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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

dado no an podido tomar Agua lena ni carne y van de manera que no se como an de llegar a Ynglaterra Entre la gente deuen de ser ciento y quarenta y quinze nobles capitanes delo mejor de alli y algunos ricos segun se echa de ver enellos No se ofrece otra cosa nuestrose nōr guarde a. V. m. como puede y yo desseo Dela Hauana 30. de Março de 1596. An̄os Don Bernaldino Delgadillo de Auellaneda EL Licenciado Don Iuan Bermudes ê Figueroa Tenientemayor de Assistente desta ciudad de Seuilla ysu tierra que hago oficio de Assistente della por ausencia de su Sen̄oria del Conde de Priego Doy licencia a Rodrigo de Cabrera para quepueda imprimir la Relaciō dela muerte de Francisco Draque I a qual haga por dos meses y por ellos no lo imprima otro alguno Sopena de diez mil marauedis para la camara de su Magestad Fecha en Seuilla a quinze de Mayo de mil y quinientos y nouenta y seys an̄os El Licenciado Don juan Bermudez e Figueroa Por su mandado Gregoria Gutierrez Escriuano THE SPANISH Letter Englished The Coppye of a letter which Don Bernaldino Delgadillo de Auellaneda General of the king of Spaine his Armie sent vnto Doctor Peter Flores President of the contraction house for the Indies wherein hee maketh mention of the successe of the English Armie after they departed from Pannama wherof was General Frances Drake and of his death FRom Cartagena I gaue relation vnto you how I departed from the Cittie of Lisbone in the pursuite of the English Armie although for the great hast the Gallions could not be so wel repaired as was needfull and with foule weather one was lost and a Fly-boate was burnt and hauing sayled many daies in pursuite of the enemie vntill I arriued at Carthagena whereas hauing taken the aduise of Don Pedro de Acunia Gouernour of the Cittie and Captaine generall for wee had great neede of water and to repaire our Shippes we stayed in that port wheras I had intelligence by an Indian that Frances Drake dyed in Nombre de Dios for verie griefe that hee had lost so many Barkes and men as was afterwardes more manifestlye knowne And hauing giuen you a relation of all that happened hitherto Now I let you vnderstand that I left this Port the second of March and toke our course towards the Hauana where I thought to haue founde the English fleete also vsed all the diligence possible vpon Munday the eleauenth of the said Month about two of the clocke in the afternoone at the issue of the Isle of Pinas in the entrance of Guaniguanico I met with the English fleete being fourteene verie good Shippes I drew towards them although they had the winde of vs our Admirall who bore vp towardes the winde with other two Shippes began to draw neere them and although we set thus vppon them three times with all their Shippes yet would they not set againe vppon vs and those of our men which were farthest off cryed to them amaine being both within shot of Artillerie Muskats and Caliuers whereby they receiued euident hurt by vs They shot off now then at vs and especially their Admirall and seeing our resolution how sharpe we were bent towards them they with all expedition and speede possible prepared to flie awaie hoysing Sayles and leauing their Oares for hast in the Sea but I followed them with nine Shippes all the night following and with fower more the next daye till I made them double Saint Antonies point and so I tooke the course towards La Canet de Bahamet according to the instructions from his Maiestie It little auailed vs to bee seene with lesse number of Shippes neither yet all the diligence we could vse could cause them to staye or come neere vs nor to shoote off one Hargabush or peece of Artillerie for they fled away as fast as they could and their Shippes were wel diminished and that the best parte of them the rest they repaired in the port Bella whereas they were about fourtie daies before and so by that meanes they were all well repaired and our Shippes verie foule because the time would not permit vs to trimme them I have sailed two Monethes and a halfe in the Shippe called the Capitana sithence we departed from Carthagena we haue not repaired their Pumps nor clensed them And the same daie I departed thence my Shippes were all foule with Barnacles our Admirall and the rest of our Shippes haue the like impediment but no great hinderance vnto vs for ought J could perceiue by our enemies It is manifest what aduantage they had of vs and by no meanes was it possible for vs to take them vnlesse wee could haue come to deale with them with fire