At the end of which time being well apparelled by the bountie of our marchants we were conueyed downe by the space of eight dayes iourney to S. Cruz, where the English ships road:  where we tooke shipping about the 20 of March, two in the Anne Francis of London, and fiue more of vs fiue dayes after in the Expedition of London, and two more in a Flemish flie-boat, and one in the Mary Edward also of London, other two of our number died in the countrey of the bloodie-fluxe:  the one at our first imprisonment at Marocco, whose name was George Hancock, and the other at S. Cruz, whose name was Robert Swancon, whose death was hastened by eating of rootes and other vnnatural things to slake their raging hunger in our trauaile, and by our hard and cold lodging in the open fields without tents.  Thus of fiftie persons through the rashnesse of an vnskilfull Master ten onely suruiued of vs, and after a thousand miseries returned home poore, sicke, and feeble into our countrey.

Richard Iohnson. 
William Williams Carpenter. 
Iohn Durham. 
Abraham Rouse. 
Iohn Matthewes. 
Thomas Henmore. 
Iohn Siluester. 
Thomas Whiting. 
William Church. 
Iohn Fox.

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The letters of the Queenes most excellent Maiestie sent by one Laurence
  Aldersey vnto the Emperour of Aethiopia, 1597.

Inuictissimo potentissimoque Abassenorum regi, magnoque vtriusque
Aethiopiae imperatori &c.

Elizabetha Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, et Hiberniae regina, fidei defensor &c. summo ac potentissimo AEthiopiae imperatori salutem.  Quod ab omnibus qui vbiuis terrarum ac gentium sunt regibus principibusque praestari par et aequum est, vt quanquam maximo locorum interuallo dissiti, et moribus ac legibus discrepantes, communem tamen generis humani societatem tueri et conseruare, mutuaque vt occasio ferret, charitatis et beneuolentiae officia velint exercere:  in eo nos de vestra fide atque humanitate spem certissimam concipientes huic subito nostro Laurentio Alderseio in regnum vestrum proficiscenti, hasce literas nostras, quibus et nostra erga vos beneuolentia testata sit, et illum hinc profectum esse constet, potissimum vobis indicandus dedimus.  Qui cum orbis terrarum perscrutandi cognoscendique studio permotus, multis antehac regionibus peragratis, iam tandem in eas regiones, quae vestrae ditionis sunt, longum, periculosumque iter instituat:  cum ipse existimauit, tum nos etiam sumus in eadem opinione, ad incolumitatem suam, atque etiam ad gratiam apud vos, plurimum illi prafuturum, si diplomate nostro munitus, beneuolenentiae nostrae et profectionis hinc suae testimonium ad vos deferret.  Nam cum summus ille mundi conditor rectorque praepotens Deus, regibus principibusque qui suam vicem gerunt, orbem terrarum, suis cuique finibus pro rata portione designatis, regendum atque administrandum dederit; eoque munere ius quoddam inter eos fraternae necessitudinis, aeternumque