ABSTRACT
Lord Thomas Howard's note to Caesar at the end of December 1592 shows that John More, Roger Howe and Simon Boreman probably intended setting forth, in addition to the Salomon and the Jane Bonaventure, a ship called the Gertrude and another pinnace. Of these nothing more is heard, however, and in the middle of January bonds were taken from King and Wildes, captain and master of the Salomon, and from Richards and Perryman, captain and master of the Jane. For William King of Ratcliffe had been master of Sir George Carey's Content in 1591 and may well have written the account of her 'memorable fight' which was later to appear in Richard Hakluyt's pages. The course of the voyage as far as the northern coast of Cuba is told straightforwardly enough by King. King may have followed a week later, as he states, but certainly there were Englishmen haunting the Havana coast until about 20/30 August.
