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 VOYAGE OF SIX FRANCIS DRAKE. '57 1581. cond time, was received with undiminished favour. He was continually closeted with the Queen, or was seen walking with her in her garden or in public. She gave him a second present of ten thousand pounds. The Pelican was brought round to the Thames, and drawn up on shore at Deptford to be preserved as a remembrance of the voyage. A banquet was held on board, at which Elizabeth was present, and the occasion was used to give Drake the honour of knighthood. Philip sent orders to Mendoza to make a positive demand for restitution. Twice he requested an audience, and twice he was refused. He made no third application, and waited for his letters of recall. Eliza- beth between her opposing counsellors drew her own profit from their diiferences. Burghley and Sussex re- commended that the treasure should remain untouched in the Tower ; Walsingham, that it should be given to the Prince of Orange and the Huguenots ; while* Leicester and the other adventurers thought that in justice it ought to be divided among themselves, and made proposals to Mendoza to share the spoil with him if he would consent to some private arrangement. Mendoza haughtily answered that neither that nor any such overture would tempt him a hair's breadth from his duty to his Prince ; he would himself give twice the sum they offered him to chastise such a bandit as Drake. 1 With opinions thus divided January. 1 ' Se resolvieron en este medio de tentarme por algunas vias, dicien- dome quo si yo templaba parte del rigor que mostraba en el viage del Drake, podria tener de la mia 6 &. quien quisiese darso la mas de $0,000