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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

commended to them by some English Fugitives to be the very best she had but their Joy continued not long For they enjoyed her but five days before she was cast away with many Spaniards in her upon the Islands of Tercera Commonly one Misfortune is accompanied with another For the Indian Fleet which my Lord had waited for the whole Summer the day after this mishap fell into the Company of this Spanish Armado who if they had staid but one day longer or the Indian Fleet had come home but one day sooner we had possest both them and many millions of Treasure which the Sea afterward devoured For from the time they met with the Armado and before they could recover home nigh an hundred of them suffered Shipwrack besides the Ascention of Sevil and the double Fly-boat that were sunk by the side of the Revenge All which was occasioned by their Wintering in the Indies and the late Disambogueing from thence For the Worm which that Country is subject to weakens and consumes their Ships Notwithstanding this cross and perverse Fortune which happened by means of Sir Richard Greenvile the Lord Thomas would not be dismayed or discouraged but kept the Sea so long as he had Victuals and by such Ships as himself and the rest of the Fleet took defrayed the better part of the Charge of the whole Action The Earl of Cumberland to the Coast of Spain 1591. Ships The Garland of her Majesties Seven other Ships of his and his Friends Commanders The Earl of Cumberland Capt. under him Capt. Monson now Sir William Monson THE Earl of Cumberland keeping the Coast of Spain as you have heard while the Lord Thomas remained at the Islands and both to one end viz. to annoy and damnifie the Spaniards though in two several Fleets the Earl found Fortune in a sort as much to frown upon him as it had done upon the Lord Thomas Howard In his Course from England to the Spanish Coast he encountred with divers Ships of Holland which came from Lisbon wherein he found a great quantity of Spices belonging to the Portugalls So greatly were we abused by that Nation of Holland who though they were the first that engaged us in the War with Spain yet still maintained their own Trade into those parts and supplied the Spaniards with Munition Victuals Shipping and Intelligence against us Upon my Lord's Arrival on the Coast of Spain it was his hap to take three Ships at several times one with Wine which he unladed into his own and two with Sugars which he enjoyed not long no more did he the Spices which he took out of the Hollanders For one of the Ships of Sugar by means of a Leak that sprung upon her was forced to be cast off and the men with much difficulty recovered the Shore and saved their Lives The other being sent for England and tossed with contrary Winds was for want of Victuals forced into the Groyn where they rend'red themselves to the Enemies mercy The Spices were determined to be sent for England and a Ship appointed for that purpose with other Ships to guard her and Captain Monson was sent on Board her to the Islands of the Burlings with a Charge to see her dispatched for England But the other Ships not observing the Directions which were given them and the Night falling calm early in the Morning this scattered Ship was set upon by six Gallies and after a long and bloody Fight the Captain and the Principallest men being slain both Ship and Spices were taken but whether it was the respect they had to the Queen's Ship which was Admiral of that Fleet or Honor to my Lord that commanded it or Hope by good Usage of our men to receive the like again I know not but true it is that the ordinary men were treated with more Courtesie than they had been from the beginning of the Wars My Lord of Cumberland considering the Disasters that thus befell him and knowing the Spanish Fleet 's readiness to put out of Harbor but especially finding his Ship but ill of Sail it being the first Voyage she ever went to Sea he durst not abide the Coast of Spain but thought it more Discretion to return for England having as you have heard sent a Pinnace to my Lord Thomas with the Intelligence aforesaid A Voyage undertook by Sir Walter Rawleigh but himself returning left the Charge thereof to Sir Martin Forbisher Anno 1592. Ships The Garland The Foresight with divers Merchants Ships Commanders by Sea Sir Walter Rawleigh Capt. Cross and other Sir Walter went not but Sir Martin Forbisher Commander by Land Sir Iohn Borought SIR Walter Rawleigh who had tasted abundantly of the Queen's Love and found it now began to decline put himself upon a Voyage at Sea and drew unto him divers friends of great Quality and others thinking to have attempted some place in the West Indies and with this resolution he put out of Harbour but spending two or three days in fowl Weather Her Majesty was pleased to command his Return and to commit the Charge of the Ships to Sir Martin Forbisher who was sent down for that purpose