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A06678	An ansvver to the vntruthes, published and printed in Spaine, in glorie of their supposed victorie atchieued against our English Navie, and the Right Honorable Charles Lord Howard, Lord high Admiral of England, &c. Sir Francis Drake, and the rest of the nobles and gentlemen, captaines, and soldiers of our said navie. First written and published in Spanish by a Spanish gentleman; who came hither out of the Lowe Countries from the service of the prince of Parma, with his wife and familie, since the overthrowe of the Spanish Armada, forsaking both his countrie and Romish religion; as by this treatise (against the barbarous impietie of the Spaniards; and dedicated to the Queenes most excellent Majestie) may appeere. Faithfully translated by I.L.; Respuesta y desengano contra las falsedades publicadas en España enbituperio de la armada Inglesa. English	D. F. R. de M.; Lea, James, fl. 1589.	1589 (1589)	STC 17132; ESTC S109021	42,817	64

upon George Seguin of Callis To all this I say that it is better to be slandered by the wicked for being vertuous than by being evill to be hated of the good I will put an end to the answering of these five Letters for that I have sufficiently done it and for that I may have some time to answer the blinde man the toong and publisher of them onely putting Spaine in mind of a marvellous policie observed by the Lacedemonians who the better to conserve themselves established a lawe that none should be so bold to invent any noveltie in the Common weale And as this law was upon a time broken by a famous musicion called Tependarus whose transgression was that his instrument whereon he used to play being of five orders he added a string and made it of sixe a noveltie offending none neither did it good or harme to the Commonweale neither altered it the minds of the citizens for all this him they banished the Common-weale and brake the instrument in pieces With how much more reason then deere Spaine maist thou bereave the lives of these inventors of false novelties written so much in thy prejudice and the pen inkhorne and paper which served to that use to burne them in the market place Receive this ô Spaine from him that bewailes thy weepings widowes moorning attire and thy scattered small orphans remaining without their fathers aide and consider how far better it had been for thee to have imploied such a puissant Armada against infidels than against Christians baptized in the name of the Father the Sonne and the holie Ghost redeemed by the blood of Christ from whom commeth all our weale and to whom we yeeld infinite thanks and praise for ever and ever Amen An end to the answer of the Letters with a briefe true and Christian relation of that which was done in England after the departure of the Armada THis victorie thus obtained the whole kingdom of England by the commandement of hir Majestie was imploied in spirituall plaies wherein was nothing els represented than thanks-giving to God singing of Psalms and preaching the Gospell and to this spirituall exercise repaired all both small and great poore and rich and this endured for certaine daies and at the length the Queenes sacred Majestie accompanied with the Nobles as Earles Lords Barons Knights and Gentlemen of the land came unto the church of Saint Paule where she was received of the Bishops and other Ministers in whose presence with great reverence solemnitie and devotion there was giving of thanks to God preaching the divine word singing sundry Psalms of which I will onely name this himne The Himne Te Deum laudamus and so foorth WE praise thee O God we knowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee the father everlasting To thee all Angels crie aloud the heaven and all the powers therein To thee Cherubin and Seraphin continually doe crie Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabaoth Heaven and earth are full of the majestie of thy glorie The glorious companie of the Apostles praise thee The goodly fellowship of the Prophets praise thee The noble armie of Martyrs praise thee The holy Church throughout all the world doth knowledge thee The father of an infinite majestie Thy honorable true and onely sonne Also the holy Ghost the comforter Thou art the King of glorie O Christ. Thou art the everlasting son of the father When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man thou diddest not abhor the virgins wombe When thou hadst overcome the sharpnes of death thou didst open the kingdome of heaven to all beleevers Thou sittest on the right hand of God in the glorie of the father We beleeve that thou shalt come to be our judge We therefore pray thee helpe thy servants whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood Make them to be numbred with thy