A briefe Relation of Master John Davis, chiefe Pilot to the Zelanders in their East-India Voyage, departing from Middleborough the fifteenth of March, Anno 1598.

The fifteenth hereof we departed from Flushing with two ships in Consort, the Lion and Lionesse : the Lion being foure hundred tuns, had in her a hundred three and twentie persons : the Lionesse two hundred and fiftie tuns, had a hundred persons. Mushrom, ¹ Clark, and Monef of Middleborough, Owners and only Adventurers thereof. Cornelius Howteman, chiefe Commander of both ships, having a Commission from Grave Maurice, ² by the name Generall. The two and twentieth we anchored in Tor bay with bad winds.