THE SPANISH ARMADA 



the increase of learning, and the benefit of the people 

 committed to your charge, I bid you farewel. From 

 Island upon the feast of the visitation of the blessed 

 Virgine Mary, Anno Dom. 1595. 



Yours Gudbrandus Thorlacius Bishop of 

 Hola in Island. 



The miraculous victory atchieved by the English 

 Fleete, under the discreet and happy conduct 

 of the right honourable, right prudent, and 

 valiant lord, the L. Charles Howard, L. high 

 Admirall of England, &c. Upon the Spanish 

 huge Armada sent in the yeere 1588. for the 

 invasion of England, together with the wofuU 

 and miserable successe of the said Armada 

 afterward, upon the coasts of Norway, of the 

 Scottish Westerne Isles, of Ireland, of Spaine, 

 of France, and of England, &c. Recorded 

 in Latine by Emanuel van Meteran in the 

 15. booke of his history of the low Countreys. 



Aving in part declared the strange and 

 wonderfull events of the yeere eightie 

 eight, which hath bene so long time fore- 

 told by ancient prophesies ; we will now 

 make relation of the most notable and 

 great enterprise of all others which were 

 in the foresaid yeere atchieved, in order 

 as it was done. Which exploit (although in very deed 

 it was not performed in any part of the low Countreys) 

 was intended for their ruine and destruction. And it 

 was the expedition which the Spanish king, having a 

 long time determined the same in his minde, and having 

 consulted thereabout with the Pope, set foorth and under- 

 tooke against England and the low Countreys. To the 

 end that he might subdue the Realme of England, and 

 reduce it unto his catholique Religion, and by that 



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A.D. 



1588. 



