Relation of the expongnable attempt and conquest of the yland of Tercera, and all the ylands thereto adioyning: don by Don Albaro de Bacan, Marques of Santa crnz [sic], the cheefe comme[n]dador of Leon, and captayne generall of his Maiestie. And of all the enemies that were in the sayd ylande, and of the bulwarkes, artilerie, and munitions of the citie of Angra, and townes and vilages thereto belonging: and of the dwellers therin, and of all the punishment that was done vpon them. Done in An. 1583
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Relation of the expongnable attempt and conquest of the yland of Tercera, and all the ylands thereto adioyning: don by Don Albaro de Bacan, Marques of Santa crnz [sic], the cheefe comme[n]dador of Leon, and captayne generall of his Maiestie. And of all the enemies that were in the sayd ylande, and of the bulwarkes, artilerie, and munitions of the citie of Angra, and townes and vilages thereto belonging: and of the dwellers therin, and of all the punishment that was done vpon them. Done in An. 1583
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Bazan, Álvaro de, marquês de Santa Cruz, 1526-1588.
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At London :: Printed by Thomas Purfoote,
[1583?]
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Terceira (Azores) -- History -- Early works to 1800.
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"Relation of the expongnable attempt and conquest of the yland of Tercera, and all the ylands thereto adioyning: don by Don Albaro de Bacan, Marques of Santa crnz [sic], the cheefe comme[n]dador of Leon, and captayne generall of his Maiestie. And of all the enemies that were in the sayd ylande, and of the bulwarkes, artilerie, and munitions of the citie of Angra, and townes and vilages thereto belonging: and of the dwellers therin, and of all the punishment that was done vpon them. Done in An. 1583." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00933.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 11, 2024.
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¶Relation of the munition that they found in
the high church of the Citie of Angra, and
in the College of the Teatinos.
THre and twentye hogsheads, the greatest
full, fast, and well conditioned, which see∣med
to be of poulder, nineteene of them were
great, and foure small.
In the house of the Fathers of the compa∣ny
of Iesus (which Don Antonio had taken,
and some of them he had banished and sente
into England, for that they were in parte of
his Maiestie) was founde: two and twentye
hogsheds little and great, full of poulder, 12
of them were fast shut, and al the rest were o∣pen
descriptionPage [unnumbered]
and some of them begon, there was also a
sacke full: foure and thirty balles of wild fire
artificially couered with matches hanging
at them: A chest full of braunches of yron for
to make clouen shot: Certaine clouen shot of
leade of foure and 5 ll. waighte: a small chist
of chargers made of white plate: fourescore &
ten horse mens speares with their heads, and
sounde: ten pickes of yron: manie peeces of
corselets very euill intreated, and some olde
hargabuziers: certaine rols of hempen cords
and other bottomes of cotten and of eache a
little: foure Faulcones of brasse, one greate,
and 3 little ones in the cariages: two greate
chambers of yron: a close wagon for to car∣rye
poulder: a carriage for a Falcon. Certain
balles of lead for harcabuziers, muskets, and
Bases.
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