but with an express Command not to follow the Design of the West Indies This suddain Alteration being known unto the rest of the Captains for the present made some Confusion as commonly it happens in all voluntary Actions Their General leaving them they thought themselves free in point of Reputation and at liberty to take what course they pleased Few of them therefore did submit themselves to the Command of Sir Martin Forbisher but chose rather each one to take his particular Fortune and Adventure at Sea Sir Martin with two or three other Ships repaired to the Coast of Spain where he took a Spaniard laden with Iron and a Portugal with Sugar He remained there not without some danger his Ship being ill of Sail and the Enemy having a Fleet at Sea Sir John Boroughs Captain Cross and another stood to the Islands where they met with as many Ships of my Lord of Cumberland's with whom they consorted After some time spent thereabouts they had sight of a Carreck which they chased but she recovered the Island of Flores before they could approach her but the Carreck seeing the Islands could not desend her from the Strength and Force of the English chose rather after the men were got on Shore to fire her self than we the Enemy should reap Benefit by her The Purser of her was taken and by Threats compell'd to tell of another of their Company behind that had Order to fall with that Island and gave us such particular Advertisement that indeed she fell to be ours In the mean time Don Alonso de Bassan was furnishing at Lisbon 23 of those Gallions which the Year before he had when he took the Revenge he was directed with those Ships to go immediately to Flores to expect the coming of the Carrecks who had order to fall with that

of this her Fleet and the weakness of Porto Ricom to possess themselves of that Treasure and the rather for that it was not much out of their way to Nombre de dois It is neither Years nor Experience that can foresee and prevent all mishaps which is a manifest Proof that God is the Guider and Disposer of Mens Actions For nothing could seem more probable to be effected than this later Design especially considering the Ability and Wisdom of the two Generals and yet was unhappily prevented and failed in the Execution For there being five Frigats sent out of Spain to fetch this Treasure from Porto Ricom in their way it was their hap to take a Pinnace of the English Fleet by whom they understood the Secrets of the Voyage and to prevent the Attempt of Porto Ricom they hastened thither with all speed whilst our Generals lingred at Quadrupa to set up their Boats and at their Arrival so strengthened the Town with the Souldiers brought in the Frigats that when our Fleet came thither not expecting Resistance they found themselves frustrate of their Hopes which indeed they themselves were the occasion of in managing their Design with no more Secresie This Repulse bred so great a Disconceit in Sir John Hawkins as it is thought to have hastened his days and being great and unexpected did not a little discourage Sir Francis Drake's great Mind who yet proceeded upon his first resolved Design for Nombre de dios though with no better Success For the Enemy having knowledge of their coming fortified the Passage to Panuma and forced them to return with loss Sir Francis Drake who was wont to rule Fortune now finding his Error and the difference between the present strength of the Indies and what it was when he first knew it grew melancholly upon this Disappointment and suddenly and I hope naturally died at Nombre de dios where he got his first Reputation The two Generals dying and all other Hopes being taken away by their Deaths Sir Thomas Baskervile succeeded them in their Command and began now to think upon his return for England but coming near Cuba he met and fought with a Fleet of Spain though not long by reason of the Sickness and Weakness of his Men. This Fleet was sent to take the Advantage of ours in its Return thinking as indeed it happened that they should find them both weak and in want but the swiftness of our Ships in which we had the Advantage of the Spaniards preserved us You may observe that from the year the Revenge was taken untill this present year 1595. there was no Summer but the King of Spain furnished a Fleet for the guarding of his Coasts and securing of his Trade and though there was little fear of any Fleet from England to impeach him besides this in the Indies yet because he would shew his greatness and satisfie the Portugal of the care he had in preserving their Carrecks he sent the Count of Feria a young Nobleman of Portugal who desired to gain Experience with 20 Ships to the Islands but the Carrecks did as they used to do in many other years miss both Islands and Fleets and arrived at Lisbon safely The other Fleets of the King of Spain in the Indies consisted of 24 Ships their General Don Bernardino de Villa nova an approved Coward as it appeared when he came to encounter the English Fleet but his Defects