All which piles of commodities being, by men of approved judgment, rated but in reasonable sort, amounted to no less than £150,000 sterling [=£600,000 _to_ £700,000 _now_]: which being divided among the Adventurers whereof Her Majesty was the chief, was sufficient to yield contentment to all parties. * * * * * The [above] cargazon [_cargo_] being taken out [at Dartmouth], and the goods freighted in ten of our ships, [and] sent for London; to the end that the bigness, height, length, breadth, and other dimensions, of so huge a vessel might, by the exact rules of geometrical observations, be truly taken, both for present knowledge and derivation [_transmission_] also of the same unto posterity: one Master ROBERT ADAMS, a man in his faculty of excellent skill, omitted nothing in the description which either his art could demonstrate; or any man's judgment think worthy the memory. [Sidenote: The capacity and dimensions of the _Madre de Dios_.] After an exquisite survey of the whole frame, he found: The length, from the beak-head to the stern, whereupon was erected a lantern, to contain 165 feet. The breadth, in the second Close deck, whereof she had three; this being the place where was most extension of breadth, was 46 feet 10 inches. She drew in water 31 feet at her departure from Cochin in India: but not above 26 [feet] at her arrival in Dartmouth; being lightened in her voyage, by divers means, some 5 feet. She carried in height, seven several stories [or decks]: one main Orlop, three Close decks, one Fore-castle, and a Spar deck of two floors apiece. The length of the keel was 100 feet: of the Mainmast 121 feet; and the circuit about, at the partners, 10 feet, 7 inches. The main-yard was 106 feet long. By which perfect commensuration of the parts appeareth the hugeness of the whole: far beyond the mould of the biggest shipping used among us, either for war or receit [_burden_]. * * * * * Don ALONSO DE BAÇAN (having a great Fleet: and suffering these two Carracks, the _Santa Cruz_ to be burnt; and the _Madre de Dios_ to be taken) was disgraced by his Prince for his negligence. Captain NICHOLAS DOWNTON. _The firing and sinking of the stout and warlike Carrack, called_ Las Cinque Llagas _or_ The Five Wounds [_of the Cross at Calvary, usually called the_ Stigmata] _by three tall ships set forth at the charges of the Right Honourable [GEORGE CLIFFORD] the Earl of CUMBERLAND and his friends._ [Sidenote: Besides these three ships; there was a Pinnace, called the _Violet_, or the _Why not I?_] IN the latter end of the year 1593, the Right Honourable [GEORGE CLIFFORD,] Earl of CUMBERLAND, at his own charges and his friends', prepared three tall ships, all at [an] equal rate and either [_each_] of them had [the] like quantity of victuals and [the] like number of men: there being embarked in all three ships, 420 men of all sorts.