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Title: The Spanish Armada, 1588 - The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords representing - the several engagements between the English and Spanish - Fleets.
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THE
SPANISH ARMADA,
1588.
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THE TAPESTRY HANGINGS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
REPRESENTING THE SEVERAL ENGAGEMENTS BETWEEN THE
ENGLISH AND SPANISH FLEETS.
BY
JOHN PINE, ENGRAVER.
REPRODUCED IN HELIOTYPE FROM AN ORIGINAL COPY IN THE
COLLECTION OF CHARLES HERVEY TOWNSHEND.
WITH
An Appendix containing Biographical Sketches of the Principal English
Commanders
Knighted by the Admiral at Sea, July 26, 1588.
[Illustration]
BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY HOUGHTON, OSGOOD AND COMPANY.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.
1878.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright, 1878,
BY CHARLES HERVEY TOWNSHEND
[Illustration]
RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE
STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY
H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY
------------------------------------------------------------------------
THE
TAPESTRY HANGINGS
OF THE
HOUSE of LORDS:
Representing the several
ENGAGEMENTS
BETWEEN THE
ENGLISH and SPANISH FLEETS,
In the ever memorable Year MDLXXXVIII,
With the
PORTRAITS of the Lord High-Admiral, and the other
Noble Commanders, taken from the Life.
To which are added,
From a Book entitled, Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera
Descriptio, A.D. 1588, done, as is supposed, for the said Tapestry to be
work’d after,
Ten CHARTS of the SEA-COASTS of ENGLAND,
And a GENERAL ONE of
England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Holland, &c.
Shewing the Places of Action between the two FLEETS;
ORNAMENTED with
MEDALS struck upon that OCCASION,
And other suitable DEVICES.
Also
An HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of each Day’s Action, Collected from the most
Authentic Manuscripts and Writers.
By JOHN PINE, ENGRAVER.
LONDON, MDCCXXXIX.
Sold by J. Pine in Old Bond Street near Picadilly.
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TO THE
K I N G.
_SIR_,
I Humbly beg Leave to present to Your Majesty, these Representations of
the Hangings in the House of Lords, which contain the several Victories
obtained against the King of _Spain_ in 1588.
That the same glorious Success may attend your Majesty, whenever your
Fleets shall be engaged with any of your Majesty’s Enemies, is the
hearty Prayer of
_Your MAJESTY’s_
_Most dutiful and most obedient_
_Subject and Servant_,
_JOHN PINE_.
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S U B S C R I B E R S.
_His Royal Highness the PRINCE of_ WALES.
_His Royal Highness the DUKE._
_His most Serene Highness the PRINCE of_ ORANGE.
_HIS Grace the Duke of_ St. Alban’s.
_His Grace the Duke of_ Ancaster.
_His Grace the Duke of_ Argyll _and_ Greenwich.
_His Grace the Duke of_ Athol.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Albemarle.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Aylesford.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ Abergavenny.
_The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of_ St. Asaph.
_Sir_ Joseph Ayliffe, _Bart_. 2 _Setts_.
_The Honourable_ Richard Arundell, _Esq_;
Richard Arnold, _Esq_;
Jacob Astley, _Esq_;
_Mr._ Christopher Anderson.
_His Grace the Duke of_ Beaufort.
_His Grace the Duke of_ Bedford.
_His Grace the Duke of_ Bolton.
_His Grace the Duke of_ Buccleugh.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Burlington, 2 _Setts_.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ Bruce.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ Bathurst.
_The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of_ Bangor, 2 _Setts_.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ Vere Beauclerk.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ Baltimore.
_Sir_ George Beaumont, _Bart_.
_Sir_ John Bland, _Bart_.
_Sir_ Roger Burgogne, _Bart_.
_Sir_ Thomas Brand, _Knt_.
Thomas Bacon, _Esq_;
Henry Barham, _Esq_;
William Barners, _Esq_;
Nicholas Bayley, _Esq_;
Nathanael Blackerby, _Esq_;
_The Honourable_ Martin Bladen, _Esq_;
Thomas Bladen, _Esq_;
Walter Blackett, _Esq_;
Robert Bristow, _Esq_;
Thomas Brian, _Esq_;
Alexander Brodie, _Esq_;
Josiah Burchett, _Esq_;
_The Rev. Dr._ John Burton, _Master of_ Winchester School.
Robert Burd, _Esq_;
Samuel Burroughs, _Esq_;
Robert Byng, _Esq_;
_His Grace the Duke of_ Chandos.
_The Right Honourable the Marquis of_ Caernarvon.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Cardigan.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Coventry.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Chesterfield.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Cholmondeley.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Clarendon _and_ Rochester.
_The Right Honourable the Earl_ Cowper.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ Craven.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ Carteret.
_Sir_ James Campbell, _Bart._
_Sir_ William Carew, _Bart._
_Sir_ John Hinde Cotton, _Bart._
_Sir_ William Courtenay, _Bart._
_Sir_ Francis Child, _Knt._ _Alderman of_ London.
_Sir_ Clement Cottrell, _Knt._
Trinity College Library _in the University of_ Cambridge.
Richard Chandler, _Esq_;
James Chetham, _Esq_;
_The Rev. Dr._ Alured Clarke.
Matthew Clarke, _M. D._
John Codrington, _Esq_;
John Conduit, _Esq_;
Thomas Copleston, _Esq_;
Thomas Corbett, _Esq_;
_The Honourable_ Spencer Cowper, _Esq_;
William Cowper, _Esq_;
James Cockburn, _Esq_;
John Crawley, _Esq_;
_Mrs._ Crewe.
John Crewe, _Jun. Esq_;
Joseph Crewe, _Esq_;
Thomas Crosse, _Esq_;
Andrew Crosse, _Esq_;
John Crosse, _Esq_;
Philip Carter, _A. M._
_Mr._ Charles Cary.
_His Grace the Duke of_ Devonshire.
_His Grace the Duke of_ Dorset.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Darnley.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ De La Warr.
_Sir_ James Dashwood, _Bart._ 2 _Setts_.
_Sir_ Francis Henry Drake, _Bart._
_Sir_ Charles Dalton, _Knt._
_The Honourable General_ James Dormer.
Robert Douglas, _Esq_;
_Mr._ James Deacon, _Jun._
Andrew Ducarel, _Esq_;
James Douglas, _Esq_;
Thomas Duncombe, _Esq_;
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Exeter.
_The Right Honourable the Countess of_ Exeter.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Effingham.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Egmont.
_Sir_ Richard Ellys, _Bart._
_The Honourable_ Richard Edgcumbe, _Esq_;
_The Honourable_ George Evens, _Esq_;
_Mr._ Charles Egleton.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Fitz-Walter.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Findlater.
_The Right Honourable the Lord Viscount_ Falconbergh.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ Foley.
_The Honourable Mr. Justice_ Fortescue.
_Sir_ Robert Fagg, _Bart._
_Sir_ John Frederick, _Bart._
_Sir_ Andrew Fountaine, _Knt._
_The Honourable_ John Finch, _Esq_; _of_ Cavendish Square.
_The Honourable_ Duncan Forbes, _Esq_;
Nicholas Fenwick, _Esq_;
Thomas Foley, _Jun. Esq_;
Matthew Frampton, _M. D._ _of_ Oxford.
Thomas Frederick, _Esq_;
Richard Frewin, _M. D._ _of_ Oxford.
_His Grace the Duke of_ Grafton.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ North _and_ Guilford.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ Gower.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ Gallway.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ Grey.
_The Right Honourable the Lady_ Eliz. Germain. 2 _Setts_.
_Sir_ Robert Grosvenor, _Bart._
_The Honourable_ William Leveson Gower, _Esq_;
Henry Gardie, _Esq_;
Francis Gaussend, _Esq_;
Edward Gibbon, _Esq_;
Westby Gill, _Esq_;
William Gore, _Esq_;
Edward Le Grande, _Esq_;
Charles Gray, _Esq_; _of_ Colchester.
_Mr._ John Godfrey.
_His Grace the Duke of_ Hamilton _and_ Brandon.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Hallifax.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ Hardwick.
Nicholas Hardinge, _Esq_;
Edward Harley, _Esq_;
Michael Harvey, _Esq_;
Carleton Hayward, _Esq_;
_Col._ Thomas Herbert.
Francis Haywood, _Esq_;
Thomas Hill, _Esq_;
_The Reverend Dr._ Hodges, _Provost of_ Oriel _College_ Oxford.
Henry Hoare, _Esq_;
Richard Hoare, _Esq_;
Thomas Strangways Horner, _Esq_;
John Hylton, _Esq_;
William Handley, _Esq_;
_Mr._ Samuel Haynes.
_Mr._ Gerrard Howard.
_The Right Honourable the Lord Viscount_ Irwin.
_Sir_ William Irby, _Bart._
_Sir_ Justinian Isham, _Bart._
_The Honourable and Reverend Mr._ Ingram.
_Captain_ Thomas James.
_Colonel_ Charles Ingram.
_His Grace the Duke of_ Kent.
_Sir_ John Lister Kaye, _Bart._
Edward Kinaston, _Esq_;
Thomas King, _Esq_;
_His Grace the Duke of_ Leeds.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Litchfield.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ Lovell.
_The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of_ Landaff.
_The Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice_ Lee.
_Sir_ Darcy Lever, _Knt._ _LL. D._
Lancelot Charles Lake, _Esq_;
John Lethieullier, _Esq_;
George Liddell, _Esq_;
Thomas Lister, _Esq_;
_Mr._ Charles Lowth.
_His Grace the Duke of_ Marlborough.
_His Grace the Duke of_ Montague.
_His Grace the Duke of_ Manchester.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Macclesfield.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Malton.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ Monson.
_Sir_ John Morgan, _Bart._
_Sir_ William Morris, _Bart._ 2 _Setts_.
J. R. Madan, _Esq_;
Pierce Manaton, _M. D._ _of_ Oxford.
Benjamin Martyn, _Esq_;
Thomas Master, _Esq_;
Thomas May, _Esq_;
Richard Mead, _M. D._
Philip Mercier, _Esq_; 2 _Setts_.
Richard Mitchell, _Esq_;
John Michell, _Esq_;
—— Maule, _Esq_;
Thomas Morgan, _Esq_;
Thomas Mostyn, _Esq_;
_Mr._ Solomon Merrett.
_His Grace the Duke of_ Norfolk, 2 _Setts_.
_His Grace the Duke of_ Newcastle.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Northampton.
_Sir_ Michael Newton, _Bart._
_The Honourable_ James Noel, _Esq_;
George Noyes, _Esq_;
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Orrery.
_The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of_ Ossory.
_The Right Honourable_ Arthur Onslow, _Esq_; _Speaker of the H. of
Commons_.
_General_ James Oglethorpe.
Nathanael Oldham, _Esq_;
Leak Okeover, _Esq_;
Samuel Ongley, _Esq_;
William Osbaldeston, _Esq_;
Jonathan Oldham, _Painter_.
_Mr._ Edward Oakley.
_In the University of_ Oxford _the following Libraries_,
Christ-Church _College_.
Trinity _College_.
All-Souls _College_.
Jesus _College_.
Wadham _College_.
_His Grace the Duke of_ Portland.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Pembroke.
_The Right Honourable_ Micajah Perry, _Esq_; _Lord Mayor of_ London.
_The Honourable Mr. Justice_ Probyn.
_Sir_ Erasmus Philipps, _Bart._
_The Honourable_ Henry Pelham, _Esq_;
_The Honourable_ Stephen Poyntz, _Esq_;
Charles Palmer, _Esq_;
Humphry Parsons, _Esq_; _Alderman of_ London.
Thomas Pitt, _Esq_;
John Plumptree, _Esq_;
David Polhill, _Esq_;
Arthur Pollard, _Esq_;
Thomas Potter, _Esq_;
Richard Powys, _Esq_;
Newdigate Poyntz, _Esq_;
Thomas Prowse, _Esq_;
_Mr._ John Perkins.
_Mr._ William Pate, _Woollen-Draper_.
_His Grace the Duke of_ Queensberry.
_His Grace the Duke of_ Richmond, Lenox, _and_ Aubigny, 2 _Setts_.
_His Grace the Duke of_ Rutland.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Rockingham.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Rochford.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ Romney.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ Raymond.
_The Right Honourable the Lord Chief Baron_ Reynolds.
Geard. Andrew Reiche, _Esq_; _2 Setts_.
Richard Rawlinson, _LL. D. R. S. S._
Francis Reynolds, _Esq_;
William Robinson, _Esq_;
_Mr._ John Rocque.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Suffolk.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Shaftsbury.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Scarborough.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Strafford.
_The Right Honourable the Earl_ Stanhope.
_The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of_ Sarum.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ Charles Noel Somerset.
_Sir_ Jer. Vanacker Sambrooke, _Bart._
_Sir_ William Sanderson, _Bart._
_Sir_ Brownlow Sherard, _Bart._
_Sir_ Hans Sloane, _Bart._
_Sir_ William Stapleton, _Bart._
_The Honourable_ Edward Southwell, _Esq_;
_The Honourable_ John Spencer, _Esq_;
Samuel Sandys, _Esq_;
_The Reverend Mr. Archdeacon_ Sayer.
Charles Savage, _Esq_;
John Sawbridge, _Esq_;
Thomas Scawen, _Esq_;
Gervaise Scroope, _Esq_;
John Selwyn, _Esq_;
Thomas Sergison, _Esq_;
Edward Seymour, _Esq_;
Peter Shakerley, _Esq_;
_The Honourable_ John Sherard, _Esq_;
Powell Snell, _Esq_;
_The Reverend Dr._ Shippen, _Principal of_ Brasen-Nose _College_,
Oxford.
Uriah Shudal, _Esq_;
Richard Shuttleworth, _Esq_;
Theodore Smith, _Esq_;
Robert Smith, _Esq_;
James Sotheby, _Esq_;
Paulet St. John, _Esq_;
_Mr._ Charles Scriven.
_Mr._ Symonds, _Bookseller_.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Tankerville.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Thomond.
_The Right Honourable the Lord Viscount_ Torrington.
_The Right Honourable the Lord Viscount_ Tyrconnel.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ Talbot.
_The Right Honourable and Reverend_ Richard Trevor, _D.D._
John Talbot, _Esq_;
John Tempest, _Esq_;
_The Honourable_ John Temple, _Esq_;
_The Reverend Dr._ Thistlethwayte, _Warden of_ Wadham _College_, Oxon.
Edward Thompson, _Esq_;
Robert Trefusis, _Esq_;
Cholmly Turner, _Esq_;
William Vaughan, _Esq_;
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Warwick _and_ Holland.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Warrington, 4 _Setts_.
_The Right Honourable the Earl_ Waldegrave.
_The Right Honourable the Earl of_ Wilmington.
_The Right Honourable Sir_ Robert Walpole.
_The Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice_ Willes.
_Sir_ Thomas Webster, _Bart._
_Sir_ Thomas Wheate, _Bart._
_Sir_ William Wyndham, _Bart._
_Sir_ George Wynne, _Bart._
_Sir_ Charles Wager, _Knt._
_Sir_ George Walter, _Knt._
Edward Walpole, _Esq_;
James West, _Esq_;
Francis Whitworth, _Esq_;
Lawrence Williams, _Esq_;
Charles Hanbury Williams, _Esq_;
Watkins Williams Wynn, _Esq_;
William Wilmer, _Esq_;
_Mr._ John Williams.
_Mr._ Timothy Wyld.
_The Rev. Mr._ John Wyatt, _Master of_ Felsted _School, in_ Essex.
_The Right-Honourable Sir_ William Yonge, _Bart._
N A M E S O M I T T E D.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ Petre.
_The Right Honourable the Lord_ Sherard Manners.
_The Honourable Sir_ John Eyles, _Bart._ _Postmaster General_.
Papillion Ball, _Esq_;
John Carew, _Esq_;
_Mr._ Thomas Hyam, _Merchant_.
_Mr._ Andrews Jelfe.
Charles Peers, _Esq_;
William Roope, _Esq_;
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AN
ACCOUNT
OF THE
SPANISH INVASION
In the YEAR MDLXXXVIII.
THE Defeat of the SPANISH ARMADA being the most glorious Victory that
was ever obtained at Sea, and the most important to the _British_
Nation, every Method deserves some Praise, that may in a suitable Manner
propagate the Memory of it. Our Ancestors, that were personally
interested in it, were so careful it should not pass into Oblivion, that
they procured the Engagements between the two Fleets to be represented
in ten curious Pieces of Tapestry, with the Portraits of the several
_English_ Captains, taken from the Life, worked in the Borders, which
are now placed, some in the Royal Wardrobe, some in the House of Lords,
the most august Assembly of the Kingdom, there to remain as a lasting
Memorial of the Triumphs of _British_ Valour, guided by _British_
Counsels. But because Time, or Accident, or Moths may deface these
valuable Shadows, we have endeavoured to preserve their Likeness in the
preceding Prints, which, by being multiplied and dispersed in various
Hands, may meet with that Security from the Closets of the Curious,
which the Originals must scarce always hope for, even from the Sanctity
of the Place they are kept in.
Thus far we have been able to go within our own Province; but as a more
particular Detail of the Circumstances of this glorious Expedition,
which lye blended in our Histories with other Matters, may not be
altogether unacceptable, we shall beg Leave to offer the following brief
Account of it, collected from the most authentic Writers and
Manuscripts.
SECT. I.
THE Author and Undertaker of this ever memorable Expedition was _Philip_
II. King of _Spain_, eldest Son of the renowned Emperor _Charles_ V. In
the Year 1554, he married _Mary_ I. Queen of _England_, with a View of
uniting, by this Marriage, the _English_ Dominions to those large and
noble Territories of which he was Heir-Apparent. But all his Projects
were defeated by a False-Conception the Queen had in 1555; and
especially by her Death, which happened on _Novemb._ 17, 1558.—In 1555,
_October_ 25, he became King of _Spain_, and the Dominions and
Territories thereunto belonging, upon the voluntary Resignation of his
Father _Charles_ V.
As to King _Philip_’s real Views and Motives in this Expedition, they
seem to have been these:
I. A firm Hope and certain Prospect as he imagin’d, of easily acquiring
so considerable an Addition to his Dominions, as the flourishing
Kingdoms of _England_ and _Ireland_. Kingdoms whose Advantages and
Excellencies he was well acquainted withal; and from whence he could be
continually supplied with Tin, Lead, Wool, and many other useful,
necessary, and profitable Commodities.
II. He was also excited by another Motive, which is generally sufficient
for Conquerors; and it was this: _England_ and _Ireland_ stood very
convenient for him, as being near his Dominions in the Low-Countries;
and might, by their advantageous Situation, and the many good Harbours
they abound with, have rendered him Master of the Trade and Navigation
of these Northern Parts of the World; and, what is more, they would have
enabled him to carry it on throughout all _North_ and _South-America_,
exclusively of all others; which is such an Advantage as cannot well be
expressed.
III. Moreover these Islands had proved, and might always prove a
grievous Thorn in his Side. For, by reason of their Situation, the
_English_ could, at any Time, almost totally obstruct the Navigation of
the _Netherlands_, and destroy all their Traffick by Sea. Because, as it
must unavoidably be carried on almost within Sight of the _British_
Coasts, so long as the Inhabitants of those Islands remained independent
of him[1], and were Masters at Sea, they could seize, with the utmost
Ease, the Shipping sent from the Ports of _Flanders_ to the several
Parts of the World. What lay therefore so convenient, and was in other
Hands so dangerous a Neighbour, must be purchas’d at any Rate.