were supplied by the Valor of his Vice-admiral who behaved himself much to his Honor His Name was John Garanay The Earl of Essex and the Lord Admiral of England Generals equally both by Sea and Land Anno 1596. Ships The Repulse The Ark-royal The Mere-honor The Warspite The Lyon The Rainbow The Nonperil The Vauntguard The Mary Rose The Dreadnought The Swiftsuer The Quittance The Tremontary with several others Commanders The Earl of Essex Capt. under him Sir Will. Monson The Lord Admiral Capt. under him Ames Preston The Lord Thomas Howard Sir Walter Rawleigh Sir Robert Southwell Sir Francis Vere Sir Robert Dudley Sir Iohn Wingfield Sir George Carew Sir Alexander Clifford Sir Robert Crosse Sir George Clifford Sir Robert Mansfield Capt. King THE first of June 1596. we departed from Plymouth and our Departure was the more speedy by reason of the great pains care and industry of the 16 Captains who in their own Persons labored the Night before to get out some of their Ships riding at Catwater which otherwise had not been easily effected The Third we set Sail from Cansom Bay the Wind which when we weighed was at West and by South instantly cast up to the North East and so continued untill it brought us up as high as the North Cape of Spain and this fortunate beginning put us in great hopes of a lucky Success to ensue We being now come upon our Enemies Coast it behoved the Generals to be vigilant in keeping them from Intelligence of us who therefore appointed the Litness the True Love and the Lion's Whelp the three chief Sailors of our Fleet to run a Head suspecting the Spaniards had some Carvels of Advice out which they did usually send to discover at Sea upon any Rumor of a less Fleet than this was made ready in England No Ship or Carvel escaped from us which I hold a second Happiness to our Voyage For you shall understand hereafter the Inconvenience that might have happened upon our Discovery The 10th of June the said three Ships took three Fly-Boats that came from Cadiz 14 days before by them we understood the State of the Town and that they had no suspition of us which we looked on as a third Omen of our good Fortune to come The 12th of June the Swan a Ship of London being commanded as the other three to keep a good way off the Fleet to prevent discovery she met with a Fly-boat which made Resistance and escaped from her This Fly-boat came from the Streights bound Home who discovering our Fleet and thinking to gain Reputation and Reward from the Spaniards shhaped her Course for Lisbon but she was luckily prevented by the John and Francis another Ship of London commanded by Sir Marmaduke Darrel who took her within a League of the Shore and this we may account a fourth Happiness to our Voyage The first as hath been said was for the Wind to take us so suddainly and to continue so long For our Souldiers being Shipped and in Harbor would have consumed their Victuals and have been so pester'd that it would have endangered a Sickness amongst them The Second was the taking all Ships that were seen which kept the Enemy from Intelligence The Third was the intercepting of the Fly-Boats from Cadiz whither we were bound who assured us our coming was not suspected which made us more careful to hail from the Coast than otherwise we should have been They told us likewise of the daily expectation of the Gallions to come from St. Jacar to Cadiz and of the

die than receive Indignity of a Repulse My Lord of Essex much against his Will was forc'd to yield unto these Reasons and desist from that Enterprise About this time there was a general Complaint for want of Victuals which proceeded rather out of a desire that some had to be at home than out of any necessity For Sir William Monson and Mr. Darrel were appointed to examine the Condition of every Ship and found seven weeks Victuals Drink excepted which might have been supplied from the Shore in Water and this put the Generals in great hope to perform something more than they had done The only Service that was now to be thought on was to lie in wait for the Carrecks which in all probability could not escape us though there were many Doubts to the contrary but easily answered by men of Experience But in truth some mens desires homeward were so great that no Reason could prevail with or persuade them Coming into the height of the Rock the Generals took Council once again and then the Earl of Essex and the Lord Thomas Howard offered with great earnestness to stay out the time our Victuals lasted and desired to have but 12 Ships furnished out of the rest to stay with them but this would not be granted though the Squadron of the Hollanders offered voluntarily to stay Sir Walter Rawleigh alleadged the scarcity of Victuals and the Infection of his Men. My Lord General Essex offered in the Greatness of his Mind and the Desire he had to stay to supply his want of Men and Victuals and to exchange Ships but all Proposals were in vain For the Riches kept them that got much from attempting more as if it had been