And Thus Much
Further Is Considered Herein By Us; That As There Be In The Voyage
A Great Many Poor
Men, who have willingly adventured their lives
and travails, and divers amongst them having spent their apparel
and such other
Little provisions as their small means might have
given them leave to prepare, which being done upon such good and
allowable intention as this action hath always carried with it
(meaning, against the Spaniard, our greatest and most dangerous
enemy), so surely we cannot but have an inward regard, so far as
may lie in us, to help them in all good sort towards the
satisfaction of this their expectation; and by procuring them some
little benefit to encourage them, and to nourish this ready and
willing disposition of theirs, both in them and in others by their
example, against any other time of like occasion. But because it
may be supposed that herein we forget not the private benefit of
ourselves, and are thereby the rather moved to incline ourselves
to this composition, we do therefore think good for the clearing
ourselves of all such suspicion, to declare hereby, that what part
or portion soever it be of this ransom or composition for
Carthagena which should come unto us, we do freely give and bestow
the same wholly upon the poor men who have remained with us in the
voyage (meaning as well the sailor as the soldier), wishing with
all our hearts it were such or so much as might see a sufficient
reward for their painful endeavour.
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