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death_n	day_n	die_v	think_v	4,534	5	4.2966	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20114	A libell of Spanish lies found at the sacke of Cales, discoursing the fight in the West Indies, twixt the English nauie being fourteene ships and pinasses, and a fleete of twentie saile of the king of Spaines, and of the death of Sir Francis Drake. With an answere briefely confuting the Spanish lies, and a short relation of the fight according to truth, written by Henrie Sauile Esquire, employed captaine in one of her Maiesties shippes, in the same seruice against the Spaniard. And also an approbation of this discourse, by Sir Thomas Baskeruile, then generall of the English fleete in that seruice: auowing the maintenance thereof, personally in armes against Don Bernaldino ...	Savile, Henry, Captain.; Delgadillo de Avellaneda, Bernaldino.	1596 (1596)	STC 6551; ESTC S109556	14,254	56

Drake and Sir Iohn Hawkins Hath caused the said Printed letter to bee translated into English And that the impudencie of the Spanish Generall may the more plainely appeare the said Henrie Sauile doth answere particularly to euerie vntruth in the same letter contained as heereafter followeth THE ANSWERE TO The Spanish letter First whereas the Generall doth say that Fraunces Drake dyed at Nombre de Dios as he had intelligence by an Indian THe Generall sente this newes into his Country cōfirmed with his hand and seale of Armes It is the first newes in his letter and it was the best newes that he could send into Spaine For it did ease the stomackes of the timerous Spaniardes greatly to heare of the death of him whose life was a scourge continuall plague vnto them But it was a pointe of great simplicitie scarcely beseeming a Generall to tie the credite of his reporte locally to any place vppon the report of a silly Indian slaue For it had beene sufficient to haue said that Fraunces Drake was certainly dead without publishing the lye in Print by naming Nombre de Dios for it is most certaine Sir Fraunces Drake dyed twixt the Island of Scouda and Porte-bella But the Generall being rauished with the suddaine ioy of this report as a man that hath escaped a great daunger of the enemie doeth breake out into an insolent kind of bragging of his valour at Sea and heaping one lye vpon another doth not cease vntill he hath drawne them into sequences and so doth commende them vnto Peter the Doctor as censour of his learned worke Secondly The general doth write vnto the doctor that Frances Drake dyed for verie griefe that hee had lost so many Barkes and men A Thing verie strange that the General or the Indian whō hee doth vouch for his lye should haue such speculation in the bodye of him whome they neuer saw as to deliuer for truth vnto his Countrie the verie cause or disease whereof hee dyed And this second report of his is more grosse then the first For admit the mistaking of the place might bee tollerable notwithstanding this precise affirming the cause of his death doth manifestly prooue that the Generall doth make no conscience to lye And as concerning the losse of any Barkes or men in our Nauie by the valour of the Spaniard before Sir Fraunces Drake his death wee had none one small Pinnesse excepted which we assuredly know was taken by chaunce falling single into a fleete of fiue Frigots of which was Generall Don Pedro Telio neere vnto the Island of Dominico and not by the valour of Don Bernaldino the which fiue Frigots of the Kings afterwards had but ill successe for one of them we burnt in the harbour of S. Iohn Portrico and one other was sunck in the same harbour and the other three were burnt amongst many other Shippes at the taking of Cales This I thinke in wise mens iudgements will seeme a seely cause to mooue a man sorrowe to death For true it is Sir Fraunces Drake dyed of the Flixe which hee had growne vppon him eight daies before his death and yeelded vp his spirite like a Christian to his creatour quietly in his Cabbin And when the Generall shall suruey his losses he shall finde it more then the losse of the English and the most of his destroyed by the Bullet But the death of Sir Fraunces Drake was of so great comfort vnto the Spaniard that it was thought to be a sufficient amendes although their whole fleete had beene vtterly lost Thirdly The generall doth say of his owne credite and not by intelligence from any Indian or other that on the eleauenth of March last hee met the English fleete at the Isle of Pinas being fourteene good Shippes who although they had the winde of him yet hee set vppon them three times with all their Shippes but the English fleete fled and refused to fight shooting now and then a shot but especially the Admirall THis third lye of the Generall Don Bernaldino Delgadillo de Avellaneda whose name for the prolixitie thereof maye be drawne somwhat neere the length of a Cable hath no colour of protection but it hath a iust proportion in measure to the lyes of olde Barnardino de Mendozza his Countrieman concerning the ouerthrow of her Maiesties Nauie in the yeare 1588. for except Don Barnaldino the Generall did purpose to winne the whetstone from Don Barnardino de Mendozza the olde Spanish lyer I cannot coniecture why hee should write to his Countrie for a truth that hee chased the English Nauye with nine Shippes and did three seuerall times giue the onset to the English fleete who being fourteene good Shippes as he saith did flye and refuse to fight being that the Spanish Viceadmiral if he be liuing and manye other can witnesse the contrarie who fighting like a true valiant man departed from the fight with a torne and battered Shippe to saue her from sinking Neither can I imagine that there is any one in the Spanish fleete Don Bernaldino excepted that will saye they were lesse then twentie sayle of Shipps when they met the English fleet And the Spanish Nauy can witnesse that they receiued such store of Bullets from the English fleete that they were glad to depart and in despight of them the English Nauie did holde their determined course And taking a view of the Spanish fleete the next day their number was not aboue thirteene Shippes which did argue that they were either sunke or fled to harbour to saue themselues Fourthly The generall saith that the English fleete fled awaye and left their Oares for haste behind them in the Sea IT was strange that they shoulde leaue behinde them Oares in the Sea being there was not in the English fleete either Gally or gallyasse which required the vse of Oares as for the Oares of their ship-boates and other such small vessels they had stoed them aboarde their Shippes and were no impediment vnto them but most necessarie for them to vse and therfore not likely they would cast them ouerboard But it is most likely that the Generall fell into some pleasant dreame at Sea wherein hee did see a false apparition of victorie against the English for lacke of matter did set this downe in his letter for newes to his countrie It is sinne to belye the Deuill and therefore the Generall shal haue his right the letter is so well contriued and yet with no great eloquence but with such art that ther are not many more lines then there are lyes which sheweth that there are wonderfull and extraordinarie gifts in the Generall But I am perswaded if Don Bernaldino had thought that his letter should haue beene Printed hee woulde haue omitted many thinges contained in the letter for the Doctor did vse him somwhat hardly in shewing the letter openly and more in suffering it to be Printed for friends may like