ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1590. 



still waiting all the night long for the approching of the 

 enemie. In the morning early being the Tuesday in 

 Easter weeke, and the 24 of April 1590. according to 

 our usual customes, we said Service and made our 

 prayers unto Almightie God, beseeching him to save us 

 from the hands of such tyrants as the Spaniards, whom 

 we justly imagined to be, and whom we knew and had 

 found to be our most mortall enemies upon the Sea. 

 And having finished our prayers, and set our selves in 

 a readinesse, we perceived them to come towards us, and 

 that they were indeede the Spanish Gallies that lay under 

 the conduct of Andre Doria, who is Vice-roy for the 

 King of Spaine in the Straights of Gibraltar, and a 

 notable knowne enemie to all Englishmen. So when 

 they came somewhat neerer unto us, they waved us a 

 maine for the King of Spaine, and wee waved them a 

 maine for the Queene of England, at which time it 

 pleased Almightie God greatly to incourage us all in such 

 sort, as that the neerer they came the lesse we feared 

 their great multitudes and huge number of men, which 

 were planted in those Gallies to the number of two or 

 three hundred men in ech Gallic And it was thus con- 

 cluded among us, that the foure first and tallest ships 

 should be placed hindmost, and the weaker & smallest 

 ships formost, and so it was performed, every man being 

 ready to take part of such successe as it should please 

 God to send. 



At the first encounter the Gallies came upon us very 

 fiercely, yet God so strengthened us, that if they had 

 bene ten times more, we had not feared them at all. 

 Whereupon the Salomon being a hot shippe, and having 

 sundry cast pieces in her, gave the first shotte in such 

 a sowre sort, as that it shared away so many men as sate 

 on the one side of a Gallie, and pierced her through in 

 such maner, as that she was ready to sinke, which made 

 them to assault us the more fiercely. Whereupon the 

 rest of our shippes, especially the foure chiefest, namely, 

 the Margaret and John, the Minion, and the Ascension 



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