his owne pleasure for hee was very desirous both to see and know him for his great worthinesse and prowesse that hee had tried to be in him and in the other of his Captaines and Souldiers of whose manhood and courage he would honourably report where soeuer he came as occasion should serue thereunto and to conclude that hee should nothing doubt of any thing because in no maner of condition hee would suffer any violence to be done to those which remained behind within the Citie So I speedily returning made true report of the same and towards night about foure of the clocke the right honourable Bragadino accompanied with the L. Baglione with Signior Aluigi Martinengo with the right worshipfull Signior Gio. Antonio Querini with the right worshipfull Signior Andrea Bragadino with the knight of Haste with the captaine Carlo Ragonasco with captaine Francesco Straco with captaine Hector of Brescia with captaine Girolomo di Sacile and with other gentlemen and fiftie souldiours the Gouernours and Noble men with their swordes and the souldiours with their harquebuzes came foorth of their hold and went vnto the pauillion of Mustafa of whom all they at the beginning were curteously receiued and caused to sit downe by him he reasoning and discoursing with them of diuers things a certaine time and drawing them from one matter to another at the last vpon a sudden picked a quarell vnto them especially burdening that noble Bragadino with an vntrueth laying to his charge y t he had caused certaine of his slaues in the time that the truce continued betweene theÌ„ to be put to death The which thing was most false So that hee being angry therewith suddenly slept foorth and commaunded them to bee bound Thus they being vnarmed not suffered at that time to enter into his pauillion with their former weapons and bound were led one by one into the market place before his pauillion being presently cut and hewen in sunder in his presence and last of all from that woorthy and noble Bragadino who being bound as the rest and being commaunded twise or thrise to stretch foorth his necke as though hee should haue bene beheaded the which most boldly hee did without any sparke of feare his eares were cut off and causing him to bee stretched out most vilely vpon the ground Mustafa talked with him and blasphemed the holy name of our Sauiour demaunding him where is now thy Christ that hee helpeth thee not To all the which no answere at all was giuen of that honourable gentleman The earle Hercole Martinengo which was sent for one of the hostages who was also bound was hidden by one of Mustafas eunuches vntill such time as his furie was past afterward his life being graunted him hee was made the eunuches slaue Three Grecians which were vnder his pauillion were left vntouched All the souldiers which were found in the campe and all sortes of Christians to the number of three hundred were suddenly slaine they nothing mistrusting any such treason or tirannie The Christian souldiers which were embarked a litle before were linked and fettered with iron chaines made slaues all things being taken from them and stripped into their shirtes The second day after this murther was committed which was the 17. of August Mustafa entred the first time into the Citie and caused the valiant and wise gouernour Tiepolo to bee hanged who remained behind waiting the returne of Signior Bragadino I being in the citie at that present when other of my countreymen were thus miserably slaine and made slaues hid my selfe in certaine of the Grecians houses the space of fiue dayes and they not being able to keepe mee in couert any longer for feare of the great penaltie which was proclaimed agaynst such transgressors and concealers I offred and gaue my selfe slaue to one Sangiaccho del Bi r promising him fiue hundred Zechins for my ransome with whom I remained in the Campe. The Friday folowing being the Turkes sabboth day this woorthy and pacient gentleman Bragadino was led still in the presence of that vnfaithfull tirant Mustafa to the batteries made vnto the Citie whereas he being compelled to cary two baskets of earth the one vpon his backe the other in his hand slaue-like to euery sundry battrie being enforced also to kisse the ground as oft as he passed by him was afterward brought vnto the sea side where he being placed in a chaire to leane and stay vpon was winched vp in that chaire and fastened vnto the maineyard of a galley and hoisted vp with a crane to shew him to all the Christian souldiours and slaues which were in the hauen already shipped hee being afterward let downe and brought to the market place the tormenters tooke of his clothes from him and tacked him vnto the pillorie whereas he was most cruelly flaied quicke with so great constancie and faith on his part that he neuer lost or abated any iot of his stedfast courage being so farre from any fainting that hee at that present with most stout heart reproched them and spake much shame of his most traiterous dealing in breaking of his faithfull