otherwise pure want though not Honor would have enforced them to greater Enterprises This being the last Hopes of the Voyage and being generally withstood it was concluded to steer away for the North Cape and afterwards to view and search the Harbors of the Groyn and Ferrol and if any of the King of Spain's Ships chanced to be there to give an Attempt upon them The Lord Admiral sent a Carvel of our Fleet into these two Harbors and aparrelled the men in Spanish Cloaths to avoid Suspicion This Carvel returned the next day with a true Relation that there were no Ships in the Harbors And now passing all places where there was any hope of doing good our Return for England was resolved upon and the 8th of August the Lord Admiral arrived in Plymouth with the greatest part of the Army And the Lord General Essex who staid to accompany the St. Andrew which was under his Charge and reputed of his Squadron two days after us the 10th of August where he found the Army in that perfect Health as the like hath not been seen for so many to go out of England to such great Enterprises and so well to return home again He himself rid up to the Court to advise with her Majesty about the winning of Callis which the Spaniards took the Easter before Here was a good opportunity to have re-gained the Ancient Patrimony of England but the French King thought he might with more ease re-gain it from the Spaniard who was his Enemy than recover it again from us who were his Friends My Lord Admiral with the Fleet went to the Downs where he landed and left the Charge of the Navy to Sir Robert Dudley and Sir William Monson In going from thence to Chatham they endured more foul Weather and contrary Winds than in the whole Voyage besides A Voyage to the Islands the Earl of Essex General Anno 1597. Ships The Mere-honor After in the Repulse The Lyon The Warspite The Garland The Defiance The Mary Rose The Hope The Matthew The Rainbow The Bonaventure The Dreadnought The Swiftsuer The Antelope The Nonperil The St. Andrew Commanders The Earl of Essex Capt. under him Sir Robert Mansell The Lord Thomas Howard Sir Walter Rawleigh The Earl of Southampton The Lord Mountioy Sir Francis Vere Sir Richard Lewson Sir George Carew Sir Will. Monson Sir Will. Harvey Sir Will. Brooke Sir Gilly Merick Sir Iohn Gilbert he went not Sir Tho. Vavasor Capt. Throgmorton HER Majesty having Knowledge of the King of Spain's drawing down his Fleet and Army to the Groyn and Ferrol with an intent to enter into some Action against Her and that notwithstanding the loss of thirty six Sail of his Ships that were cast away upon the North Cape in their coming thither He prepared with all possible means to revenge the Disgraces we did him the year last past at Cadiz Her Majesty likewise prepared to defend her self and fitted out the most part of her Ships for the Sea but at length perceiving his Drift was more to afright than offend her though he gave it it out otherwise because she should provide to resist him at home rather than to annoy him abroad She was unwilling the great Charges she had been at should be bestowed in vain and therefore turned her Preparations another way than that for which she first intended them The Project of this Voyage was to assault the King of Spain's Shipping in the Harbor of Ferrol which the Queen chiefly desired to do for her own Security at home and afterwards to go and take the Islands of Tercera and there to expect the coming home of the Indian Fleet. But neither of these two Designs took that effect which was expected For in our setting forth the same day we put to Sea we were taken with a most violent Storm and contrary Winds and the General was seperated from the Fleet and one Ship from another so that the one half of the Fleet were compelled to return home and the rest that kept the Sea having reached the Coast of Spain were commanded home by order of the Lord General Thus after their return they were to advise upon a new Voyage finding by their Ships and Victuals they were unable to perform the former Whereupon it was thought convenient all the Army should be discharged for the prolonging of the Victuals except a thousand of the prime Souldiers of the Low Countries which were put into her Majesties Ships that they might be the better prepared if they should chance to encounter the Spanish Elect. Thus the second time they departed England though not without some danger of the Ships by reason of the Winter 's near approach The first Land in Spain we fell withal was the North Cape the place whither our Directions led us if we happened to lose Company being there descried from the Shore and not above 12 Leagues from the Groyn where the Spanish Armado lay We were in good hopes to have enticed them out of the Harbor to fight us but spending some time thereabouts and finding no such Disposition in them it was thought fit no longer to linger about that Coast lest we should lose our opportunity upon the Indian Fleet therefore every Captain received his Directions to stand his