and sworde Neuerthelesse they left vs one good ship behind for our share wel manned which tolde me that the Drake dyed in Nombre de Dios and that they haue made for Generall of the English fleete the Colonell Quebraran and also by meanes of the small time being streightly followed by vs they had no opportunitie to take either water woode or flesh and they are also in such bad case that J know not how they will bee able to arriue in England the number of men we haue taken are about 140. and 15. Noble Captaines of their best sort and some of them rich as well may appeare by their behauiour J haue no other thing to write at this time Our Lord keepe you who best can as J desire From the Hauana the 30. of March 1596 Don Bernaldino Delgadillo de Auellaneda THe Licenciat Don Iohn Barmudes of Figueroa Leiuetenant of the Assistantes of the Cittie of Cyuill and the prouince thereof who doth supplie the Office of the Assistaunt in the absence of the Right Honourable the Earle of Priego Giue license to Roderigo de Cabrierae to Imprint the Relation of the death of Fraunces Drake which onely he may doe for two Monthes and no other to Imprint the same within the saide terme vpon paine of ten thousand Marauedis for his Maiesties Chamber Giuen in Cyuill the 15. of May. 1596. The Licenciat Don John Bermudes of Figueroa By his Assigne Gregorie Gutierrez Notarie THis letter of the Generall Don Bernaldino sent into Spaine declaring the death of Sir Fraunces Drake and their supposed victorie was altogether receiued for an vndoubted truth and so pleasing was this newes vnto the Spaniard that there was present cōmandement giuen to publish the letter in Print that all the people of Spaine might be partakers of this common ioy The which letter Printed in Cyuill bearing date the xv of May 1596. came to the hands of Henrie Sauile Esquire who being employed in that seruice for the west Indies and Captaine of her Maiesties good Shippe the Aduenture vnder the conduct of Sir Fraunces

rather to runne on shore to saue themselues then sincke in the Sea Besides within two howers after our fight with them wee saw one of their great Shippes on fire which burnt into the Sea and all the Sterne of another of their Shippes blowen vp And in the morning a Shippe of our fleete was runne so neere the land that to double the Cape current hee must of necessitie tacke about fall in the wake of the enemie which caused our Generall in the Garland and the Defiance to tacke about which two ships forced the three Shippes of the enemies which were put forth to take our Shipp or else to cause her runne on grounde to returne to their fleete to saue themselues hoysing all their sayles for haste This morning they were faire by vs hauing the winde of vs being but thirteene sayle of their twentie to be seene then we stroke our toppe sayles thinking to haue fought with them again which they perceiuing tacked about from vs after that neuer durst nor would come neere vs What became of the rest of their fleet we know not but true it was that they were in great distresse mightily beaten and torne by hauing receiued many Bullets from vs. All this day wee had sight of them but they shewed little will to fight or come neere vs so we keeping our course west and by North about sixe of the clocke at night lost the sight of them And this is a true discourse of our fight with the Spanish fleete The which the Author heereof will iustifie with the aduenture of his life against any Spaniard seruing in that action that shal contradict the same FINIS Henrie Sauile THOMAS BASKERVILE KNIGHT His approbation to this Booke I Thomas Baskeruile Knight Generall of her Maiesties late Indian armado in the late conflict had betweene the Spanish fleete and vs hauing perused the Spanish letter written by Don Bernaldino Delgadillo de Auellaneda General of the King of Spaines Nauie and also hauing perused Captaine Henry Sauile his answeres vnto the six exceptions in the Generals letter with his discourse of the manner of our fight with the Spanish fleete do say that the said Henrie Sauile hath answered the letter and set downe the order of the fight sincerely according to truth for testimonie of which I haue hereunto set my hand And if Don Bernaldino Delgadillo de Auellaneda the General shal take any exceptions to this my approbation or stand in the iustification of his lying letter written to Doctor Peter Flores President of the Contraction house for the Indies and by him for Bernaldinoes glorie lately put in Printe I then saye that hee falsely lyed and that I will maintaine against him with whatsoeuer Armes he shall