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A33346	A true and full narrative of those two never to be forgotten deliverances one from the Spanish Invasion in 88, the other from the hellish Powder Plot, November 5, 1605 : whereunto is added the like narrative of that signal judgment of God upon the papists, by the fall of the House in Black-Friers, London, upon their fifth of November, 1623 / collected for the information and benefit of each family, by Sam. Clark ...; England's remembrancer	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.; Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682. Gun-powder treason.	1671 (1671)	Wing C4559; ESTC R15231	43,495	131

what to do but our eyes are upon thee But in the second place knowing that Prayers without endeavours and means are like Rachel beautiful but barren that She might not be taken unprovided She prepared with all diligence as strong a Fleet as She could and all things necessary for War and She that in discerning mens parts and abilities was of a most sharp judgment and ever most happy having the free choice in her self and not by the commendations of others assigned to every office by name the best and fittest men The charge of her Navy she committed to Charles Howard of Effingham Lord Admiral of England of whose skill she had had former experience and whom she knew both by his Moderation and Nobility to be wary in providence valiant industrious and of great authority among the Seamen and well beloved of them Her Vice-Admiral she made the famous Sir Francis Drake and these she sent to the West parts of England and for the Guard of the narrow Seas she appointed Henry Lord Seimore second son to the Duke of Somerset whom she commanded also to lie upon the Coasts of the Low-Countries with forty Ships to watch that the Prince of Parma might not come forth with his forces By Land She commanded the General forces of the Realm to be mustered trained and put in readiness in their special shires for the defence of the whole which accordingly was done and whereof the Lord Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester was appointed Leeutenant twenty thousand whereof were disposed along our South Coast for the guard thereof besides which she had two Armies one of which consisting of a thousand Horse and twenty two thousand Foot was encamped at Tilbury neer the Thames mouth whither the enemy fully intended to come The other which was led by the Lord Hunsdon consisted of thirty four thousand Foot and two thousand Horse which were to be the Guard of the Queens person Her self in courage far surmounting her sex as another Zenobia or rather Deborah led forth the Lords Host against this great Sisera and her Souldiers valiant and skilful both for courage and quick dispatch might well be compared to those Gadites that came to aid David whose faces were like the faces of Lions and were compared to the Roes in the Mountains for swiftness Arthur Lord Grey Sir Francis Knolles Sir John Knorris Sir Richard Bingham and Sir Roger Williams all gallant men and brave Souldiers were appointed to consult about managing the Land Service These advised that all the commodious landing places for the enemy as well from Spain as from the Low-Countries should be manned and fortified as Milford Haven Falmouth Plimmouth Portland the Isle of Wight Portsmouth the open coast of Kent commonly called the Downs the Thames mouth Harwich Yarmouth Hull c. and that the Trained Bands throughout the Coast Shires should meet upon a signal given to defend the said places and do their best to prohibit the enemies landing But in case he should land that then they should leave all the Country round about wast that so they might find nothing for food but what from their Ships they should carry upon their shoulders and that they should hold the enemies busied both night and day with continual Alarms but not to hazard a Battel till more Commanders with their Companies were come together Some suggested also to the Queen that the Spaniards abroad were not so much to be feared as the Papists at home for that the Spaniards would not attempt the Invasion of England but upon confidence of aid from them She thereupon committed some of them to prison at Wisbeach in the Fenns by her Letters also she directed Sir William Fitz-Williams Lord Deputy of Ireland what he should do The King of Scots she put in mind to beware of the Papists and Spanish Factions By her frequent Letters she wrote to the States of the Vnited Provinces not to be deficient in assisting her what they could But amongst these preparations for War on both sides Philip King of Spain to cast a mist over her Majesties eyes and to rock her into a sleep of security importuned by all means the Realms unto peace imploying the Prince of Parma to be his instrument therein who dealt earnestly by Letters with the help of Sir James Crofts a privy Counsellor and a man much addicted to peace as also by