IV. Revenge may be assigned as another Motive of this Expedition. Queen
_Elizabeth_ had assisted all along the States of the United Provinces,
in their several Attempts to shake off the _Spanish_ Yoke. Now, that
surely was a very great Provocation: And Forgiveness of Injuries, it is
well known, was then, no more than at present, a _Spaniard_’s Virtue. To
be revenged therefore of such a constant Enemy as _Elizabeth_ had been,
may well be suppos’d to have been an additional Inducement to this
Undertaking.
V. This other important Motive is assigned by _Hakluyt_[2]: “King
_Philip_ deemed this to be the most ready and direct Course, to recover
his hereditary Possession of the _Low-Countries_. For, having with
little Advantage, for above twenty Years together, waged War against the
_Netherlands_, after mature Deliberation, he thought it most convenient
to assault them once more by Sea, which had been fruitlessly attempted
several Times before for want of sufficient Forces. And he thought good
to begin with _England_, being persuaded, that the Conquest of that
Island was less difficult than the Conquest of _Holland_ and _Zealand_.
Moreover, the _Spaniards_ were of Opinion, that it would be far more
behoveful for their King to conquer _England_ and the _Low-Countries_ at
once, than to be constrained continually to maintain a warlike Navy, to
defend his _East_ and _West-India_ Fleets from the _English_.”
* * * * *
These (with a Desire of restoring the _Roman-Catholick_ Religion) seem
to have been the real and true Motives of this great Expedition.
The Reasons alleged by _Philip_ were these[3]:
I. That _Elizabeth_ had, from the first assisted his rebellious Subjects
in the _Netherlands_, with Men and Money, and spirited them up against
him, her greatest Friend and Benefactor; whom she was indebted to for
her Life, when her Sister Queen _Mary_ and _Gardiner_ were for removing
her out of the Way.
II. _Drake_, and others of her Subjects, had committed several
Depredations in _Spain_ and _America_.
III. She had been so unnatural as to stop his Money, when, for fear of
Pirates, it had been landed in her Dominions; and had put an Embargo on
the Vessels employed to carry it to the _Low-Countries_: (As is related
by _Camden_, under the Year 1568.)
IV. She had acknowledged his Enemy Don _Antonio_ King of _Portugal_, and
armed him against _Spain_.
V. That it was by her Instruction and Advice the Duke of _Alençon_ had
been crowned King of _Brabant_.
VI. And, moreover, she herself had accepted the Sovereignty of the
_Low-Countries_, and sent the Earl of _Leicester_ thither with
considerable Forces; which was an open Declaration of War.
VII. That he undertook it, to revenge the Death of the innocent Queen of
_Scots_.
VIII. And in Compliance with the Holy Father _Innocent_ VIII.’s earnest
Injunctions, who ceased not to exhort and importune him, to abolish
Heresy in _England_, and replant the _Roman-Catholick_ Religion there.
* * * * *
In short therefore, the Aim and Design of the King of _Spain_ in this
great Expedition, was to conquer _England_, in order to come more easily
at the revolted _Netherlands_, and facilitate their Reduction to his
Obedience; as also, for the Sake of so meritorious an Action, as the
bringing this Island back to the Catholick Religion: And to be revenged,
at the same Time, for the Disgrace, Contempt, and Dishonour, he had, at
several Times, received from the _English_ Nation; and for divers others
real or pretended Injuries, which had made a deep Impression on his
proud and revengeful Spirit.
Animated and spurred on by these Motives, King _Philip_ made such vast
Preparations for his intended Conquest, as had hardily ever been known
before in any Age, or Nation: Whether we consider the Time spent about
them; or the prodigious Strength and Quantity of the Materials of all
Kinds that were provided.
As for the Time spent about these Preparations; King _Philip_ seems to
have form’d this Design as early as the Year 1583. [4]For, in that Year,
he ordered _Alexander_ Duke of _Parma_, Governor of the _Low-Countries_,
to procure an exact Account and Description of the Harbours, Castles,
Rivers, and Roads belonging to _England_, and transmit them to him;
which was accordingly done: And in this _Francis Throckmorton_ appears
to have been concerned. But, according to _Rapin_, [5]this Project was
formed by _Philip_ only from the Time _Mary_ Queen of _Scots_ had been
persuaded to convey to him her Right to _England_, as being the only
Means to restore the _Catholick_ Religion[6]: According to the received
Maxim in the Church of _Rome_, That an Heretick is unworthy and
incapable of enjoying a Crown; _Philip_ thought he might justly claim
that of _England_, as being the next _Catholick_ Prince descended from
the House of _Lancaster_; namely, from _Catharine_ Daughter of _John_ of
_Ghent_ Duke of _Lancaster_, married in 1389 to _Henry_, then Prince,
and afterwards King, of _Castile_. Upon this Descent therefore, and the
Queen of _Scots_ Conveyance and Will, he had projected the Conquest of
_England_.
However it be, or whenever these Preparations were begun, it is certain
that King _Philip_ assembled so powerful a Fleet, and so well furnished
with all kinds of Provisions and Ammunition, that, thinking it
unconquerable by human Power, he gave it the Title of the INVINCIBLE
ARMADA.
[7]This Fleet consisted of one hundred and thirty two Ships, (besides
twenty Caravels for the Service of the Army, and ten Salves with six
Oars apiece,) containing fifty nine thousand one hundred, and twenty
Tons; three thousand, one hundred, and sixty five Cannons; eight
thousand, seven hundred, and sixty six Sailors; two thousand and eighty
eight Galley-Slaves, and twenty one thousand, eight hundred, and fifty
five Soldiers; besides Noblemen and Voluntiers[8]. For there was not a
Family in _Spain_ of any Note, but what had a Son, a Brother, or a
Kinsman in the Fleet[9]. Of these Voluntiers there were two hundred and
twenty four; attended by four hundred and fifty six Servants bearing
Arms.
There were also two hundred and thirty eight Gentlemen more, maintained
by the King; with one hundred and sixty three Servants. An hundred and
seventy seven Persons, with two Engineers, one Physician, one Surgeon,
and thirty Servants belonging to the Artillery; eighty five Physicians
and Surgeons for the Hospital-Ships; three and twenty Gentlemen
belonging to the Duke of _Medina-Sidonia_’s Court, and fifty Servants;
seventeen Superintendants General of the Army; and one hundred Servants
more, belonging to them, or to the Officers of Justice, who were twenty
in Number[10].
Nay even there were in it one hundred and eighty Capuchins, Dominicans,
Jesuits, and Mendicant Friars; with _Martin Alarco_, Vicar of the
Inquisition.
And because none were allowed to have Wives or Concubines on board, some
Women had hired Ships to follow the Fleet; two or three of which Ships
were driven by the Storm on the Coast of _France_[11].
Most of the Ships of this ARMADA[12] were of an uncommon Size, Strength,
and Thickness, more like floating Castles than any thing else; and they
were cased above Water with thick Planks to hinder the Cannon-Balls from
piercing their Sides. The Masts also were braced round with strong
pitched Ropes, to save them from being soon shatter’d or broke by the
Shot.
Then as to Ammunition, [13]this Fleet had a very great Number of
Cannons, double Cannons, Culverins, and Field-Pieces for Land-Service;
seven thousand Muskets and Calievers; ten thousand Halberts and
Partizans; one hundred and twenty thousand Cannon-Balls; [14]one hundred
Quintals of Lead for Bullets (each Quintal being a hundred weight,)
twelve thousand Quintals of Match; fifty six thousand Quintals of
Gunpowder; and also, Waggons, and other Carriages; Horses, Mules, and
other Instruments and Necessaries for Conveyance by Land; Torches,
Lanthorns, Canvas, Hides, Lead; Chains, Whips, Butchering-Knives,
Halters, and other Instruments of Death and Slavery[15]; and Spades,
Mattocks, Baskets, and every thing else requisite for Pioneers Work; as
also eight hundred Mules for drawing the Ordnance and Carriages.
Proportionable to these Forces was their great Store of Provisions of
every Sort: [16]for, besides Raisins in great abundance, they had eight
thousand Quintals of Fish; three thousand Quintals of Rice; six thousand
three hundred and twenty [17]Septiers of Beans, Pease, _&c._ eleven
thousand three hundred and ninety eight Pounds of Olive-Oyl; thirty
three thousand eight hundred and seventy Measures of Vinegar; ninety six
thousand Quintals of Biscuit; three thousand four hundred and fifty
eight Quintals of Goats Cheese; six thousand five hundred Quintals of
Bacon; one hundred and forty seven thousand Pipes of Wine; twelve
thousand Pipes of Water, _&c._—Provisions in a word they had for six
Months; and so well furnished were they, that Sir _Francis Drake_
observes, in a Letter of his, [18]they had Provisions of Bread and Wine
sufficient to maintain forty thousand Men for a whole Year.
The whole Fleet, in general, is said[19] to have contained thirty two
thousand Persons, and cost every Day thirty thousand Ducats[20].
The General of the Land Forces, and the Commander in Chief in the whole
Expedition, was Don _Alfonso Perez de Guzman_, Duke of _Medina Sidonia_;
and the Admiral was Don _Juan Martinez de Recalde_.
But it was not in _Spain_ only, that such great Preparations were
carrying on, for the Invasion of _England_. For, _Alexander_ Duke of
_Parma_ was also making on his Side prodigious and amazing Preparations,
to assist in this grand Design.
He gathered together out of _Spain_, _France_, _Savoy_, _Italy_,
_Naples_, _Sicily_, _Germany_, and even out of _America_, a very
considerable and choice Army; [21]consisting of about forty thousand
Foot, and three thousand Horse; out of which he selected thirty thousand
Foot, and eighteen hundred Horse, that were to be ready to pass into
_England_. These Troops were quarter’d as follows: [22]Near _Nieuport_
there lay ready thirty Companies of _Italians_; ten of _Walloons_; and
eight of _Scots_, and as many of _Burgundians_: At _Dixmude_ were eighty
Companies of _Netherlanders_; sixty of _Spaniards_; sixty of _Germans_;
and above seven hundred fugitive _English_, _Scots_, and _Irish_, under
the Command of Sir _William Stanley_, and _Charles Nevil_ Earl of
_Westmoreland_. There were moreover four thousand Men posted at
_Corrick_, and nine hundred at _Watene_.
For the Transportation of these Forces, the Duke of _Parma_ prepar’d
Ships at _Nieuport_, _Dunkirk_, _Antwerp_, and other Places; and caused
some new ones to be built with such Expedition, that they seem’d, as
_Strada_ expresses it, [23]to be transform’d in a Moment, from Trees
into Ships.
More particularly: [24]In the River of _Watten_ he caused seventy
flat-bottom’d Boats to be built, each of which could carry thirty
Horses; and to each of them were Bridges fitted for the convenient
Shipping, or Landing of the Horses. There were in most of them, two
Ovens for baking Bread, with a great Quantity of Saddles, Bridles,
Harness, and a good Number of Draught-Horses, to draw the Engines,
Cannons, and other Ammunition, after the _Spaniards_ should be landed.
Of the same Form he had provided two hundred other Vessels at
_Nieuport_, but not so large. And at _Dunkirk_ he had assembled thirty
eight Men of War; for the navigating of which, he had hired Sailors from
_Bremen_, _Hamburgh_, _Emden_, and _Genoa_. In their Ballast he had put
a great Quantity of Beams, or thick Planks, sharpned at the Ends, and
covered with Iron; but full of Clasps and Hooks on the Sides, that they
might be easily joined together. At _Graveling_, he had provided twenty
thousand Casks, which might in a short Time be fastened together with
Nails and Cords, and reduced into the Form of a Bridge. Whatever, in a
Word, was necessary for making Bridges, or for choaking up the Mouths of
Havens and Rivers, was by him got in readiness. And he had even caused a
great Pile of wooden Faggots to be laid near _Nieuport_, for erecting a
Mount or Rampart. Whilst he was thus furnishing himself with all proper
Vessels and other Necessaries, he caused the shallow and sandy Places of
Rivers to be cleared; and had deep Channels cut in proper Places, from
_Ghent_ to _Ysendyck_, _Sluys_, and _Nieuport_, on purpose to convey the
Ships built at _Antwerp_, _Ghent_, _&c._ into the Sea. Finally, he
assembled at _Bruges_ above one hundred Hoys loaden with Provisions,
which he designed to bring into the Ports of _Flanders_, either by the
Way of _Sluys_, or through the forementioned Channels.
The Duke of _Guise_ had also twelve thousand Men on the Coast of
_Normandy_, ready to land in the West of _England_ as soon as the
SPANISH ARMADA had enter’d the Channel[25]; but the _Spaniards_ coming
two Months later than they intended, (or for some other Reasons) the
Duke dismissed his Forces about the End of _June_.
And that this famous Expedition might be supported with spiritual as
well as temporal Weapons[26], Pope _Sixtus_ V created _William Allen_, a
seditious _English_ Priest, Cardinal; and sent him as his Legate into
the _Low-Countries_, with a Bull; wherein, after enumerating the several
Causes of Complaint the See of _Rome_ had against Queen _Elizabeth_,
(namely her suppressing the Catholic Religion, her putting the Queen of
_Scots_ to Death, _&c._) he renewed and confirmed the Sentence of
Excommunication pronounced against her by his Predecessors _Pius_ V and
_Gregory_ XIII, deprived her, as illegitimate, and an Usurper, from all
Princely Dignity, and Dominion over the Kingdoms of _England_ and
_Ireland_; absolved her Subjects from their Allegiance; and strictly
enjoined them, upon Pain of GOD Almighty’s Displeasure, not to lend her
any Help or Assistance, but to join the _Spanish_ Army, and the Duke of
_Parma_’s Forces, as soon as they should be landed: Promising withal a
plenary Indulgence and the Pardon of all their Sins, to as many as would
engage in so laudable an Undertaking.
* * * * *
Such were the extraordinary Preparations made by the _Spaniards_ for
invading _England_. Preparations so great and so dreadful, that all
_Europe_ was alarmed at them. Most Sovereigns expected for some Time,
with the utmost Horror and Astonishment, where the threatening Storm,
which had been so long gathering, would at last fall. But this, though
kept as a great Secret, did not long escape the great Sir _Francis
Walsingham_’s Sagacity. [27]He had Intelligence from _Madrid_, that King
_Philip_ had told his Council, he had dispatched an Express to _Rome_
with a Letter writ with his own Hand to the Pope, acquainting him with
the true Design of his Preparations, and asking his Blessing upon it;
which for some Reasons he would not yet disclose to them, ’till the
Return of the Courier. The Secret being thus lodg’d with the Pope,
_Walsingham_, by the means of a _Venetian_ Priest retain’d at _Rome_ as
his Spy, got a Copy of the original Letter, which was stolen out of the
Pope’s Cabinet by a Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber, who took the Keys out
of the Pope’s Pocket whilst he slept. Upon this Intelligence
_Walsingham_ found a Way to retard the _Spanish_ Invasion for a whole
Year, by getting the _Spanish_ Bills protested at _Genoa_, which should
have supplied them with Money to carry on their Preparations.
Queen _Elizabeth_, it may well be supposed, could not help being
extremely anxious about the issue of the great and dreadful Preparations
that were going on, to deprive her of her Crown and Dignity, and perhaps
of her [28]Life. This inclined her more readily to embrace some
Overtures of Peace, made to her by the _Spaniard_[29]: But it being soon
found out that they were intended only to lull her asleep, and induce
her, by depending upon a Peace, to be careless of her own Defence; and
moreover, _Henry_ III King of _France_ sending her Word, [30]she ought
to stand upon her Guard; she did not therefore rely much on the
Negociations in hand, but took all proper Measures for securing herself,
and protecting her Dominions.
Her Situation was indeed very melancholy, and her Fears well grounded:
For she was without so much as one Ally abroad, except the
_United-Provinces_, which themselves wanted Assistance; and at home she
had a factious and discontented Party, ready to join with the Enemy:
But, by the Assistance of Heaven, by her good Management, and the
sincere Affection of the Generality of her People, she surmounted all
Difficulties, and came off Conqueror.
When she was sure the _Spaniards_ Preparations were design’d against
her, that she might not be taken unprovided, she fitted out as strong a
Fleet as she possibly could; and herein so great was the Diligence of
her Subjects, [31]that though her Preparations were begun but about the
1st of _November_ 1587, yet her Fleet was ready to put to Sea by the
20th of _December_ the same Year.
[32]_Charles_ Lord _Howard_ of _Effingham_, High Admiral of _England_, a
Person of great Prudence and Bravery, was appointed Commander in Chief
of this whole Fleet. His Instructions were, To repair to the Westward,
in conjunction with Sir _Francis Drake_ Vice-Admiral, and Captain _John
Hawkins_, and Captain _Martin Frobisher_ Rear-Admirals: At the same
Time, the Lord _Henry Seymour_, second Son of the late Duke of
_Somerset_, had Orders to lye on the Coast of _Flanders_, with forty
_English_ and _Dutch_ Ships (the latter under the Command of _Justin_ of
_Nassau_, Admiral of _Zealand_) to prevent the Duke of _Parma_’s putting
out to Sea with his Forces.
For Land Service, there were disposed along the Southern Coasts of
_England_ twenty thousand Men. Besides which, two Armies were raised of
choice, well-disciplin’d, and experienced Men; one (under the Command of
_Robert Dudley_ Earl of _Leicester_, consisting of one thousand Horse,
and twenty two thousand Foot,) was encamped at _Tilbury_, near the
_Thames_ Mouth, for the Safeguard of the City of _London_; because it
was given out that the _Spaniards_, after having joined the Duke of
_Parma_, intended to come up the _Thames_, in order to make themselves
Masters of the Metropolis of the Kingdom. The other Army, under the
Command of _Henry Carey_ Lord _Hunsdon_, consisted of thirty four
thousand Foot, and two thousand Horse, and was destined to guard the
Queen’s Person.
_Arthur_ Lord _Grey_, Sir _Francis Knolles_, Sir _John Norris_, Sir
_Richard Bingham_, and Sir _Roger Williams_, Knights, and excellent
Soldiers, were chosen to consult about the best Way of managing the War
at Land. After mature Deliberation, they thought fit that the most
convenient Landing-Places for the Enemy, as well out of _Spain_ as out
of the _Low-Countries_, should be well mann’d and fortify’d, namely
_Milford-Haven_, _Falmouth_, _Plymouth_, _Portland_, the Isle of
_Wight_, _Portsmouth_, the open Coast of _Kent_ called the _Downs_, the
_Thames_ Mouth, _Harwich_, _Yarmouth_, _Hull_, _&c._ that the Train’d
Bands, all along the Maritime Counties, should meet in Arms upon a
Signal given, to defend the said Ports, and do their best to prevent the
Enemy’s landing; and, in Case of their landing, that they should lay all
the Country waste round about, and leave neither Booty nor Forage for
them; that they should annoy them Night and Day with continual Alarms,
so as to give them no Rest; but not venture the Hazard of a Battle,
’till more Commanders with their Companies should come up; of whom one
in every Shire was nominated Chief.
Moreover, the active Queen, in order to quicken the Zeal and Diligence
of her Subjects, especially of those who lay near the Sea-Coasts, caused
Letters to be sent to the chief of them: Wherein, after putting them in
mind of the common and imminent Danger the whole Nation was in, she told
them, that she “expected on this extraordinary Occasion, a larger
Proportion of Furniture, both for Horsemen and Footmen; thereby to be in
their best Strength against any Attempt whatsoever, to be employed,
whether about her own Person, or otherwise. And the Number she required
them to signify to her Privy-Council[33].” She required moreover the
Nobility in the several Counties, to provide themselves, and their
Servants and Dependants in like manner, with Horses and Armour, to be
ready to repair upon Summons to the Queen, for Defence of her Person:
And to this Purpose Letters were address’d to them from the Lords of the
Council, by her Command.
