A.D. 

 1588. 



Their pro- 

 vision of 

 victuals and 

 other things 

 necessary. 



A Spanish 

 terza consist- 

 eth of 1200. 

 souldiers. 



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Moreover they had great store of canons, double- 

 canons, culverings and field-pieces for land services. 



Likewise they were provided of all instruments 

 necessary on land to conveigh and transport their furni- 

 ture from place to place ; as namely of carts, wheeles, 

 wagons, &c. Also they had spades, mattocks and 

 baskets to set pioners on worke. They had in like 

 sort great store of mules and horses, and whatsoever 

 else was requisite for a land-armie. They were so well 

 stored of biscuit, that for the space of halfe a yeere, they 

 might allow eche person in the whole Fleete halfe a 

 quintall every moneth ; whereof the whole summe 

 amounteth unto an hundreth thousand quintals. 



Likewise of wine they had 147. thousand pipes, 

 sufficient also for halfe a yeeres expedition. Of bacon 

 6500. quintals. Of cheese three thousand quintals. 

 Besides fish, rise, beanes, pease, oile, vineger, &c. 



Moreover they had 12000. pipes of fresh-water, and 

 all other necessary provision, as namely candles, lanternes, 

 lampes, sailes, hempe, oxe-hides and lead to stop holes 

 that should be made with the battery of gunshot. To 

 be short, they brought all things expedient either for 

 a Fleete by sea, or for an armie by land. 



This Navie (as Diego Pimentelli afterward confessed) 

 was esteemed by the King himselfe to containe 32000. 

 persons, and to cost him every day 30. thousand 

 ducates. 



There were in the said Navie five terzaes of Spaniards, 

 (which terzaes the Frenchmen call Regiments) under 

 the commaund of five governours termed by the 

 Spaniards, Masters of the field, and amongst the rest 

 there were many olde and expert souldiers chosen out 

 of the garisons of Sicilie, Naples, and Ter9era. Their 

 Captaines or Colonels were Diego Pimentelli, Don 

 Francisco de Toledo, Don Alon90 de Lu9on, Don 

 Nicolas de Isla, Don Augustin de Mexia ; who had 

 eche of them 32. companies under their conduct. 

 Besides the which companies there were many bands 



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