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A51173	Megalopsychy, being a particular and exact account of the last XVII years of Q. Elizabeths reign, both military and civil the first written by Sir William Monson ..., the second written by Heywood Townsend, Esq. ; wherein is a true and faithful relation ... of the English and Spanish wars, from the year 1585, to the Queens death ; with a full account of the eminent speeches and debates, &c., in the said time ; to which is added Dr. Parry's tryal in the year 1584 ; all written at the time of the actions, by persons eminently acting therein.	Monson, William, Sir, 1569-1643.; Parry, William, d. 1585. True and plain declaration of the horrible treasons.	1682 (1682)	Wing M2465; ESTC R7517	94,931	102

MEGALOPSYCHY BEING A Particular and Exact ACCOUNT Of the last XVII Years OF Q. Elizabeths Reign Both MILITARY and CIVIL The First written by Sir William Monson one of the Queens Admirals The Second written by Heywood Townsend Esq WHEREIN Is a True and Faithful Relation of all the Expeditions Attempts Designs Successes and Errors both of the English and Spanish Wars from the Year 1585 to the Queens death With a Full Account of the eminent Speeches and Debates c. in the said time To which is added Dr. Parry's Tryal in the Year 1584. All written at the time of the Actions by Persons eminently Acting therein LONDON Printed for W. Crooke and sold by W. Davis in Amen Corner M.DC.LXXXII 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 who was a Captain in most and Admiral of several of those Fleets in the said Wars and Dedicated to his Son LONDON Printed for W. Crooke and sold by W. Davis in Amen Corner M.DC.LXXXII TO THE READER By way of Advertisement YOu have here put into your hands a Piece of English History of a time of great Actions You will hardly meet more Truth in any History than you will find in this All circumstances considered there could not in any thing be greater opportunities of Truth they being written by Persons of Eminent Characters and Considerable Actors in the same times These very Authors Wise and Heroick Actions make no inconsiderable part of the History it self The First is a Relation of the Military Transactions of the Nation for nigh Twenty Years beginning Anno Domini 1585 from which time to Queen Elizabeths death there was yearly set out a Fleet against the Spaniards with a full Account of all the Expeditions Stratagems Attempts Successes and Miscarriages that happened in that War on both sides wherein is shewed the Valour and Heroick Acts of those great Souldiers that were so plenty in that Age as Cumberland Suffolk Essex Sheffeild Drake Rawleigh Hawkins Forbisher Carlee Burroughs Bellingham Fenner Southwell Crosse Seymour Crosse Winter Beeston Palmer Barker Bostock Sackvile Goring Norris Williams Leicester York Greenvile Vavasor c. And Sir William Monson the Author of this who was Admiral in several of the said Expeditions against the Spaniards and also a Member in her last Parliaments The second part is the full and exact Account of the Four last Parliaments both Lords and Commons of Queen Elizabeth taken from the original Records of their Houses by Heywood Townsend Esquire a Member thereof with the particular Speech and Behaviour of the Wife and Learned Statesmen Lawyers c. which that time was fo fruitful of viz. Egerton Burleigh Buckhurst Cecill Walsingham Hatton Bacon Rawleigh Hobby Crooke Coke Moore Fortescue Pophan Yelverton Finch Maynard Spelman Wentworth Hobart Manwood Jones Digby Caesar Anderson Winch c. With other passages of History in those times that is runs contemporary with Sir William Monsons Relation both together being the Account of the Military and Civil State of Affairs of nigh 20 Years of the last part of Queen Elizabeths Reign being the most eminent time of Action in all her Government With Sir William Monsons Directions and Advice to his Son by way of Dedication to excuse it s not coming forth sooner may be to avoid such Offences which must necessarily be given by a faithful and exact Historian that writes of the present Age when the Parties are living that were Actors in it it may by this time be supposed that such Objections against its now coming forth may be over You have added at the end of this the Tryal Condemnation and Execution of Dr. Parry for a Conspiracy against the said Queen written also at the time of his Tryal and Execution So that what is here offered for thy use is nothing but what was written at the time of the Action or by the Persons who were Actors and of such Quality that it is quite out of all suspicion there should be the least Falshood in this it being never at all designed for the publick in the life-time of the Authors Therefore neither Profit nor Honour did the Authors expect although their exact and careful Accounts of Truth must be no small benefit to the curious Reader There is lately published a small Book of 1 s. 6 d. price called The Connexion being choice Collections of some principal matters in King James his Reign and passages betwixt this Book and Rushworth Nalson and the rest that begin at King Charles I. Sir WILLIAM MONSON TO HIS Son JOHN Dear Son THE Custom of Dedicating Books hath been ancient and they have been usually dedicated either to Great Persons for protection or remuneration or to Familiars out of friendship and affection or to Children in respect of nature and for admonition And to this end it is that to you I commend the reading of the Discourse following that so beholding the 18 years War by Sea which for want of years you could not then remember and comparing them with the 18 years of Peace in which you have lived you may consider three things First that after so many pains and perils God hath lent Life to your Father to further your Education Secondly what proportion his recompence and rewards have had to his Services Lastly what just cause you have to abandon the thoughts of such dangerous and uncertain courses and that you may follow the ensuing Precepts which I commend to your often perusal And in the first place I will put you in mind of the small Means and Fortune I shall leave that you may rate your Expences accordingly and yet as little as it is 't is great to me in respect I attained to it by my own endeavours and dangers and therefore no body can challenge Interest in it but my self though your Carriage may promise the best possibility Beware you presume not so much upon it as thereby to grow disobedient to your Parents for what you can pretend to is but the privilege of two years of age above your younger Brother and in such cases Fathers are like Judges that can and will distinguish of offences and deserts according to truth and will reward and punish as they shall see cause And because you shall know it is no rare or new thing for a man to dispose of his own I will lay before you a Precedent of your own House that so often as you think of it you may remember it with fear and prevent it with care The Great Grandfather of your Grandfather was a Knight by Title and John by name which name we desire