Such were the Directions given. [34]And accordingly Cities, Counties,
Towns, and Villages, the Cinque-Ports, and all other Havens of
_England_, manifested as great Forwardness in their zealous Love and
Duty, as either Subjects could perform, or Prince expect. The City of
_London_, in particular, being requested by the Privy-Council, to find
five thousand Men, and fifteen Ships, they willingly and cheerfully
furnished thirty Ships provided with all Necessaries, and ten thousand
able Men, well armed and trained; besides which, they kept in readiness
thirty thousand Men more, prepared to march wherever there should be
Occasion[35]; and also lent the Queen fifty one thousand nine hundred
Pounds, in ready Money.
Then, as to the rest of the Nation: [36]As soon as it was reported that
the Queen was come near _London_, and the _Spanish_ Fleet appeared in
the Channel, the greatest Part of the Nobility, except those that were
obliged to stay in each County on account of their Offices, repaired to
_London_, to preserve the Queen’s Person; bringing with them goodly
Bands of Horsemen, about five thousand in all, and maintaining them at
their own Charge ’till the _Spanish_ Navy was known to be passed beyond
_Scotland_: These were the Lord Chancellor _Hatton_, the Earls of
_Lincoln_, _Warwick_, _Leicester_, _Essex_, _Worcester_, and _Hereford_;
the Lord Viscount _Montacute_; the Lords _Burghley_, _Compton_,
_Morley_, _Rich_, _Dacres_, _Windsor_, _Audley_, _Sandes_, _Mordaunt_,
_Lumley_, _Mountjoy_, _Stourton_, and _Darcy_.
In a Word, all Persons throughout _England_ in general, unanimously
concurred to be ready to serve for the Defence of the Queen and
Kingdom[37]: In this there was no Difference between the Catholic and
the Protestant, but herein appeared a perfect Sympathy, Concourse, and
Consent of all Sorts of Persons, without respect of Religion. By this
hearty Zeal, seconded with suitable Endeavours, it came to pass, that
some Counties were able to bring into the Field twenty thousand, and
others even forty thousand able fighting Men: The Maritime Counties, in
particular, on the South and East of _England_, from _Cornwall_ to
_Lincolnshire_, were so well furnished with a stout and well regulated
Militia, that there was no Place for landing foreign Forces, but within
eight and forty Hours there could resort to that Place above twenty
thousand fighting Men, with Ordnance and other suitable Provisions.
And that the Popish discontented Party at home might neither join the
Enemy, nor favour their Descent, the Queen caused the most obnoxious of
them to be imprisoned in _Wisbich-Castle_ in the Isle of _Ely_.
She also directed [38]Sir _William Fitz-Williams_, Lord Deputy of
_Ireland_, what to do, in case the Enemy should land in any Part of his
Government, and pointed out to him what Precautions he should use to
hinder the _Irish_ from rising.
There remained only the King of _Scots_, of whom Queen _Elizabeth_ had
most Reason to be afraid; since she had newly given him an unpardonable
Provocation, namely, in causing his Mother to be publickly beheaded, who
was a Sovereign Princess, independent of her. This was sufficient to
dispose him, out of a Principle of Revenge, to favour the Descent of the
_Spaniards_ in one Extremity of the Kingdom, by making a Diversion in
the other. With that View he had been tampered with by the Duke of
_Parma_, and had received from him Offers of Assistance[39]: But the
politic Queen so effectually caress’d him, made him such advantageous
Proposals, and so plainly convinc’d him, that the Loss of _England_
would not fail of being attended with that of _Scotland_[40]; that he,
sensible of the common Danger wherewith he was threatened, declar’d the
_Spaniards_ Enemies, and made Preparations against them with great
Chearfulness and Alacrity: [41]Giving a strict Charge upon all the
Sea-Coasts, that the _Spaniards_ should not be suffered to land in any
Part, but that the _English_ might land, and be reliev’d of any Wants:
[42]He moreover offer’d Queen _Elizabeth_ his Forces, his Person, and
all that he could command, to be employed against the common Enemy: And
he humourously observ’d upon this Occasion[43], _That he look’d for no
other Favour from the Spaniards, than what_ Polyphemus _promis’d_
Ulysses, _that he should be reserv’d for the last Morsel_.
* * * * *
After this general Account, the Reader will undoubtedly be pleased to
see a particular List of the Fleets on both Sides, which I have
accordingly subjoined hereunto.
SECT. II.
A complete List of the _Spanish_ Fleet, called
the INVINCIBLE ARMADA[44].
The Squadron of _Portuguese_ Galleons, _&c._ under the particular
Command of the Generalissimo, the Duke of MEDINA SIDONIA.
Number Number
of of
Ships. Burden Guns. Mariners. Soldiers.
Tuns.
The _St. Martin_, Captain 1000 50 177 300
General of all the Fleet,
_St. John_, Admiral General, 1050 50 170 231
_St. Mark_, 792 117 292
_St. Philip_, 800 40 117 415
_St. Lewis_, 830 40 116 376
_St. Matthew_, 750 40 50 177
_St. James_, 520 30 100 300
Galleon of _Florence_, 961 52 100 300
_St. Christopher_, 352 30 90 300
_St. Bernard_, 352 30 100 280
Zabra _Augusta_, 166 13 55 55
Zabra _Julia_, 166 14 50 60
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7739 389 1242 3086
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The Fleet of _Biscay_, commanded by Don JUAN MARTINEZ DE RECALDE,
Captain General.
_St. Ann_, Admiral, 768 30 114 323
_Grangrina_, Admiral, 1160 36 100 300
_St. James_, 660 30 102 250
_Conception of Zubelzu_, 468 20 70 100
_Conception of Juan del Cavo_, 418 24 70 164
_Magdalena de Juan Francesco 330 22 70 200
d’ Ayala_,
_St. John_, 350 24 80 130
_Mary_, 165 24 100 180
_Manuel_, 520 16 54 130
_St. Mary de Monte Majore_, 707 30 50 220
_Mary of Aguiare_, 70 10 23 30
_Isabella_, 71 12 23 30
_Michael de Susa_, 96 12 24 30
_St. Stephen_, 78 12 26 30
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5861 302 906 2117
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The Fleet of _Castile_, commanded by Don DIEGO FLOREZ DE VALDEZ,
General.
The _St. Christopher_ Galleon, 700 40 120 205
General,
_St. John Baptist_ Galleon, 750 30 140 250
_St. Peter_ Galleon, 530 40 140 130
_St. John_ Galleon, 530 30 120 170
_St. James the Great_ Galleon, 530 30 132 230
_St. Philip and St. James_ 530 30 116 159
Galleon,
_Ascension_ Galleon, 530 30 114 220
Galleon of our Lady _del 130 30 108 170
Barrio_,
Galleon of St. _Medel_ and 530 30 110 170
_Celedon_,
_St. Anne_ Galleon, 250 24 80 100
Ship, _Our Lord of Vigonia_, 750 30 130 190
_Trinity_, 780 30 122 200
_St. Katherine_, 862 30 160 200
_St. John Baptist_, 659 30 130 200
Pinnace of our Lady _della 24 25 30
Rosaria_,
_St. Anthony of Padua_ 16 46 300
Pinnace,
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8054 474 1793 2924
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The _Andalusian_ Squadron, commanded by Don PEDRO DE VALDEZ, General.
The _General-Ship_, 1550 50 118 304
_St. Francis_ Admiral, 915 30 60 230
_St. John Baptist_ Galleon, 810 40 40 250
_St. Gargeran_, 569 20 60 170
_Conception_, 862 25 65 200
_Duquesa St. Ann_, 900 30 80 250
_Trinity_, 650 20 80 200
_St. Mary de Juncar_, 730 30 80 240
_St. Katherine_, 730 30 80 259
_St. Bartholomew_, 730 30 80 225
_Holy Ghost_ Pinnace, 10 33 40
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8692 315 776 2359
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The Squadron of _Guypuscoa_, commanded by Don MIGHEL DE OQUENDA.
_St. Ann_, General, 1200 50 60 300
Ship, _Our Lady of the Rose_, 945 30 64 230
Admiral,
_St. Saviour_, 958 30 50 330
_St. Stephen_, 936 30 70 200
_St. Martha_, 548 25 70 180
_St. Barba_, 525 15 50 160
_St. Bonaventura_, 369 15 60 170
_Mary_, 291 15 40 120
_Santa Cruce_, 680 20 40 150
_Ursa doncella_ Hulk, 500 18 40 160
_Annunciation_ Pinnace, 60 12 16 30
_St. Barnaby_, 60 12 16 30
_Magdalene_, 60 12 16 30
Pinnace, _Our Lady of 60 12 16 30
Guadalupe_,
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7192 296 608 2120
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The _Eastern_ Fleet of Ships, called _Levantiscas_, commanded by Don
MARTINEZ DE VERTENDONA.
The _Ragazone_, General, 1294 35 90 350
_Rama_, Admiral, 728 30 80 210
_Rata, St. Mary_, crowned, 820 40 90 340
_St. John of Cecilia_, 880 30 70 290
_Trinity Valencera_, 1000 41 90 240
_Annunciation_, 730 30 90 200
_St. Nicolas, Prodaveli_, 834 30 84 280
_Juliana_, 780 36 80 330
_St. Mary of Pison_, 666 22 80 250
_Trinity Escala_, 900 25 90 302
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8632 319 844 2792
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The Fleet of Ships, called _Urcas_, or _Hulks_, commanded by Don JUAN
LOPEZ DE MEDINA.
_Great Griffin_, General, 650 40 60 240
_St. Saviour_, Admiral, 650 30 60 230
_Sea Dog_, 200 10 30 80
_White Falcon_, 500 18 40 160
_Black Castle_, 750 25 50 250
_Bark of Hamburg_, 600 25 50 250
_House of Peace_, 600 25 50 250
_St. Peter the Greater_, 600 25 50 250
_Sampson_, 600 25 50 250
_St. Peter the Less_, 600 25 50 250
_Bark of Dantzick_, 450 26 50 210
_White Falcon, Mediana_, 300 18 30 80
_St. Andrew_, 400 15 40 160
_Little House of Peace_, 350 15 40 160
_Flying Raven_, 400 18 40 210
_White Dove_, 250 12 30 60
_Adventure_, 600 19 40 60
_Santa Barba_, 600 19 40 60
_Cat_, 400 9 30 50
_St. Gabriel_, 280 9 25 50
_Esayas_, 280 9 25 50
_St. James_, 600 19 40 60
_Peter Martin_, 200 30 30 80
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10860 466 950 4170
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Pataches and Zabras commanded by Don ANTONIO DE MENDOZA.
_Our Lady del Pilar de 300 12 50 120
Saragossa_,
_English Charity_, 180 12 36 80
_St. Andrew of Scotland_, 150 12 30 51
_Crucifix_, 150 8 30 50
_Our Lady of the Port_, 150 8 30 50
_Conception of Caraffa_, 70 8 30 50
_Our Lady of Begova_, 70 8 30 50
_Conception of Capitillo_, 60 8 30 50
_St. Hieronymus_, 60 8 30 60
_Our Lady of Grace_, 60 8 30 60
_Conception of Francis 60 8 30 60
Lastero_,
_Our Lady of Guadalupe_, 60 8 30 60
_St. Francis_, 60 8 30 60
_Holy Ghost_, 60 8 30 60
_Our Lady of Frenesda_, 60 8 30 60
_Zabra of the Trinity_, 60 8 30 60
_Zabra of our Lady del 60 8 30 60
Castro_,
_St. Andrew_, 60 8 30 60
_Conception_, 60 8 30 60
_Conception of Sommariba_, 60 8 30 60
_Santa Clara_, 60 8 30 60
_St. Katherine_, 60 8 30 60
_St. John de Caraffa_, 60 8 30 60
_Assumption_, 60 8 30 60
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2090 204 746 1103
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The four Galleasses of _Naples_, commanded by Don HUGO DE MONCADA.
_St. Laurence_ General, 50 130 270
_Patrona_, 50 112 180
_Girona_, 50 120 170
_Neopolitana_, 50 115 124
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200 477 744
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These four Galleasses had Slaves 1200.
The four Gallies of _Portugal_, commanded by Don DIEGO DE MEDRANA.
The _Capitana_, 50 106 110
_Princess_, 50 106 110
_Diana_, 50 106 110
_Vazana_, 50 106 110
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200 424 440
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In these four Gallies were Slaves 888.
The List of the ENGLISH FLEET[45].
Ships. Tuns. Sailors. Captains.
The _Ark Raleigh_, 800 425 The Lord _Charles Howard_,
Lord High Admiral.
_Elizabeth 600 250 The Earl of _Cumberland_.
Bonaventure_,
_Rainbow_, 500 250 The Lord _Henry Seymor_.
_Golden Lion_, 500 250 The Lord _Thomas Howard_.
_White Bear_, 1000 500 The Lord _Edmund Sheffield_.
_Vanguard_, 500 250 Sir _William Winter_.
_Revenge_, 500 250 Sir _Francis Drake_,
Vice-Admiral.
_Elizabeth Jonas_, 900 500 Sir _Robert Southwell_.
_Victory_, 800 400 Sir _John Hawkins_,
Rear-Admiral.
_Antelope_, 400 160 Sir _Henry Palmer_.
_Triumph_, 1100 500 Sir _Martin Forbisher_.
_Dreadnought_, 400 200 Sir _George Beeston_.
_Mary-Rose_, 600 250 _Edward Fenton_.
_Nonpareil_, 500 250 _Thomas Fennar_.
_Hope_, 600 250 _Robert Cross_.
_Galley Bonavolta_, 250 _William Buroughs_.
_Swift-sure_, 400 200 _Edward Fennar_.
_Swallow_, 300 160 _Richard Hawkins_.
_Foresight_, 300 160 _Christopher Baker_.
_Aid_, 250 120 _William Fennar_.
_Bull_, 200 100 _Jeremy Turner_.
_Tyger_, 200 100 _John Bostock_.
_Tramontana_, 150 70 _Luke Ward_.
_Scout_, 120 70 _Henry Ashley_.
_Achates_, 100 60 _George Rigges_.
_Charles_, 70 40 _John Roberts_.
_Moon_, 60 40 _Alexander Clifford_.
_Advice_, 50 40 _John Harris_.
_Spy_, 50 40 _Ambrose Ward_.
_Martin_, 50 35 _Walter Gower_.
_Sun_, 40 30 _Richard Buckley_.
_Signet_, 30 20 _John Shrive_.
_Brigantine_, 35 _Thomas Scot_.
_George_ Hoye, 120 24 _Richard Hodges_.
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2. Ships serving by Tunnage with the Lord Admiral.
_White Lion_, 140 50 _Charles Howard_.
_Disdain_, 80 45 _Jonas Bradbery_.
_Lark_, 50 30 _Thomas Chichester_.
_Edward of Malden_, 180 30 _William Pierce_.
_Marigold_, 30 20 _William Newton_.
_Black Dog_, 20 10 _John Davis_.
_Catherine_, 20 10
_Fancy_, 50 20 _John Paul_.
_Poppin_, 20 8
_Nightingal_, 160 16 _John Doate_.
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3. Ships serving with Sir FRANCIS DRAKE.
The Galleon 400 160 _George Fennar_.
_Leicester_,
_Merchant Royal_, 400 160 _Robert Flyke_.
_Edward 300 120 _James Lancaster_.
Bonaventure_,
_Roebuck_, 300 120 _Jacob Whitton_.
_Golden Noble_, 250 110 _Adam Seigar_.
_Griffin_, 200 100 _William Hawkins_.
_Minion_, 200 80 _William Winter_.
Bark _Talbot_, 200 90 _Henry White_.
_Thomas Drake_, 200 80 _Henry Spendelow_.
_Spark_, 200 90 _William Spark_.
_Hopewell_, 200 100 _John Marchaunt_.
Galleon _Dudley_, 250 100 _James Erizey_.
_Virgin, 200 80 _John Greenfield_.
God-save-her_,
_Hope of Plymouth_, 200 70 _John Rivers_.
Bark _Bond_, 150 70 _William Poole_.
Bark _Bonner_, 150 70 _Charles Cæsar_.
Bark _Hawkins_, 150 70 ... _Pridexe_.
_Unity_, 80 70 _Humphry Sidnam_.
_Elizabeth-Drake_, 60 30 _Thomas Seely_.
Bark _Buggins_, 80 50 _John Langford_.
Frigat _Elizabeth 80 50 _Roger Grant_.
Fonnes_,
Bark _Sellinger_, 160 80 _John Sellinger_.
Bark _Mannington_, 160 80 _Ambrose Mannington_.
_Golden Hind_, 50 30 _Thomas Flemming_.
_Makeshift_, 60 40 _Peerce Leman_.
_Diamond of 60 40 _Robert Holland_.
Dartmouth_,
_Speedwell_, 60 14 _Hugh Harding_.
_Bear-Young_, 140 70 _John Young_.
_Chance_, 60 40 _James Foues_.
_Delight_, 50 30 _William Cox_.
_Nightingale_, 40 30 _John Grisling_.
_Carvel_, 30 24
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4. _London_ Ships, fitted out by the City.
_Hercules_, 300 120 _George Barnes_.
_Toby_, 250 100 _Robert Barret_.
_May-Flower_, 200 90 _Edward Banks_.
_Minion_, 200 90 _John Dales_.
_Royal-Defence_, 160 80 _John Chester_.
_Ascension_, 200 100 _John Bacon_.
_Gift of God_, 180 80 _Thomas Luntlowe_.
_Primrose_, 200 90 _Robert Bringboorn_.
_Margaret and John_, 200 90 _John Fisher_.
_Golden Lion_, 140 70 _Robert Wilcox_.
_Diana_, 80 70
Bark _Burre_, 160 70 _John Saracole_.
_Teigur_, 200 90 _William Cæsar_.
_Bersabe_, 160 70 _William Furthoe_.
_Red Lion_, 200 90 _Jarvis Wild_.
_Centurion_, 250 100 _Samuel Foxcraft_.
_Passport_, 80 40 _Christopher Colthirst_.
_Moonshine_, 60 30 _John Brough_.
_Thomas 140 70 _William Adridge_.
Bonaventure_,
_Relief_, 60 30 _John King_.
_Susan Ann Parnell_, 220 80 _Nicholas George_.
_Violet_, 220 60 _Martin Hakes_.
_Solomon_, 170 80 _Edmund Musgrave_.
_Ann Francis_, 180 70 _Christopher Lister_.
_George 200 80 _Eleazar Hikeman_.
Bonaventure_,
_Jane Bonaventure_, 100 50 _Thomas Hallwood_.
_Vinyard_, 160 60 _Benjamin Cook_.
_Samuel_, 140 50 _John Vassel_.
_George Noble_, 150 80 _Henry Bellinger_.
_Anthony_, 110 60 _George Harper_.
_Toby_, 140 70 _Christopher Pigott_.
_Salamander_, 120 60 ... _Samford_.
_Rose Lion_, 110 50 _Barnaby Acton_.
_Antelope_, 120 60 ... _Dennison_.
_Jewel_, 120 60 ... _Rewell_.
_Paunce_, 160 70 _William Butler_.
_Providence_, 130 60 _Richard Chester_.
_Dolphin_, 160 70 _William Hares_.
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5. Coasters with the Lord Admiral.
Bark _Web_, 80 50
_John Trelawny_, 150 70 _Thomas Meeke_.
_Hart of Dartmouth_, 60 30 _James Houghton_.
Bark _Potts_, 180 80 _Anthony Potts_.
_Little John_, 40 20 _Lawrence Cleyton_.
_Bartholomew of 130 70 _Nicolas Wright_.
Apsham_,
_Rose of Apsham_, 110 50 _Thomas Sandy_.
_Gift of Apsham_, 25 20
_Jacob of Lime_, 90 50
_Revenge of Lime_, 60 30 _Richard Bedford_.
_William of 70 30 _John Smith_.
