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
[Sidenote: Job Hortop his condemnation.] Then I Job Hortop, and Iohn
Bone were called, and brought to the place, as before, where we heard
our sentence, which was, that we should go to the Gallies, and there row
at the oares ende ten yeeres, and then to be brought backe to the
Inquisition house, to haue the coate with S. Andrewes crosse put on our
backs, and from thence to goe to the euerlasting prison remedilesse, and
so we were returned from the scaffold from whence we came. Thomas Marks,
and Thomas Ellis were called, and had sentence to serue in the Galleys
eight yeeres, and Humphrey Roberts, and Iohn Emery to serue fiue yeeres,
and so were returned to the benches on the scaffold, where we sate till
foure of clocke in the afternoone. Then we were led againe to the
Inquisition house, from whence we were brought. The next day in the
morning Bresinia the treasurer came thither to vs, and deliuered to
euery one of vs his sentence in writing. I with the rest were sent to
the Gallies, where we were chained foure and foure together: euery mans
daily allowance was 26 ounces of course blacke bisket and water, our
clothing for the whole yeere two shirts, two paire of breeches of course
canuas, a red coat of course cloth, soone on, and soone off, and a gowne
of haire with a friers hood: our lodging was on the bare boords, and
banks of the Gallies, our heads and beards were shauen euery month,
hunger, thirst, cold, and stripes we lacked none, til our seueral times
expired. And after the time of 12. yeeres, for I serued two yeeres aboue
my sentence, I was sent backe to the Inquisition House in Siuill, and
there hauing put on the coat with S. Andrewes crosse, I was sent to the
euerlasting prison remedilesse, where I wore the coat 4. yeeres, and
then vpon great suit, I had it taken off for 50 duckets, which Hernando
de Soria treasurer of the kings mint lent me, whom I serued for it as a
drudge 7. yeres, and vntil the moneth of October last, 1590. and then I
came from Siuill to S. Lucar, where I made meanes to come away in a
flie-boat, that was laden with wines and salt, which were Flemings
goods, the king of Spaines subiects, dwelling in Siuil, maried to
Spanish women, and sworne to their king. In this moneth of October last
departing from S. Lucar, at sea, off the southermost Cape, we met an
English ship, called the Galeon Dudley, who took the Flemming, and me
out of him, and brought me to Portsmouth, where they set me on land, the
2. day of December last past, 1590. From thence I was sent by M. Muns
the lieutenant of Portsmouth, with letters to the R. honourable the
Earle of Sussex, who commanded his secretary to take my name and
examination, how long I had bene out of England, and with whom I went,
which he did. And on Christmas euen I took my leaue of his honour, and
came to Redriffe.
The Computation of my imprisonment.
I suffered imprisonment in Mexico two yeeres.
In the Contratation house in Siuill one yeere.
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