THE SPANISH ARMADA ad. 



1588. 

 courage, refused to do : wherefore the Duke charged him 

 to saile next unto himselfe : which the night following 

 he could not performe, by reason of the great abundance 

 of water which entered his ship on all sides ; for the 

 avoiding wherof, and to save his ship from sincking, 

 he caused 50 men continually to labor at the pumpe, 

 though it were to small purpose. And seeing himselfe 

 thus forsaken & separated from his admirall, he endevored 

 what he could to attaine unto the coast of Flanders : 

 where, being espied by 4 or 5 men of warre, which had 

 their station assigned them upon the same coast, he was 

 admonished to yeeld himselfe unto them. Which he 

 refusing to do, was strongly assaulted by them altogether, 

 and his ship being pierced with many bullets, was 

 brought into farre worse case then before, and 40 of 

 his souldiers were slaine. By which extremity he was 

 enforced at length to yeeld himselfe unto Peter Ban- 

 derduess & other captaines, which brought him and his 

 ship into Zeland ; and that other ship also last before 

 mentioned : which both of them, immediatly after the 

 greater and better part of their goods were unladen, 

 suncke right downe. 



For the memory of this exploit, the foresayd captaine 

 Banderduess caused the banner of one of these shippes 

 to be set up in the great Church of Leiden in Holland, 

 which is of so great a length, that being fastened to the 

 very roofe, it reached downe to the ground. 



About the same time another small ship being by Asmdlshlipe 

 necessity driven upon the coast of Flanders, about ^'f ^ ^'^^^^ 

 Blankenberg, was cast away upon the sands, the people y^^j^,.^^ 

 therein being saved. Thus almighty God would have 

 the Spaniards huge ships to be presented, not onely to 

 the view of the English, but also of the Zelanders ; that 

 at the sight of them they might acknowledge of what 

 small ability they had beene to resist such impregnable 

 forces, had not God endued them with courage, provi- 

 dence, and fortitude, yea, and fought for them in many 

 places with his owne arme. 



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