Bridgewater_,
_Crescent of 140 75
Dartmouth_,
Galleon _of 100 50 _Richard Miller_.
Weymouth_,
_Katherine of 60 30
Weymouth_,
_John of 70 50 _John Young_.
Chichester_,
_Hearty Ann_, 60 30 _John Winoll_.
_Minion of Bristol_, 230 110 _John Satchfield_.
_Unicorn of 130 66 _James Laughton_.
Bristol_,
_Handmaid of 85 56 _Christopher Pitt_.
Bristol_,
_Aid of Bristol_, 60 26 _William Megar_.
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6. Coasters with the Lord HENRY SEYMOR.
_Daniel_, 160 70 _Robert Johnson_.
Galleon _Hutchins_, 150 60 _Thomas Tucker_.
Bark _Lamb_, 150 60 _Leonard Harvel_.
_Fancy_, 60 30 _Richard Fearn_.
_Griffin_, 75 35 _John Dobson_.
_Little Hare_, 50 25 _Matthew Railston_.
_Handmaid_, 75 35 _John Gatenbury_.
_Marygold_, 150 70 _Francis Johnson_.
_Matthew_, 35 16 _Richard Mitchel_.
_Susan_, 40 20 _John Musgrave_.
_William of 140 30 _Barnaby Lewe_.
Ipswich_,
_Katherine of 125 50 _Thomas Grimble_.
Ipswich_,
_Primrose of 120 40 _John Cardinal_.
Harwich_,
_Ann-Bonaventure_, 60 50 _John Conny_.
_William of Rye_, 80 60 _William Coxon_.
_Grace of God_, 50 30 _William Fordred_.
_Ellnathan of 120 70 _John Lidgier_.
Dover_,
_Reuben of 110 68 _William Crippt_.
Sandwich_,
_Hazard of 38 34 _Nicolas Turner_.
Feversham_,
_Grace of Yarmouth_, 150 70 _William Musgrave_.
_May-flower_, 150 70 _Alexander Musgrave_.
_William of 100 50 _Thomas Lambert_.
Brickelsea_,
_John Young_, 60 30 _Reynold Veyzey_.
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7. Volunteers with the Lord Admiral.
_Samson_, 300 08 _John Mingfield_.
_Francis of Foy_, 140 0 _John Resbley_.
_Heath-Hen of 60 0
Weymouth_,
_Golden Rial of 120 0
Weymouth_,
Bark _Sutton of 70 0 _Hugh Preston_.
Weymouth_,
_Carowse_, 50 5
_Samaritan of 250 0
Dartmouth_,
_William of 120 0
Plymouth_,
_Gallego of 30 0
Plymouth_,
Bark _Haulse_, 60 0 _Greenfield Haulse_.
_Unicorn of 76 0 _Ralph Hawes_.
Dartmouth_,
_Grace of Apsham_, 100 0 _Walter Edney_.
_Thomas 60 0 _John Pentyre_.
Bonaventure_,
_Rat of Wight_, 80 0 _Gilbert Lea_.
_Margett_, 60 46 _William Hubberd_.
_Elizabeth of 40 30
Laystaff_,
_Raphael_, 40 30
_Fly-boat Young_, 60 40 _Nicolas Webb_.
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8. Victuallers.
Sailors Captain
_Elizabeth 60
Bonaventure of
London_,
_Pelican_, 50
_Hope_, 40
_Unity_, 40
_Pearl_, 50
_Elizabeth of 60
London_,
_John of London_, 70
_Barsaby_, 60
_Marygold_, 50
_White Hind_, 40
_Gift of God_, 40
_Jonas of 50
Alborough_,
_Solomon of 60
Alborough_,
_Richard Duffield_, 70
_Mary Rose_, 70 _Francis Burnell_.
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_John of 40
Barnstaple_,
_Greyhound of 65
Alborough_,
_Jonas_, 30
_Fortune of 25
Alborough_,
_Hearts-Ease_, 24 _Henry Harpham_.
_Elizabeth of Low 30
Astoff_,
A Galley, not 250
specified by Name,
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SECT. III.
BOTH Sides being thus fitted out, and prepared for Action, let us now
proceed,
_Thirdly_, To give an Account of the Expedition, and the several
Engagements between the two Fleets, with the final Event of the whole.
The King of _Spain_’s Instructions to his General, were[46], To repair
to _Calais_ Road, and there wait for the Arrival of the Duke of _Parma_,
who had Orders to join him with his Fleet and Forces; and, upon their
meeting, to open a Letter directed to them both, with further Orders
[particularly, to advance up the _Thames_, and attack _London_.] He was
strictly enjoined, in the mean time, to sail along the Coasts of
_Bretagne_ and _Normandy_, in order to avoid being discovered by the
_English_ Fleet; and if unexpectedly he should meet them, not to offer
Battle, but act only upon the Defensive.
With these Instructions, the _Spanish_ Fleet set sail on the 19th of
_May_ from the _Tagus_, and steer’d for the _Groyne_, the Place of
general Rendezvous. But they had not been long at Sea, before they were
so dispersed by a violent Storm, off of Cape _Finisterre_, that scarce
the third Part of them reached, some Days after, the intended Port: And
three of the Gallies, by the Stratagem of _David Gwyn_, an _English_
Slave, assisted by some of the _Moorish_ Rowers, were run into a Harbour
of _France_[47].
In the mean time, the Lord _Howard_ having continued a good while upon
the Narrow Seas between _England_ and _Flanders_[48], sent Sir _Francis
Drake_ towards the Western Coasts, with about fifty Sail, great and
small; intending to follow himself, with a stronger Force, if there
should be Occasion. For the present he remained in the _Downs_, with the
Lord _Henry Seymour_ his Vice-Admiral, where they had under their
Command twenty Ships belonging to the City of _London_, with several
other Vessels fitted out by the Coast-Towns, from the _Thames_ to
_Newcastle_. But News being brought of the Armada’s being ready to put
to Sea, the Admiral left the Lord _Henry Seymour_ with a convenient
Number of Ships, to watch the Duke of _Parma_’s Motions; and setting
Sail on the 21st of _May_, with about thirty Vessels of all Sorts,
arrived on the 23d at _Plymouth_. Here he was joined by Sir _Francis
Drake_, whom he constituted his Vice-Admiral, and whose Squadron, by the
Addition of some Vessels from the Western Ports, amounted now to sixty
Sail.
The Lord _Howard_, upon his Arrival at _Plymouth_, gave Orders for the
Victualling, and putting in Readiness, the whole Fleet, which now
consisted in all of about ninety Ships and Barks. As soon as it was
ready he put out to Sea, and cruized at the Channel’s Mouth, between
_Ushent_ and _Scilly_, looking out for the _Spanish_ Fleet. He thus
continued cruizing for several Days, sometimes upon the Coast of
_France_, and sometimes upon that of _England_; and, at last, hearing
nothing of the _Spaniards_, returned to _Plymouth_, for a new Supply of
Victuals, and other Necessaries.
Mean while, fourteen _Spanish_ Ships were discovered between _Ushent_
and _Scilly_, which were afterwards known to have been separated from
the rest of the Fleet by the late Storm. But before they could be met
with by any _English_ Ships, they had a Northerly Wind, which carried
them back to the _Groyne_; where, and at the neighbouring Ports, the
whole Fleet took in their Soldiers and Warlike Provisions.
The _Spanish_ Fleet, as has been said above, had been dispersed, and
somewhat disabled by a violent Storm. This had like to have proved more
fatal to the _English_ than to the _Spaniards_ themselves[49]. For it
being reported all over _Europe_, that the whole _Spanish_ Fleet was
destroyed, Queen _Elizabeth_ and her Ministers thought that it was at
least so damaged, as that it could not proceed ’till the next Year.
Relying therefore upon this Intelligence, which they took for certain,
Secretary _Walsingham_ signified the Queen’s Pleasure to the Lord
High-Admiral, to send back four of his largest Ships into Port. His
Lordship had, in the mean time, likewise Intelligences sundry ways, that
the Enemy’s Fleet was dispersed into several Ports of _Spain_,
distressed, spoiled, in want of Provisions, and with a great Mortality
among the Men. This, however, happened to be only a false Rumour. The
Lord-Admiral not thinking it safe to depend upon such Uncertainties,
when the Nation’s All was at Stake, got the Order countermanded;
alledging how dangerous it was to be too credulous in a matter of such
Importance, and that he would rather keep the Ships out at his own
Charge, than hazard his Country’s Safety. But, in order to be fully
satisfied, (as he was sure that the Coasts of _England_ and _France_,
which he had examined, were clear) he thought proper[50], with the
Advice of a Council of War, to take the Opportunity of the first
Northerly Wind, and go in quest of the _Spanish_ Fleet, in the _Groyne_,
and other Ports of _Gallicia_; and there utterly destroy it, if it were
already so disabled as was reported; or, if otherwise, to get certain
Intelligence concerning its true State and Condition. Accordingly his
Lordship made Sail for the Coast of _Spain_, with a Northerly Wind, and
held the same Course for about three Days, from the 8th to the 10th of
_July_. He was not then above forty Leagues from that Kingdom, when
being informed that the Enemy’s Fleet was not so much damaged as
reported, and the Wind coming to be Southerly, he judged it best (as his
Instructions were to guard the _English_ Coasts,) to return to
_Plymouth_; lest the same Wind should bring the Enemies out, and carry
them by him, unseen, towards _England_. He arrived at _Plymouth_ the
12th of _July_, and with great Expedition supplied his Fleet with
whatever Necessaries were wanting.
His Caution was indeed very seasonable: For with the same Southerly Wind
the Duke of _Medina Sidonia_ sailed, with the whole Fleet under his
Command, from the _Groyne_, on the 12th of _July_, (the very same Day
the Lord Admiral arrived at _Plymouth_,) and in two or three Days
detached a Yatch to the Duke of _Parma_, with Notice of his being
advanced so far. He pressed him at the same Time, to be ready with the
Troops and Ships he was directed to provide, in order to pass over into
_England_ under his Convoy, as soon as he should be arrived in the
Streights of _Dover_.
While the _Spanish_ Fleet lay at the _Groyne_[51], an _English_
Fisherman that was taken and brought to that Place, gave the Enemies,
either out of Ignorance or Design, this false Account: “That the
_English_ Fleet had lately been at Sea; but seeing no Prospect of the
_Spaniards_ pursuing their Design that Year, was returned, and the
greater Part of the Men belonging to the Ships discharged.” This false
Intelligence made the Duke of _Medina Sidonia_ deviate from his
Instructions; and as he vainly supposed that he could easily surprise
our Fleet, and burn or otherwise destroy it, he resolved not to lose so
glorious an Opportunity. Instead therefore of going directly to join the
Duke of _Parma_, a Resolution was taken in the _Spanish_ Fleet, to bend
their Course towards _England_.
[52]On the 16th of _July_ there was a Calm and a thick Fog ’till Noon.
Then the North East Wind blew very strong, and presently after the West
Wind ’till Midnight; and then the East-South-East Wind; insomuch that
the _Spanish_ Fleet being thereby dispersed, was hardly joined again
’till it came within Sight of _England_. At length this Fleet, after an
indifferent Passage over the Bay of _Biscay_, arrived _July_ 19, in
Sight of _England_ and entered the Channel. The first Land they made was
the _Lizard_, which they took to be the _Ram’s Head_ near _Plymouth_;
but Night approaching, they stood off, designing the next Morning to
attack the _English_ Ships in _Plymouth_ Harbour.
The same Day[53], the Lord Admiral was informed by Captain _Thomas
Flemming_, Commander of the _Golden Hind_ Pinnace, who had been left in
the Channel for Discovery, that [Sidenote: PLATE 1.] the _Spanish_ Fleet
was seen near the _Lizard_, the Wind being then Southerly, or
South-West. Tho’ the Wind blew hard into _Plymouth-Sound_, and the
Intelligence was not received ’till about four o’ Clock in the
Afternoon, yet his Lordship, with much Diligence and Industry, got out
the same Evening with six of his Ships, and anchored with them alone the
whole Night, without the Harbour.
[54]The next Day, _July_ 20, the Lord High-Admiral, accompanied with
fifty four Ships of his Fleet, that had plied out of the _Sound_,
notwithstanding the South-West Wind, advanced towards the Enemy. They
were scarce got as far as the _Eddystone_, when they discovered, about
Noon, the _Spanish_ Fleet to the [Sidenote: PLATE 2.]Westward, opposite
to _Fowey_, in form of a half Moon (the Points whereof were about seven
Miles asunder) coming slowly up the Channel, tho’ with full Sails. The
_English_ suffered them to pass by unmolested, that they might chace
them in the rear, with all the Advantage of the Wind.
The next Morning, _July_ 21, all the _English_ Ships being then come out
of _Plymouth_, and in number near a hundred, had recovered the Wind of
the _Spaniards_[55], two Leagues to the Westward of _Eddystone_. About
Nine o’ Clock, the Lord-Admiral sent his Pinnace, named the
_Defiance_[56], to denounce War against the Enemy, by the Discharge of
all her Guns. He himself immediately seconded her from his own Ship, the
_Ark-Royal_, by thundering furiously on one of the Enemy’s, commanded by
_Alphonso de Leva_, which he mistook for the _St. Martin_, the Admiral’s
Ship; but she was, after a smart Engagement, [Sidenote: PLATE 3.]rescued
by the _Spaniards_. In the mean time, Sir _Francis Drake_, Captain _John
Hawkins_, and Captain _Martin Forbisher_, vigorously engaged the Enemy’s
sternmost Ships, under the Conduit of their Vice-Admiral _Recalde_; in
one of which _Recalde_ himself was supposed to be. He did all that a
gallant Officer could do to keep his Ships together; but the Fight was
so briskly maintained, that, notwithstanding all his Endeavours, they
were forced to retreat to the main Body of the Fleet; and at length, his
own Ship being very much damaged with Shot, and grown unserviceable, he
retired thither himself, tho’ with much ado.
In this first Engagement _Recalde_’s Ship lost fifteen Men[57].
At the same time, the Duke of _Medina_ gathered together his Fleet[58],
which was dispersed about; and hoisting more Sail, held on his Course
with all the Speed he could make. Nor was it in his Power to do
otherwise, seeing the Wind favoured the _English_, and their Ships were
so light and nimble, that they would charge, wind, and tack about with
incredible Swiftness; whereas the _Spanish_ great and heavy Slugs, stood
like so many Butts for the _English_ Shot. Although the _Spaniards_ were
so briskly charged by the _English_, they made a running Fight of it;
and, after a smart Engagement of two Hours, the Lord High-Admiral
thought fit to desist, because forty of his Ships were not yet come up,
being scarce got out of _Plymouth_ Haven[59]. So not proceeding any
farther, he gave the Signal for a Council of War;——Wherein his
Lordship’s prudent and considerate Advice being very much approved,
Orders were delivered to each Captain, in what manner they should pursue
the Enemy.
The Night following, one of the _Spanish_ Ships, called the _St.
Katherine_, having received much Damage in the Fight, was brought into
the midst of their Fleet, to be repaired[60]. And a large _Biscayan_
Ship of eight hundred Tuns, belonging to _Michael de Oquendo_, Admiral
of the _Guypuscoan_ Squadron, on board of which was the Treasurer of the
Fleet, was designedly set on Fire by a _Dutch_ Gunner, who had been ill
used[61]; but the _Spaniards_ took out the best Part of the Money, when
they saw the Ship in Danger; and after her upper Part was burnt and
blown up, the Flame was extinguished by some Ships that came seasonably
to her Assistance. But one of them, a great Galleon, commanded by Don
_Pedro de Valdez_, sprung her Foremast and Boltsprit, by falling foul of
another Vessel in the Hurry and Confusion; and so, not being able to
keep Company with the rest of the Fleet, was left behind. The Night
being extremely dark, and the Sea running so high, that no Succour could
come to her, she fell the next Day, _July_ 22, into the Hands of
[Sidenote: PLATE 4.]Sir _Francis Drake_; who had her conducted to
_Dartmouth_, and sent the Captain, and some other Gentlemen who were on
board, Prisoners to _Plymouth_, where they remained eighteen Months,
’till their Ransoms were paid. In this Galleon was found fifty five
thousand Ducats of Gold, which _Drake_’s Men shared amongst themselves.
[62]This Night the _Spanish_ Fleet bore along by the _Start_, and the
next Morning was as far to the Leward as the _Berry_[63]. Sir _Francis
Drake_ had been ordered to carry Lights; but being in full Chace of some
_German_ Hulks, or Merchant-Men, which he discovered late in the
Evening, and took for Enemies, he happened to neglect it; which
occasioned most of the Fleet to lye by all Night, because not seeing the
Lights, they knew not whom to follow. For that Reason, Sir _Francis_,
and the rest of the Fleet, did not come up ’till the next Evening with
the Lord Admiral; who, accompanied only with the _Bear_ and the _Mary
Rose_, had pursued the Enemy, within Culverin Shot, all the foregoing
Night. [64]Thro’ this Mistake, the rest of the _English_ Fleet staid so
far behind, that the next Morning the nearest could scarce be seen half
Mast high, and very many were quite out of Sight.
_July_ 22. This whole Day the _Spanish_ Admiral spent in disposing his
Fleet in the best Order he could think of. [65]He commanded _Alphonso de
Leva_ to bring the first and the last Squadron together; and assigning
every particular Ship its proper Station in Battle, according to the
Plan agreed on in _Spain_, enjoined their respective Commanders to keep
the same on Pain of Death. He also dispatch’d _Glich_, an Ensign, to the
Prince of _Parma_, to advise him of his near Approach, and inform him of
the State of the Navy. In the mean time, the forementioned Ship of
_Oquendo_ having been much damaged by the Fire, the _Spanish_ Admiral
ordered, after the Officers, Men, and Money were removed into another
Vessel, [Sidenote: PLATE 5.]that she should be abandoned, and set
adrift[66]. Whereupon, the Lord High-Admiral sent the Lord _Thomas
Howard_, and Captain _Hawkins_ in a small Skiff on board her, who found
her in a very pitiful Condition. Her Decks were fallen in, the Steerage
broken, the Stern blown out, and about fifty poor Creatures burnt with
Powder in a most miserable manner. The Stench, as well as the horrible
Spectacle, soon made them return to the Lord-Admiral; who ordered the
Bark _Fleming_ to conduct her into some Port, and accordingly she was
brought the next Day into _Weymouth_.
The Night following prov’d very calm; during which, the four Galleasses
of _Naples_ singling themselves from the rest of the Enemy’s Fleet, gave
Reason to suspect that they had a Design to distress some of the small
_English_ Vessels, which were short of the Fleet; but their Courage
failing them, they attempted nothing.
On the 23d the Wind turning to the North-East, the _Spaniards_ took the
Advantage of it; and when they came over against _Portland_, tacked
about upon the _English_, who presently tacked likewise, and stood in to
the North-West, towards the Shore, as did the _Spaniards_ also. But that
Course not being good for the _English_ to recover the Wind of the
_Spaniards_, the former cast about to the Eastward. And, after several
Attempts on both Sides to get the Weather-gage, the _Spaniards_ offering
to board the _English_, a smart Engagement began, which was managed with
Confusion enough, and with Variety of Success. The Enemy seeing several
of the _English_ Ships waited their coming, particularly the _Ark_, the
_Nonpareil_, the _Elizabeth-Jonas_, the _Victory_, _&c._ they fell a
stern the _Nonpareil_, which was the hindmost Ship; and in the mean
time, the _Triumph_, with the _Merchant-Royal_, the _Centurion_, the
_Margaret_ and _John_, the _Mary-Rose_, and the _Golden-Lion_, were so
far to the Leeward, and at such a Distance from the rest of the Fleet,
that the Galleasses took Courage, and bearing down upon them, attacked
them very vigorously; but they gave them a warm Reception for an Hour
and a half, ’till some of her Majesty’s Ships came to their Relief.