thus warned of them Here he took two goodly Ships of France bound for Lisbone which Harbor he put them from and took Pledges that they should directly return into France without touching in any Harbor of Spain for that he understood the Spanish Fleet was ill provided of men and many other things which these Ships could supply Sir William and the Dreadnought were carried with a chase into the Road of Cisimbre where the Carreck was taken not long before and after some Fight with the Castle who defended the Vessel chased they came to a friendly Treaty and Presents past between them That Night while the Admiral rid in the Road a Carvel comming in not mistrusting him was taken but dismissed in a friendly manner by whom he understood the affairs of Lisbone but could get no notice of the Holland Fleet which was appointed to attend at the Rock whither once more he repaired Coming thither the 26th of September a light was espied in the Night which the Admiral chased thinking it had been the Fleet of St. Omer or Brazil bound for Lisbone where they were expected but drawing so near them that he might hail them he found them by the hugeness of their Vessels and the number which answered the relation the Carvel made to be the Armado of Spain whereupon he sought means how to clear himself being ingaged amongst them and made a Spaniard which served him call to them but they could not hear him the Adventure only and the Whelp were left with him the rest losing company Four nights before in a Storm the Enemy perceiving our lights and thinking it to be some Fleet of Flemmings stood in amongst us but the Adventure being discovered to be an Enemy the Alarum was soon taken and they shot at her and slew and hurt some of her men as soon as the day appeared the Spaniards beheld the Three Enlish Ships a head them which they chased and Three of them which were better of Sail than the rest fetcht upon us and drew near the Whelp who was of small Force to resist them But the Admiral resolving though it was to his own evident Peril not to see a Pinnace of her Majesties so lost if so be he could rescue her with the loss of his Life though it was much against the persuasions of his Master and company he stroak his two Sails for the Whelp and commanded her to stand her course while he staid for the Three Spanish Ships with hope to make them have little list to pursue us The Admiral of the Spaniards perceiving how little he cared for his Three Ships in that he lingered for their coming up took in with the shoar and shot off a peice for his Three Ships to follow him It may appear by this as by several other expeditions of ours how much the swift Sailing of Ships doth avail being the principal advantage in Sea Service and indeed the main thing we could presume upon in our War against the Spaniards Sir William having thus escaped the Enemy in his traverse at Sea there happened as there doth upon all Coasts where there is plenty of Trade divers occasions of chases and one day Sir William following one Ship and the Adventure another they lost company for the whole Voyage Sir William was advertised by a Ship he took being a Frenchman who came from St. Lucas that the St. Domingo Fleet was looked for daily which Intelligence made him bear up for the South Cape as well in hopes to meet with them as to have news of his Fleet. He was no sooner come to the Cape but he was informed by some English men of War that the Domingo Fleet was past by two days before here he met with Ships of several Nations some he rescued from Pirats and to others that were in League with her Majesty he gave his safe conduct for their free passage on the Sea he kept that Coast until the 21th of October on which morning he gave chase to a Gallion of the King of Spain who recovered the Castle of Cape Sacre before he could fetch her up although he knew the strength of the Castle yet he attempted and had carried her had it not been for the fear and cowardize of him at the Helm who bore up when he was ready to Board her The Fight was not long but sharp and dangerous for there never past shot between them till they were within a Ships length one of another The Castle plaid her part and tore his Ship so that a man might have crept through her Between the Castle and Gallion they slew in the Admiral Ten men and hurt many more in the view of Sireago and his Quadron to the Westward and of divers English men of War to the Eastward who durst not put themselves upon the rescue of Sir William for fear of the Castle Sir William being now left alone and seeing what head Land soever he came unto he was to encounter a Spanish Squadron stood his course that night to Sea thinking to try if the Islands of Terceras would afford him any better Fortune but coming within Forty or Fifty Leagues of the Islands he was taken short with the Wind yet still bearing up what he could for the Rock but at length finding his Victuals grew short his Mast perished and the dangers he was exposed to by keeping that Coast he directed his course for England and came to Plymouth the 24th of November where he found the Mary-rose and Dreadnought most part of their men being dead or sick The Adventure arrived within an hour after him who in her way homewards fell amongst the Braizl Fleet and encountring with them lost divers men but took none The Paragon was at home long before with a Prize of Sugar and Spices which countervailed the charge of the Voyage The Quittance in her return met Two Ships of Dunkirk and in fight with them her Captain was slain but she acquitted her self very well without further harm This Fleet as you have heard was to keep the Enemy busied at home that he might be diverted from the thoughts of Ireland what hazard it endured by the Enemy the fury of the Sea and foul Weather doth appear and no marvel for it was the latest Fleet in Winter that ever kept upon the Spanish Coast as it was likewise the last Fleet her Majesty imployed for in March after she died and by her Death all War ceased As Sir William Monson was General of this last Fleet so was he a Soldier and a Youth at the beginning of the Wars and was at the taking of the first Spanish Prize that ever saw the English Coast which yet was purchased with the loss of Twenty Five of our men besides Fifty hurt This Prize was afterwards a Man of War and served against the Spaniards and was in those days reckoned the best Ship of War we had she was called the Commander and belonged to Sir George Carew then Governor of the