THE SPANISH ARMADA ad. 



1588. 

 men : for they all with one accord came flocking thither 

 as unto a set field, where immortall fame and glory was 

 to be attained, and faithfull service to bee performed unto 

 their prince and countrey. 



In which number there were many great and honour- 

 able personages, as namely, the Erles of Oxford, of 

 Northumberland, of Cumberland, &c. with many Knights 

 and Gentlemen : to wit. Sir Thomas Cecill, Sir Robert 

 Cecill, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir William Hatton, Sir 

 Horatio Palavicini, Sir Henry Brooke, Sir Robert Carew, 

 Sir Charles Blunt, Master Ambrose Willoughbie, Master 

 Henry Nowell, Master Thomas Gerard, Master Henry 

 Dudley, Master Edward Darcie, Master Arthur Gorge, 

 Master Thomas Woodhouse, Master William Harvie, 

 &c. And so it came to passe that the number of the 

 English shippes amounted unto an hundreth : which 

 when they were come before Dover, were increased to 

 an hundred and thirtie, being notwithstanding of no 

 proportionable bignesse to encounter with the Spaniards, 

 except two or three and twentie of the Queenes greater 

 shippes, which onely, by reason of their presence, bred an 

 opinion in the Spaniardes mindes concerning the power of 

 the English Fleet : the mariners and souldiers whereof 

 were esteemed to be twelve thousand. 



The foure and twentie of July when as the sea was T'he 24 of 

 calme, and no winde stirring, the fight was onely betweene ^^^' 

 the foure great Galleasses and the English shippes, which 

 being rowed with Oares, had great vauntage of the sayde 

 English shippes, which notwithstanding for all that would 

 not bee forced to yeeld, but discharged their chaine-shot 

 to cut asunder their Cables and Cordage of the Galleasses, 

 with many other such Stratagemes. They were nowe 

 constrained to send their men on land for a newe supplie 

 of Gunne-powder, whereof they were in great skarcitie, 

 by reason they had so frankely spent the greater part in 

 the former conflicts. 



The same day, a Counsell being assembled, it was 

 decreed that the English Fleete should bee devided into 



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