The Wind then shifted to the South-East, and afterwards to the
South-South-West; [Sidenote: PLATE 6.]whereupon a Body of _English_
Ships, and several Merchant-Men attacked the _Spanish_ Fleet so sharply
to the Westward, that it was all forced to give way. The Lord-Admiral
perceiving this, and observing at the same Time the Distress which the
_Triumph_ and the five Ships above mentioned in her Company, were in, he
ordered some Ships that were then near at hand, to follow him, and to
set upon the _Spaniards_ a-fresh; and he strictly charged them, to go
within Musket-Shot of the Enemy, before they discharged any one Piece of
Ordnance, that they might have a better Mark, and more effectually
succour the _Triumph_. This was immediately performed by the _Ark_, the
_Elizabeth-Jonas_, the Galleon of _Leicester_, the _Golden Lion_, the
_Victory_, the _Mary Rose_, the _Dreadnought_, and the _Swallow_; for in
that order they proceeded. The Duke of _Medina_ perceiving their Design,
came out with sixteen of his best Galleons, to intercept the Lord
Admiral, and stop him from assisting the _Triumph_. But, after a very
sharp Conflict, the _Spaniards_ were forced to give way, and for their
greater Safety to gather themselves close into a Roundel, their best and
largest Ships standing outermost, and fencing the lesser and the most
battered. In this Conflict, _William Coxe_, Captain of a small Pinnace
of Sir _William Winter_’s, nam’d the _Delight_, was slain by a great
Shot, while he was bravely fighting against the Enemy.
Towards the Evening, four or five of the _Spanish_ Vessels edged out of
the South-Westward, where they were met by some of our Ships; amongst
which, the _May-Flower of London_ valiantly discharged some Pieces of
Cannon at them; and, on this and other Occasions, that Ship’s Company
behaved with great Resolution and Courage.
Thus the Fight continued from Morning till Night, being managed with
great Bravery; but the _Spaniards_ Shot flew, for the most part, over
the Heads of the _English_, without doing Execution[67]; the reason of
which was, that the _English_ Ships being far less than the Enemy’s,
made the Attack with more Quickness and Agility; and when they had given
a Broad-Side, sheer’d off to a convenient Distance; and levell’d their
Shot so directly at the larger and more unwieldy Ships of the
_Spaniards_, as seldom to miss their Aim. Some advis’d the Lord-Admiral,
with more Heat than Discretion, to grapple with and board them; but he
thought it neither safe nor convenient; because the Enemy’s Fleet had a
considerable Army on board, whereas ours had no such Advantage; besides
their Ships far exceeded the _English_ in Number and Bulk, and were much
stronger and higher built; insomuch that their Men having the
Opportunity to ply the others from such lofty Decks, must inevitably
have destroyed those that were obliged, as it were, to fight beneath
them. And he foresaw likewise, that the Damage and Disgrace of a total
Defeat would much outweigh the Advantage of a Victory, should he happen
to obtain it; since, if he was vanquished, it would have much endangered
the Safety of the whole Kingdom; but if he got the better, he could
obtain no more than the naked Credit of putting a Fleet in Disorder, and
baffling an Enemy.——In this Day’s Engagement, a great _Venetian_ Ship,
with several other smaller ones were taken by the _English_[68].
On the 24th of _July_, there was but little done[69]; the Fight being
only between four great Galleasses and some _English_ Vessels[70]. The
_Spaniards_, upon this Occasion had great Advantage, since their Ships
had Oars, and ours, by reason of a Calm, had no use of their Sails.
However, the _English_ galled the Enemy very much with their Cannon and
Chain-Shot; but at last, wanting Powder and other Necessaries to
continue the Fight, the Lord Admiral sent some Vessels into the next
Port for a Supply. In the mean time, a Council of War was held, wherein
it was agreed, That the Fleet should be divided into four Squadrons, to
be commanded, the first by the Lord Admiral himself in the _Ark-Royal_;
the second by Sir _Francis Drake_ in the _Revenge_; the third by Captain
_Hawkins_; and the fourth by Captain _Forbisher_. [71]This Afternoon,
his Lordship gave order, that in the Night, six Merchant-Ships out of
every Squadron (as being the lightest) should set upon the _Spanish_
Fleet in several Places at once; but it being calm all that Night,
nothing could be done.
The next Morning, _July 25_, both [Sidenote: PLATE 7.]Fleets being come
over against the Isle of _Wight_, (which the _Spaniards_ had resolved to
make themselves Masters of,) and not above a hundred Yards asunder, a
terrible Fight began[72]. The _St. Ann_, a large _Portuguese_ Galleon,
being short of the rest to the Southward, because not able to keep up
with them, was attack’d by some of Captain _Hawkins_’s Squadron, which
stood next to it; who causing themselves to be towed along, attempted to
board her, and went so close, that their Boats were beaten off with
Musket-Shot: _Leva_ and Don _Diego Telles Enriques_ perceiving the
Galleon’s Danger, issued out of the _Spanish_ Fleet with three
Galleasses, and endeavoured to rescue her; but they were so warmly
received by the Lord Admiral himself, and the Lord _Thomas Howard_ in
the _Golden Lion_, who, by reason of the Calm, had their Ships tow’d
along with Boats, that the Galleon was got off with much Difficulty, and
not without Loss; for one of the Galleasses was forc’d to be carried
away upon the Careen; another, by a Shot from the _Ark_, lost her
Lanthorn; and the third her Peak-head. Thus many Shots were interchanged
between the _Ark_ and _Lion_ and the Galleasses, in Sight of both
Fleets, which looked on, and could not come near by reason of the Calm.
At length it began to blow a small Gale, whereupon the _Spanish_ Fleet
edged up to succour their Galleasses, and so rescued them; but so
roughly were the Galleasses handled, that after this none of them would
venture upon any new Engagement.
[73]Then the Fleets drawing near one another the Fight was renewed; but
it did not continue long; except that the _Nonpareil_ and the _Mary
Rose_ were for some time engaged with the Enemy, and striking their
Topsails, lay a while by, and braved the whole Fleet of _Spain_. In the
mean while, the _Triumph_, to the Northward of the _Spanish_ Fleet, was
so far to Leward, that being apprehensive some of the Enemy might
weather her, she towed off with the Help of several Boats, and so
recovered the Wind. The _Bear_ and the _Elizabeth Jonas_ perceiving her
in Distress, bore down to rescue her, and by their Boldness put
themselves into the like Danger; but they, however, made their party
good, ’till they had recovered the Wind. And thus ended this Day’s
Fight, which was very sharp for the time.
[74]The _Spaniards_ gave a different Account of this Day’s Engagement;
for they said that the _English_ did miserably batter, with their great
Guns, the _Spanish_ Admiral, who lay in the rear; came so near him as to
kill many of his Men; brought his Mainmast by the board; and he was in
great Danger of being lost, had not _Mexia_ and _Recalde_ come timely to
his Assistance; but that, after this, the _Spanish_ Admiral and his Men,
seconded by _Recalde_, and others, set upon the _English_ Admiral, who
by the turning of the Wind happily escaped; that the _Spaniards_ from
that time gave over the Chace, and keeping on their Course, dispatch’d a
Messenger to the Duke of _Parma_, to desire him to come and join the
Armada with his own Squadron as soon as possible; and to send them
withal some great Shot for the use of the main Fleet.
[75]However it be, the _English_ had so battered the Enemy in the last
Conflict, that the latter had Recourse to the Form of a Roundel for
their better Security.
[76]On _Friday, July 26_, the Lord High-Admiral sent for the Lord
_Thomas Howard_ the Lord _Sheffield_, _Roger Townshend_, Captain _Martin
Forbisher_, Captain _John Hawkins_, on board his own Ship the _Ark_; and
there confer’d on them the Honour of Knighthood, as well for a Reward of
their good Services in the late Engagement, as for an Encouragement to
the rest of the Officers.
[77]Next, a Council of War being held, it was determined, as our Ships
began to want Powder and Shot, that they should not attack the
_Spaniards_ again ’till they came to the Streights of _Calais_; because
they would there be joined and reinforced by the Squadron under the
Command of the Lord _Henry Seymour_ and Sir _William Winter_, stationed
in those Parts to block up the Duke of _Parma_; and might, at the same
time, receive a plentiful Store of Ammunition from our Coasts.
[78]So the _Spanish_ Fleet sailed forward, [Sidenote: PLATE 8.]this and
the best part of the next Day, with a gentle Gale at South-West and by
South, the _English_ following them close, and driving them like Sheep
before them; and so far was this Invincible Armada from alarming the
Sea-Coasts with any frightful Apprehensions, that a great many of the
young Nobility and Gentry entered themselves Volunteers, and taking
leave of their Parents, Wives, and Children, did, with incredible
Chearfulness, hire Ships at their own Charge; and, in pure Love to their
Country, joined the Grand Fleet in vast numbers: [79]Among which were,
the Earls of _Oxford_, _Northumberland_, and _Cumberland_; the Lord
_Dudley_; Sir _Thomas_, Sir _Robert_, and _William Cecil_; Sir _Henry
Brooke_, Sir _William Hatton_, Sir _Charles Blount_, Sir _Walter
Raleigh_, Sir _Robert Carey_, Sir _Ambrose Willoughby_, Sir _Thomas
Vavasor_, Sir _Horatio Pallavicini_; _Thomas Gerard_, _Henry Nowel_,
_Edward Darcy_, _Thomas Woodhouse_, _William Harvey_, _Arthur Gorges_,
and others; [80]and at the same time, the Justices of Peace in the
maritime Counties, as also the Earl of _Sussex_, Sir _George Carey_, and
the Captains of the Forts and Castles along the Sea-Coasts, sent Ships,
Men, Powder, Shot, Victuals, and all kinds of Provisions, for the Relief
and Assistance of the main Fleet.
[81]_July 27._ This Day, towards the Evening, the _Spanish_ Fleet came
to an Anchor before _Calais_; [82]intending for _Dunkirk_, where they
were to join the Prince of _Parma_’s Forces; [83]but their Pilots having
told them, that, if they ventured any farther, they should be in danger
of being carried away by the Force of the Tide into the Northern
Channel, for that Reason they proceeded no farther than _Calais_; the
_English_, on their part, followed them close, and anchored within
Culverin-Shot of them; and, by the accession of the Ships under the Lord
_Henry Seymour_ and Sir _William Winter_, consisted now of a hundred and
forty Sail, all stout Ships, and nimble and good Sailors; tho’ the main
Brunt of the Engagement lay but upon fifteen or sixteen of them.
The _Spaniards_ now sent several Messengers, one after another, to the
Duke of _Parma_, to press and importune him to send out forty Fly-Boats
to their Assistance; without which, by reason of the Unwieldiness of
their Ships, they could not, as they said, engage the light and active
Vessels of the _English_; they entreated him likewise, with great
Earnestness, to use all Speed in embarking his Army, and be ready to
take the first Opportunity, under their Protection, of landing in
_England_; but it seems he was not ready, and so could not answer their
Summons; his flat-bottom’d Boats were all leaky, his Provisions not yet
all brought in, and his Sailors, who had been hitherto kept together
against their Wills, had deserted in great numbers; besides, thirty five
Men of War belonging to _Holland_ and _Zealand_, commanded by Count
_Justin de Nassau_, continued to block up the very Mouth of the Harbours
of _Dunkirk_ and _Nieuport_, from whence alone he could put to Sea; and
so well were they furnished with great Guns and small Arms, that he
could not possibly put from Shore, without running a very great and
manifest Danger; however, intending as soon as he conveniently could, to
join the _Spanish_ Fleet, he sent a Pinnace to inform the Duke of
_Medina_, “[84]That he could not be ready for them ’till the _Friday_
following, _September 4_;” but the _Spanish_ Fleet was forced to depart
before that time, in the utmost Hurry and Confusion.
[85]For, on _July 28_, the next Day [Sidenote: PLATE 9.]after their
coming to an Anchor, the Lord Admiral, by the Queen’s express Command
and Direction, singled out eight of his worst Ships; bestowed upon them
good Plenty of Pitch, Tar, Rosin, and Wildfire; lined them well with
Brimstone and other combustible Matter; and loaded all their Cannon with
Bullets, Chains, and the like destructive Instruments; thus equip’d, he
sent them with the Wind and Tide, about two o’ Clock in the Morning,
into the midst of the _Spanish_ Fleet, under the Conduct of —— _Young_
and —— _Prowse_; who when they were come within Cannon-Shot, set Fire to
the Trains, and then retired. The Approach of these Fire-Ships, and the
dreadful Blaze which the Fire made all the Sea over, was no sooner
perceived by the _Spaniards_, but it put their whole Fleet into the
utmost Consternation. Many of the Soldiers on board had been at the
Siege of _Antwerp_[86], and seen the destructive Machines made use of
there: Suspecting therefore that these were big with other Engines of
Slaughter, besides the destructive Element that show’d itself without,
they began to raise a most hideous Clamour of, _Cut your Cables, or get
up your Anchors_; [87]and in a panic Fright put to Sea with all the
Confusion and Precipitancy imaginable.
[88]The _Spaniards_ reported, however, That their Admiral, upon the
Approach of the Fire-Ships, made the Signal for weighing Anchor, and
standing out to Sea; and ordered that each Ship, after the Danger was
over, should return to her Station; that he did return himself, and
fired a Gun as a Signal for the rest to do the like; but the Report
thereof was heard but by few; because their Fears had so dispersed them,
that some were got a considerable way out to Sea, and others among the
Shoals on the Coast of _Flanders_.
However it was, the _Spanish_ Fleet being by this successful Stratagem
thus driven from their Station in _Calais-Road_[89], another very sharp
Engagement began the next Morning about Eight o’ Clock, _July 29_, and
continued eight Hours. The chief Galleass, commanded by _Hugo de
Moncada_, having in the last Night’s Confusion lost her Rudder, by
falling foul of another Ship’s Cable, and floated up and down for some
time before the Wind, endeavoured to save herself by rowing into
[Sidenote: PLATE 10.]_Calais_ Harbour; which the Lord Admiral
perceiving, he dispatch’d Mr. _Amias Preston_, one of his Lieutenants,
into his Long-Boat, with Mr. _Thomas Gerrard_, Mr. _William Hervey_, and
others, to take her; she did not however surrender ’till after a sharp
and doubtful Dispute, wherein _Hugo de Moncada_ was killed, by a Shot in
the Head; and the Soldiers and Rowers to the number of four hundred,
either drowned or put to the Sword: [90]The Ship and Guns, after the
_English_ had freed three hundred Galley-Slaves which were on board, and
taken out fifty thousand Ducats of Gold, of the King of _Spain_’s Money,
fell, as a Wreck to Monsieur _Gourden_, Governor of _Calais_[91].
[92]In the taking of this Galleass, Mr. _Gerard_ and Mr. _Harvey_
signalized themselves; for they entered it only with their Swords; a
thing then commonly spoken of with Admiration, the like having never
been hazarded before, considering the Height of this Galleass compar’d
to a Ship’s Boat.
[93]The rest of the _Spaniards_ in the mean time, managed their Fleet as
well as they could, and stood over against _Graveling_, where the
_English_ once more getting the Weather-Gage of them, deprived them of
the Conveniency of _Calais-Road_, and kept them from receiving any
Supplies from _Dunkirk_.
[94]Whilst the Lord Admiral was employed in taking the forementioned
Galleass, Sir _Francis Drake_ in the _Revenge_, with Mr. _Thomas Fennar_
in the _Nonpareil_, and the rest of his Squadron, warmly engaged the
_Spanish_ Fleet; soon after Sir _John Hawkins_ in the _Victory_,
accompanied with Mr. _Edward Fenton_ in the _Mary Rose_, Sir _George
Beeston_ in the _Dreadnought_, Mr. _Richard Hawkins_ in the _Swallow_,
and the rest of that Squadron; together with Sir _Robert Southwell_ in
the _Elizabeth-Jonas_, and Mr. _Robert Cross_ in the _Hope_; bearing up
with the Middle of the _Spanish_ Fleet, there continued all that
Forenoon a furious Engagement, wherein Sir _George Beeston_ behaved
himself very valiantly; they were in the mean time seconded by the Lord
Admiral, the Lord _Thomas Howard_, and the Lord _Sheffield_, who also
acquitted themselves very bravely: Astern of these a great Galleon was
attack’d by the Earl of _Cumberland_ and Mr. _George Ryman_ in the
_Bonaventure_, and was likewise battered by the Lord _Henry Seymour_ in
the _Rainbow_, and Sir _William Winter_ in the _Vanguard_; and tho’ she
then recovered the Fleet, yet she sunk the Night following.
[95]On the other hand, the Duke of _Medina_, with the rest of the
_Spanish_ Captains, as _Leva_, _Oquendo_, _Recalde_, _&c._ having with
much ado got clear of the Shallows, were forced to stand the Brunt of
the _English_ Fire, ’till they were miserably torn, and in several
Places shot through; [96]and a great Galleon of _Biscay_, of five
hundred Tuns, with two Saicks, were sunk. The Galleon _St. Matthew_, of
eight hundred Tuns, commanded by Don _Diego de Piementelli_, coming to
the Assistance of Don _Francisco de Toledo_, in the _St. Philip_,
another Galleon of seven hundred Tuns, they were both miserably
shattered by the Lord _Henry Seymour_ and Sir _William Winter_; [97]and
being driven on the Coast of _Ostend_, were likewise there roughly
handled by the _Zealanders_; but _Piementelli_ refusing to leave his
Ship, (though the Duke of _Medina_ sent him his own,) did all he could
to disengage himself; and therefore making towards the Coast of
_Flanders_, he was there again attacked by five _Dutch_ Men of War, and
forc’d at last to strike to _Peter Dousa_[98], one of the _Dutch_
Captains, who carried him into _Zealand_ and, for a Trophy of his
Victory, hung his Flag in the Church of _Leyden_, which reach’d from the
top of it to the bottom; [99]during which, a _Castilian_ Ship of four
hundred Tuns, was cast away on the _Flemish_ Coast. The _St. Philip_,
after having been driven almost as far as _Ostend_, where her Commander
left her because she proved extremely leaky, was seized by some Ships of
_Flushing_.
Thus did the Fight continue for the best part of this whole Day; during
which the _Spanish_ Fleet was closely pursued, extremely battered, and
reduced to the utmost Distress[100]. The _English_ Commanders in
general, shewed on all Occasions great Resolution and Bravery; and in
this last Action, the Earl of _Cumberland_, the Lords _Henry Seymour_,
_Thomas Howard_, and _Edmund Sheffield_; Sir _William Winter_, Sir
_Robert Southwell_, Sir _George Beeston_, Sir _John Hawkins_; and the
Captains _Edward Fenton_, _Richard Hawkins_, _George Ryman_, and
[101]_Robert Cross_ signalized themselves in a remarkable manner; the
latter, in particular, sunk the great Galleon of _Biscay_ above
mentioned, and two other Vessels. As for the _Spaniards_, though some of
them performed their Duty, and fought with great Bravery, yet, in
general, they acted but faintly, and stood for the most part only upon
the defensive, especially after they saw themselves disappointed of the
Duke of _Parma_’s Assistance. “The Duke of _Medina_, we are told[102],
to his Dishonour, was lodged in the Bottom of his Ship for his Safety,
and the rest of the Commanders would never turn their Ships, nor stop
them, to defend any of their own Friends that were forced to tarry
behind, but suffered divers to perish; and so fearful was the Admiral,
that if the _English_ had offered to board the _Spanish_ Ships, it was
thought they would have yielded without making any Resistance.” [103]In
this last Engagement the _Spaniards_ lost five thousand Men, a thousand
whereof were drowned[104]; and the next Day two _Venetian_ Ships sunk,
having eight hundred and forty three Men on board, which all perished.