make choyce of And because the kingdomes wherein we abide are enemies by reason of which there is no meanes in either of them to maintaine that I haue written Let him make choice of any indifferent kingdome of equall distance from either Realme and I will there be ready to maintaine as much as I haue written But if by my imployments into Fraunce Ibe so stayed by her Maiesties Commaundementes that I cannot out of that Realme meete him in anye other I cannot see why hee shoulde take anye exception to that considering the equalitie of the place and that the Armies of both our Princes be there resident FINIS Tho. B. The Generals first newes and his best news is in part lying newes The Generall seemeth to wante friendes in Courte sending such great newes to a priuate Doctor Don Bernaldino doth lye impudently The successe of the kings fiue Frigots The certain cause wherof Sir Frances Drake dyed A payre of Spanish Lyers The spanish Viceadmirall a man of vallour The number of the Spanish Shippes after the fight This lie was made in the Generals owne forge A commendation of the Generall The Generall doth practise to lye for recreation The torne sides of the Spanish Shippes doe condemne Don Bernaldino of lying Note the valoure of Don Bernaldino The order of the English Nauie The Spaniard cannot bragge of his gaine Spanish bragges are of no value with the English Don Bernaldino very resolute The Indian slaue is the best shadow to the Generals lye Don Bernaldino his rare gift in coyning a new and straunge name The Generals store-house of lyes The schoolemen of modestie do vse this kinde of reprehension when they doe thinke the Author to erre The difference twixt Quebraran and Baskeruile The Generall conuicted of lying and forgery The Generall maketh great brags in taking a distressed Ship which is supposed not to strike one blow The fifteene noble Captaines according the generals lying occupation will proue but three The Printing of the letter doth shame the Generall Don Bernaldino of an excellent complexion The first discouery of the Generals Printed letter The Generals great skill in amplifying The first discouerie of the Spanish fleete The incounter twixt the English and the Spanish Ships The Spanish vice-Vice-admiral can witnesse what success they had in this fight The English Admirall carried his Creset light notwithstanding the enemie was vppon his brode side The English receiued little losse in this conflict The remainder of the Spanish fleete were but thirteene sayles

English left them after the fight I am perswaded hee hath no man to witnesse that lye for the ship was seperated by weather from the English fleete in the night thirteene daies before the fight with the Spanish Nauie neuer to anye mans knowledge came more in sight of the English fleete if the Spanish Shippes by chaunce did take the said wel manned Shippe as they cal her I doubt not but they haue the Shippe the 140. men and the 15. noble Captaines to shew But euermore I gesse the Spanish reckoning will fall short when it is examined for the fifteene noble Captaines will proue as I take it but three whose losse I grieue to thinke on Neither did the Spaniards gaine them by valour or we loose or leaue them for cowardise as most vntruely this bragging lyer hath certified But the Generall like a prouident man to make his fame and credite the greater with his Prince and country doth take vpon him amongst other his miracles perfourmed before the English fleet by way of amplification to make small matters seeme great as a little shoe to serue a great foote and finding that it can hardly be brought to passe he doth stretch the Leather with his teeth that it is ready to breake and notwithstanding all this will not serue his purpose for the Printing of the letter doth marr the play and bringeth such matter in question as the Generall doth wish might be concealed and were he not of so dry and cholericke complexion as commonly Spaniards are he would blush for very shame in publishing so impudently such manifest vntruthes For sithence his meeting with the English fleet at the Isle of Pinas there hath beene by the worthie English Generals an honourable expedition from England into the Continent of Spaine where amongst other exploits hauing taken the Cittie of Cales in the sacke thereof was found some of Don Bernaldino his Printed letters comming to the hands of a Captaine that serued in the voyage to the west Indies he hath thought very fit in regard of the slaunders to the English Nauie contained in the saide letter to quote the errors that the truth onely may appeare to all such