 | 1868 - 472 pages
...1588, published by R. Hakluyt. vol. iii, p. 837, he says he burned and sunk nineteen sail of ships. "The matter of most profit unto me was a great ship...came from the Philippines, being one of the richest of merchandize that ever passed those seas, as the king's register and merchants' accounts did shew....... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1872 - 684 pages
...at, I burned and spoiled. And had I not been discovered upon the coast, I had taken great quantity of treasure. The matter of most profit unto me was a great ship of the king's, which I took at California; which ship came from the Philippines, being one of the richest of merchandise that... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1877 - 674 pages
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 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 428 pages
...at I burnt and spoiled, and, had I not been discovered upon the coast, I had taken a great quantity of treasure. The matter of most profit unto me was a great ship of the king's, which I took at California, which ship came from the Philippines, being one of the richest for merchandise... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1882 - 262 pages
...at, I burned and spoiled. And had I not been discovered upon the coast, I had taken great quantity of treasure. The matter of most profit unto me was a great ship of the king's, which I took at California; which ship came from tho Philippines, being one of the richest of merchandise that... | |
 | 1887 - 650 pages
...sunk nineteen sailes of ships, small and great. All the Tillages and towns that ever I landed at I burnt and spoiled, and had I not bene discovered upon...coast, I had taken great quantitie of treasure."* * Beveridge's History of India. In 1589, the year after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, a body of... | |
 | Edward Stirling Rivett-Carnac, Edward Stirling Rivett Carnac - 1890 - 476 pages
...sunk nineteen sailes of ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed at I burnt and spoiled, and had I not bene discovered upon the coast, I had taken great quantitio of treasure."* In 1589, the year after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, a body of English... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1895 - 434 pages
...at, I burnt and spoiled ; and had I not been discovered upon the coast, I had taken great quantity of treasure. The matter of most profit unto me was a great ship of the king's which I took at California ; which ship came from the Philippinas, being one of the richest of merchandise... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1901 - 506 pages
...lord ' ; and Cavendish's letter (from Hakluyt's Voyages) in Professor Arbor's English Garner, ii. 128: 'The matter of most profit unto me was a great ship of the King's, which I took at California." In Thackeray's The Virginians the American Miss Lydia van den Bosch speaks of... | |
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The matter of most profit unto me was a great ship of the king's which I took at California, which ship came from the Philippinas, being one of the richest of merchandise that ever passed those seas, as the king's register and merchants' accounts did... 