[105]After this Fight there remained of the whole _Spanish_; Fleet but
one hundred and ten, or one hundred and twelve Ships, and those
extremely battered and shot through, and having their Rigging much
damaged with the Shot.
[106]The next Day, _July 30_, the Lord Admiral ordered the Lord _Henry
Seymour_, and Sir _William Winter_ to return back with their Squadron
into the narrow Seas, to guard the Coasts; as for himself, he resolved
to follow the _Spanish_ Fleet, ’till they came as far Northward as the
_Forth_ in _Scotland_, if they bent their Course that way; and, in the
mean time, he thought it best not to attack them any more, ’till he saw
what they proposed to do: However, being persuaded that they intended to
put into the Firth of _Forth_, his Lordship had devised Stratagems, and
taken Measures to make an utter End of them there.
[107]_July 31._ This Day the _Spaniards_ would fain have retreated,
early in the Morning, thro’ the Streights of _Dover_; but the Wind
coming up with hard Gales at North West, forced them towards the Coast
of _Zealand_; the _English_ then gave over the Chace, because they
perceived them hastening fast enough to their own Destruction; for with
the Wind at West North-West, they could not fail of being driven among
the Shallows and Sands of that Coast: But the Wind soon happening to
come about to the South-West and by West, the _Spaniards_ tacked, and
sailing before the Wind, got out of Danger. In the Evening, they held a
Council of War, wherein it was unanimously resolved[108], That seeing
they were in want of many Necessaries, especially of Cannon-Ball, that
the Ships were very much shattered, their Anchors left in _Calais-Road_,
their Provisions short, their Water spent, a great number of their
Soldiers slain, many of their Men sick and wounded, and that there was
no hopes of the Duke of _Parma_’s coming out to join them, they should
return to _Spain_, by the North of _Scotland_. Pursuant to this
Resolution, being now out of Danger, and in the main Ocean, and having
thrown all their Horses and Mules over board [Sidenote: GENERAL
CHART.]to save Water, they steer’d Northward, and the _English_ renew’d
the Chace after them; now and then the _Spanish_ Ships slacken’d their
Sails, and seem’d to stay for the coming up of the _English_, so that it
was generally thought their Fleet would tack about, but they thought
best, after all, to keep on their Course Northward.
* * * * *
Here it will not be improper to leave them for a while, and see what was
doing in the mean time in _England_[109].
The 9th of _August_ Queen _Elizabeth_ was pleased, in order both to
comfort her People, and to shew her own Magnanimity, to come and view
her Army and Camp at _Tilbury_; the next Morning after her Arrival, she
rode with a General’s Truncheon in her Hand, thro’ all the Ranks of the
Army, like armed _Pallas_, attended by the Earls of _Leicester_ and
_Essex_, _Henry Norris_, Lord Marshall, and others; having the Sword
carried before her by the Earl of _Ormond_; and among other kind and
obliging Discourses, made the following most excellent Speech to her
Army[110]:
MY LOVING PEOPLE,
_WE have been persuaded by some that are careful of our Safety, to
take heed how we commit ourselves to armed Multitudes; but I assure
you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving
People. Let Tyrants fear; I have always so behaved myself, that
under_ GOD _I have placed my chiefest Strength and Safeguard in the
loyal Hearts and Good-Will of my Subjects; and therefore I am come
amongst you, as you see at this time, not for my Recreation and
Disport, but being resolved, in the Midst and Heat of the Battle, to
live or die amongst you all; to lay down for my_ GOD, _and for my
Kingdom, and for my People, my Honour and my Blood, even in the
Dust. I know I have the Body but of a weak and feeble Woman, but I
have the Heart and Stomach of a King, and of a King of_ England
_too; and think foul Scorn that_ Parma _or_ Spain, _or any Prince
of_ Europe, _should dare to invade the Borders of my Realm; to
which, rather than any Dishonour shall grow by me, I myself will
take up Arms, I myself will be your General, Judge, and Rewarder of
every one of your Virtues in the Field. I know already for your
Forwardness, you have deserved Rewards and Crowns; and we do assure
you, in the Word of a Prince, they shall be duly paid you. In the
mean time, my Lieutenant-General shall be in my stead, than whom
never Prince commanded a more noble or worthy Subject; not doubting
but by your Obedience to my General, by your Concord in the Camp,
and your Valour in the Field, we shall shortly have a famous Victory
over those Enemies of my_ GOD, _of my Kingdoms, and of my People_.
[111]It is scarce to be conceived what a Spirit of Bravery this great
Queen’s Presence and noble Behaviour infus’d into the Officers and
Soldiers: [112]They saluted her with Cries, with Shouts, with all Tokens
of Love, of Obedience, and of Readiness to fight for her; they praised
her stately Person and princely Behaviour, prayed for her Life and
Happiness, and cursed all her Enemies, both Traitors and Papists, with
earnest Desire to venture their Lives for her Safety: [113]One who was
an Eye Witness relates moreover, that “the whole Armie in every Quarter,
did devoutely, at certaine Times, sing in her hearing, in a very tunable
manner, divers Psalmes put into Forme of Prayers in Praise of Almighty
GOD, which she greatly commended, and with very earnest Speech thanked
GOD with them[114].”
Next, if we look into _Flanders_, we shall find, [115]that on the 29th
of _July_, the Duke of _Parma_ having paid his Addresses to our Lady of
_Halle_, came to _Dunkirk_, tho’ something of the latest; for which
Reason the _Spaniards_ received him in a very reproachful manner; as if,
out of some By-Regards to Queen _Elizabeth_, he had designedly slipt so
fair an Opportunity of doing Wonders for the Service of his Country. The
Duke, to appease this Storm, punish’d those who had the Charge of
Victualling his Fleet; but, however, he did not attempt to put to Sea,
being still block’d up by the Lord _Henry Seymour_’s and Sir _William
Winter_’s Squadron, which were returned from the Chace. In the mean
time, he could not but secretly laugh at the saucy and insolent Brags of
the _Spaniards_, whom he had heard talking at this vain rate, “That
where ever they turn’d their Sails, a most certain Victory waited upon
their Course, and that the _English_ would not have Courage enough to
look them in the Face.”
* * * * *
To return now to the two Fleets. We left the _Spaniards_ sailing
Northward, and the _English_ in Pursuit of them: [116]When the latter
were come to fifty five Degrees thirteen Minutes North Latitude, and
thirty Leagues East of _Newcastle_, the Lord High Admiral determined to
attack the _Spanish_ Fleet again on the _Friday_ following, _August 2_,
but he thought fit to alter his Resolution, chiefly upon these two
Accounts: Because he plainly perceived by the Enemies Course, that they
had no other Intention but to save themselves, by sailing North, round
the _British_ Islands; and, because several of his Ships wanted Victuals
and other Necessaries; which was not so much owing to any Neglect, as to
the Victuallers not knowing where to send to the Fleet; for the Queen
had most amply and carefully provided whatever was convenient and
necessary.
It was therefore concluded, to leave the _Spanish_ Fleet to pursue their
Course, and to sail for the Firth of _Forth_; both to get Refreshment,
and to perform some other Business which the Lord Admiral thought
necessary to be done; but the Wind coming contrary, that is Westerly,
the next Day his Lordship altered his Course, and sending only some
Advice-Boats to observe the Enemies farther Motion, he returned with the
whole Fleet back to _England_, where they arrived, some at _Yarmouth_,
some at _Harwich_, and others at the _Downs_, about the 7th of _August_.
The _Spaniards_ being now got clear of their troublesome Pursuers,
resolv’d to make the best of their way for _Spain_. [117]Some Suspicions
there were, that they design’d to betake themselves to the King of
_Scots_, who was provok’d to an high degree for his Mother’s Death; and
therefore, the better to keep him in Temper, _Ashby_, the Queen of
_England_’s Ambassador in _Scotland_, made him very considerable Offers,
which, however, were not performed: But the _Spaniards_ having now laid
aside all Thoughts and Hopes of returning to attack the _English_; and
perceiving their main Safety lay in their Flight, they made no Stop at
any Port whatever. [118]About twenty five Ships now remain’d with the
Duke of _Medina_, and forty with _Recalde_; [119]these, with the rest of
the Fleet, sail’d about _Cathness_ for the Coast of _Ireland_, and
pass’d between the _Orcades_ and _Fair-Isle_, to the sixty first Degree
of North Latitude; [120]an unaccustom’d Place for the young Gallants of
_Spain_, that had never felt Storms on the Sea, or cold Weather in
_August_.
[121]When the _English_ left off pursuing the _Spaniards_, the latter
wanted of their whole Fleet fifteen or sixteen Ships; and had lost, in
the several Engagements, and by Sickness, eight thousand Men at least.
And here their ill Fortune did not stop, but continued to persecute them
all the rest of their Voyage; [122]for on the Coast of _Scotland_ they
lost the two following Ships, which had been so extremely battered by
the _English_ Shot, that they founder’d at Sea; namely, the _St.
Matthew_, a Ship of five hundred Tuns, in which four hundred and fifty
Men were drowned; and a Biscainer of _St. Sebastian’s_, of four hundred
Tuns, in which three hundred and fifty Men perished: [123]Moreover, in
these or other Ships, above seven hundred Soldiers were cast on Shore in
_Scotland_, who, by the Duke of _Parma_’s Mediation with the King of
_Scots_, and with Queen _Elizabeth_’s Permission, were sent over, a Year
after, into the _Low-Countries_.
[124]About four Days after the _English_ Fleet left the _Spaniards_,
they came to an Island in the North Part of _Scotland_, where they staid
not, nor had any Relief: And at this Place the Duke of _Medina_ calling
all the Ships together, charged them to make the best of their way for
the Coasts of _Spain_ or _Portugal_, because they were in the utmost
Distress for want of Victuals and other Provisions.
[125]For an Addition to their Misfortunes, about the 23d of _August_,
when there were seventy eight Ships of them together sailing in the
Ocean, a violent Storm arose at South-South-West, which continued from
Four o’ Clock in the Afternoon ’till Ten the next Morning, and separated
them so, that not above twenty seven of them were to be seen together:
And again, on the 2d of _September_, they had another violent Storm,
with a Mist, which so dispersed them, that of the foresaid twenty seven,
only three came together into _Dingle-Bay_; [126]and during their
Passage round the North of _Scotland_, they had so terrible a Sickness,
that their Mariners and Soldiers died daily in great Multitudes.
As for the Particulars of the Ships sunk, and Men drowned, killed, and
taken upon the Coast of _Ireland_, during the Month of _September_, they
were as follows[127]:
Men.
In _Tirconnel_, in _Loughfoyle_ 1 Ship 1100
and
others
that
escaped.
{in 3 great Ships 1500
_Slego-Haven_
{in _Tirawley_ 1 Ship 400
{in 1 300
_Clare-Island_
In _Connaught_, {in _Finglasse_ 1 400
{in 1 200
_O’sla’rtie_
{in _Irrise_ 2 Ships, the
Men
escaped
into
other
Vessels.
{in 1 Ship 70
_Gallway-Bay_
{in the 2 Ships 600
_Shannon_
{in the same 1 Ship burnt, the
Men
embarked
in
another
Ship.
In _Munster_, {in _Traylie, 1 Ship 24
Sept. 7._
{in _Dingle_ 1 500
{in _Desmond, 1 300
Sept. 10._
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In all 17 Men
Ships. 5394
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[128]Besides which, _Our Lady of the Rosary_, the Admiral Ship of the
_Guypuscoan_ Squadron, of near a thousand Tuns, and thirty Guns, that
had fifty Brass Field-Pieces on board, was lost upon the Rocks in
_Bleskey-Sound_; so that of five hundred Men, only one escap’d; and in
this perished the Prince of _Ascula_, a natural Son of King _Philip_,
_Mighel de Oquendo_ the Captain, and several other considerable and
eminent Persons.
According to other Accounts[129], nine _Spanish_ Ships were driven
ashore between the Rivers of _Lough-Foile_ and _Lough-Swilley_, many
whereof were broken to Pieces, and the _Spaniards_ forced to shelter
among the wild _Irish_.
[130]As for such of the _Spaniards_ as had the ill Fortune to be drove
upon the _Irish_ Shore, they met with the most barbarous Treatment; for
some of them were butcher’d by the wild _Irish_, and the rest put to the
Sword by the Lord Deputy Sir _William Fitz-Williams_, who fearing they
might join with the _Irish_ Malecontents, and observing that _Bingham_,
Governor of _Connaught_ treated them with more Gentleness than he had
several times ordered him to do; upon their Surrender, he dispatched
_Fowle_, Deputy Marshal, to execute his Orders; who first dislodg’d them
from the Places where they lay conceal’d, and then executed about two
hundred of them: But this Rigour the Queen condemn’d, and complain’d of
as too extreme: However, the rest being terrified by this way of
proceeding, tho’ they were sick and half famish’d, yet chose to trust
themselves to their shatter’d Barks, and the Mercy of the Seas; and so
became many of them a Sacrifice to the Waves. The Duke of _Medina_, with
twenty or twenty five Ships, keeping in the Ocean, return’d to _Spain_.
[131]About forty of the _Spanish_ Ships fell in with the _Irish_ Coast,
and intended to touch at Cape _Clear_, in hopes of meeting there with
some Refreshment; but the Wind proving contrary, and the Weather
tempestuous, many of them perish’d on that Coast; [132]of those that got
off, some were driven by a strong West Wind into the _English_ Channel,
where part of them were attack’d again and taken by the _English_,
others by the _Rochellers_, and some arriv’d at _Newhaven_ (or _Havre de
Grace_) in _Normandy_.
Such were the _Spaniards_ Losses of Men and Ships, in their return round
_Ireland_.
The Losses they had suffered before, were thus:
Loss Men.
of
Ships.
_July_ 21. The _Spanish_ 1 40
Vice-Admiral Ship
disabled at the first
Engagement near
_Eddystone_,
D. _Pedro de Valdez_’s 1 422
Gall. taken
_Oquendo_’s Ship, _St. 1 289
Anne_, burnt
_July_ 23. A great _Venetian_ Ship, 1
and other smaller
ones,} taken
The chief Galleass, 1 686
taken
A great Galleon, 1
sunk
A Galleon of _Biscay_ 1
sunk
Two Saicks 2
sunk
The Galleon, _St. Matth._ 1 397
taken
The Galleon _St. Philip_ 1 532
taken
both by the
_Flushingers._
A _Castilian_ Ship 1
wreck’d
30. Two _Venetian_ Ships 2 843
sunk
_Aug._ The _St. Matthew_ sunk 1 450
A _Biscayner_ 1 350
sunk
both on the Coast of
_Scotland_.
Two lost upon the Coast 2
of _Norway_,
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Total Men
of 8000
Ships at
18 least.
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So that by adding their several Losses together, it plainly appears,
they lost THIRTY FIVE Ships, and above THIRTEEN THOUSAND Men; besides
many others of which no Estimate was or could be made[133]; and above
two thousand Prisoners were taken in the Fight in _Ireland_, and the
_Low-Countries_: Those taken in _Ireland_ were brought to
_England_[134], and confined in _Bridewell_ ’till they were ransomed.
The most eminent of the Prisoners were, Don _Pedro de Valdez_, Don
_Vasquez de Silvea_, Don _Alonzo de Sayes_, and others taken in the
Channel; in _Ireland_, Don _Alonzo de Luzon_, _Roderigo de Lasso_, _&c._
in _Zealand_, Don _Diego Piementelli_, _&c._ In a Word, there was hardly
a noble Family in all _Spain_, that did not lose a Son, a Brother, or a
Kinsman; upon which account the Mourning was so universal in that whole
Kingdom, [135]that King _Philip_ was obliged by Proclamation to shorten
the usual Time; as the _Romans_ of old, upon their great Defeat of
_Cannæ_, found it necessary to limit the publick Mourning to thirty
Days.
[136]The shatter’d Remains of the _Spanish_ Fleet after having weather’d
many Storms, and suffered all the Inconveniences of War and Weather,
arriv’d at last, about the End of _September_, at _St. Andero_, and
other Ports of _Spain_, laden with nothing but Shame and Dishonour. The
Duke of _Medina_ was forbid the Court, and ordered to go and live
privately; _Martinez de Recalde_ died immediately after his Return; and
two of their Ships were accidentally burnt in the Harbour not long after
their Arrival. Surely such a Series of ill Success was hardly ever known
in any other Age or Nation.
As for the _English_ they lost only Captain _Coxe_’s Ship
abovementioned, and not more than one hundred Men.
* * * * *
Such was the End of the formidable _Spanish_ Armada, that had been three
Years fitting out at a vast Expence; and which in less than three Months
was shamefully beaten, and put to a most ignominious Flight,
[137]without taking at the same time, in several Engagements, and in
many Days Fight, any _English_ Ship or Boat, or making one Prisoner; not
having so much as fired a Cottage at Land, or taken a Cock-Boat of ours
at Sea, as the Lord _Bacon_ observes[138], it wandered through the
Wilderness of the Northern Seas; and, according to the Curse in
Scripture, _Came out against us one way, and fled before us seven ways_.
Well might the _Spaniards_ marvel at this, and be heartily vexed, as one
of their Friends observes they did; [139]so as some of them to say in
their Anguish of Heart, “That in all these Fights, CHRIST shewed himself
a _Lutheran_! Surely it is most manifest, as he goes on, That in all
this Voiage, from the Armada’s coming out of _Lisbon_, even to the very
last, GOD shewed no Favour to the _Spaniards_ any one Day, as he did
continually to the _English_.”
For this signal Deliverance, the Thanks of all true Lovers of their
Country, and of the Protestant Religion, are due to that Almighty Being,
by whose Assistance their Ancestors obtained the Victory; and it ought
at the same time, to make them love and reverence the Memory of that
wise and excellent Queen, by whose Prudence and good Management they
were enabled to conquer.
[140]Upon the first News of this wonderful Deliverance and Victory, the
Kingdom was filled with Joy, and a Sense of Gratitude to GOD. The first
Notice given of it in publick, was on the 20th of _August_, when _Nowel_
Dean of St. _Paul_’s preached at the Cross a Thanksgiving Sermon before
the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, and the Companies in their best Liveries.
Again _September_ the 8th being another and chief Thanksgiving Day, the
Preacher at St. _Paul_’s Cross moved the People to give Thanks for their
Enemies Overthrow; and at the same time were set upon the lower
Battlements of the Church, eleven Ensigns or Banners taken from the
_Spanish_ Fleet; one Streamer in particular, on which was represented
the Virgin _Mary_ with her Son in her Arms, was held in a Man’s Hand
over the Pulpit: These Banners were afterwards carried to the Cross in
_Cheapside_[141]; and the next Day, _September 9_, were hanged on
_London-Bridge_ towards _Southwark_, where the Fair was kept. The 17th
of _November_, being _Sunday_, was another Rejoicing-Day, as well upon
account of the Queen’s Accession to the Throne, as for this Victory. Her
Majesty intended to have been at _Paul_’s Cross, to hear a Sermon
preach’d by Dr. _Cooper_ Bishop of _Winchester_, and Provision had
accordingly been made for her Reception; but upon some Occasion or
other, her coming was put off ’till the _Sunday_ following: The 19th
being _Tuesday_ was a general Thanksgiving-Day throughout the whole
Kingdom. The next _Sunday, November 24_, the Queen, attended by her
Privy Council, by the Nobility, and other honourable Persons, as well
Spiritual as Temporal, in great number, the _French_ Ambassador, the
Judges, the Heralds, and Trumpeters all on Horseback, came in a Chariot
supported by four Pillars, and drawn by two white Horses, to St.