as haue a desire to bee rightly informed of such accidents as befell thē in this late voyage to the west Indies and this may suffice to shew Don Bernaldino Delgadillo de Avellaneda his greate iudgement in amplyfying small matters or of nothing to make in shewe seeme somewhat And now hauing thus farre informed you of the truth in reproofe of the slaunderous false and vntrue reports of this glorious lying Generall with a true disproofe to some of the grossest of his lyes I will leaue him with the rest of his lying letter and the circumstances therein contained to your censures who in discretion may easily discerne the same And have heere following plainely and truely set downe the course and order of our whole fight after we met THE MEETING Of our English Nauie and the Spanish fleete and the order of our encounter MVnday the first of March according to our computation wee scryed the Iland of Pinas wher haling in for the westerne parte thereof thinking there to haue watered being within fower leagues of it Southerly we sent in three of our Pinnasses to discouer the harbour and to sounde afore vs about one of the clocke in the afternoone the same day we discouered a fleete of twentie sayles and deeming them to bee the Spanish fleete wee kept our loofe to get the winde but their Viceadmiral with diuers other ships went about to cut off our Pinnasses so that our Generall with some other of our Shippes was forced to tacke about vpon the larbour tacke and so ranne in towards the land keeping the winde so as we recouered our Pinnasses which ●orced the enemies Shippes to tacke about and to take the aide of their fleete and being come neere vnto them they shot at vs wee still approched hauing our close fights vp our flagges ensignes and s●reamers displayed our men orderly placed ●n each quarter but forbare our fight vntill our Generall began and gaue vs warning to come in and fight by shooting off a great peece according to his former directions so being within Muskat shot the Viceadmirall of the Spanish fleete came neerest vnto vs to whom our Viceadmirall Iohn Traughton Captaine of the Elizabeth Bonaduenture gaue fight betwixt whome there was the greatest volee of small shot changed that lightly hath bene heard at Sea which cōtinued a long halfe hower In which time the Spanish fleete came into fight our Generall Sir Thomas Baskeruile being in the Garland whereof Humphrey Reignolds was Captaine being the next Shippe vnto the Elizabeth Bonaduenture bare vp to the enemie playing with her great Ordinance hotly vntill she came within Muskat shot Ionas Bodenham Captaine of the Defiance and Henrie Sauile Captaine of the Aduenture came likewise into fight with thē After the Garland being within Muskat shot played her part and made good fight for the space of an hower The Defiance bare vp likewise and had her turne after came the Aduenture again within Muskat shot who hauing chaunged many a great Bullet with them before renewed his fight and continued it an hower with small shot Then came Thomas Drake Captaine of the Hope who last of all had his turne Thus had all the Queenes Shippes their course The Marchants Shippes with other small vessels being without the Queenes Shippes shot when they saw opportunitie After the enemie finding no good to be done being well beaten fell from vs the Aduenture playing vppon them with her great Ordinaunce made three of the last shot at them Their Vice-admiral with diuers others of their Ships were so beaten that they left off the fight and were forced to lye in the winde for that they durst not lye of either board by reason of their many and great Leakes which they had receiued by our greate shot The Generall with the rest of their fleete tacking about fell in our wake thinking to get the winde which in the beginning we sought to hinder But our General seeing that in holding the winde we should shoote our selues into the Bay gaue them the winde All that night they kept themselues vppon our broade side notwithstanding our Admirall carryed his Cresset light all night hauing greate care of our smallest Shippes This fight continued about fower howers til it was neere night in the which fight thanks be to God there was slaine so fewe persons of our English fleete as I thinke the like conflict hath not beene performed with so little losse of men What harme befell the Spaniards in their fleete I leaue to your iudgements Yet our eyes can witnesse their Shippes were sore beaten and raked thorough whereby there was such falling backe and lying by the Lee to stoppe their leakes as some of them were driuen to haste awaye and