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divers of our shippes were many times shot thorow and 

 thorow : yea and some of them no lesse then two and 

 twentie times, as I was enformed by credible report of 

 the Captaines and Masters themselves. I knowe not 

 of any other hurt done, saving onely that Sir Robert 

 Southwell, who alwayes shewed himselfe a most v^aliant 

 resolute knight in all this action, making a litle too 

 much haste with his Pinnesse to boord the Philip, had 

 there his said Pinnesse burnt with the Philip at the 

 same instant, and yet by good care and diligence his 

 men were saved. 



One other mischance (as I said) there happened, and 

 it was thus : One of the Flemings flieboats, who had, 

 in all the conflict before, caried himselfe very well and 

 valiantly, about ten of the clocke while the flght con- 

 tinued sharpest, chanced by great negligence and mis- 

 fortune, to be tired and blowen up by his owne powder, 

 who could not have any fewer in him, then one hundred 

 lighting men by all supposall, and so in the very 

 twinckling of an eye, both shippe and men were all 

 cast away, excepting vii. or viii. which by very good 

 fortune, and great care and diligence of some of the 

 other ships were saved. 



Immediatly upon this notable victory without any 

 farther stay in all the world, the Lord generall the Earle 

 of Essex put to shore, and landed about 3000. shot, 

 & pikemen : of the which number the one halfe was 

 presently dispatched to the bridge Puente de Sua^o, 

 under the conduct of three most famous worthy knights. 

 Sir Christopher Blunt, Sir Coniers Clifford, & Sir Thomas 

 Gerard : with the other halfe, being about lifteene hun- 

 dred, the most noble Earle of Essex himselfe, being 

 accompanied with divers other honorable Lords, namely 

 the Earle of Sussex, the Lord Harbert, the Lord Burk, 

 Count Lodovick of Xassaw, the Lord Martiall Sir 

 Francis Vere, with many other worthy Knights, and 

 men of great regard, who all in that dayes service did 

 most valiandy behave themselves, with all expedition 



