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The Historie
is somewhat otherwise recorded by
Froysard
and
Holenshed
in manner following, pag. 473.
The voyage of
M. Roger Bodenham
with the great
Barke
Aucher
to
Candia
and
Chio
, in the yeere
1550
.
The confession of
William Bends Masters Mate
in the
Edward Cotton
, the 21 of
October
,
Ann
.
1584
.
Orders agreed upon by the Captaines and Masters to be
observed by the fleet of Sir
Humfrey Gilbert
.
The voiage made by
Sir Richard Greenvile
, for
Sir Walter
Ralegh
, to
Virginia
, in the yeere
1585
.
An ancient voyage of
M. Robert Reniger
and
M. Thomas
Borey
to
Brasil
in the yeere of our Lord
1540
.
RIGHT welbeloved and my assured good friends, I heartily
commend me unto you, hoping of your good healths, &c.
To certifie you of my voiage, after I departed from you,
time wil not permit: but the 4 of this present we arrived
here, & the 10 day I with the rest were committed to
prison, and about the middle of the next moneth, the
Captaine wil send us all in his ship for Goa. The cause
why we are taken, as they say, is, for that I brought
letters from Don Antonio. But the trueth is, Michael
Stropene was the onely cause, upon letters that his brother
wrote him from Aleppo. God knoweth how we shall be
delt withall in Goa, and therfore if you can procure our
masters to send the king of Spaine his letters for our
releasement, you should doe us great good: for they
cannot with justice put us to death. It may be that they
will cut our throtes, or keepe us long in prison: Gods
will be done. All those commodities that I brought
hither, had beene very well sold, if this trouble had not
chanced. You shall do well to send with all speed a
messenger by land from Balsara to Aleppo, for to certifie
of this mischance, although it cost thirtie or forty crownes,
for that we may be the sooner released, and I shalbe the
better able to recover this againe which is now like to
be lost: I pray you make my hearty commendations, &c.
From out of the prison in Ormuz
, this 21 of September,
1583.
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