234 Mr. Walter Herries Pollock on Sir Francis Drake. [Feb. 23, 



but strengtliened with the greatest Argosies, Portugal carracks, 

 Florentines, and large hulks of other countries, were by thirty of 

 Her Majesty's own ships of war and a few of our merchants, by the 

 wise, valiant, and advantageous conduct of the Lord Charles Howard, 

 High Admiral of England, beaten and shuffled together, even from 

 the Lizard in Cornwall, first to Portland, where they shamefully left 

 Don Pedro de Yaldez with his mighty ship ; from Portland to Calais, 

 where they lost Hugh de Moncado with the galleys of which he was 

 captain ; and from Calais, driven with squibs from their anchors, were 

 cliased out of the sight of England, some about Scotland and Ireland, 

 where for the sympathy of their religion, hoping to find succour and 

 assistance, a great part of them were crushed against the rocks, and 

 those other that landed, being very many in number, were, notwith- 

 standing, broken, slain, and taken ; and so sent from village to village 

 coupled in halters, to be shipped into England, where Her Majesty, of 

 her princely and invincible disposition, disdaining to put them to death, 

 and scorning either to retain or entertain them, they were all sent 

 back again to their countries, to witness and recount the achievement 

 of their invincible and dreadful navy. Of which the number of soldiers, 

 the fearful burthen of their ships, the commanders' names of every 

 squadron, with all other magazines of provisions, were put in print as 

 an army and navy irresistible and disdaining prevention, with all which 

 their great terrible ostentation they did not in all their sailing round 

 about England so much as sink or take one ship, bark, pinnace, or 

 cockboat of ours, or even burn so much as one sheepcote on this land." 

 Drake sailed, with Sir John Hawkins, on a last and disastrous voyage 

 to South America, which closed the careers of both the Commanders. 

 Hawkins died on Nov. 12, 1595 ; and Drake died of a dysentery — it 

 is said also of a broken heart — on Jan. 28, 1596. The discourse 

 concluded with an eloquent summary of the fine qualities of our great 

 naval hero. 



[W. H. P.] 