Course into 36 Degrees there to spread our selves North and South it being a heighth that commonly the Spaniards sail in from the Indies At this time the Lord General complained of a Leak in his Ship and two days after towards midnight he brought himself upon the Lee to stop it Sir Walter Rawleigh and some other Ships being a head the Fleet and it growing dark they could not discern the Lord General 's Working but stood their Course as before directed and through this unadvised working of my Lord they lost him and his Fleet. The day following Sir Walter Rawleigh was informed by a Pinnace he met that the great Armado which we supposed to be in the Groyn and Ferrol was gone to the Islands for the Guard of the Indian Fleet. This Pinnace with this Intelligence it gave us Sir Walter Rawleigh immediately sent to look out the General My Lord had no sooner received this Advice but at the very instant he directed his Course to the Islands and dispatched some small Vessels to Sir Walter Rawleigh to inform him of the suddain Alteration of his Course upon the News received from him commanding him with all Expedition to repair to Flores where he would not fail to be at our Arrival At the Islands we found this Intelligence utterly False For neither the Spanish Ships were there nor were expected there We met likewise with divers English men that came out of the Indies but they could give us no assurance of the coming home of the Fleet neither could we recive any Advertisement from the Shore which made us half in despair of them By that time we had watered our Ships and refreshed our selves at Flores Sir Walter Rawleigh arrived there who was willed by the Lord General after he was furnished of such Wants as that poor Island afforded to make his repair to the Island of Fayal which my Lord intended to take Here grew great Questions and Heart-burnings against Sir Walter Rawleigh For he coming to Fayal and missing the Lord General and yet knowing my Lord's Resolution to take the Island he held it more advisable to land with those Forces he had than to expect the coming of my Lord For in that space the Island might be better provided whereupon he landed and took it before my Lord's approach This Act was held such an Indignity to my Lord and urged with that Vehemence by those that hated Sir Walter that if my Lord though naturally kind and flexible had not feared how it would have been taken in England I think Sir Walter had smarted for it From this Island we went to Graciosa which did willingly relieve our Wants as far as it could yet with humble intreaty to forbear landing with our Army especially because they understood there was a Squadron of Hollanders amongst us who did not use to forbear Cruelty wherever they came and here it was that we met the Indian Fleet which in manner following unluckily escaped us The Lord General having sent some men of good Account into the Island to see there should be no Injury offered to the Portugals he having passed his word to the contrary those men advertised him of four Sail of Ships descried from the Shore and one of them greater than the rest seemed to be a Carreck My Lord received this News with great Joy and divided his Fleet into three Squadrons to be commanded by himself the Lord Thomas Howard and Sir Walter Rawleigh The next Ship to my Lord of the Queen's was the Rainbow wherein Sir William Monson went who received direction from my Lord to steer away South that Night and if he should meet with any Fleet to follow them carrying Lights or shooting off his Ordnances or making any other Sign that he could and if he met with no Ships to direct his Course the next day to the Island of St. Michael but promising that Night to send 12 Ships after him Sir William besought my Lord by the Pinnace that brought him this Direction that above all things he should have a care to dispatch a Squadron to the Road of Angra in the Tercera's For it was certain if they were Spaniards thither they would resort Whilst my Lord was thus contriving his Business and ordering his Squadrons a small Barque of his Fleet happened to come to him who assured him that those Ships discovered from the Land were of his own Fleet and that they came in immediately from them This made my Lord countermand his former Direction only Sir William Monson who was the next Ship to him and received the first Command could not be recalled back Within three hours of his Departure from my Lord which might be about 12 of the Clock he fell in company of a Fleet of 25 Sail which at the first he could not assure himself to be Spaniards because the day before that number of Ships was missing from our Fleet. Here he was in a Dilemma and great perplexity with himself for in making Signs as he was directed if the Ships proved English it were ridiculous and he would be exposed to scorn and to respite it untill morning were as dangerous if they were the Indian Fleet For then my Lord might be out of View or of the hearing of his Ordnance Therefore he