A.D. 



1588. 



The dishonour- 

 able Jiight of 

 the Spanish 

 navy : and the 

 prudent advice 

 of the L. Ad- 

 mirall. 



The English 

 returne home 

 from the pur - 

 sute of ye 

 Spattiards the 

 4 of August. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The 29 of July the Spanish fleet being encountered 

 by the English (as is aforesayd) and lying close together 

 under their fighting sailes, with a Southwest winde sailed 

 past Dunkerk, the Enghsh ships stil following the chase. 

 Of whom the day following when the Spaniards had got 

 sea roome, they cut their maine sailes ; whereby they 

 sufficiently declared that they meant no longer to fight 

 but to flie. For which cause the L. Admirall of England 

 dispatched the L. Henrie Seymer with his squadron of 

 small ships unto the coast of Flanders, where, with the 

 helpe of the Dutch ships, he might stop the prince of 

 Parma his passage, if perhaps he should attempt to issue 

 forth with his army. And he himselfe in the meane 

 space pursued the Spanish fleet untill the second ot 

 August, because he thought they had set saile for 

 Scotland. And albeit he followed them very neere, yet 

 did he not assault them any more, for want of powder 

 and bullets. But upon the fourth of August, the winde 

 arising, when as the Spaniards had spread all their sailes, 

 betaking themselves wholly to flight, and leaving Scot- 

 land on the left hand, trended toward Norway, (whereby 

 they sufficiently declared that their whole intent was to 

 save themselves by flight, attempting for that purpose, 

 with their battered and crazed ships, the most dangerous 

 navigation of the Northren seas) the English seeing that 

 they were now proceeded unto the latitude of 57 degrees, 

 and being unwilling to participate that danger whereinto 

 the Spaniards plunged themselves, and because they 

 wanted things necessary, and especially powder & shot, 

 returned backe for England ; leaving behinde them 

 certaine pinasses onely, which they enjoyned to follow 

 the Spaniards aloofe, and to observe their course. And 

 so it came to passe that the fourth of August, with great 

 danger and industry, the English arrived at Harwich : 

 for they had bene tossed up and downe with a mighty 

 tempest for the space of two or three dayes together, 

 which it is likely did great hurt unto the Spanish fleet, 

 being (as I sayd before) so maimed and battered. The 



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