saints in glorie everlasting O Lord save thy people and blesse thine heritage Governe them and lift them up for ever Day by day we magnifie thee And we worship thy name ever world without end Vouchsafe O Lord to keepe us this day without sinne O Lord have mercie upon us have mercie upon us O Lord let thy mercie lighten upon us as our trust is in thee O Lord in thee have I trusted let me never be confounded THere were also said sundrie praiers some of thankesgiving for so great benefits received from the Lord others for the life and prosperitie of the Queenes Majestie and for peace others for the increasing of our zeale and the holding of his holie hand over us and for his church universall To him be all praise honor and glorie for ever and ever Amen FAr otherwise ô Spaine they celebrate heer such victories then they do in thy kindomes and provinces for there they passe all in worldly sports as maskings dauncings with bels hurling of canes launcing of buls Iusts and torneies and with these feastes ô Spaine thou givest the glorie of thy victories to the world as though the world had given them unto thee but from hence foorth take my counsell and give them to God and turne to him But if thou wilt be obstinate and still give them to the world heere I present thee a Himne which thou maist sing to the head of this world The Himne TE Papam damnamus Te confusum confitemur Te confusionis Patrem omnis terra arbitratur Tibi Ecclesiastici seculares incessabili voce proclamant Confusus Confusus Confusus dominus Babaloth Vacui sunt coeli terra operibus gloriae tuae Te gloriosus Theologorum chorus Te Medicorum laudabilis numerus Te Philosophorum candidatus vituperat exercitus Te per orbem terrarum omnis confitetur schola Patrem Mentis aegestatis Reprobandum tuum falsum innorme Collegium Malum quoque tuum spiritum Tu rex gloriae vanae Tu superbiae sempiternus es filius Tu ad regendam suscepturus Ecclesiam confudisti mundum Tu injuncto mortis juramento clausisti tibi credentibus Regna coelorum Tu ad dexteram Diaboli sedes in pena Luciferi Iudicatus crederis esse venturus Te ergo quae sumus tuis Scholis subueni quas ligitioso furore perdidisti Aeterno fac cum sociis tuis igne numerari Damna Papatum hunc Domine maledic haereditati suae Et doma eum humillia illum usque in aeternum Per singulos dies Papam maledicimus tibi Et vituperamus nomen tuum in seculum in seculum seculi Dignare Domine die illo Peccatorem hunc damnare Nèmiserearis ejus Domine nè miserearis ejus Fiat maledictio tua Domine super eum quemadmodum speravimus in te Tibi Domine peccavit confundatur in aeternum Amen The same in English WE condemn thee ô pope We knowledge thee to be confounded Al the earth judgeth thee to be the father of confusion To thee the cleargie and laitie continually docrie Confounded

confounded confounded Lord of Babaloth Heaven and earth are void of the workes of thy glorie The glorious companie of divines dispraise thee The goodly societie of Phisitions dispraise thee The noble armie of Philo sophers dispraise thee Everie schoole throughout the world doth knowledge thee The father of the povertie of minde to be Thy counterfeit and enormous colledge to be reprobate Also thine evill spirit Thou art the king of vaine glorie Thou art the everlasting son of pride When thou tookest upon thee to governe the church thou disorderedst the world Thou by an injoined oth of death hast shut the kingdome of heaven to all that beleeve thee Thou sittest at the right had of the divel in the pain of Lucifer Thou art beleeved that thou shalt come to be judged Wee therefore praie thee helpe thy colledges which thou hast cast away by cōtentious fury Make them to be numbred with thy fellowes in fire everlasting O Lord condemn this papacy And curse his inheritage Subdue him and cast him downe for ever Day by day ô pope we curse thee We dispraise thy name ever world without end Vouchsafe ô Lord that daie this sinner to condemne O Lord have no mercy upon him have no mercy upon him O Lord let thy curse lighten upon him as we have trusted in thee O Lord against thee hath he sinned let him for ever be confounded An answer to the songs of Christovall Bravo of Cordova blinde of bodie and soule in praise of the victorie which the Spanish Armada had against the English the yeere of our Lord God 1588 The first song O Emperour most high Iesus Christ consecrate Sonne of the virgine pure without sin begat Which wouldest for our sin suffer and die vpon the crosse whipt crowned and hung on hie Give me thy grace thou crowned king of kings to sing and recount these memorable things Which in England past as told I have beene and thou blessed virgine divine-garden and Queene Of Christ get me favor sith he is thy son that my toong may well end what I have begon Since our Armada went foorth