promise At the last without any kind of alteration of his constancie he recommending his soule vnto almightie God gaue vp the ghost When hee had thus ended his life thanks be to God his skin being taken and filled with strawe was commaunded foorthwith to be hanged vpon the bowsprit of a Foist and to be caried alongst the coast of Syria by the sea side that all the port townes might see and vnderstand who he was This is now so much as I am able to declare to your highnesse by that I sawe my selfe and can remember whilest that I was in the Fortresse that also which by true relation of others I could vnderstand and sawe also my selfe in the campe whilest I was slaue I will likewise briefly vtter vnto you The enemies armie was in number two hundred thousand persons of all sorâ—es and qualities Of souldiers which tooke pay there were 80. thousand besides the which number there were 14. thousand of Giannizzers taken out from all the holdes of Syria Caramania Natolia and part of them also which came from the gate of the great Turke The venturers with the sword were 60. thousand in number The reason why there were so many of this sort was because Mustafa had dispersed a rumour through the Turkes dominion that Famagusta was much more wealthy and rich then the citie of Nicosia was so for that cause and by the commodious and easie passage from Syria ouer into Cyprus these venturers wâ—re easily induced to come thither In 75. dayes all the which time the batterie still continued 140. thousand iâ—on pellets were shot of numbred and seene The chiefe personages which were in their armie neere vnto Mustafa were these following the Bassa of Aleppo the Bassa of Natolia Musafer Bassa of Nicosia the Bassa of Caramania the Aga of the Giannizzers
61. degrees and a halfe which before was supposed to be part of the firme land of America and also al the rest of the South side of Frobishers straites are all seuerall Islands and broken land and likewise so will all the North side of the said straites fall out to be as I thinke And some of our company being entred aboue 60. leagues within the mistaken straites in the third voyage mentioned thought certainely that they had discryed the firme land of America towards the South which I thinke will fall out so to be These broken lands and Islands being very many in number do seeme to make there an Archipelagus which as they all differ in greatnesse forme and fashion one from another so are they in goodnesse colour and soyle much vnlike They all are very high lands mountaines and in most parts couered with snow euen all the Sommer long The Norther lands haue lesse store of snow more grasse and are more plaine Countreys the cause whereof may be for that the Souther Ilands receiue all the snow that the cold winds and percing ayre bring out of the North. And contrarily the North parts receiue more warme blasts of milder ayre from the South whereupon may grow the cause why the people couet to inhabit more vpon the North parts then the South as farre as we can yet by our experience perceiue they doe These people I iudge to be a kind of Tartar or rather a kind of Samoed of the same sort and condition of life that the Samoeds bee to the Northeastwards beyond Moscouy who are called Samoeds which is as much to say in the Moscouy tongue as eaters of themselues and so the Russians their borderers doe name them And by late conference with a friend of mine with whom I did sometime trauell in the parts of Moscouy who hath great experience of those Samoeds and people of the Northeast I find that in all their maner of liuing those people of the Northeast and these of the Northwest are like They are of the colour of a ripe Oliue which how it may come to passe being borne in so cold a climate I referre to the iudgement of others for they are naturally borne children of the same colour and complexion that all the Americans are which dwell vnder the Equinoctiall line They are men very actiue and nimble They are a strong people and very warlike for in our sight vpon the toppes of the hilles they would often muster themselues and after the maner of a skirmish trace their ground very nimbly and mannage their bowes and dartes with great dexteritie They go clad in coates made of the skinnes of beasts as of Seales Deere Beares Foxes and Hares They haue also some garments of feathers being made of the cases of foules finely sowed and compact togither Of all which sorts wee brought home some with vs into England which we found in their tents In Sommer they vse to weare the hairie side of their coates outward and sometime goe naked for too much heate And in Winter as by signes they haue declared they weare foure or fiue folde vpon their bodies with the haire for warmth turned inward Hereby it appeareth that the ayre there is not indifferent but either it is feruent hote or els extreme cold farre more excessive in both qualities then the reason of the climate should yeeld For there is colder being vnder 62. degrees in latitude then it is