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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14164	A discourse concerninge the Spanishe fleete inuadinge Englande in the yeare 1588 and ouerthrowne by Her Ma[ies]ties nauie vnder the conduction of the Right-honorable the Lorde Charles Howarde highe Admirall of Englande: written in Italian by Petruccio Vbaldino cicizen of Florence, and translated for A. Ryther: vnto the w[hi]ch discourse are annexed certaine tables expressinge the seuerall exploites, and conflictes had with the said fleete. These bookes with the tables belonginge to them are to be solde at the shoppe of A. Ryther beinge a little from Leaden hall next to the signe of the Tower.	Ubaldini, Petruccio, 1524?-1600?	1590 (1590)	STC 24481; ESTC S102649	20,372	36

SEMPER EADEM A DISCOVRSE concerninge the Spanishe fleete inuadinge Englande in the yeare 1588 and ouerthrowne by her Maties Nauie vnder the conduction of the Right-honorable the Lorde Charles Howarde highe Admirall of Englande written in Italian by Petruccio Vbaldino citizen of Florence and translated for A Ryther vnto the which discourse are annexed certaine tables expressinge the seuerall exploites and conflictes had with the said fleete THESE bookes with the tables belonginge to them are to be solde at the shoppe of A. Ryther beinge a little from Leaden hall next to the signe of the Tower TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE CHARLES LORD HOWARD BARON OF EFFINGHAM KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER LORD high Admirall of England and one of hir Maiesties most Honorable priuie Councell A. R. wisheth long life in perfect health with great increase of honor I AM BOLD RIGHT Honorable to present this booke vnto you to craue your fauorable patronage therein bicause there are many reasons which mooue me so to do First the subiect matter of the booke which is your selfe especially and the rest of the leaders vnder whose happie conduction hir Maiesties nauie preuailed against the Spanish fleete Secondly the time which I haue spent in the grauing of the seueral Tables belonging to the booke whereby the reader shall haue not onely the report but the sight as it were of what notable thing soeuer was performed by your Honor in that high and honorable seruice Thirdly the booke it selfe which as it hath beene kept backe these two yeeres almost from our men in an vnknowen toong so as I gesse it had lien hid for euer had not the good foreseene giuen iust occasion of the publishing thereof Last of all the time it selfe doth mooue to that which I haue done which being the beginning of the new yeer calleth for by custome a NEW YEERES GIFT that is as I construe it a signe as abilitie permitteth of that dutiful thankfulnes which I acknowledge my selfe to owe vnto your Honor. The which my thankfulnes bicause I had none other more conuenient signe I was inforced to shew in presenting you this booke Forsomuch therefore as it is now come abroad to the view of the world translated and printed at my cost I was mooued by the reasons aforesaid to craue your Honors patronage that thereby I might the better withstand both the malicious toongs of such as carpe and the manifest iniurie of such as are readie vnaduisedly to counterfet another mans worke The which your Lordships fauor obtained as my hope is shall binde me foreuer to praie for your Honors daily increase in all good things Your HONORS most humble A. RYTHER To the Reader Who list to heare and see what God hath donne For vs our realme and Queene against our foe Our foe the Spaniard proud let him o'rerun This little booke and he the truth shall know The place the time the means expressed be In booke to read in grauen maps to see Which when you read and see retaine this thought That howsoe're the meane deserued well T' was chiefly God against our foe that fought And sent them quicke through middest of sea to hell Whether both quicke and thicke let them go downe That seeke to alienate the title of our crowne T. H To the Reader I could haue wished curteous reader that this booke with the tables belonging thereto might haue come to thine hands immediatlie after the repulse of the Spanish fleete but seeing it could not be so I must count it better late then neuer Though it come somewhat late I doubt not but it will breed some pleasure bicause the remembrance of pleasures passed are alwaies delightsome If in the grauen tables there be any thing which doth not please thee in regard of the worke I craue pardon for it bicause I count my selfe as yet but a yoong beginner do but yet striue to attaine to that excellencie which I wish for In the booke it selfe the truth of euery thing is set downe so neare as might be and therefore it is so much the more to be regarded being also by my friend translated faithfully onely the Italian flourishes were here and there omitted bicause in our English toong they could not sound well without suspicion of flatterie Farewell Thine A. Ryther A DISCOVRSE CONCERNING THE SPANISH FLEETE INVADING ENGLAND IN THE YEERE 1588. ouerthrowen by hir Maiesties nauie vnder the conduction of the Right honorable the L. CHARLES HOWARD being high Admirall of England written in Italian by Petruccio Vbaldino citizen of Florence THE Quéenes Maiestie hauing diuerse waies vnderstood the great and diligent preparation of the king of Spaine in diuerse parts both by land and sea not only of the strongest ships of all places within his dominions but also of all sorts of prouision and munition necessarie for a mightie fléete which was to come from Spaine and Portugall for the furnishing and better direction wherof he had drawen together into the places aforesaid the most principall and ancient captaines and soldiers aswell of the kingdoms of Naples and Sicilie as of Lombardie and other parts of Italie and the more remote parts of India as by euery one was long before verie euidently perceiued by reason that the preparation of these things togither with the number of the ships mariners and soldiors the diuerse sorts and quantities of victuall the great number and diuers kinds of artillery with the sum of euery seueral kind were sufficiently specified vnto all countries by certaine Pamphlets laieng foorth at large his whole intent the which Pamphlets were printed and published in Spaine and Portugall and other prouinces of Christendome with this title The most puissant and most happie fleete of the king of Spayne against the Realme of England Her maiestie I say hauing in this maner receiued so open and manifest information hereof as also certaine intelligence of horsemen and footemen sent in so great number that they were sufficient for the furnishing of diuerse camps in the lowe Countries vnder the gouernment of the duke of Parma his lieutenant generall for those prouinces withall knowing the multitude of the ships of war and the possibilitie that the said king had to transport his soldiers out off Flaunders and land them in England not sparing to giue out therevpon open and frée report that all that prouision was for the inuasion and conquest of England And forsomuch also as at the same time the king himselfe by means of his aforesaid Generall the duke of Parma pretended a certaine treatie of peace to be made with her Maiestie albeit this offer was in truth knowne in England not to haue béene made but onely to take aduantage of the time and to make her Maiesty negligent in preparing for her defence although she notwithstāding desirous openly to declare her good inclinatiō vnto that which is a iust christian commendation in a prudent Princesse refused not in any point this treatie offer