2o6 THE CALL OF THE SEA 



Death of Sir Richard Grenville o 



(From the Voyage to the East Indies; Hakluyt Soc, 

 trans.) 



'T'HE 13. of September the saide Armado arived 

 at the Hand of Corno, where the Englishmen 

 with about sixteene shippes as then lay, staying 

 for the Spanish Fleete ; whereof some of the most 

 parte were come, and there the English were in 

 good hope to have taken them. But when they 

 perceyved the King's Army to be strong, the 

 Admirall being the Lorde Thomas Howard, com- 

 maunded his Fleete not to fall upon them, nor 

 any of them once to separate their shippes from 

 him, unlesse he gave commission so to doe ; not- 

 withstanding the Vice Admirall Sir Rychard 

 Greenfield^ being in the ship called the Revenge 

 went into the Spanish fleete, and shot among 

 them, doing them great hurte, and thinking the rest 

 of the company would have followed : which they 

 did not, but left him there, and sayled away : the 

 cause why could not be knowne ; which the 

 Spaniardes perceiving, with seven or eight shippes 

 they horded her, but she withstood them all, fight- 

 ing with them at the least 12. houres together, and 

 sunk two of them, one being a newe double Flie 

 boat, of 12,000 tunnes, and Admirall of the Flie 



' Read "Greenville." 



