And thus hauing coasted the Cornish side of Plymmouth hauen,
I hold it not amisse, to make report of such great voyages, as,
by the memory of our Chronicles, or our owne view, from this harbour,
tooke their beginning or ending.
Heere the neuer inough commended black Prince, attended by the Earles
of Warwick, Suffolk, Sarisbury, and Oxford, the Lord Chandos and
others, committed himselfe to the sea, with a nauy of 300. bottoms,
for landing and maintayning his fathers right in France; and hither,
after his glorious battell at Poictiers, he returned, with the captiue
French King and his nobles.
Here the Lady Katherine, daughter to the King of Spaine, and wife to
our Prince Arthur, tooke land, at her first arriuall in England.
Heere shipped himselfe, the Lord Darcy, sent by King Henry the 8.
with a lusty crew of soldiers, for that Ferdinands iust assistance,
against the Infidels: but vsed by him as a stale, for the vniust
conquest of Christian Nauar.
Here, mostly, haue the troups of aduenturers, made their Rendez vous,
for attempting newe discoueries or inhabitances: as, Tho.
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