for I haue our goods againe, and haue
taken an house in the chiefest streete in the towtte, called the Rue
dreete, where we sell our goods.

[Sidenote: Two causes of our mens imprisonment at Ormus.] There were two
causes which moued the captaine of Ormus to imprison vs, and afterwards to
send vs hither. The first was, because Michael Stropene had accused vs of
many matters, which were most false. And the second was for that M. Drake
at his being at Maluco, caused two pieces of his ordinance to be shot at a
gallion of the kings of Portugall, as they say. But of these things I did
not know at Ormus: and in the ship that we were sent in came the chiefest
justice in Ormus, who was called Aueador generall of that place, he had
been there three yeeres, so that now his time was expired: which Aueador is
a great friend to the captaine of Ormus, who, certaine dayes after our
comming from thence, sent for mee into his chamber, and there beganne to
demaund of me many things, to the which I answered: and amongst the rest,
he said, that Master Drake was sent out of England with many ships, and
came to Maluco, and there laded cloues, and finding a gallion there of the
kings of Portugall, hee caused two pieces of his greatest ordinance to be
shot at the same: and so perceiuing that this did greatly grieue them, I
asked, if they would be reuenged of me for that which M. Drake had done: To
the which he answered, No: although his meaning was to the contrary.

He said moreouer, that the cause why the captaine of Ormus did send me for
Goa, was, for that the Viceroy would vnderstand of mee, what newes there
was of Don Antonio, and whether he were in England, yes or no, and that it
might be all for the best that I was sent hither, the which I trust in God
wil so fall out, although contrary to his expectation: for had it not
pleased God to put into the minds of the archbishop and other two Padres or
Iesuits of S. Pauls college to stand our friends, we might haue rotted in
prison. The archbishop is a very good man, who hath two yong men to his
seruantes, the one of them was borne at Hamborough, and is called Bernard
Borgers: [Sidenote: The author of the book of the East Indies.] and the
other was borne at Enchuysen, whose name is Iohn Linscot, who did vs great
pleasure; for by them the archbishop was many times put in minde of vs.
[Footnote: He was really born at Haarlem about 1563, and left the Texel in
1579 to go to Seville. Thence he went