Andrew Van Loey a Netherlander that a treaty of Peace might be entred upon affirming that he had Warrant thereunto from the King of Spain Our Queen measuring other Princes by her own guileless heart gave ear to this deceitful lullaby little suspecting that a deadly snake could be hid in so fair a Garden yet resolved to treat of Peace with her Sword in her hand neither was the Prince of Parma against her so doing In the month therefore of Feb. Commissioners were sent into Flandeas Henry Earl of Darby William Brook Lord Cobham Sir Jamis Crofts Valentine Dale and John Rogers Doctors of the Law who arriving there were received in the Prince of Parma's name with all courtesy who thereupon sent away Dale presently to him to know where the place of meeting should be and to see his Commission from the King of Spain the place he appointed to be neer Ostend the Town it self being then in the English hands and as for his Commission he promised it should be produced at their meeting Only he wished them to hasten the matter lest any thing should happen in the interim to interrupt the treaty and one Richardot which stood by him said more openly That he knew not what in the mean time might be done against England Which being reported to the Queen She sent Rogers to the Prince to know whether there was any design for the Invading of England as he and Richardot by their words seemed to imply The Prince answered that he had never any thought for the Invading England when he wished the Treaty to be hastened and was angry with Richardot who denied that any such words had fallen from him Commissioners for the King of Spain were Maximilian Earl of Aremberg Governor of Antwerp Richardot President of Artois with some other Civilians These stayed at Bruges and for all their pretended haste much time was cunningly spun out about the place of their meeting which should have the Precedency and what hostages should be given for security of the Commissioners yet at length the Spaniards yielded to the English Precedency both in going and sitting and the place wars in Tents near unto Ostend The demands for the Queen were that there might be a surcease of Arms with a present and undelayed Truce she mistrusting the Spanish preparations at Sea The sending away of forraign Souldiers out of the Low-Countries for Englands security A restitution of such sums of mony as the Queen had lent to the States and which the King had promised to restore That the Netherlanders might enjoy their ancient liberties and priviledges nor

Naples but one of the four Oallions of Portugal but one of the ninety one Callions and great Hulks from divers Provinces only thirty three returned fifty eight being lost In brief they lost in this voyage eighty one vessels thirteen thousand five hundred and odd Souldiers Prisoners taken in England Ireland and the Low-Countries were above two thousand Amongst those in England Don Pedro de Valdez Don Vasques de Silva and Don Alonzo de Saies and others were kept for their ransome In Ireland Don Alonzo de Luzon Roderigo de Lasse and others of great account In Zeland was Don Diego Piementelli To be brief there was no famous or noble family in all Spain which in this expedition lost not a son brother or kinsman And thus this Armado which had been so many years in preparing and rigging with such vast expence was in one month many times assaulted and at length wholly defeated with the slaughter of so many of her men not one hundred of the English being lacking nor one small ship of theirs taken or lost save only that of Cocks and having traversed round about all Britain by Scotland the Orcades and Ireland most grievously tossed and very much distressed and wasted by stormes wracks and all kinds of misery at length came lamely home with perpetual dishonour whereupon Medals were stamped in memory thereof A Fleet flying with full sailes with this inscription Venit vidit fugit It came it saw it fled Others in honour of our Queen with flaming ships and a Fleet in a great confusion and this Motto Dux faemina facti A woman was conductor of the fact In the aforementioned wracks above seven hundred Souldiers and Sailors were cast on land in Scotland who upon the intercession of the Prince of Parma to the King of Scots and by the permission of Queen Elizabeth were after a years time sent over into the Low-Countries But more unmercifully were those miserable wretches dealt withal whose hap was to be driven by tempest into Ireland Some of them being slain by the wild Irish their old friends and others of them being put to death by the command of the Lord Deputy For he fearing lest they might joyn with the Irish to disturb the peace of the Nation commanded Bingham Governour of Connaught to destroy them but he refusing to deal so rigorously with those that had yielded themselves He sent Fowle Deputy-Marshall who drew them out of their lurking holes and cut off the heads of above two hundred of them which