LINSCHOTEN'S LARGE TESTIMONY a.d. 



1589-91. 



Spanish fleet, and shot among them doing them great 

 hurt, & thinking the rest of the company would have 

 folowed, which they did not, but left him there, & sailed 

 away : the cause why could not be knowen. Which the 

 Spaniards perceiving, with 7 or 8 ships they boorded her, 

 but she withstood them all, fighting with them at the 

 least 12 houres together and sunke two of them, one 

 being a new double Flieboat of 600 tunnes, and Admiral 

 of the Flieboats, the other a Biscain : but in the end by 

 reason of the number that came upon her, she was taken, 

 but to their great losse : for they had lost in fighting and 

 by drowning above 400 men, and of the English were 

 slaine about 100, Sir Richard Greenvil himselfe being 

 wounded in his braine, whereof afterwards he died. He 

 was caried into the ship called S. Paul, wherein was the 

 Admirall of the fleet Don Alonso de Bacan : there his 

 wounds were drest by the Spanish surgeons, but Don 

 Alonso himselfe would neither see him nor speake with 

 him : all the rest of the captaines and gentlemen went to 

 visite him, and to comfort him in his hard fortune, won- 

 dering at his courage and stout heart, for y 4 he shewed 

 not any signe of faintnes nor changing of colour; but 

 feeling the houre of death to approch, he spake these 

 words in Spanish, and said : Here die I Richard Greenvil 

 with a joyful & quiet mind, for that I have ended my 

 life as a true souldier ought to do, that hath fought for 

 his countrey, Queene, religion and honor, whereby my 

 soule most joyfull departeth out of this body, & shal 

 alwayes leave behind it an everlasting fame of a valiant 

 & true souldier that hath done his dutie as he was bound 

 to doe. When he had finished these or such other like 

 words, he gave up the Ghost, with great & stout courage, 

 & no man could perceive any true signe of heavines in 

 him. 



This sir Rich. Greenvil was a great and a rich gentle- 

 man in England, & had great yeerely revenues of his 

 owne inheritance, but he was a man very unquiet in 

 his mind, and greatly affected to war ; insomuch as of 

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