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A10376	A report of the truth of the fight about the Iles of Açores, this last sommer Betvvixt the Reuenge, one of her Maiesties shippes, and an armada of the King of Spaine.	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.	1591 (1591)	STC 20651; ESTC S110589	12,066	30

victorie Which also in my opinion had il sorted or answered the discretion trust of a Generall to commit himselfe and his charge to an assured destruction without hope or any likelihood of preuailing therby to diminish the strength of her Maiesties Nauy to enrich the pride glorie of the enemie The Foresight of the Queenes commanded by M. Th. Vauisor performed a verie great fight stayd two houres as neere the Reuenge as the wether wold permit him not forsaking the fight till hee was like to be encompassed by the squadrōs with great difficultie cleared himselfe The rest gaue diuers voleies of shot entred as far as the place permitted their own necessities to keep the weather gage of the enemy vntill they were parted by night A fewe daies after the fight was ended the English prisoners dispersed into the Spanish Indy ships there arose so great a storme from the West and Northwest that all the fleet was dispersed as well the Indian fleet which were then come vnto them as the rest of the Armada that attended their arriuall of which 14. saile togither with the Reuenge in her 200. Spaniards were cast away vpon the Isle of S. Michaels So it pleased them to honor the buriall of that renowned ship the Reuenge not suffring her to perish alone for the great honour she achieued in her life time On the rest of the Ilandes there were cast away in this storme 15. or 16. more of the ships of war and of a hundred and odde saile of the Indie fleet expected this yeere in Spaine what in this tempest what before in the bay of Mexico about the Bermudas there were 70. odde consumed lost with those taken by our ships of London besides one verie rich Indian shippe which set her selfe on fire beeing boorded by the Pilgrim fiue other takē by Maister Wats his ships of London between the Hauana and Cape S. Antonio The 4. of this month of Nouēber we receiued letters from the Tercera affirming y t there are 3000. bodies of mē remaining in that Iland saued out of the perished ships and that by the Spaniards own Cōfessiō there are 10000. cast away in this storm besides those that are perished betweene the Ilands and the maine Thus it hath pleased God to fight for vs to defend the iustice of our cause against the ambicious bloudy pretenses of the Spaniard who seeking to deuourall nations are themselues deuoured A manifest testimonie how iniust displeasing their attempts are in the sight of God who hath pleased to witnes by the successe of their affaires his mislike of their bloudy and iniurious designes purposed practised against all Christian Princes ouer whom they secke vnlawfull and vngodly rule and Empery One day or two before this wrack hapned to the spanish fleet when as some of our prisoners desired to be set on shore vpō the Ilands hoping to be frō thēce trāsported into Englād which libertie was formerly by the Generall promised One Morice Fitz Iohn sonne of old Iohn of Desmond a notable traitor cousen german to the late Earle of Desmond was sent to the English from ship to ship to persuade them to serue the King of Spaine The arguments he vsed to induce them were these The increase of pay which he promised to bee trebled aduancement to the better sort and the exercise of the true Catholicke religion and safetie of their soules to all For the first euen the beggerly vnnaturall behauiour of those English and Irish rebels that serued the King in that presentaction was sufficient to answere that first argument of rich paie For so poore and beggerly they were as for want of apparel they stripped their poore country men prisoners out of their ragged garments worne to nothing by six months seruice and spared not to despoile them euen of their bloudie shirts from their wounded bodies the very shooes from their feete A notable testimonie of their rich entertainment and great wages The second reason was hope of aduancement if they serued well and would continue faithfull to the King But what man can be so blockishly ignorant euer to expect place or honour from a forraine king hauing no other argument or perswasion then his owne disloyaltie to bee vnnaturall to his owne countrie that bredde him to his parents that begat him and rebellious to his true prince to whose obedience he is bound by othe by nature and by religion No they are onely assured to be imployed in all desperate enterprises to be held in scorne and disdaine euer among those whom they serue And that euer traitor was either trusted or aduanced I could neuer yet reade neither can I at this time remember any example And no man could haue lesse becommed the place of an Orator for such a purpose then this Morice of Desmond For the Earle his cosen being one of the greatest subiects in that kingdō of Ireland hauing almost whole contries in his possession so many goodly manners Castles and Lordships the Count Palatine of Kerry fiue hundred gentlemen of his owne name and familie to follow him besides others All which he possessed in peace for three or foure hundred yeares was in lesse then three yeares after his adhering to the Spaniards and rebellion beaten from all his holdes not so many as ten gentlemen of his name left liuing him selfe taken and beheaded by a souldiour of his owne nation and his land giuen by a Parlament to her Maestie and possessed by the English His other cosen Sir Iohn of Desmond takē by M. Iohn Zouch his body hanged ouer the gates of his natiue citie to bee deuoured by Rauens the third brother Sir Iames hanged drawne and quartered in the same place If he had withall vaunted of this successe of his owne house no doubt the argument woulde haue moued much and wrought great effect which because he for that present forgot I thought it good to remember in his behalfe For matter of religion it would require a particuler volume if I should set downe how irreligiously they couer their greedy and ambicious pretences with that vayle of pietie But sure I am that there is no kingdom or common wealth in all Europe but if they bee reformed they then inuade it for religion sake if it be as they terme Catholike they pretende title as if the Kinges of Castile were the naturall heires of all the worlde and so betweene both no kingdom is vnsought where they dare not with their owne forces to inuade they basely entertaine the traitors and vacabondes of all nations seeking by those by their runnagate Iesuits to win partes and haue by that meane ruined many Noble houses and others in this land and haue extinguished both their liues and families What good honour or fortune euer man yet by them achiued is yet vnheard of or vnwritten And if our English Papistes do but looke into Portugall against whom

