AN English Carner

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...he would not have taught me under a seven years' apprenticeship. And, by this means, I lived the more quiet and free from suspicion. Howbeit, I should, many times, be charged by Familiars of that devilish House that " I had a meaning to run away into England, and to be a heretic Lutheran again!" To whom, I would answer that " They had no need to suspect any such thing in me; for that they all knew very well, that it was impossible for me to escape by any manner of means." Yet, notwithstanding, I was called before the Inquisitor, and demanded, " Why I did not marry?" I answered, "That I had bound myself at an occupation." "Well," said the Inquisitor, " I know thou meanest to run away; and therefore I charge thee, here, upon pain of burning as a relapsed heretic, that thou depart not out of this city! nor come near to the port of San Juan de Ulua, nor to any other port." To the which, I answered "That I would willingly obey." "Yea," said he, "see thou do so! And thy fellows also, they shall have the like charge." So I remained at my science trade the full time i.e., three years, 1578-1581, and learned the art. At the end or rather, in the midst of his apprenticeship, see p. 296 whereof, there came news to Mexico, that there were certain Englishmen landed, with a great power, at the port of Acapulco upon the South Sea; and that they were coming to Mexico, to take the spoil thereof: which wrought a marvellous great fear amongst them; and many of those that were rich, began to shift for themselves, their wives and children. Upon which hurly burly, the Viceroy caused a general Muster to be made of all the Spaniards in Mexico, and there were found to the number of 7,000 and o...