fact the Queen from her heart condemned and abhorred as a fact of too great cruelty The remainder of them being terrified herewith sick and starven as they were committed themselves to Sea in their shattered vessels and were many of them swallowed up by the waves The Spaniards charged the whole fault of their overthrow upon the Prince of Parma as if in favour to our Queen he had wilfully and artificially delayed his coming to them But this was but an invention and pretention given out by them partly upon a Spanish envy against that Prince he being an Italian and his Son a Competitor to the Kingdom of Portugal But chiefly to save the scorn and monstous disreputation which they and their Nation received by the success of that enterprise Therefore their colours and excuses forsooth were That their General by Sea had a limited Commission not to fight till the Land Forces were come in to them and that the Prince of Parma had particular reaches and ends of his own to cross the designe But it was both a strange Commission and a strange Obedience to a Commission for men in the midst of their own blood and being so furiously assailed to hold their hands contrary to the Laws of Nature and necessity And as for the Prince of Parma he was reasonably well tempted to be true to that enterprise by no less promise than to be made a Feudatory or Beneficiary King of England under the Seignory in chief of the Pope and the protection of the King of Spain Besides it appeared that the Prince of Parma held his place long after of the Govenment of the Netherlands in the favour and trust of the King of Spain and by the great imployments and services that he performed in France It is also manifest that this Prince did his best to come down and put to Sea The truth was that the Spanish Navy upon those proofs of Fight which they had with the English finding how much hurt they received and how little hurt they did by reason of the activity and low building of our ships and skill of Sea-men and being also commanded by a General of small courage and experience and having lost at first two of their bravest Commanders at Sea Pedro de Valdez and Michael de Oquenda durst not put it to a Battel at Sea but set up their rest wholly upon the Land enterprise On the other side the transportation of the Land Forces failed in the very foundation For whereas the Council of Spain made full account that their Navy should be Master of the Sea and therefore able to guard and protect the Vessels of Transportation When it fell out to the contrary that the great Navy was distressed and had enough to do to save it self and that their Land Forces were impounded by the Hollanders Things I say being in this state it came to pass that the Prince of Parma must have flown if he would have come into England for he could get neither Bark nor Mariner to put to Sea Yet certain it is that the Prince looked for the comming back of the Armado even at that time when they were wandring and making their perambulation upon the Northern Seas Thus we see the curse of God and his threatning in Scripture accomplished They came out against us one way and they fled seven wayes before us making good even to the astonishment of all Posterity the wonderful Judgments of God poured out commonly upon such vast and proud aspirings After this Glorious Deliverance of our Land by the Power of the Omnipotent and the wild Boar repelled that sought to lay waste Englands fair and fruitful Vineyard our Gracious and Godly Queen who ever held Ingratitude a Capital sin especially towards her Almighty Protector as she had begun with Prayer so she ended with Praise commanding solemn Thanksgiving to be celebrated to the Lord of Hosts at the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul in her chief City of London which accordingly was done upon Sabbath day the eighth of September at which time eleven of the Spanish Ensignes the once badges of their bravery but now of their vanity and ignominy were hung upon the lower battlements of that Church as Palmes of Praise for Englands Deliverance a shew no doubt more pleasing to God than when their spread colours did set out the pride of the Spaniards threatning the blood of so many innocent and faithful Christians Queen Elizabeth her self to be an example unto