A REPORT OF THE TRVTH OF the fight about the Iles of Açores this last Sommer BETVVIXT THE Reuenge one of her Maiesties Shippes And an Armada of the King of Spaine LONDON Printed for william Ponsonbie 1591. A report of the truth of the fight about the Isles of Açores this last summer betwixt the Reuenge one of her Maiesties Shippes and an Armada of the king of Spaine BEcause the rumours are diuersly spred as well in Englande as in the lowe countries and els where of this late encounter between her maiesties ships and the Armada of Spain and that the Spaniardes according to their vsuall maner fill the world with their vaine glorious vaunts making great apparance of victories when on the contrary themselues are most commonly shamefully beaten and dishonoured therby hoping to possesse the ignorant multitude by anticipating and forerunning false reports It is agreeable with all good reason for manifestation of the truth to ouercome falshood and vntruth that the beginning continuance and successe of this late honourable encounter of Syr Richard Grinuile and other her maiesties Captaines with the Armada of Spaine should be truly set downe published without parcialitie or false imaginations And it is no maruell that the Spaniard should seeke by false slandrous Pamphlets aduisoes and Letters to couer their owne losse and to derogate from others their due honours especially in this fight beeing performed farre of seeing they were not ashamed in the yeare 1588. when they purposed the inuasion of this land to publish in sundrie languages in print great victories in wordes which they pleaded to haue obteined against this Realme and spredde the same in a most false sort ouer all partes of France Italie and elsewhere When shortly after it was happily manifested in verie deed to all Nations how their Nauy which they termed inuincible consisting of 240. saile of ships not onely of their own kingdom but strengthened with the greatest Argosies Portugall Caractes Florentines and huge Hulkes of other countries were by thirtie of her Maiesties owne shippes of warre and a few of our owne Marchants by the wise valiant and most aduantagious conduction of the L. Charles Howard high Admirall of England beaten and shuffeled togither euen from the Lizard in Cornwall first to Portland where they shamefully left Don Pedro de Valdes with his mightie shippe from Portland to Cales where they lost Hugo de Moncado with the Gallias of which he was Captain and from Cales driuen with squibs from their anchors were chased out of the sight of England round about Scotland and Ireland Where for the sympathie of their barbarous religion hoping to finde succour and assistance a great part of them were crusht against the rocks and those other that landed being verie manie in number were notwithstanding broken slaine and taken and so sent from village to village coupled in halters to be shipped into Englād Where her Maiestie of her Princely inuincible disposition disdaining to put them to death and scorning either to retaine or entertaine them were all sent backe againe to their countries to witnesse and recount the worthy achieuements of their inuincible and dreadfull Nauy Of which the number of souldiers the fearefull burthen of their shippes the commanders names of euerie squadron with all other their magasines of prouisions were put in print as an Army Nauy vnresistible and disdaining preuention With all which so great and terrible an ostentation they did not in all their sailing rounde about England so much as sinke or take one ship Barke Pinnes or Cockbote of ours or euer burnt so much as one sheepcote of this land When as on the contrarie Syr Francis Drake with only 800. souldiers not long before landed in their Indies and forced Santiago Santo Domingo Cartagena and the Fortes of Florida And after that Syr Iohn Norris marched from Peniche in Portugall with a handfull of souldiers to the gates of Lisbone being aboue 40. English miles Where the Earle of Essex himselfe and other valiant Gentlemen braued the Cittic of Lisbone encamped at the verie gates from whence after many daies abode finding neither promised partie nor prouisiō to batter made retrait by lād in despight of all their Garrisons both of Horse and foote In this sort I haue a little digressed from my first purpose only by the necessarie comparison of theirs and our actions the one couetous of honor without vaunt or ostentation the other so greedy to purchase the opiniō of their own affaires by false rumors to resist the blasts of their owne dishonors as they will not only not blush to spread all manner of vntruthes but euen for the least aduantage be it but for the taking of one poore aduenturer of the English will celebrate the victorie with bonefiers in euerie town alwaies spending more in faggots then the purchase was worth they obtained When as we neuer yet thought it worth the consumption of two billets when we haue taken eight or ten of their Indian shippes at one time twentie of the Brasill fleet Such is the difference betweene true valure and ostentation and betweene honourable actions and friuolous vaineglorious uaunts But now to returne to my first purpose The L. Thomas Howard with sixe of her Maiesties ships sixe victualers of London the barke Ralegh and two or three Pinnases riding at anchor nere vnto Flores one of the Westerlie Ilands of the Azores the last of August in the after noone had intelligence by one Captaine Midleton of the approch of the Spanish Armada Which Midleton being in a verie good Sailer had kept them eompanie three daies before of good purpose both to discouer their forces the more as also to giue aduice to my L. Thomas of their approch He had no sooner deliuered the newes but the Fleet was in sight manie of our shippes companies were on shore in the Iland some prouiding balast for their ships others filling of water and refreshing themselues from the land with such thinges as they coulde either for money or by force recouer By reason whereof our ships being all pestered and romaging euerie thing out of order verie light for want of balast And that which was most to our disaduantage the one halfe part of the men of euerie shippe sicke and vtterly vnseruiceable For in the Reuenge there were nintie diseased in the Bonauenture not so many in health as could handle her maine saile For had not twentie men beene taken out of a Barke of Sir George Caryes his being commanded to be sunke and those appointed to her she had hardly euer recouered England The rest for the most part were in little better state The names of her Maiesties shippes were these as followeth the Defiaunce which was Admirall the Reuenge Viceadmirall the Bonauenture commanded by Captaine Crosse the Lion by George Fenner the Foresight by M. Thomas Vauisour and the Crane by Duffeild The Foresight the Crane being but smal ships onely the other were