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A51174	A true and exact account of the wars with Spain, in the reign of Q. Elizabeth (of famous memory) being the particulars of what happened between the English and Spanish fleets, from the years 1585 to 1602, shewing the expeditions, attempts, fights, designs, escapes, successes, errors, &c. on both sides : with the names of Her Majesty's ships and commanders in every fleet : being a patern and warning to future ages : never printed before / written by Sir William Monson ...	Monson, William, Sir, 1569-1643.	1682 (1682)	Wing M2466; ESTC R2957	60,871	57

had been punctually followed then had his Fleet kept the Coast of France and arrived in the Road of Callice before they had been discovered by us which might have endangered Her Majesty and the Realm our Ships being so far off as Plymouth where then they lay and though the Prince of Parma had not been presently ready yet he had gained time sufficient by the absence of our Fleet to make himself ready And whereas the Prince was kept in by the 30 Sail of Hollanders so many of the Dukes Fleet might have been able to have put the Hollanders from the Road of Dunkirk and possest it themselves and so have secured the Army and Fleets meeting together and then how easie it had been after their joyning to have transported themselves for England And what would have ensued upon their Landing here may be well imagined But it was the will of him that directs all men and their actions that the Fleets should meet and the Enemy be beaten as they were put from their Anchorage in Callice Road the Prince of Parma beleaguered at Sea and their Navy driven about Scotland and Ireland with great hazard and loss which sheweth how God did marvellously defend us against their dangerous Designs And here was opportunity offered us to have followed the Victory upon them for after they were beaten from the Road at Callice and all their hopes and designs frustrated if we had once more offered them fight the General by persuasion of his Confessor was determined to yield whose example 't is very likely would have made the rest to have done the like But this opportunity was lost not through the negligence or backwardness of the Lord Admiral but merely through the want of Providence in those that had the charge of furnishing and providing for the Fleet for at that time of so great advantage when they came to examine their Provisions they found a general scarcity of Powder and Shot for want whereof they were forced to return home Another opportunity was lost not much inferiour to the other by not sending part of our Fleet to the West of Ireland where the Spaniards of necessity were to pass after so many dangers and disasters as they had endured If we had been so happy as to have followed this course as it was both thought and discoursed of we had been absolutely victorious over this great and formidable Navy for they were brought to that necessity that they would willingly have yielded as divers of them confess'd that were shipwreck'd in Ireland By this we may see how weak and feeble the designs of Men are in respect of the Creator of Man and how indifferently he dealt betwixt the two Nations sometimes giving one sometimes the other the advantage and yet so that he onely ordered the Battel The Action of Portugal 1589. Ships The Revenge The Dread-nought The Ayde The Nonperil The Foresight The Swiftsure Commanders by Sea Sir Francis Drake Capt. Thomas Fenner Capt. William Fenner Capt. Sackvile Capt. William Winter Capt. Goring Commanders by Land Sir Iohn Norris Sir Edward Norris Sir Henry Norris Sir Roger Williams Serjeant Major Earl of Essex Voluntier THE last overthrow of 1588 given to the Invincible Fleet as they termed themselves did so encourage every man to the War as happy was he that could put himself into Action against the Spaniards as it appeared by the Voluntiers that went in this Voyage which the Queen considering the great loss the King of Spain received in the year past whereby it was to be imagined how weakly he was provided at home was willing to countenance though she undertook it not wholly her self which was the main cause of its ill success and overthrow For whosoever he be of a Subject that thinks to undertake so great an Enterprise without a Prince's Purse shall be deceived and therefore these two Generals in my opinion never overshot themselves more than in undertaking so great a charge with so little means for where there are Victuals and Arms wanting what hope is there of prevailing The project of this Voyage was to restore a distressed King to his Kingdom usurped as he pretended and though the means for the setting forth of this Voyage was not so great as was expedient yet in the opinion of all men if they had directed their course whither they intended it without landing at the Groyne they had performed the Service they went for restored Don Antonio to the Crown of Portugal dissevered it from Spain and united it in League with England which would have answered the present charge and have settled a continual Trade for us to the West Indies and the rest of the Portugals Dominions for so we might easily have conditioned But the Landing at the Groyne was an unnecessary lingering and hinderance of the other great and main design a consuming of Victuals a weakning of the Army by the immoderate drinking of the Souldiers which brought a lamentable Sickness amongst them a warning to the Spaniards to strengthen Portugal and as great as all this a discouragement to proceed further being repulsed in the first Attempt But notwithstanding the ill success at the Groyne they departed from thence towards Portugal and arrived at Penech a Maritine Town twelve Leagus from Lisbon where with a small resistance they took the Castle after the Captain understood Don Antonio to be in the Army From thence General Norris marched with his Land Forces to Lisbon and Sir Francis Drake with his Fleet sailed to Caske Cadiz promising from thence to pass with his Ships up the River to Lisbon to meet with Sir John Norris which yet he did not perform and therefore was much blamed by the general consent of all men the overthrow of the Action being imputed to him It will not excuse Sir Francis Drake for making such a Promise to Sir John Norris though on the other hand I would have accused him of great want of Discretion if he had put the Fleet to so great an Adventure to so little purpose For his being in the Harbor of Lisbon signified nothing to the Taking of the Castle which was two Miles from thence and had the Castle been taken the Town would have been taken of course Besides the Ships could not furnish the Army with more Men or Victuals wherefore I understand not in what Respect his going up was necessary and yet the Fleet must have endured many Hazards to this little purpose For betwixt Cask Cadiz and Lisbon there are three Castles St. John St. Francis and Bellin The first of the three I hold one of the most impregnable Forts to Sea-ward in Europe and the Fleet was to pass within Calliver Shot of this Fort though I confess the passing it was not the greatest Dander For with a reasonable Gale of Wind any Fort is to be passed with small Hazard But at this time there was a General Want of Victuals and being once entred the Harbour their coming out again was uncertain