the Syllies and thence also were forced by the Tempest to return into their former harbour to refresh their Ships and Companies only some of their Scouts at Sea descried some of the Spanish Ships which likewise had been dispersed with the storm but before the English could come near them the wind vereing about carryed them back to the Groine where there rest of their Fleet lay in harbour Intelligence being brought that the Saaniards were in want their great Ships dispersed and the rest sorely shaken with the storm and their men dying by multitudes of the Pestilence the Lord Admiral Howard intended with the first Northerly wind to take advantage which coming about upon the eighth of July he lanched forth and bore his sails almost within the sight of Spain purposing to surprise their weather-beaten Ships and to fight them upon their own Coast. But then the wind suddenly changing into the South and he wisely foreseeing that the enemy might pass by without his discovery that the Seas might be stormy or his Fleet wind-bound and that whilst he thus lay abroad his service might be more necessary at home and that his work was to defend the Coasts of England he therefore presently returned and anchored his Fleet in the Haven at Plimouth suffering his men to refresh themselves upon the Land At the same time there came more confident advertisement though false not only to the Lord Admiral but to the Court that the Spanish Fleet could not possibly come forth again that year upon which reports a dangerous matter in State affairs so confident was our Queen that she sent for four of her biggest royal Ships to be brought back to Chattam But the Lord Admiral suspecting the worst by a mild and moderate answer retarded it desiring that nothing might be lightly believed in so weighty a matter and that he might retain them though at his own charge Wherein indeed a special providence of God did appear for just at that time news was brought to the Lord Admiral by one Captain Thomas Flemming that the Spanish Fleet was entred into the British Seas commonly called the Channel and was seen near unto the Lizard point which came thus to pass The Spanish ships being new rigged and their wants supplyed their King still hot on his former resolutions instantly urged and hastened his Commanders to put forth again to Sea which accordingly they did upon the eleventh of July with the same South wind which as was said before brought back our Navy into Plimouth and so having a more favourable Gale with brave shews and full Sails they entred our Channel where casting Anchor they dispatched certain smal Pinnaces to the Prince of Parma to signifie their arrival and readiness and to command him in the name of their King to forward his charge for that service July the twentieth about noon this terrible Fleet was descried by the English coming forward amain with a South-west wind It was a kind of surprise For that as was said many of our men were gone to land and our ships ready to depart Nevertheless our undaunted Admiral towed forth such ships as he could get in readiness into the deep Sea not without great difficulty certainly with singular diligence and admirable alacrity of our Mariners cheered up with the Admirals own presence and assistance among them at their halserwork the wind blowing strongly into the Haven When they were forth they saw the Spanish ships with lofty Towers like Castles in front like an half-moon the horns whereof stretched forth in breadth about seven miles sayling as it were with labour to the winds the Ocean groaning under them so that though with full sails yet they came but slowly forward They seemed as it were to make for Plymouth but whether their Commission was otherwise or because contrary to their expectation they saw the English ships out of the Harbour they steered by towards Calice hoping to meet with the Prince of Parma The English willingly suffered them to pass by that they might the more commodiously chase them in the Reer with a fore-right wind Iuly the twenty first the Lord Admiral of England sent before him a Pinnace called the Defiance to denounce war by discharging her Ordnance himself following in the Ark-Royal set upon the Admiral as he thought of the Spaniards but it proved to be Alonzo de Leva's ship where fire smoke and loud thundring Cannons began the parley and rending Bullets most freely enterchanged betwixt them were fiery messengers of each others minds Soon after came up Drake Hawkins and Forbusher playing with their Ordnance upon the hindmost Squadron of the Enemies which was commanded by Rechalde who laboured all he could to stay his Men from flying for shelter to the Fleet till his own ship being much battered with shot and now grown unserviceable was with much difficulty drawn into the main Fleet. At which time the Duke of Medina gathered together his whole Fleet scattered here and there by the English and hoising more sail kept on his intended course toward Callice neither indeed could he do otherwise the wind favouring the English and himself finding the inconvenience of their great and high built ships powerful to defend but not to offend to stand but not to move whereas on the contrary their enemies were nimble and ready on all sides to annoy them and as apt to escape harms themselves being low built and so easily shot over Hereupon he caused them to gather themselves up close in the form of an half-moon and to slacken their sails that their whole Fleet might keep together But our English Admiral having maintained an hot fight for the space of two hours thought nor good to continue it any