| Description | Brief article based on British Museum Add. MS. 38091, 1-1b, relating to the resolutions taken at Porto Bello in Jan/ Feb. 1595/6, after Drake's death. Points out the degreeof Welsh participation in the decisions taken, Land Captain Owen Salusbury of Holt being among the signatories. Refers to the leading figures of the considerable Welsh contingent (Captain Wm. Midleton, poet and translator of the Psalms; Rowland Coetmor of Plas Coetmor; Tomos Prys of Plas Iolyn; Edward Bulkeley of Beaumaris; John Callice of Tintern; and Pyrs Griffith of Penrhyn), and to the Welsh colony of Cambriol on the Trepassy Bay in Newfoundland, founded by Sir Wm. Vaughan of Llangyndeyrn, co. Carmarthen, 1616-38. Includes a transcript of the said B.M. manuscript, and a comment on the appended signatures. |