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 beleeved verily God would consume them, and that he 

 tooke part with the Lutherans and heretiks : saying 

 further that so soone as they had throwen the dead body 

 of the Viceadmirall Sir Richard Greenfield over-boord, 

 they verily thought that as he had a divellish faith and 

 religion, and therefore the divels loved him, so he 

 presently sunke into the bottome of the sea, and downe 

 into hell, where he raised up all the divels to the revenge 

 of his death : and that they brought so great stormes and 

 torments upon the Spaniards, because they onely main- 

 tained the Catholike & Romish religion. Such and the 

 like blasphemies against God, they ceased not openly to 

 utter, without being reprooved of any man therein, nor 

 for their false opinions : but the most part of them rather 

 sayd and affirmed, that of trueth it must needs be so. 



As one of those Indian fleets put out of Nova Spagna, 

 there were 35 of them by storme and tempest cast away 

 and drowned in the Sea, being 50 in all ; so that but 1 5 

 escaped. Of the fleet that came from Santo Domingo 

 there were 14 cast away, comming out of the chanell of 

 Havana, whereof the Admirall and Viceadmirall were two 

 of them : and from Terra Firma in India there came 

 two ships laden with golde and silver, that were taken by 

 the Englishmen : and before the Spanish army came to 

 Corvo, the Englishmen at times had taken at the least 

 20 ships, that came from S. Domingo, India, Brasilia, 

 &rc. and were all sent into England. 



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