as is prooved at last from the citie of Lishborne in May that is past Sailing with diligence care and all speede passing by the Groine a good harborough at need Heere begin the plagues of Egypt And after fewe daies great stormes there arose that unto the Groine the fleete againe gose Pharao his hart is hardned And the three and twentie of Iulie this yeere yet in hand they purpose to prosecute their voiage began Now begin the lies The second of August the Armada of Drake that pestilent man towards ours did make A lie On whom ours set with courage not thought and straight seven twenty to the bottom were brought And fower more without yards there were staid when all the rest fled they were so afraid Towards Dover in haste as written I found to enter the Thames their fortune so fround to live in their harbrough more safe and more sound The Answer to the first Song BLinde foole lier unbaptized and scald why thus devoid of feare on Christ hast thou cald To give and repart of his bountifull glorie to thee the treasure of his grace thou unhollie Saieng thou wilt sing a matter strange and true which was a loud lie as everie man knew Proclaiming dog truths yet sellest thou lies giving victorie to the vanquisht and the victors despies Abasing the victor and exalting the slaine And the glorie of England thou givest to Spaine Monster of nature borne in some lake mongst flags the sonne of a toade or a snake Lucifer thy father and Sathan thy brother a vassall of hell Leasings thy mother Thou wantest thy three powers and in steed thou hast got lieng and blindnes and of asses braines a pot I call thee Lope the Vylde blinde asse and dolt Ram ape parret munckie and colt Oystridge and ape clad in a coate of greene and sundry colours thy lightnes to note Mutinous perverse shamelesse in all things enemie to see peace amongst Christian kings Saie how durst thou sing the king of Spaine had destroide the English Navie and yet he the annoid Thou infamest thy woorthy king and dispisest his decree thou overthrowest his crowne scepter and degree And tell me bold bayard more fowle then horse gall why such words thou usest gainst a soldier so tall As is Sir Francis Drake of Gods temple a prop a defender of faith and to Britaine a hoape Of whom the universall trembles at his name the Indies for witnes can speake of his fame Galicia Cales San. Domingo Cartagena fear him at this day San. Augustine Santiago and the fierce Ocean sea The duke of Medina feard and durst not abide him Valdes that fled not may saie how he tride him He lost his strong ship and his soldiers stout but he lost not his honor by fighting it out They blind who blindfold fled are of thy side whose ships are lost displanckt and opened wide Who came out of the Groine in month of Iulie last of munition full of men powder shot and good repast These are the lost the English have the best for God was on their side who now doth give them rest The end of the answer to the first song The blinde mans second song wherein he prosecuteth his untruthes and injuries AFter the great battell was ended as before the second of August a fight most fierce and sore Our Armada retired to place most apt and meet to know if any hurt had chanced to our fleet One ship alone was mist which burned was at sea by slight regard hard mishap and lucklesse daie But all the men were saved and not a man was lost and other harme was none for that was all and most And on the sixt daie of month I named last our Armada going on thorow narrow chanell past And so did the contrarie proceed the selfe same way as neere unto England as either of them may And the English thought the wind of us to get but God would it not so their purpose he did let And when the darkesome night was come upon the skie the adverse part prepard at anker where they lie Eight ships all burning bright which seemed to the view ech ship of them a hell all what I sing is true Of powder full and stones with timber huge and great with engens many more which I can not repeat That they on our Armada at unawares might drive to burne our ships and men not leaving one alive But he the king of Heaven which rules the world wide permitted not theffect their treazons put a side For he inspirde our Duke of that his foe had wrought and then the prudent Duke to prevent the treason sought Or else they burnt must be wherefore the Duke doth send and wils each man his cable cut and all away to wend Vnto the sea where larger scoape they had his grace did so command which made