resolved rather to put his Person than his Ship in Peril He commanded his Master to keep the Weather-Gage of the Fleet whatsoever should become of him and it blowing little Wind he betook himself to his Boat and rowed up with the Fleet demanding of whence they were They answered of Sevil in Spain and asked of whence he was He told them of England and that the Ship in fight was a Gallion of the Queen 's of England single and alone alleadging the Honor they would get by winning her his Drift being to draw and entice them into the Wake of our Fleet where they would be so entangled as they could not escape they returned him some Shot and ill Language but would not alter their Course to the Tercera's whither they were bound and where they arrived to our misfortune Sir William Monson returned aboard his Ship making Signs with Lights and Report with his Ordnance but all in vain For my Lord altering his Course as you have heard stood that Night to St. Michaels and passed by the North side of Tercera a farther way than if he had gone by the way of Augra where he had met the Indian Fleet. When day appeared and Sir William Monson was in hope to find the 12 Ships promised to be sent to him he might discern the Spanish Fleet two miles and a little more a Head him and a Stern him a Gallion and a Pinnace betwixt them which putting forth her Flaggs he knew to be the Earl of Southampton in the Garland The Pinnace was a Frigat of the Spanish Fleet who took the Garland and the Rainbow to be Gallions of theirs but seeing the Flag of the Garland she found her Error and

The Repulse The Warspight The Vauntguard Commanders Sir Richard Lewson Capt. Troughton Capt. Sommers THE last Year as you have heard put all men in expectation of War which yet came to nothing This Summer gave us great hope of Peace but with the like effect For by consent of the Queen the King of Spain and the Arch-Duke their Commissioners met at Bulloign in Piccardie to treat of Peace a place chosen indifferently the French King being in League and Friendship with them all Whether this Treaty were intended but in shew only or that they were out of hopes to come to any conclusion or what else was the true and real cause of its breaking off so suddenly I know not but the pretence was but slender for there grew a difference about Precedency betwixt the two Crowns though it was ever due to England and so the hopes of Peace were frustrated though had it been really intended matters might easily have been accommodated The Queen suspecting the Event hereof before their meeting and the rather because the Spaniards entertained her with the like Treaty in 1588 when at the same instant his Navy appeared upon her Coast to Invade her therefore least she should be guilty of too great security in relying upon the success of this doubtful Treaty she furnished the Three Ships before named under pretence to guard the Western Coast which at that time was infested by the Dunkirkers And because there should be the less notice taken part of the Victuals was provided at Plymouth and Sir Richard Lewson who was then Admiral of the Narrow Seas was appointed General for the more secret carriage of the business so as it could not be conjectured either by their Victualling or by their Captain being Admiral of the Narrow Seas that it was a Service from home As they were in a readiness at Plymouth expecting Orders the Queen being fully satisfied that the Treaty of Bulloign would break off without effect she commanded Sir Richard Lewson to hasten to the Islands there to expect the Carrecks and Mexico Fleet. The Spaniards on the other side being as circumspect to prevent a mischief as we were subtil to contrive it and believing as we did that the Treaty of Peace would prove a vain hopeless shew of what was never meant they furnished Eighteen tall Ships to the Islands as they had usually done since the Year 1591. The General of this Fleet was Don Diego de Borachero Our Ships coming to the Islands they and the Spaniards had intelligence of one another but not the sight for that Sir Richard Lewson hailed Sixty Leagues Westward not only to avoid them but in hopes to meet with the Carrecks and Mexico Fleet before they could join them But the Carrecks being formerly warned by the taking of one of them and burning of another in 1591. had ever since that year endeavored to shun the sight of that Island so that our Fleet being now prevented as they had often before been nothing being more uncertain than Actions at Sea where Ships are to meet one another casually they returned home having consumed time and Victuals to no purpose and seen not so much as one Sail from the time they quitted the Coast of England till their return two Ships of Holland excepted that came from the East Indies for then began their Trade thither which Ships Sir Richard Lewson relieved finding them in great distress and want Sir Richard Lewson into Ireland Anno 1601. Ships The Warsight The Garland The Defiance The Swiftsuer The Crane Commanders Sir