ABSTRACT

In the years of our Lord God I 594 a voyage was determined by that Honorable gentleman Robert Duddeley, sonn and heire unto the Right Honorable Robert, Earle of Leicester, [Leiftenante of all her Majesties fortes and forces beyonde the seas, Lord High Stewarde of all her Majesties Howseholde, Knight of the most honorable order of the Garter,] for the South Sea; but man pourposcth and God disposeth, for so it fell out by the proceedings of this noble gentleman, who, havinge allmost finished shippinge serviceable for that viage, was forste to surcease that and to begin other more convenient for his viage newlie pretended, which was unto the West Indies, beinge hy speciall commaunde contradicted of her Majestic from the former, as tenderinge the ripenes of his yeares