great quality in her Gentlemen of habits and Spanish Merchants.
As also Don Diego de Villa Alva, the Governer of the
Havana.
Another ship commanded by Captain John Rodrigues
Calderon, who is said to have in her in Sugars, Tobacco, and
Pate, to the value of six hundred Thousand Pieces of Eight,
was taken by our ships, and in the bringing off, by an accidental
fire was burnt and sunk.
Another ship commanded by Captain John de la Torre (one
who was borne, and married in Garthagene in the Indies) reported
to have in her 12000 West-Indy, Hides, some quantity
of Sugar, which he brought to fell in Cadiz, and with the
Proceed thereof intended to buy Negroes at Angola, and so
to return to Carthagene again, is taken, and now in our possession.
Another man of Ware, who had little or no plate in him, bu
some Hides, and Sugar, and two other small Vessels of no force
or lading considerable, one of which was a Portugall whom,
they had taken as Prise between the Western Islands and Masugam
in Africa. The other was a small vessel of Advice from the
Vice King of Mexico into Spain. These escaped to Gibralter.
The before named Don Francisco de Lopez, now Marquis
of Baydex, being examined, faith upon his examination;
That above five months since, presently after his Father and
Family departed ont of Lima in Peru, there hapned a fearfull
Earthquake and most miraculous Raine of Fire from heaven
in Peru, inso much that the whole City of Lima is swallowed
up, and destroyed, and also the City of Calao; in which places
there perished above eleven Thousand Spaniards, and (to set
the great distinguishing hand of God) not above one hundred
Indians with them. In than City also viz, Lima the King of,
Spain hath lost by the Earthquake on, hundred Millip [unr]
Silver ready woughtup. More over, the sambus[unr] Mis[unr] and
Mountains of Potost (out of which they digged then Silver)
are destroyed in a wounder full than her, so that there is no mo[unr]
of Hills to be seen, but all plaine, nor is there my further nor