at Wardhouse in the voyage to Saint Nicholas in Moscouie being at aboue 72. degrees in latitude The reason hereof perhaps may be that this Meta Incognita is much frequented and vexed with Easterne and Northeastern winds which from the sea and yce bringeth often an intollerable cold ayre which was also the cause that this yéere our straits were so long shut vp with so great store of yce But there is great hope and likelihood that further within the Straights it will bee more constant and temperate weather These people are in nature very subtill and sharpe witted ready to conceiue our meaning by signes and to make answere well to be vnderstood againe And if they haue not seene the thing whereof you aske them they will wincke or couer their eyes with their hands as who would say it hath bene hid from their sight If they vnderstand you not whereof you aske them they wil stop their eares They will teach vs the names of each thing in their language which wee desire to learne and are apt to learne any thing of vs. They delight in Muâ—icke aboue measure and will keepe time and stroke to any tune which you shall sing both with their voyce head hand and feete and will sing the same tune aptly after you They will row with our Ores in our boates and keepe a true stroke with our Mariners and seeme to take great delight therein They liue in Caues of the earth and hunt for their dinners or praye euen as the beare or other wild beastes do They eat raw flesh and fish and refuse no meat howsoeuer it be stinking They are desperate in their fight sullen of nature and rauenous in their maner of feeding Their sullen desperate nature doth herein manifestly appeare that a company of them being enuironed by our men on the top of a hie cliffe so that they could by no meanes escape our hands finding themselues in this case distressed chose rather to cast themselues headlong down the rocks into the sea and so be bruised and drowned rather then to yeeld themselues to our mens mercies For their weapons to offend their enemies or kill their prey withall they haue darts slings bowes and arrowes headed with sharpe stones bones and some with yron They are exceeding friendly and kind hearted one to the other and mourne greatly at the losse or harme of their fellowes and expresse their griefe of mind when they part one from another with a mourneful song and Dirges They are very shamefast in bewraying the secrets of nature and very chaste in the maner of their liuing for when the man which wee brought from thence into England the last voyage should put off his coat or discouer his whole body for change hee would not suffer the woman to bee present but put her forth of his Cabin And in all the space of two or three moneths while the man liued in company of the woman there was neuer any thing seene or percâ—iued betweene them more then might haue passed betweene brother and sister but the woman was in all things very seruiceable for the man attending him carefully when he was sicke and he likewise in all the meates which they did eate together woulde carue vnto her of the sweetest fattest and best morsels they had They wondred much at all our things and were afraid of our horses and other beasts out of measure They began to grow more ciuill familiar pleasant and docible amongst vs in very
of 100 leagues being vnder the Tropicke of Cancer From whence wee kept our course towards the North-east vntill wee had the pole raysed 47 degrees The 22 of May we ranne Eastnortheast The 29 we sounded and had 70 fathomes with white oaze hauing the North pole raysed 51 degrees The 30 of May wee had sight of S. Iues on the North side of Corne-wall and the 2 of Iune 1579 we arriued at Iltoord-combe in Deuon-shire And thus after our manifold troubles and great dangers in hauing passed The streights of Magellan into the South Sea with our Generall M. Francis Drake and hauing been driuen with him downe to the Southerly latitude of 57 degrees and afterward passing backe by the same streights againe it pleased God to bring vs safe into our owne natiue counâ—rey to enioy the presence of our deare friendes and kinsefolkes to whom bee prayse honour and glory for euer and euer Amen EDVVARD CLIFFEâ— Mariner Instructions giuen by the right honourable the Lordes of the Counsell to M. Edward Fenton Esquire for the order to be obserued in the voyage recommended to him for the East Indies and Cathayâ— Aprill 9. 