Richard Lewson Sir Amias Preston Capt. Goer Capt. Sommers Capt. Mainwaring IN the Year 1600. and part of the Year 1601. there was a kind of cessation from Arms though not by agreement for this Year gave a hope of Peace which failing the former course of annoying each other was revived we in relieving the Low Countries the Spaniards in assisting the Rebels in Ireland This was the Summer that the Arch-Duke besieged Ostend which was bravely defended but principally by the Supplies out of England And towards Winter when the Spaniards thought we least looked for War Don Diego de Borachero with 48 Sail of Ships and 4000 Soldiers was sent to Invade Ireland In his way thither he lost the company of his Vice-Admiral Siriago who returned to the Groyn which when the King heard he was much distasted with Siriago and commanded him upon his Allegiance to hasten with all speed for Ireland as he was formerly directed Don Diego his Landing being known in England when it was too late to prevent it yet least he should be supplied with further Forces Sir Richard Lewson valiantly entred the Harbor drew near their Fortifications and fought the Enemy for the space of one whole day his Ship being an Hundred times shot through and yet but Eight men slain God so blest him that he prevailed in his Enterprize destroyed their whole Shipping and made Siriago fly by Land into another Harbor where he obscurely Imbarqued himself in a French Vessel for Spain All this while was the main Army which Landed with their General Don Iuan de Aquila seated in Kinsale expecting the aid of Tyroen who promised every day to be with him Our Army commanded by the Lord Montjoy Lord Deputy of Ireland besieged the Town so that he prevented their meeting and many skirmishes past betwixt them The Siege continued with great miseries to both the Armies and not without cause considering the Season of the Year and the condition of the Country that afforded little relief to either some few days before Christmas Tyroen appeared with his Forces which was some little heartning to the Enemy in hopes to be freed of their Imprisonment for so may I call it they were so strictly beleagured The day of agreement betwixt the Spaniards and Tyroen was Christmas Eve on which day there happened an Earthquake in England and as many times such Signs prove aut bonum aut malum Omen this proved Fortunate to us the Victory being obtained with so little loss as it is almost incredible This was the day of Tryal whether Ireland should continue a parcel of our Crown or no for if the Enemy had prevailed in the Battel and a Treaty had not afterwards obtained more then Force it was to be feared Ireland would hardly have been ever recovered The Spaniards in Ireland seeing the success of Tyroen and the impossibility for him to re-inforce his Army being hopeless of supplies out of Spain and their Poverty daily increasing they made offers of a Parly which was granted and after ensued a Peace there The Conditions whereof are extant in Print They were furnished with Ships and secured of their Passage into Spain where arriving in English Vessels the Ships returned back for England Sir Richard Lewson and Sir William Monson to the Coast of Spain Anno 1602. Ships The Repulse The Garland The Defiance The Mary Rose The Warspight The Nonperil The Dreadnought The Adventure The English

as many hurt in the Garland and one hurt in the Adventure Sir William Monson had the left Wing of his Doublet shot off but received no other Hurt The day following with a favourable Wind we stood our Course for England which brought us into 47 Degrees and there we met a Pinnace sent with a Pacquet from the Lords signifying the readiness of a second Fleet to supply us and the setting out of the Hollanders which were so long looked for which Fleet of Holland was in View of the Pinnace the same Night but pass'd by us unseen This unlooked for Accident made the Admiral and Vice-Admiral consider what to do and concluded they could not both appear at Home and have a Fleet of so great Importance upon the Enemies Coast without a Guide or Head and therefore they held it fit the Vice-Admiral should put himself into the Nonperil as the ablest Ship of the Fleet and make his Return once more to the Coast of Spain but he having taken his Leave and standing his Course for the Coast a most violent Storm with a contrary Wind took him which continued ten days and discovered the weakness of his Ship who had like to have foundered in the Deep The Carpenters and Company seeing the apparent Danger if he bore not up before the Wind presented him with a Petition beseeching him to have a regard to their Lives for by keeping the Seas they should all perish Thus was he forc'd by mere Extremity to bear room for England and coming for Plymouth he found the Carreck safely arrived and the Fleet he went back to take Charge of not to have quitted the Coast of England Though it be somewhat impertinent to this Voyage to treat of more than the Success thereof yet I will a