_Paul_’s Church; where alighting at the West Door, she fell on her
Knees, and audibly praised GOD for her own and the Nation’s signal
Deliverance; and, after a Sermon suitable to the Occasion, preached by
Dr. _Pierce_, Bishop of _Sarum_, she exhorted the People in a most Royal
and Christian manner, to a due Performance of the religious Duty of
Thanksgiving; then going to the Bishop of _London_’s Palace, where she
dined, she returned in the same Order as before, by Torch-light, to
_Somerset-House_.
Those brave Men that had ventur’d their Lives in the Defence of their
Country, were considered and rewarded by the Queen. [142]She settled a
Pension on the Lord High-Admiral for his great Service, and bestow’d a
handsome yearly Allowance on the poor and disabled Seamen; and upon all
Occasions she distinguish’d the rest of the Officers, Soldiers, and
Sailors with particular Marks of her Regard and Esteem; but their
Rewards consisted generally more in Words than in Deeds.
A short EXPLANATION and ACCOUNT of what is contained in each of the ten
Tapestry-Plates, and the ten Charts.
The first Plate of the Tapestry and Chart I. represent the _Spanish_
Fleet coming up the _Channel_, opposite to the _Lizard_, as it was
first discovered. See _Account of the Spanish Invasion_, p. 12, 13.
Plate II. and Chart II. The _Spanish_ Fleet against _Fowey_, drawn up in
the Form of a Half Moon, and the _English_ Fleet pursuing them.
_Account_, _&c._ p. 13.
Plate III. and Chart III. At the left Hand Corner is represented the
first Engagement between the _Spanish_ and _English_ Fleets: After
which the _English_ give Chace to the _Spaniards_, who draw themselves
up into a Roundel. _Account_, _&c._ _ibid._
Plate IV. and Chart IV. _De Valdez_’s Galleon springs her Foremast, and
is taken by Sir _Francis Drake_. The Lord-Admiral with the _Bear_ and
_Mary Rose_, pursue the Enemy, who are in the Form of a Half Moon.
_Account_, _&c._ p. 13, 14.
Plate V. and Chart V. The Admiral of the _Guypuscoan_ Squadron being set
on Fire, is taken by the _English_. The rest of the _Spanish_ Fleet
continue their Course in the Form of a Half Moon: And when both Fleets
were against the Isle of _Portland_, they come to an Engagement.
_Account_, _&c._ p. 14.
Plate VI. and Chart VI. Some _English_ Ships attack the _Spanish_ Fleet
to the Westward. The _Spaniards_ draw themselves into a Roundel: And
afterwards keeping on their Course, are followed by the _English_.
_Account_, _&c._ p. 14, 15.
Plate VII. and Chart VII. Represent the sharpest Engagement that
happen’d between the two Fleets, on _July 25_, against the Isle of
_Wight_. _Account_, _&c._ p. 15.
In Plate VIII. and Chart VIII. the _Spanish_ Fleet is seen sailing up
the _Channel_, intending to stop at _Dunkirk_ or _Calais_, where they
were to be join’d by the Duke of _Parma_: The _English_ follow them
close. _Account_, _&c._ p. 16.
Plate IX. and Chart IX. The _Spaniards_ come to an Anchor before
_Calais_, from whence they are dislodg’d by the Fireships sent amongst
them in the Night: The _English_ prepare to pursue them. _Account_,
_&c._ p. 16, 17.
Plate X. and Chart X. The _Spaniards_ make the best of their way for the
Northern Seas; and are, in the mean time, very much battered by the
_English_, who closely pursue them. The chief Galleass is stranded
near _Calais_. _Account_, _&c._ p. 17, 18, 19.
The Reader is desired to observe, that the Border in Plate II, IV, VI,
VIII, X, is an exact Representation of the Border to the
Tapestry-Hangings, which is ornamented with the Portraits of the
principal Commanders; and is the same in all the Pieces of the Tapestry;
only the Heads are differently placed. But for more Variety, and in
order to bring in the Heads of Sir _Robert Carey_, the Earl of
_Northumberland_, Sir _Roger Townshend_, and Sir _Thomas Gerard_,
another Border has been contrived, being that which is round Plate I,
III, V, VII, IX.
We are inform’d by _Joachim de Sandrart_[143], that the _Designs_ of the
Tapestry were made by _Henry Cornelius Vroom_, a famous Painter of
_Harlem_, eminent for his great Skill in drawing all Sorts of Shipping;
and that it was _Wove_ by _Francis Spiring_.
EXPLANATION of the MEDALS and other ORNAMENTS round the Charts.
Gen. Chart. On the left Side BRITANNIA is represented darting Thunder
and Lightning, upon ENVY, SUPERSTITION, and the Kingdom of _Spain_,
delineated by those of _Castile_ and _Leon_, which lye groveling
below: On the other Side, TRUE RELIGION, represented by a Woman
sitting, and holding a Bible in one Hand, thunders down upon
HYPOCRISY, IGNORANCE, and POPERY: The Medal at the Top has, on one
Side, the _Spanish_ Fleet in a Storm, and this Inscription, FLAVIT ·
יְהֹוָה · ET · DISSIPATI · SVNT· 1588. _The Lord blew, and they were
dispers’d._ On the Reverse is represented a Church founded upon a
Rock, (meaning the Protestant Religion,) which the Waves beat against,
and the Heavens seem to frown upon; the Inscription is ALLIDOR · NON ·
LÆDOR, _I am beat_ (by the Waves) _but not hurt_. That at the Bottom,
which is of Silver, and in the Collection of Dr. _Mead_, has on one
Side, the Pope, Cardinals, and Bishops; the Emperor, King _Philip_,
and other Princes in their Robes of State, sitting in Consultation,
bound about their Eyes with Fillets, the Ends of which are sticking
up, and the Floor of the Room they are assembled in all full of
Pricks: The Inscription above them, O COECAS · HOMINVM · MENTES · O ·
PECTORA · COECA. _O the blind Understandings of Men! O their blind
Hearts!_ About the Circle, DVRVM · EST · CONTRA · STIMVLOS ·
CALCITRARE, _It is hard to kick against the Pricks_: On the Reverse, A
Fleet of Ships dash’d against Rocks, and sinking: Above, VENI · VIDE·
VIVE, 1588. _Come, see, live_, 1588: TV · DEVS · MAGNVS · ET · MAGNA ·
FACIS · TV · SOLVS · DEVS, _Thou, o God, art great, and dost great
things, thou art God alone._
Chart I. and II. Above is a profile Face of Queen _Elizabeth_ (taken
from a Minute of _Is. Oliver_, in the Collection of Dr. _Mead_,)
before which sits HISTORY with an Olive-Branch, recording her great
Actions; and behind her, FAME sounding her Praises. On each Side of
the Queen are moreover several warlike Instruments taken out of the
_Spanish_ Fleet, and now preserved in the Tower. From Queen
_Elizabeth_’s Picture hangs the Anchor of Hope, the Arms of the
Admiralty, surrounded by the Winds; and below stands NEPTUNE, the God
of the Sea, in his Chariot, to denote the Queen’s Dominion of the
Narrow Seas. At the Corner of the first Chart BRITANNIA sitting upon a
Rock in the Sea, and looking scornfully upon the _Spanish_ Fleet, has
this very pertinent Motto by her,
_Maturate fugam_, _&c._
_Hence to your Lord my Royal Mandate bear,
The Realms of Ocean, and the Fields of Air,
Are mine, not his._
VIRG. _Æn. l_. I.
Chart III. and IV. At the Top is a Picture of the Lord High-Admiral,
(taken from an original Painting of _Frederico Zucchero_, in
Possession of his Grace the Duke of _Kent_) having on one Side
PRUDENCE, _Janus_ like, with a double Face; and on the other, COURAGE:
Among which are intermix’d several _Spanish_ Weapons, now in the
Tower. The Silver Coin, which was struck on this glorious Occasion by
the _Zealanders_, has on one side two Ships engag’d, and under CLASSIS
· HISP. Round the Circle, VENIT · IVIT · FVIT, 1588. _The Spanish
Fleet came, went, was_, 1588. On the Reverse, the Arms of _Zealand_,
with this Inscription, SOLI · DEO · GLORIA, _Glory to God alone_:
Under the Lord-Admiral, VICTORY fitting, holds in her right Hand a
Laurel Crown, and his Lordship’s Arms: In her left, a Chain, to which
are fastened below the Duke of _Medina_, and the other chief _Spanish_
Commanders.
Chart V. and VI. At the Top is a Portrait of Sir _Francis Drake_, (taken
out of Mr. _Knapton_’s Collection of illustrious Men,) and adorned on
each Side with proper Naval Ornaments. The Coin at the Top has on one
Side the Arms of _Zealand_ crown’d, with this Inscription, NON · NOBIS
· DOMINE · NON · NOBIS, 1588. _Not to us, o Lord, not to us_: Reverse,
The _Spanish_ Fleet flying, thus circumscribed, SED · NOMINI · TVO ·
DA · GLORIAM, _But to thy Name give the Praise_: That at the Bottom
represents on one Side Queen _Elizabeth_, sitting in a triumphal
Chariot, holding in her right Hand a Palm Branch, the Emblem of
Victory; and in her left a Book open, in which is the Beginning of the
LORD’S Prayer in _Dutch_, and round the Circle, TANDEM · BONA · CAVSA
· TRIVMPHAT, 1588. _At last the good Cause triumphs_: Upon the
Reverse, a Tree in which is a Nest full of small Birds, that jointly
defend themselves against a Bird of Prey, by whom they are attack’d:
At the Bottom BELLVM · NECESS. _A War of Necessity_: Round the Circle,
SI · NON · VIRIBVS · AT · CAVSA · POTIORES, _Superior, if not in
Strength, yet in the Goodness of our Cause_. At the Bottom of these
two Charts is represented Sir _Francis Drake_, distributing amongst
his Officers and Sailors, the Money, _&c._ that was found in a great
Galleon brought to _Dartmouth_, See _Account_, _&c._ p. 13, 14. Others
are driving the Prisoners before them.
Chart VII. and VIII. At the upper Part are the Portraits of Sir _M.
Forbisher_, and Sir _J. Hawkins_ (taken from _Holland’s Herologia
Anglicana_) with a naval Crown between them, and other suitable
Decorations. Below them, upon a _Columna Rostrata_, (_i.e._ a Pillar
adorned with the Beaks of Ships,) stands _Victory_, holding a Shield,
upon which are the Names of those brave Persons that were knighted by
the Lord-Admiral, as is represented at the Bottom. See _Account_,
_&c._ p. 16. Others are bringing Weapons out of the _Spanish_ Ships.
Chart IX. and X. At the Top is a curious Portrait of Queen _Elizabeth_,
(taken from a Gold _Alto Relievo_, in the Collection of Dr. _Mead_,)
thundering down upon _Philip_ II. King of _Spain_, Pope _Sixtus_ V.
(taken from a Copper Medal in the Collection of _Tho. Sadler_ Esq;)
and _Alexander_ Duke of _Parma_, whom she holds in Chains. At the two
bottom Corners are two Boys weeping, and pointing at the _Spanish_
Fleet, which is represented as shipwreck’d, and in the utmost
Distress. The Coin at the left Hand Corner of the Top, was struck by
the _Zealanders_, and exhibits the _Spanish_ Fleet in a violent Storm,
the Sun above, breaking out of a thick Cloud; the Inscription is, POST
· NVBILA · PHOEBVS, _After cloudy Weather Sun-shine_; or, _After a
Storm a Calm_. On the Coin at the Right Hand, are four Persons upon
their Knees, looking up to Heaven, with this Inscription, HOMO ·
PROPONIT · DEVS · DISPONIT, _Man proposeth, God disposeth_: The
Reverse, which is not copied here, had this Inscription, HISPANI ·
FVGIVNT · ET · PEREVNT · NEMINE · SEQVENTE.
The above Medals, excepting those taken from the Collections mentioned,
are from _Histoire Metallique des Pays Bas, par G. van Loon_.
_This Account was drawn up by the Rev. Mr. Philip Morant, M.A. Rector of
St. Mary’s_, Colchester.
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_ERRATA._
Page 3. Col. 1. Line ult. _for_ Sailor _read_ Sailors.
of Notes,
_Ibid._ _for_ Books _read_ Book.
Page 8. Col. 1. Line 54. _for del Barrio 130_ _read
530._
_Ibid._ Col. 2. Line 38. _for_ Rama _read_ Lama.
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APPENDIX.
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APPENDIX.
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NOTE.
The Spanish Armada made an effort, July 25, 1588, to land and take
possession of the Isle of Wight, when a spirited engagement took place,
which caused the Spanish admiral to pursue his course to Calais Roads.
The next day the Lord High Admiral of the English fleet called on board
of his own ship, the “Arke-Royal,” and conferred the honor of knighthood
on the Lord Thomas Howard, the Lord Sheffield Roger Townshend, Martin
Frobisher, and John Hawkins, as a reward for their undaunted spirit and
bravery in this great fight at sea, having power from the Queen so to
do.
As brief biographical sketches of these important commanders may be
interesting, the following have been taken from various historical,
biographical, and genealogical works:—
THE LORD HOWARD OF EFFINGHAM.
Charles, second Lord Howard of Effingham, and Lord High Admiral of
England, was son of the first lord and grandson of Thomas, second Duke
of Norfolk.
He was born 1536, and after much service was appointed, in 1585, Lord
High Admiral of England, and was chief in command against the Spanish
Armada, in 1588.
As he was a staunch Roman Catholic, history will forever honor the
tremendous efforts made by him to frustrate the landing of this powerful
combination of land and sea forces, fitted out as it were under the
auspices of the Pope of Rome, and his loyalty to his Queen and country.
In 1596, he commanded the fleet while the Earl of Essex commanded the
land forces in the expedition against Cadiz. For this meritorious
service he was created Earl of Nottingham. In 1599, in anticipation of
another invasion by the King of Spain, he was given the sole command of
the army and navy, with the title of Lieutenant-General of all England.
He commanded the troop that subdued the Essex rebellion, and under James
I. was employed in several distinguished capacities, and died December
14, 1624, aged eighty-eight, having some years before resigned the
office of Lord High Admiral, in the behalf of the favorite Villiers,
Earl of Buckingham, receiving in exchange a pension of £1,000, and the
acquittal of a debt of £1,800 due the Crown.
THE LORD THOMAS HOWARD.
The Lord Thomas Howard was a son of the fourth Duke of Norfolk. His
lordship was a distinguished commander in the memorable engagement
between the English fleet and the Spanish Armada, in 1588.
In 1591 he had command of a squadron of ships sent out to attack the
Spanish Plate fleet, homeward bound from America, and distinguished
himself, with Sir Thomas Vasseur, in capturing a part of this fleet.
He was, in 1596, in the fleet commanded by Charles Howard, Lord High
Admiral of England. This Thomas Howard led the third squadron, and it
was this fleet which took the town of Cadiz. The same year, on his
return, he was summoned to Parliament by the title of Lord Howard of
Walden.
The next year, to divert the Spaniard from a descent on Ireland, the
Queen sent out a fleet of one hundred and twenty, divided into three
squadrons, commanded by the Earl of Essex, Lord Thomas Howard, and Sir
Walter Raleigh. On his return to England, he was installed one of the
Knights of the Garter, May 24, 1597.
In 1601, he was one of the commanders of the forces to whom the Earl of
Essex surrendered, and on the 19th February following he was one of the
peers that sat on his trial, being then constable of the Tower. Meeting
King James I. at Theobalds, in May, 1603, he was sworn of the Privy
Council, and July 21st following was advanced to the Earldom of Suffolk.
He was also made a Commissioner for making Knights of the Bath, also for
executing the office of Earl Marshal of England. In 1605, being Lord
Chamberlain together with the Lord Mounteagle, the Gunpowder Plot was
discovered. He was elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in
1613, and July 11, 1614, was constituted Lord High Treasurer of England.
The earl died in London, May 28, 1626.
SIR ROGER TOWNSHEND.
Sir Roger Townshend of Raynham, Knight, was descended, according to
Collins and other learned antiquaries, through a long line of ancestry
from Lodovic or Lewis, a Norman nobleman, who married Elizabeth,
daughter and heir of Sir Thomas de Hauteville or Havile, Lord of
Raynham, through which match the Raynham estate came into the family and
is now the chief seat of the Marquis Townshend.
This Sir Roger was born about 1550, and was heir to his great
grandfather, Sir Roger Townshend, Kt., whose will was proved at Norwich,
Co. Norfolk, May 10, 1552. He was a gentleman of high rank and great
worth in his native county Norfolk, and while Spain was preparing the
Invincible Armada of 1588 to invade England, he manifested the greatest
spirit and energy in fitting out and manning ships at his own expense to
repel the invaders, going in person in the cause of his country, and on
account of his undaunted spirit and bravery in the several engagements
previous to the 26th of July, he was knighted that day on board the _Ark
Royal_, by the Admiral Lord Howard of Effingham, who had power from
Queen Elizabeth so to do. This Sir Roger was in the thickest of the
fight and suffered the loss of many of his men, and we have evidence
from a letter dated at Margate, Kent, August 10, 1588, in which Lord
Howard writes Burghley “that of all the men brought by Sir Roger
Townshend he has but one left alive.”
He lived but two years afterwards, dying in the flower of his age at a
seat he had purchased of Thomas Sutton, Esq., at Newington, Co.
Middlesex, and was buried June 30, 1590, in the church of St. Giles,
Cripplegate, London.
SIR JOHN HAWKINS.
Sir John Hawkins, a seaman of distinguished ability who flourished
during the reign of Elizabeth, was born at Plymouth about 1520, and his
early life was spent in trading voyages to the south of Europe and
African coast. With the assistance of several merchants he fitted out a
small fleet in 1562, and obtained by force and purchase a cargo of
negroes, which he carried to the Spanish West India Colonies and there
sold them; this we believe was the first adventure in the African slave
trade made by Englishmen.
He made many voyages of this kind, and was at last attacked by the
Spanish authorities in the Port of S. Juan de Ulloa, and saved only two
of his ships and returned to England in January, 1568, after suffering
much hardship. This was his last commercial enterprise.
Hawkins was appointed in 1573 treasurer of the navy, and in 1588 we find
him serving as Rear Admiral against the Spanish Armada, and for his
great spirit and bravery he was knighted by the Admiral Charles Lord
Howard of Effingham. He went to intercept the Plate fleet and harrass
the trade of Spain with Frobishers and others in 1590, but failed in the
first object and succeeded in the second. In 1595, he was sent with
Drake to command an expedition against the Spaniards in the West Indies;
but they failed to agree and soon after separated. Sir John Hawkins died
November 21, 1595, and his colleague, Drake, soon after. Hawkins founded
a hospital at Chatham for poor and sick seamen. He also sat in
Parliament for Plymouth.
SIR MARTIN FROBISHER.
Sir Martin Frobisher was born at Doncaster, Yorkshire, of humble
parentage, and brought up to the sea, and in early life displayed the
talents of a great navigator, and was the first Englishman who attempted
to find a northwest passage to China. Under the patronage of Ambrose
Dudley, Earl of Warwick, he fitted out two barks of twenty-five tons,
and a pinnace of ten tons, and sailed from Deptford, January 8, 1576,
and on July 11th discovered Freeseland and the strait which still bears
his name, and after making numerous discoveries he returned to England,
arriving at Harwich 2d October of the same year. On this voyage he took
possession of the country in Queen Elizabeth’s name and brought back
with him specimens of gold ore. This circumstance raised prodigious
expectations, and the Queen lent him a ship of two hundred tons for his
next expedition, on which he sailed accompanied with a party of one
hundred and forty persons (also two barks of thirty tons each) from
Gravesend, May 26, 1577. He made numerous discoveries, but his
instructions were to search for ore, and being in the Countess of
Warwick Island he took a lading of it and arrived in England the end of
September, 1577, and was most graciously received by the Queen, who
fitted out another fleet of twelve vessels which sailed from Harwich May
31, 1578, and sighted Freeseland June 20th, and took possession of the
country in the Queen’s name, calling it West England, and after
collecting much ore sailed for and arrived in England after a stormy and
dangerous passage in the beginning of October. In 1588 he commanded the
_Triumph_ in the engagement against the Spanish Armada and received the
honor of knighthood for his valor at sea by the Lord High Admiral, 26
July of the same year. In 1590, he commanded a squadron to the Spanish
Coast, and in 1594 he was sent with four men-of-war to the assistance of
Henry IV. of France, against a body of leaguers and Spaniards then in
possession of part of Brittany, who had fortified themselves very
strongly at Croyzon near Brest. Here, in an assault upon that fort,
November 7th he was wounded by a ball in the hip, of which he died soon
after he had brought the fleet safely back to Plymouth, and was buried
in that town.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH.
