A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1588. 



the rest a certaine great ship of Biscay, which Captaine 

 Crosse assaulted, which perished even in the time of the 

 conflict, so that very few therein escaped drowning ; who 

 reported that the governours of the same shippe slew 

 one another upon the occasion following : one of them 

 which would have yeelded the shippe was suddenly 

 slaine ; the brother of the slaine party in revenge of his 

 death slew the murtherer, and in the meane while the 

 ship suncke. 

 Two galeons The same night two Portugall galeons of the burthen 

 taken and q£ sgyg^ or eight hundreth tunnes a piece, to wit the 

 Zeland. Saint Philip and the Saint Matthew, were forsaken of the 



Spanish Fleet, for they were so torne with shotte, that 

 the water entered into them on all sides. In the galeon 

 of Saint Philip was Francis de Toledo, brother unto 

 the Count de Orgas, being Colonell over two and thirty 

 bands : besides other gentlemen ; who seeing their mast 

 broken with shotte, they shaped their course, as well as 

 they could, for the coast of Flanders : whither when they 

 could not attaine, the principall men in the ship com- 

 mitting themselves to their skifFe, arrived at the next 

 towne, which was Ostend ; and the ship it selfe being left 

 behinde with the residue of their company, was taken by 

 the Ulishingers. 

 [I. 603.] In the other galeon, called the S. Matthew, was 



embarked Don Diego Pimentelli another camp-master 

 and colonell of 32 bands, being brother unto the marques 

 of Tamnares, with many other gentlemen and captaines. 

 Their ship was not very great, but exceeding strong, for 

 of a great number of bullets which had batterd her, 

 there were scarse 20 wherewith she was pierced or hurt : 

 her upper worke was of force sufficient to beare off a 

 musket shot : this shippe was shot thorow and pierced 

 in the fight before Greveling ; insomuch that the leakage 

 of the water could not be stopped : whereupon the duke 

 of Medina sent his great skiffe unto the governour 

 thereof, that he might save himselfe and the principal 

 persons that were in his ship : which he, upon a hault 



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