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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

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-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

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

good fellowes send lyes one to the other for recreation and feed their friends with some small taste thereof so it be kept close without danger to incurre the tytle of a lying Generall But as the matter is now handled throgh the simplycitie of the Doctor I cannot see but the General Don Bernaldino is like to carrie the tytle equally twixt both his shoulders Fiftly The generall doth say in his Printed letter that notwithstanding all the diligence he could vse hee coulde not cause the English fleete to staie nor come neere them nor discharge one Hargebush or peece of Artillerie but fled away as fast as they could ANd this lie also he doth not receiue by intelligence from any other but himselfe was an eye-witnesse in the action which made him bold to send this with the rest into his Countrie for currant newes But herein Don Bernaldino was more bolde then wise for the torne and battered sides of his Gallyons being compared with her Maiestes Shippes and others that serued in that fight doe declare that his Ships receiued at least two bullets for one Neither can it be concealed but his owne Countriemen if any do fauour truth may easily see the losse and late reparations done vnto the Kings fleete sithence they did encounter with the English Nauie whensoeuer they that remaine shall arriue in Spaine But the Generall seemeth to bee a verye good proficient in his profession and waxeth somewhat bolde treading the true steppes of old Barnardino de Mendozza and yet Mendozza was somewhat more warie in his lyes for he had sometime the colour of intelligence to shadow them but the Generall growing from boldnes to impudencie maketh no scruple to say that the English Nauie fled as fast as they could without discharging any Hargebush or peece of Artillerie when as the battered sides of his ships do returne the lye to his face For in this conflict Don Bernaldino did behaue himselfe so valiantly that he was alwaies farthest of in the fight had so great care of his owne person that he stoode cleare frō the danger of Muskat or any smal shot durst not approach whereas our generall was the foremost so held his place vntill by order of fight other ships were to haue their turnes according to his former direction who wisely pollitickly had so ordered his vantgard reregarde that as the maner of it was altogether strange to the Spaniard so might they haue bene without all hope of victorie if their General had beene a man of any iudgement in Sea fights I know no reason why the English Nauie should flye from him for the Spaniard may put all the gaine in his eye that euer he did winne from the English Peraduenture some siely nouice of our country meeting the general in Spaine and hearing a repetition of so many sillables in one name as Don Bernaldino Delgadillo de Auellaneda might thinke them to be words of Coniuration for feare of raysing a Spirit might flie from him as from the Deuill or some simple Indian slaue hearing the like repetition of his long and tedious name might suppose it to be an Armie of Spaniards and for feare runne awaye But the commaunders and Captaines of the English Nauie were men of such resolution that no Spanish bragges coulde dismaye them for they haue often met them with their Pikes in their Spanish beardes Nor the countenaunce of Don Bernaldino quaile them although he were acowtred in his gilt Leather buskins and his Toledo Rapyer Sixtly The generall saith in his letter that notwithstanding their flying away so fast the English left them one good Shippe well manned who told him that the Drake dyed in Nombre de Dios in which Shippe were one hundred and fourtie men and fifteene noble Captaines of the best sorte THe Generall Don Bernaldino like a resolute Spaniarde hauing alreadye gonne ouer his shoes maketh no daunger to wade ouer his Boates also and as hee hath begun so he doth conclude I maruaile that hee did not in writing his discourse remember this olde saying that is A lyar ought to haue a good memorie It were much better for him in mine opinion to reuoke the testimonie which hee saith he had from the English men concerning Sir Fraunces Drake his death at Nombre de Dios and stande to the intelligence receiued from the siely Indian slaue as it appeareth in his first lye for without al doubt there is no English man that wil say if he haue his right sences that he dyed at Nombre de Dios for they all knowe the contrarie Neither can the Generall avouch that he receiued intelligence from any English man that after the death of Sir Frances Drake they did elect for Generall Colonell Quebraran as he doth most falsly affirme in the latter end of his vaine and friuolous letter being that the name was straunge and vnknowne to any in the English Nauie Neither doe I imagine that any of those which the General saith he hath taken were so forgetfull as not to remember their generals name But without all doubt this addition of so new and straunge a name to the English Generall doth proue that Don Bernaldino is not vnfurnished of a forge storehouse of lyes from whence as from an euerflowing fountaine he sendeth forth lyes of al sorts suffcient for his owne store and greate plentie to furnish his friends The General was much beholding to his godfathers who gaue him the name Barnaldino which we in English do take to be plaine Barnard which name hath as it were a kind of priueledge from being sharply reprehended when the party is thought to erre for it is a common saying amongst the Schoolemen that Barnardus non videt omnia viz. Barnard seeth not all thinges when he doth dissent from their opinions the which fauour wee coulde bee content to yeelde to Bernaldino for the name sake if he were not taken with so many manifest and impudent lies neither doe I thinke that Signior Bernaldino will say that he saw all that he hath written be it spoken in councell for shaming the General for is there any man so voide of reason as to thinke That any Englishman being demaunded of his Generals name would write or speake Quebraran for Baskeruile so much difference there is in the sound of the sillables as there is no affinitie at all or likelihoode of truth But such are the Generals rare gifts be it spoken to his small praise that we Englishmen must of force confesse that the Generall hath giuen a proude onset to carrie the whetstone from Signior Barnardino de Mendozza Neither will the 140. men 15. noble Captaines which hee saith hee did take of whome he might haue beene rightly informed of their generals name acquit him of lying forgerie for giuing the name of Quebraran to the English Generall as for the good Shippe well manned which he saith the