longer thirty of his ships scarce coming to the work the rest being as yet scarce gotten out of the Harbour In this first days fight the Saint Katherine a Spanish Ship having been sorely battered and much torn was taken into the middest of their Fleet to be repaired And an huge Ship of Biscaie of Don Oquendoes in which was a great part of the Kings treasure began to be all in a Flame by force of Gunpowder which was fired on purpose by a Flemish Gunner for being misused by them But the fire was soon quenched by the assistance of some other ships sent in to her help All this while the Spaniards for want of courage which they called Commission did what they could to decline the fight casting themselves continually into Roundels their strongest ships walling in the rest in which posture they made a flying march towards Callis yet in the former medly a great Gallion wherein was Don Pedro de Valdez Vasques de Silva Alenzo de Saias with other Noble men being sore battered with the English shot in avoyding whereof she fell foul upon another ship and ere she could be cleared had her fore-mast broken off which so hundred her sailing that she was unable to keep way with the rest of the

Sheffield in the Bear Sir Robert Southwel in the Elizabeth Captain Baker in the Victory and Captain George Fenner in the Gallion-Leicester It was also further appoined that out of every squadron certain small vessels should give you a charge from diverse parts in the dead time of the night but the calm continuing this designe could not be effected July the twenty fifth being Saint James day the Spaniards were arrived against the Isle of Wight where was a most terrible encounter each shooting off their whole broad sides and not above sixscore yards the one from the other There the Saint Anne a Gallion of Portugal which could not hold course with the rest was set upon by certain small English Vessels to whose rescue came Leva and Don Diego Telles Enriques with three Galliasses which the Lord Admiral himself and the Lord Thomas Howard in the Golden Lion rowing their ships with their boats so great was the calm charged in such sort with their roaring Canons that they had much ado and that not without loss to save the Gallion from which time forward none of the Galliasses would undertake the fight The Spaniards reported that the English the same day beat the Spanish Admiral in the utter squadron rending her sore with their Great Ordnance and having slain many of her men shot down her main Mast and would have much endanger'd her but that Mexi● and Rechalde came in good time to her rescue That the Spanish Admiral assisted by Rechalde and others set upon the English Admiral which happily escaped by the sudden turning of the wind That thereupon the Spaniards gave over the pursuit and holding on their Course dispatched again a Messenger to the Prince of Parma to joyn his Fleet with all speed to the Kings Armado and withal to send them a supply of great shot But these things were unknown to the English who wrote that from one of the Spanish ships they had shot down their Lanthorn and from another the Beak-head and that they had done much hurt to the third that the Non-parrella and the Mary Rose had fought a while with the Spaniards and that other ships had rescued the Tryumph which was in danger The truth is they had so sorely battered those huge wooden Castles that once more they forced them for their further safety to gather themselves into a Roundel July the twenty sixth the Lord Admiral to encourage and reward the Noble Attempts of his gallant Captains bestowed the Order of Knighthood upon the Lords Howard and Sheffield Roger Townsend John Hawkings Martin Forbusher and others And yet the vain glorious and boasting Spaniards caused a report to be spread in France that England was wholly conquered by them It was resolved by our men that from thenceforth they should assail the enemy no more till they came to the British Frith or strait of Callis where the Lord Henry Seimore and Sir William Winter with the ships which they had for the guard of the narrow Seas waited their coming and so with a fair gale from the South West and by South the Spanish Fleet sailed forward the English Fleet following it close at the heels And so far was it from terrifying our English Coasts with the name of Invincible or with its huge and terrible spectacle that our brave English youth with an incredible alacrity leaving parents wives children kinsfolk and friends out of their entire love to their native country hired ships from all parts at their own proper charges and joyned with the Fleet in great numbers amongst whom were the Earls of Oxford Northumberland and Cumberland Thomas and Robert Cecil Henry Brook Charles Blunt Walter Raleigh William Hatton Robert Carey Ambrose Willoughby Thomas Gerard Arthur Gorges and many others of great note July the twenty seventh the Spanish Fleet making forward towards evening came over against