little digress and relate the Mishap of that worthy Young Gentleman Don Diego de Lobo Captain of the Carreck and because his Worth will more appear by his Answer to Sir William Monson's Offer to him when he was his Prisoner thus it was Sir William Monson told him he doubted that by the loss of the Carreck he had lost his best Means for that he supposed what he had gained in the Indies was laden in her and therefore offered that what he would challenge upon his Reputation to be his own he should have Freedom to carry along with him The Gentleman acknowledged the Favor to be extraordinary but replied that what he had he had gained by his Sword and that his Sword he doubted not would repair his Fortunes again utterly refusing to accept any Courtesie in that kind But poor Gentleman ill fortune thus left him not For the Viceroy Don Cristoball de Moro holding it for a great indignity to have the Carreck taken out of the Port that was defended by a Castle and guarded with 11 Gallies and especially in his hearing of the Ordnance to Lisbon and in the view of thousands of People who beheld it some of them feeling it too by the loss of their Goods that were in her others grieving for the Death of their Friends that were slain but every man finding himself touched in Reputation The Names of the Carrecks and Eleven Gallies The St. Valentine a Carreck of one Thousand seven Hundred Tuns The Christopher the Admiral of Portugal wherein the Marquess de Sancta Cruz went The St. Lewis wherein Frederick Spinola went General of the Gallies of Spain The Forteleza Vice-Admiral to the Marquess The Trividad Vice-Admiral to Frederick Spinola burnt The Snis in which Sir William Monson was Prisoner 1591. The Occasion burnt and the Captain taken Prisoner The St. John Baptist. The Lazear The Padillar The Philip. The St. John And the Viceroy not knowing how to clear himself so well as the laying it upon the Gentlemen he put on Board her the same Night they returned to their Lodging he caused the most part of them with their Captain to be apprehended imputing the loss of the Carreck to their Cowardise and Fear if not Treason and Connivance with the Enemy After some time of Imprisonment by mediation of Friends all the Gentlemen were released but the Captain who received secret Advice that the Viceroy intended his Death and that he should seek by Escape to prevent it Don Diego being thus perplexed practised with his Sister who finding means for his Escape out of a Window he fled into Italy where he lived in Exile from 1602. when this happened untill 1615. His Government in the Indies for which he had a Patent in Reversion was confiscate and he lest hopeless ever to return into his Native Country much less to be restored to his Command an ill Welcome after so long and painful a Navigation Having thus spent thirteen years in Exile at the last he advised with Friends whose Councel he followed to repair into England there to enquire after some Commanders that had been at the taking of the Carreck by whose Certificate he might be cleared of Cowardise or Treason in the loss of her which would be a good Motive to restore him to his Government again In the Year 1515. he arrived in London and after some Enquiry found out Sir William Monson to whom he complained of his hard Mishap craving the Assistance of him and some others whom Sir William knew to be at the taking of the Carreck and desired him to testifie the manner of surprizing her which he alleadged was no more than one Gentleman was bound to afford another in such a case Sir William wondered to see him and especially upon such an Occasion For the present he entertained him with all Courtesie and the longer his stay was in England the Courtesies were the greater which Sir William did him Sir William procured him a true and effectual Certificate from himself Sir Francis Howard Captain Barlow and some others who were Witnesses of that Service and to give it the more Reputation he caused it to be inrolled in the Office of the Admiralty The Gentleman being well satisfied with his Entertainment and having what he desired returned to Flanders where he presented his Certificate to the Arch-Duke and the Infanta by whose means he got Assurance not only of the King's Favor but of Restitution likewise to his Government The poor Gentleman having been thus tossed by the Waves of Calamity from one Country to another and never finding rest Death that masters all men now cut him off short in the midst of his hopes as he was preparing his Journy for Spain and this was an end of an unfortunate gallant young Gentleman whose Deserts might justly have challenged a better reward if God had pleased to afford it him Sir William Monson to the Coast of Spain Anno 1602. Ships The Swiftsuer The Mary Rose The Dreadnought The Adventure The Answer The Quittance The Lions Whelp The Paragon A Merchant A small Carvel Commanders Sir Will. Monson Capt. Trevers Capt. Cawfield Capt. Norris Capt. Brodgate Capt. Browne Capt. May Capt. Iason Capt. Hooper