A LIBEL OF SPANISH LIES ad. 



1596. 



And if Don Bernaldino Delgadillo de Avellaneda the 

 Generall shall take any exceptions to this my appro- 

 bation, or stand in the justification of his lying letter 

 written to Doctor Peter Florez, President of the 

 Contractation house for the Indies, and by him for 

 Bernaldinos glorie lately put in print : I then say that 

 he falsely lyed, and that I will maintaine against him 

 with whatsoever armes he shall make choyce of. And 

 because the kingdomes wherein we abide are enemies 

 (by reason of which there is no meanes in either of 

 them, to maintaine that I have written) let him make 

 choise of any indifferent kingdome of equall distance 

 from either realme, and I will there be readie to maintaine 

 as much as I have written : But if by my imployments 

 into France I be so stayed by her Majesties commande- 

 ments, that I cannot out of that realme meete him in 

 any other, I cannot see why he should take any exception 

 to that, considering the equalitie of the place, and that 

 the Armies of both our princes be there resident. 



Thomas Baskervile. 



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