Dover and anchored before Callis intending for Dunkerk there to joyn with the Prince of Parma's forces well perceiving that without their assistance they could do nothing They were also warned by the Pilots that if they proceeded any farther it was to be feared lest they should be driven by the force of the tide into the Northern Ocean The English Fleet following up hard upon them cast Anchor so neer that they lay within Culvering shot at which time the Lord Henry Seimore and Winter joyned their ships to them so that now the English Fleet consisted of one hundred and forty sail all able ships to fight sail and turn about which way soever they pleased Yet were they not above fifteen that sustained the greatest burden of the fight From hence once more the Duke of Medina sent to the Prince of Parma to hasten forth his long expected and much desired forces with which messengers many of the Spanish Noble men went to land having had enough of the Sea amongst whom was the Prince of Ascoli the Kings base son who returned to his ship no more and indeed well it was for him for that his Gallion was afterwards cast away upon the Irish Coast and never returned to salute Spain These messengers earnestly prayed the Prince of Parma to put forth to Sea with his Army which the Spanish Fleet should protect as it were under her wings till it was landed in England And indeed the Prince of Parma hearing the best and not the worst of this voyage made all things ready that lay in his charge whose hopes were so fixed upon Englands Conquest and the glittering Diadem upon Queen Elizabeths head did so dazel his ambitious eyes being assured by Cardinal Allen that he was the man designed to be crowned therewith that neglecting the Coronet of the Low-Country Government he transferred the charge thereof upon Count Mansfield the Elder and having made his vows to the Lady of Hall in Heinault he was already in conceit no less than a King But the date of his reign was soon expired and his swelling tide fallen into a low shallow ebb For the day following in his march to Dunkirk he heard the thundring Ordnance ringing the passing peal of his hopes and title and the same evening had news of the hard success of the Spaniards the hoped advancers of his dreamed felicity and indeed do what he could he could not be ready at the Spaniards call His flat-bottomed boats for the shallow Channels leaked his provision of victuals proved unready and his mariners having hitherto been detained against their wills had withdarwn themselves there lay also watching before the Havens of Dunkirk and Newport whence he was to put forth to Sea the men of War of the Hollanders and Zelanders so well provided with great Ordnance and Musketiers that he could not put from the shore unless he would wilfully cast himself and his men upon eminent perils and dangers of destruction and yet he being a skilful and experienced Commander omitted no means being inflamed with a desire to conquer England But Queen Elizabeths foresight prevented both his diligence and

the credulous hope of the Spaniards For by Her command the next day after the Spaniards had cast Anchor the Lord Admiral made ready eight of his worst ships filled with wild-fire pitch rosin brimstone and other combustible matter their Ordnance were charged with bullets stones chains and such like things fit instruments of death and all the men being taken out upon the Sabbath day July the twenty eighth at two of the clock after midnight were they let drive with wind and tide under the guidance of Young and Prowse amongst the Spanish Fleet. And so the Pilots returning and their trains taking fire such a sudden thunderclap was given by them that the affrighted Spaniards it being the dead time of the night were amazed and stricken with an horrible fear lest all their ships should have been fired by them And to avoid this present mischief being in great perplexity they had no other remedy to avoid these deadly engines and murthering inventions then by cutting their cables in sunder the time being too short to weigh up their Anchors and so hoising up their sails to drive at random into the Seas in which hast and confusion the greatest of their Galliastes fell foul upon another ship and lost her rudder and so floted up and down and the next day fearfully making towards Callis ran aground upon the sands where she was set upon by the English This Galliass was of Naples Her General was Hough de Moncado who fought the more valiantly because he expected present help from the Prince of Parma But Sir Amias Preston gave such a fierce assault upon her that Moncado was shot dead with a bullet and the Galliass boarded wherein many of the Spaniards were slain and a great many others leaping into the Sea were drowned only Don Antonio de Matiques a principal Officer had the good hap to escape and was the first man that carried the unwelcome news into Spain that their Invincible Navy proved vincible