Sir Walter Raleigh, a distinguished statesman, scholar, and warrior, in
the reigns of Elizabeth and James I., was born in 1552, at Budleigh in
Devonshire, and educated at Oriel College, Oxford. At the age of
seventeen he made one of a troop of an hundred gentlemen volunteers whom
Queen Elizabeth permitted to go to France, under the command of Henry
Champernon, for the service of the Protestant princes. He next served in
the Netherlands; and, on his return from the Continent, his
half-brother, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, having obtained a grant of lands in
North America, he engaged with a considerable number of gentlemen to go
out to Newfoundland: but the expedition proving unsuccessful, Sir Walter
returned to England, after being exposed to several dangers, and
proceeded thence to Ireland, where he made his bravery so conspicuous in
quelling the insurgents, that he was received at court with considerable
favor, and obtained permission and supplies to prosecute his discoveries
in America, which ended in his settling a colony in that country,
called, in honor of his maiden sovereign, Virginia; and he is said to
have first introduced tobacco and potatoes into Europe. In the mean time
the Queen conferred on him the distinction of knighthood, and rewarded
him by several lucrative grants, including a large share of the
forfeited Irish estates. When his country’s safety was threatened by the
famous Spanish Armada, he raised and disciplined the militia of
Cornwall; and afterwards, by joining the fleet with a squadron of ships
belonging to gentlemen volunteers, assisted in obtaining the signal
victory which it pleased Providence to give to the English over the
Spaniards on that occasion. He was now made gentleman of the privy
chamber; but shortly after fell into disgrace, and was confined for some
months, partly on account of a tract which he had published, entitled
“the School for Atheists,” which was unfairly construed by his enemies
into a vindication of atheistical principles; and partly for a
clandestine attachment to one of the Queen’s maids of honor, the
daughter of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton; which lady, however, he
afterwards honorably married. During his seclusion he planned the
discovery of the extensive country of Guiana, in South America, in which
he took an active part himself, as soon as he was set at liberty: but
the season being unfavorable, he returned to England, and was soon after
appointed to a command in the important expedition to Cadiz, of which
the success was in a great measure owing to Sir Walter’s valor and
prudence. This, joined to several other important services, restored him
completely to the favor of Elizabeth, towards the end of her reign. Her
successor, James, prejudiced against him by Robert Cecil, disapproving
of his martial spirit, and jealous of his abilities, availed himself of
a court conspiracy against this great man, charging him with
participating in an attempt to place upon the throne Arabella Stuart,
and of carrying on a secret correspondence with the King of Spain. By
the base subservience of the jury, he was brought in guilty of high
treason, even to the surprise of the Attorney-General Coke himself, who
declared that he had only charged him with misprision of treason.
Raleigh was reprieved, and committed to the Tower, where his wife, at
her earnest solicitation, was allowed to reside with him, and where his
youngest son was born. Twelve years was Sir Walter detained a prisoner
in the Tower; during which time, besides various minor compositions, he
wrote his “History of the World;” a work distinguished for the richness
of its information, the judiciousness of its reflections, and the vigor
of its style. At length his release was obtained, in 1616, by the
advance of a large sum of money to the new favorite, Villiers; and, to
retrieve his broken fortunes, he planned another expedition to America.
He obtained a patent under the great seal for making a settlement in
Guiana; but, in order to retain a power over him, the king did not grant
him a pardon for the sentence passed upon him for his alleged treason.
Having reached the Orinoco, he dispatched a portion of his force to
attack the new Spanish settlement of St. Thomas, which was captured; but
he had to lament the death of his eldest son, who fell on that occasion.
The expected plunder proved of little value: and Sir Walter, having in
vain tried to induce his captains to attack other Spanish settlements,
arrived at Plymouth in July, 1618. Being brought before the court of
King’s Bench, his plea of an implied pardon by his subsequent command,
was overruled; and the doom of death being pronounced against him, it
was carried into execution the following day, October 28, 1819, in Old
Palace Yard. His behavior at the scaffold was calm, and, after
addressing the people at some length in his own justification, he
received the stroke of death with perfect composure; remarking to the
sheriff, with a smile, as he felt the edge of the axe, “This is a sharp
medicine, but it is a physician that will cure all diseases.”
JOHN PINE.
Very little is known of the parentage of John Pine, the original
engraver and publisher of this work.
He flourished between the years 1720-1750, and ranked second to none in
his profession. He was a most intimate friend of Hogarth, who showed his
admiration for him by painting him in the manner of Rembrandt.
The years of his birth and death are uncertain. His chief works are the
Ceremonies used at the Revival of the Order of the Bath; a splendid
edition of Horace, illustrated with copies of antiques, bas-reliefs,
gems, and coins: also a print of the House of Commons.
His engravings of the tapestry hangings of the House of Lords are
sufficient evidence of his ability as an engraver. These splendid
representations of the engagements between the English fleet and the
Spanish Armada were destroyed by fire when the Houses of Parliament were
burned, Oct. 16, 1834.
[Illustration: General Chart]
[Illustration: Charts I and II]
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[Illustration: Charts III and IV]
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[Illustration: Plate IV]
[Illustration: Charts V and VI]
[Illustration: Plate V]
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[Illustration: Charts VII and VIII]
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FOOTNOTES.
Footnote 1:
See _Grotii_ Hist. lib. i. p. 117. Fol.
Footnote 2:
Vol. I. p. 591, 592.
Footnote 3:
_Strada_, Dec. II. l. 9.
Footnote 4:
_Strada_, Dec. ii. l. 9.
Footnote 5:
Vol. II. p. 135.
Footnote 6:
_Mary_ Queen of _Scots_, the Day before she suffer’d Death, did under
her own Hand in the _French_ Tongue, declare, “That her Son _James_
should not inherit _England_, if he remained a Protestant, but that
the Right of the Kingdom should be translated to _Philip_ King of
_Spain_.” _Rug. Tritonii Vita Vin. Laurei Cardin._
Footnote 7:
This Account is according to the Lists below. But it will be proper to
observe, that Authors do very much differ in their Accounts of this
ARMADA, and the several things belonging to it. According to
_Thuanus_, it consisted of 150 Ships of all Sorts; 140 says _Grotius_;
130 _Camden_ and _Strype_, 135 _Strada_; 128 _Speed_; 150 _Hakluyt_;
160 others, _&c._—Tuns 57868, _Spanish_ Book, _Hakluyt_,
_Purchas_.—Cannons 2650, _Hakluyt_, _Thuanus_ (1600 of Brass, and 1050
of Iron.) 2630, _Camden_.—Sailor 8450 _Spanish_ Books, 8000 _Thuanus_,
8350 _Camden_, 7449 _Strada_.—Soldiers, 20000 _Thuanus_ and _Stow_,
19295 _Spanish_ Book, 19290 _Camden_, 18857 _Strada_.
Footnote 8:
_Thuanus_, lib. 89.
Footnote 9:
Discourse of the ARMADA by _D. Archdeacon_, being a Translation of the
_Spanish_ Account, _Lond._ 1588. _Lediard_’s Naval History, p. 234,
_&c._
Footnote 10:
According to _Strada_ there were 220 Noblemen and Gentlemen, 354
Voluntiers: Their Servants 624; Priests, Surgeons, and other Officers,
and Servants 669. _Decas_ ii. lib. 9.
Footnote 11:
_Thuanus_, lib. 89.
Footnote 12:
Being the chosen Vessels of all K. _Philip_’s Dominions, excessive
monstrous, beyond all the Navies that ever had been seen in
_Christendom_. Letter to _B. Mendoza_, p. 16.
Footnote 13:
Discourse of the ARMADA by _D. Archdeacon_, _Thuanus_, _Lediard_,
_Hakluyt_, _Purchas_, _&c._
Footnote 14:
1200,000, _Thuan._ 20,200 _Harris_, 220,000 _Speed_, 119,000 _Spanish_
Book.
Footnote 15:
_Laquei certe, & plura necis instrumenta, aut servitutis inter spolia
visitata sunt._ _Grotii_ Hist. p. 118. See Letter to _B. Mendoza_, in
the _Postscript_, p. 37.
Footnote 16:
Discourse of the ARMADA, _&c._ _Thuanus_, _Lediard_, _&c._
Footnote 17:
A Septier is twelve Bushels.
Footnote 18:
_Strype_’s Annals, tom. iii. p. 451.
Footnote 19:
_Hakluyt_, vol. I. p. 593.
Footnote 20:
And, as _Thuanus_ computes it, before it sailed from _Lisbon_, it had
stood K. _Philip_ in _Centies vicies centena millia aureorum_, lib.
89. above two Millions.
Footnote 21:
_Strada_, Dec. II. l. 9.
Footnote 22:
_Hakluyt_, _Speed_’s Chron.
Footnote 23:
_Decad._ l. II. p. 9.
Footnote 24:
_Thuan._ lib. 89. _Hakluyt_ and _Purchas_.
Footnote 25:
_Stow_, p. 746.
Footnote 26:
_Thuan._ l. 89.
Footnote 27:
_Welwood_’s Memoirs, p. 8, 9.
Footnote 28:
_Camden_, _Thuanus_, l. 89.
Footnote 29:
_Eo consilio, ut Regina, ob colloquium pacis de defensione secura,
facilius opprimeretur: quam tamen illa minime neglexit._ Thuan. l. 89.
Footnote 30:
_Grotius_, p. 119. _Hakluyt_ vol. i. p. 595.
Footnote 31:
_Cotton MSS._
Footnote 32:
_Camden._
Footnote 33:
_Strype_’s Annals, tom. iii. p. 516.
Footnote 34:
_Stow_ Chron. p. 744.
Footnote 35:
_Stow_’s Survey, Edit. 1720. B. i. p. 283.
Footnote 36:
Letter to _B. Mendoza_, p. 23, 24, _&c._
Footnote 37:
Ibid. p. 6, 7, 8.
Footnote 38:
_Camden._
Footnote 39:
_Strada_, Dec. ii. lib. 9.
Footnote 40:
_Camden._ _Rapin_, vol. ii. p. 136.
Footnote 41:
Letter to _B. Mendoza_, p. 30, 35.
Footnote 42:
See his Letter in _Rymer_’s _Fœdera_, tom. xvi. p. 18.
Footnote 43:
_Camden._
Footnote 44:
Taken from the _Spanish_ Book printed in 1588. compar’d with
_Lediard_.
Footnote 45:
From a MS. in the Royal Library, 14 B XIII.
Footnote 46:
_Strada_, Dec. ii. lib. 9.
Footnote 47:
_Hakluyt, Camden._
Footnote 48:
MSS. in the _Cottonian_ Library, _Jul._ F X. 17. fol. III.
Footnote 49:
_Camden_ Ann. and _Burchett_.
Footnote 50:
_Cotton MSS._
Footnote 51:
_Lediard_’s Naval Hist. p. 254.
Footnote 52:
_Camden._
Footnote 53:
_Cotton MSS._
Footnote 54:
_Camden, Hakluyt, Purchas, Cotton MSS, &c._
Footnote 55:
_Cotton MSS._
Footnote 56:
It is called the _Disdain_ in _Cotton MSS._
Footnote 57:
_Eman. Fremosa_’s Examination, printed in 1588. In the following
Engagements they lost twenty five Men more. _Ibid._
Footnote 58:
_Camden._
Footnote 59:
_Cotton MSS._
Footnote 60:
_Camden._
Footnote 61:
A _Spanish_ Officer had quarrel’d with him, and called him Traytor,
imagining he had not done his Duty in the last Engagement. _Strada_,
Dec, ii. lib. 9.
Footnote 62:
_Cotton MSS._
Footnote 63:
_Camden._
Footnote 64:
_Cotton MSS._
Footnote 65:
_Camden._
Footnote 66:
_Cotton MSS._
Footnote 67:
_Camden._
Footnote 68:
_Purchas, &c._
Footnote 69:
Some Authors say, there was a Cessation on both Sides, _Camden, &c._
Footnote 70:
_Purchas, Speed, &c._
Footnote 71:
_Cotton MSS._
Footnote 72:
_Camden, Cotton MSS. Strada._
Footnote 73:
_Cotton MSS._
Footnote 74:
_Camden._
Footnote 75:
_Purchas, Harris._
Footnote 76:
_Camden, Cotton MSS._
Footnote 77:
_Cotton MSS._
Footnote 78:
_Camden._
Footnote 79:
_Camden_, _Thuanus_, Letter to _B. Mendoza_, p. 28.
Footnote 80:
_Cotton MSS._
Footnote 81:
_Ibid._
Footnote 82:
_Harris._
Footnote 83:
_Camden._
Footnote 84:
_Eman. Fremosa_’s Examination.
Footnote 85:
_Camden, Thuanus._
Footnote 86:
See _Strada de Bello Belgico_, Dec. ii. lib. 6.
Footnote 87:
Each of their Ships lost two Anchors here. _Em. Fremosa’s_ Examinat.
Footnote 88:
_Camden, Burchett._
Footnote 89:
_Eman. Fremosa_’s Examinat.
Footnote 90:
_Thuanus, Lediard._
Footnote 91:
_Cotton MSS._
Footnote 92:
Letter to _B. Mendoza_, p. 28.
Footnote 93:
_Hakluyt, Purchas, Harris._
Footnote 94:
_Cotton MSS._
Footnote 95:
_Camden, Burchett._
Footnote 96:
_Eman. Francisco_’s Examinat.
Footnote 97:
_Thuanus, Purchas, Harris._
Footnote 98:
_Purchas_ and _Harris_ call him _Bauderdues_.
Footnote 99:
_Em. Fremosa_’s and _Em. Francisco_’s Examinat.
Footnote 100:
_Burchett._
Footnote 101:
This worthy Commander, for his gallant Behaviour in this Action, and
afterwards at the Overthrow and Burning of the _Spanish_ Navy in the
Bay of _Cadiz_ 1588, and Taking the Town 1596, when he was
Vice-Admiral, was Knighted, and the following Motto added to his Arms,
SE INSERIT ASTRIS.
Footnote 102:
Letter to _B. Mendoza_, p. 18.
Footnote 103:
_Em. Fremosa_’s Examinat.
Footnote 104:
_J. Antonio_’s Examinat.
Footnote 105:
_Em. Francisco_’s and _J de le Concedo_’s Examinat.
Footnote 106:
_Cotton MSS. Thuanus._
Footnote 107:
_Camden, Burchett, Strada._
Footnote 108:
_Harris, Lediard._
Footnote 109:
_Speed_, p. 862.
Footnote 110:
_Cabala_, p. 373.
Footnote 111:
_Camden._
Footnote 112:
Letter to _B. Mendoza_, p. 22.
Footnote 113:
_Ibid._
Footnote 114:
One Night, as the Queen was in the Camp, guarded by her Army, the Lord
Treasurer _Burleigh_ came thither, and delivered to the Earl of
_Leicester_ the Examination of Don _Pedro_, who was taken and brought
in by Sir _Francis Drake_; the Sum of which was this: Don _Pedro_
being asked what was the Intent of their coming, stoutly answer’d the
Lords, What, but to subdue your Nation, and root it out. Good, said
the Lords, and what meant you then to do with the Catholicks? He
answered, We meant to send them (good Men) directly unto Heaven, as
all you that are Hereticks to Hell. Yea but, said the Lords, What
meant you to do with your Whips of Cord and Wyer? (whereof they had
great Store in their Ships,) What, said he, we meant to whip you
Hereticks to Death, that have assisted my Master’s Rebels, and done
such Dishonours to our Catholick King and People. Yea, but what would
you have done said they, with their young Children. They, said he,
which were above seven Years old should have gone the Way their
Fathers went; the rest should have lived, branded in the Forehead with
the Letter _L_, for _Lutheran_, to perpetual Bondage, _Cabala_, p.
372. Letter to _Mendoza_, p. 37.——It was also published, that the
Lords of _Spain_ which were in the Navy, had made a special Division
amongst themselves, of all the Noblemens Houses in _England_ by their
Names, and had in a sort quartered _England_ among themselves, and had
determined of sundry manners of cruel Death, both of the Nobility and
the rest of the People. The Ladies, Women, and Maidens were also
destined to all Villany; the rich Merchants Houses in _London_ were
put into a Register, by their very Names, and limited to the Companies
of the Squadrons of the Navy for their Spoil. Letter to _Mendoza_, p.
37.
Footnote 115:
_Camden, Thuanus._
Footnote 116:
_Cotton MSS._
Footnote 117:
_Camden._
Footnote 118:
_J. Antonio_’s Examinat.
Footnote 119:
_Harris, &c._
Footnote 120:
_Appendix_ to Letter to _Mendoza_, p. 1.
Footnote 121:
_J. A. de Monoma_’s Examinat.
Footnote 122:
_Ibid._
Footnote 123:
_Camden._
Footnote 124:
_Thuanus._
Footnote 125:
_Eman. Fremosa_’s Examinat. and Re-Examinat.
Footnote 126:
Certain Advertisements out of _Ireland_, Printed in 1588.
Footnote 127:
_Ibid._
Footnote 128:
_Ibid._
Footnote 129:
_Appendix_ to Letter to _Mendoza_, p. 2.
Footnote 130:
_Camden._
Footnote 131:
_Speed, Harris._
Footnote 132:
_Grotius, Strada._
Footnote 133:
This Account is taken from the relation given above, and from certain
Advertisements out of _Ireland_, and Depositions of Prisoners, printed
in 1588, with which _Strada_ and the _Spanish_ Writers agree. But our
Historians vary extremely in this, as well as other Particulars:
_Hakluyt_, vol. i. p. 604. and others, say the _Spaniards_ lost eighty
one Ships out of their hundred and thirty two; and that there return’d
to _Spain_ only one of the Galleasses of _Naples_, one of the four
Galleons of _Portugal_, and thirty three of the Galleons and Hulks
from divers Provinces, _&c._ _Stow_ affirms there return’d to _Spain_
only threescore Sail; and others say only fifty three. See _Purchas,
Thuanus_ l. lxxxix. _Harris, Speed, &c._
Footnote 134:
_Strype’s Annals_ vol. iii. p. 533. Don _Pedro de Valdez_, who was Sir
_Francis Drake_’s Prisoner, remained three or four Years in _England_,
and paid three thousand five hundred Pounds for his Ransom, _Ibid._ p.
532.
Footnote 135:
_Strada, Grotius._
Footnote 136:
_Camden._
Footnote 137:
See Letter to _Mendoza_, p. 17.
Footnote 138:
Of a War with _Spain_. See his Works, Fol. vol. iii. p. 523, _&c._
Footnote 139:
Letter to _Mendoza_, p. 17.
Footnote 140:
_Strype’s Ann._ vol. iii. p. 525. _Stow’s Ann._
Footnote 141:
Letter to _B. Mendoza_, p. 37.
Footnote 142:
_Camden._
Footnote 143:
_Academia Artis Pictoriæ Norwergæ_, p. 274.
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