All This Our General,
Wisely Foreseeing, Did Provide That He Would Have The Said Island In
His Custody, Or Else The Spaniards Might At Their Pleasure Have But Cut
Our Cables, And So With The First North Wind That Blew We Had Had Our
Passport, For Our Ships Had Gone Ashore.
But to return to the matter.
The time approaching that their treason must be put in practice, the
same
Thursday morning, some appearance thereof began to show itself, as
shifting of weapons from ship to ship, and planting and bending their
ordnance against our men that warded upon the land with great repair of
people; which apparent shows of breach of the Viceroy's faith caused
our General to send one to the Viceroy to inquire of him what was meant
thereby, who presently sent and gave order that the ordnance aforesaid
and other things of suspicion should be removed, returning answer to
our General in the faith of a Viceroy that he would be our defence and
safety from all villainous treachery. This was upon Thursday, in the
morning. Our General not being therewith satisfied, seeing they had
secretly conveyed a great number of men aboard a great hulk or ship of
theirs of nine hundred tons, which ship rode hard by the Minion, he
sent again to the Viceroy Robert Barret, the master of the Jesus - a man
that could speak the Spanish tongue very well, and required that those
men might be unshipped again which were in that great hulk.
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