A voyage made with the ships called the Holy Cross and the Matthew Gonson to the isles of Candia and Scio about the year 1534: according to a relation made to Master RICHARD HAKLUYT, by JOHN WILLIAMSON, Cooper and Citizen of London, who lived in the year 1592. He went as Cooper in the Matthew Gonson the next voyage after.
The ships called the Holy Cross and the Matthew Gonson, made a voyage to the islands of Candia and Scio in Turkey about the year 1534. And in the Matthew went as Captain, Master RICHARD GONSON, son of old Master WILLIAM GONSON, Paymaster of the King's Navy. In this first voyage went WILLIAM HOLSTOCKE—who afterwards was Controller of Her Majesty's Navy, and lately deceased—as page to Master RICHARD GONSON aforesaid: which Master GONSON died at Scio in this his first voyage.
The ship called the Holy Cross was a short ship, and of 160 tons burden. And having been a full year at sea in performance of this voyage, with great danger she returned home: where upon her arrival at Blackwall in the river Thames, her wine and oil casks were found to be so weak, that they were not able to hoist them out of the ship: but were constrained to draw them as they lay, and put their wine and oil into new vessels, and so to unload the ship. Their chief freight was very excellent Muscatels and red Malmsey: the like whereof were seldom seen before in England. They brought home also a good quantity of sweet oils, cotton wools, Turkey carpets, galls, cinnamon and some other spices. The said ship called the Holy Cross was so shaken in this voyage, and so weakened; that she was laid up in the dock, and never made a voyage after.
Another voyage to the isles of Candia and Scio made by the Matthew Gonson about the year 1535: according to the relation of JOHN WILLIAMSON, then Cooper in the same ship; made to Master RICHARD HAKLUYT in the year 1592.