This huge bottom manned with four hundred Souldiers and three hundred slaves that had in her fifty thousand Ducats of the Spanish Kings treasure fell into the English mens hands a reward well befitting their valour who sharing it merrily amongst them and freeing the miserable slaves from their fetters would have fired the empty vessel but Monsieur Gourden Governour of Callis fearing that the fire might endanger the Town would not permit them to do it bending his Ordnance against those which attempted it Had not this politick Stratagem of the fire-ships been found out it would have been very difficult for the English to have dislodged them for those huge ships had their bulks so strengthened with thick planks and massie beams that our bullets might strike and stick and yet never pass through them So that the greatest hurt which our English Canon did was only by rending their Masts and tacklings The Spaniards report that the Duke of Medina when these burning ships approached commanded the whole Fleet to weigh Anchor to avoid them yet so as having shunned the danger presently every ship to return to her former station which accordingly he did himself giving a signal to the rest to do the like by discharging one of his great Guns but in this general consternation the warning was heard but of a few the rest being scattered all about which for fear were driven some into the' wide Ocean and other upon the shallows of Flanders July the twenty ninth after this miserable disaster the Spaniards ranging themselves into the best order they could approaching over against Graveling where once again the English getting the wind of them deprived them of the conveniency of Callis road and kept them from supply out of Dunkirk from whence rested their full hope of support In the mean while Drake aad Fenner played incessantly with their great Ordnance upon the Spanish Fleet and with them presently joyned Fenton Southwel Be●●●on Cross Riman and lastly the Lord Admiral himself with the Lords Thomas Howard and Sheffield On the other hand the Duke of Medina Leva Oquenda Richalde and others of them with much ado got clear off the shallows and sustained the charge as well as they could yet were most of their ships pitifully torn and shot through the fight continuing from morning till night which indeed proved very dismal to the Spaniards for therein a great Gallion of Biscay perished the Captains whereof to avoid ignominy or to be reputed valorous desparately slew each other ●n which distress also two other great ships presently sunk The Gallion Saint Matthew under the command of Don Diego Piementelli coming to rescue Don Francisco de Toledo who was in the Saint Philip was together with the other miserably torn with shot their tacklings spent and their bulks rent so that the water entred in on all sides which sight was maintained against them by Seimore and Winter In which distress they were driven near Ostend where again they were shot through and through by the Zelanders Their desparate condition being known the Duke of Medina sent his own skiff for Don Diego Piementelli Camp-master and Colonel over thirty two Bands But he in a Spanish Bravado refused to leave his ship and like a Souldier assayed every way to free himself But being unable to do it he forthwith made towards the coast of Flanders where being again set upon by five Dutchmen of War was required to yield which finally he did unto Captain Peter Banderdness who carried him into Zeland and for a Trophy of his victory hung up his Banner in the Church of Leiden whose length reached from the very roof to the ground Another also of the Spanish ships coasting for Flanders was cast away upon the sands Francisco de Toledo also being likewise a Colonel over thirty two Bands in the other Gallion taking his course for the coast of Flanders his ship proved so leak that himself with some others of the chief betook themselves to their skiff and arrived at Ostend the ship with the residue being taken by the Flushingers The Spaniards now finding their welcome into England far worse than they expected were content to couch their Fleet as close together as they could not seeking to offend their enemies but only to defend themselves and the wind coming to the South-west in the same order they passed by Dunkirk the English still following them at the heels But left the Prince of Parma should take this advantage to put forth to Sea the Lord Admiral dispatched the Lord Henry Seimore with his squaron of small ships to the Coast of Flanders to joyn with those Hollanders which there kept watch under Justin of Nassau their Admiral This Holland Fleet consisted of thirty five ships furnished with most skilful Mariners and twelve hundred Muskiteers old experienced Souldiers whom the States had culled out of several Garisons Their charge was to stop up the Flemish Havens and to prevent entercourse with Dunkirk whither the Prince of Parma was come and would