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Author: R. B., 1632?-1725?
Title: The English heroe, or, Sir Francis Drake revived being a full account of the dangerous voyages, admirable adventures, notable discoveries, and magnanimous atchievements of that valiant and renowned commander ... / by R.B.
Print source: The English heroe, or, Sir Francis Drake revived being a full account of the dangerous voyages, admirable adventures, notable discoveries, and magnanimous atchievements of that valiant and renowned commander ... / by R.B.
R. B., 1632?-1725?
London: Printed for Nath. Crouch ..., 1687.
Notes:
"R.B." stands for Nathaniel Crouch's pseudonym, Robert Burton.
The statement of responsibility appears after the edition statement.
"Licensed and entred according to order, March 30, 1687.
Advertisements ([6] p.) at end.
Reproduction of original in John Carter Brown Library.
Imperfect: port. lacking on film.
Subject terms:
Drake, Francis, -- Sir, -- 1540?-1596.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35226.0001.001
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TO THE READER.
THE Voyages and Adventures OF Sir FRANCIS DRAKE.
CHAP. I. His Birth and Education; His Losses by the Spa∣niard; His making two Voyages into the West-Indies for discovery; His Voyage in 1572. to Nombre de Dios, and surprizing it with only 52 Men, where they had a view of a Pile of Bars of Silver 70 Foot in length, 10 Foot broad, and 12 Foot high.
CHAP. II. Captain Drakes proceeding to Rio Grand and Carthagena; His entertaining the Syme∣rons, and taking several Spanish Ships, and likewise the Town of Venta Cruz.
CHAP. III. Captain Drake goes back from Panama, and be∣tween Rio Francisco and Nombre de Dios he takes a Recoe of fifty Mules each carrying three hundred Pound Weight of Silver, and some Bars and Wedges of Gold, of which they carried off a great quantity and buried fifteen Tun of Silver in the Sands; He comes back to his Ships, and returns safe to England.
CHAP. IV. Captain Drake with five Ships undertakes a Voyage round about the Word, in 1577. and in prosecution thereof arrives at Port St. Juli∣an, where he discovers a Conspiracy for which a Gentleman of his Company was behead∣ed.
CHAP. V. General Drake in pursuance of his Voyage round the World, passeth through the Streigths of Magellane into the South Sea where he meets with a terrible Tempest for 52 days together, and loses company of two of his Ships; Being left alone he proceeds toward the Coast of Peru, and gets a Prodigious quantity of Gold and Silver and Jewels.
CHAP. VI. General Drake having gained immense Treasures in Gold, Silver and Jewels, lands at a place named by him Nova Albion, where the Indi∣ans Crown him King of their Countrey; From hence he sails homeward by the Molucco Islands, and the Cape of Good Hope, and having thus surroundred the World, returns joyfully to England about two years and ten months from their first setting forth; Queen Elizabeth comes aboard his Ship at Deptford and Knights him.
CHAP. VII. The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the West-Indies in 1585. accompanied with Captain Christopher Carliel, Captain Martin Frobisher, Captain Francis Knollis, and many other Captains and Gentlemen; With their taking the Towns of St. Jago, St. Domingo, Carthagena, and St. Augustine.
CHAP. VIII. Sir Francis Drake is made Vice-Admiral of England, in the Spanish Invasion in 1588. And performs many Worthy Actions, taking Don Pedro de Valdez a Principal Sea Commander, Prisoner; The pretended Invincible Arma∣do is utterly defeated and overthrown.
CHAP: IX. Sir Francis Drakes last Voyage to the West Indies in 1595. (accompanied with Sir John Hawkins, Sir Tho. Bas∣kerfeild and Sir Nicholas Clifford and others,) with his Death, Burial and Epithaph.
There are newly Published Eighteen very useful, pleasant and necessary Books, all sold by Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultrey near Cheapside.