A LIBEL OF SPANISH LIES ad. 



1596. 

 such manifest untruthes. For sithence his meeting 



with the English fleete at the He of Pinos, there hath 



bene by the worthie English Generals an honourable 



expedition from England into the Continent of Spaine, 



where amongst other exploites having taken the citie 



of Cadiz, in the sacke thereof was found some of Don The first 



Bernaldino his printed letters : which comming to the ^^^^^^^0' ^J 



handes of a captaine that served in Sir Francis Drakes >,^^-^^^^ /^^^^,. 



last voyage to the West Indies, he hath thought very 



fit (in regard of the slanders to the English Navie 



contained in the saide letter) to quote the errors, that 



the trueth onely may appeare, to all such as have a 



desire to be rightly informed of such accidents as befell 



them in this late voyage to the West Indies : and this 



may suffise to shew Don Bernaldino Delgadillo de 



Avellaneda his great judgement in amplifying small 



matters, or of nothing to make in shewe somewhat. 



And now having thus farre informed you of the trueth 



in reproofe of the slanderous, false, and untrue reports 



of this glorious lying Generall, with a true disproofe 



to some of the grossest of his lies, I will leave him 



with the rest of his lying letter, and the circumstances 



therein contained to your censures : who in discretion 



may easily discerne the same : And have here following 



plainely and truely set downe the course and order of 



our whole fight after we met. 



The meeting of our English Navie and the 

 Spanish fleete, and the order of our encounter. 



Unday the first of March, according to 

 our computation, wee descryed the Hand 

 of Pinos, where haling in for the West- 

 erne part thereof, thinking there to have 

 watered, being within foure leagues ofF 

 it Southerly, we sent in three of our 

 Pinnesses to discover the harbour, and 

 to sound afore us, about one of the clocke in the after- 

 noone ; the same day we discovered a fleete of twentie 



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