1582. FIrst you shall enter as Captaine Generall into the charge and gouernment of these shippes viz. the Beare Galâ—â—on the Edward Bonauenture the Baâ—ke Francis and the small Frigate or Pinnesse 2 Item you shall appoint for the furnishing of the vessels in the whole to the number of 200 able persons accompting in that number the Gentlemen and their men the Ministers Chirurgians Factors c. which sayd number is no way to be exceeded whereof as many as may be to be sea-men and shal distribute them into euery vessel as by aduise here before your going shal be thought meete Prouided that you shall not receiue vnder your charge and gouernement any disordered or mutinous person but that vpon knowledge had you shall remooue him before your departure hence or by the way as soone as you can conueniently auoide him and receiue better iâ— his place 3 Item for the more and better circumspect execution and determination in any waightie causes incident in this voyage we will that you shall take vnto you for assistants Captaine Hawkins captain Ward M. Nicholas Parker M. Maddox M. Walker M. Euans Randolph Shaw Matthew Talboys with whom you shall consult and conferre in all causes matters and actions of importance not prouided for in these instructions touching this seruice now in hand And in all such matters so handled argued and debated wee thinke that conuenient alwayes to be executed which you shall thinke meetest with the assent also of any 4 of them the matter hauing bene debated and so assented vnto in the presence of your said assistants And in case that such conference and debating the opinions of the aforesaid Assistants be found in effect any way to differ then it is thought meete that all such matters so argued vpon shall rest to bee put in execution in such sorâ— as you shal thinke most meetest hauing the assent of any 4 of them as aforesaid And if any of these Assistants shal die then the number of the one halfe of the Suruiuours to ioyne with the General captaine for consent in all things aforesaid 4 Of all which your assemblies and consultations for the matters aforesaid we thinke it very conuenient that a particular and true note should be kept for which cause we appoint master Maddox minister and if he should decease then the Generall with halfe the Assistants Suruiuours to name one to keepe a booke of all such matters as shall bee brought in consultation and of all such reasons as shall be propounded by any person either on the one side or on the other what was resolued on and by whose consent who dissented there fâ—om and for what causes In which book he shall in the beginning of the note of euery such assembly set downe particularly the day and the place if it may be the names of the persons then present and vpon what occasion the sayd consultation was appointed or holden and shall haue to euery acte the handes of the General and of all or so many of the said Assistants as will subscribe which booke the said master Maddox or the other vpon his decease appointed in his place shall keepe secrete and in good order to bee exhibited vnto vs at your returne home 5 Item if there happen any person or persons imployed in this seruice of what calling or condition hee or they shall be should conspire or attempt priuatly or publikely any treason mutinie or other discord either touching the taking away of your owne life or any other of authoritie vnder you whereby her Maiesties seruice in this voiage might bee ouer throwne or impugned we will therefore that vpon iust proofe made of any such treason mutinie or any other discord attempted as aforesaid the same shal be punished by you or your Lieuetenantâ— according to the qualitie and enormitie of the fact Prouided alwayes and it shall not bee lawfull neither for you nor for your Lieuetenant to proceede to the punishment of any person by losse of life or lim vnlesse the partie shall be iudged to haue deserued it by the rest of your Assistants as is before expressed or at the least foure of them And that which shall concerne life to be by the verdicâ— of twelue men of the company employed in this voyage to be impanelled for that purpose with the obseruation of the forme of our countrey lawes in that behalfe as neere as you may Prouided if it shall not appeare that the forbearing of the execution by death shall ministâ—r cause to increase the facâ—e of the offenâ—er then it were better to conuince the partie of his facte by the othes of 12 indifferent persons and to commit him to hard imprisonment vntill the returne And aswell of the â—actes committed by anyâ— as also of the proofe thereof and of the opinions of you and your Assistants and the maner of the punishment the Register shall make a particular and true note in the booke of your consultation as is before appointed 6 Item you shall not remooue Captainâ— William Hawkins your lieutenant master Captaine Luke Ward your viceadmiral or captaine of the Edward Bonauenture nor captaine Carlile from his charge by land whom we will not to refuse any such seruice as shall be appointed to him by the Generall and the councill nor any captaine of other vessels from their charges but vpon iust cause duely prooued and by consent of your Assistants or of foure of them at the least 7 Item for the succession of the Generall gouernour of this whole voyage if it should please God to take him away it is thought meete that there should bee the names of such Gentlemen secretly set downe to succeede in his place one after the other which are seuerally written in parchment included in bals of waxe sealed with her Maiesties signer put into two coffers