The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part IIIHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part III
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
Mexico, and truely they had compassion of me, and would spare of their
victuals and any thing els that they had to doe me good: amongst whom
there was one of them that told me that he vnderstood by a secret friend
of his which often came to the prison to him, that I should be shortly
sent backe againe to Mexico by wagon, so soone as the fleete was gone
from S. Iohn de Vllua, for Spaine. This poore man my prison fellow of
himselfe, and without any request made by me, caused his said friend
which came often vnto him to the grate of the prison, to bring him wine
and victuals, to buy for him 2 kniues which had files in their backes,
which files were so wel made that they would serue and suffice any
prisoner to file off his irons, and of those kniues or files he brought
one to me, and told me that he had caused it to be made for me, and let
me haue it at that very price it cost him, which was 2 Pezos, the value
of 8.s. of our money: which knife when I had it, I was a ioyfull man,
and conueied the same into the foote of my boot, vpon the inside of my
left leg, and so within 3 or 4 dayes after that I had thus receiued my
knife, I was suddenly called for, and brought before the head Iustice
which caused those my irons with the round bolt to be stricken off and
sent to a Smiths in the towne, where was a new paire of bolts made
ready for me of another fashion, which had a broad iron barre comming
betweene the shackles, and caused my hands to be made fast with a paire
of manacles; and so was I presently laid in a wagon all alone, which was
there readie to depart with sundry other wagons, to the number of 60.
towardes Mexico, and they all were laden with sundry merchandise which
came in the fleete out of Spaine.
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