AN ANSWER TO THE VNTRVTHES PVBLISHED AND PRINTED IN SPAINE IN GLORIE OF THEIR SVPPOSED VICTORIE atchieued against our English NAVIE and the Right Honorable CHARLES Lord HOWARD Lord high Admiral of England c. Sir FRANCIS DRAKE and the rest of the Nobles and Gentlemen Captaines and Soldiers of our said Navie First written and published in Spanish By a Spanish Gentleman who came hither out of the Lowe Countries from the service of the prince of PARMA with his wife and familie since the overthrowe of the Spanish Armada forsaking both his countrie and Romish religion as by this Treatise against the barbarous impietie of the Spaniards and dedicated to the Queenes most excellent Majestie may appeere Faithfully translated by I. L. LONDON Printed by Iohn Iackson for Thomas Cadman 1589. England to hir Queene S. D. Eternall yeeres thee prosper and vphold My soueraigne Queene the MIGHTIE HAND And grant thee morne and euening to behold Health content joy on thee and me thy land Treasure heaped up of siluer and of gold Both day and night within thy presence stand And for reward befall upon thy foe punishment and paine with euer during wo. England to hir Admirall The Lion white his lookes against the skie His visage grim his dredfull frowning browe Doth well bewraie my Howard to the eie Triumphing stands who rules my Navie now And long maist thou it rule far of thy day to die That frighted foes may never dare againe To saile my seas nor once approch my Maine I. LEA. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE CHARLES LORD HOWARD BARON OF Effingham Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter Lord high Admirall of England and one of hir Majesties most Honorable privie counsell I. L. wisheth long life in perfect health with great increase of honor WHen Caesar swaid the dictatorship of Rome those right Honorable that wrote the Romain conquests offred their papers under his patronage as coveting a martiall Mecoenas for works treating of high performed chivalrie Entring into the sight of the Romain methode chauncing upon a Spanish Pamphlet dedicated to the Queenes most excellent Majestie containing an answer against certaine untruths published and printed in Spaine when I noted that vertue coulde not but be praised even by a late enimie though now reconciled a stranger naie a Spaniard forceced by truth it selfe to defend the woorthines of our English Nobilitie against his owne countriemen I could not right Honorable but for the benefite and farther incouragement of my country publish his works in English and presume to present it to your good Lordship who being most woorthilie high Admirall of England and cheefe agent in so honorable a service did blazon to the Spaniards the matchlesse resolution of your knightly prowesse And although Sir Francis Drake be most touched in their invectives as an enimie cheefely noted for his private prejudice offered them in Spaine and in the Indies and as they thought the cheefe governor also in this honorable action Yet now feeling and knowing the valor of your honors woorthines time shal make your name as fearefull to the Spaniards as was that of high minded Scipio against the Numidians And somewhat by comparison to note right Honorable the slacknes of Englishmen in yeelding high deservers in so honorable and profitable a service their due I saie that if the Duke of Medina being in the same place for Spaine as your Honor for England had gotten as God forbid the like glorious conquest against our English Navie as your Honor woone against the Spanish Armada the chronicles of Spaine had bin stuffed with his praises the cleargie had soong him in with Te Deum thorow the streets of Toledo made him triumphs in his towne of S. Lucar and in fine Deified him and registred him amidst their catologue of Saints If then right Honorable the Spaniards setting out such hyperbolicall trophees of their cōquests seeke by such praises to incourage their nobilitie It behooveth us not to be stained with ingratitude but to publish the prowesse of such woorthy men as still with their bloud do paint out the woorthines of their resolutions Amongst whom your Honor having the cheefest place as high Admirall of so victorious a fleete and performing in your owne person such honorable service therein I humbly present this my simple translation to your Honors patronage as the Romaines did their martial discourses to the Dictator hoping your Honor will beare with the harshnes of my stile in that verbally it answers the authors minde and to accept of my well intended meaning with that honorable curtesie that your noble minde hath alwaies extended towards others In which hope resting I wish to your lordship such health and happines with such most honorable successe to all your attempts as your Honor can desire and I imagine Your Honors most humble in all obedience IAMES LEA. TO THE QVEENES MOST EXCELLENT MAIESTY ELIZABETH BY THE GRACE OF GOD QVEENE OF ENGLAND FRAVNCE AND IRELAND DEFENDER of the faith c. all blessednes good hap victorie with encrease of triumphant raigne and life everlasting SAint Iohn Chrysostom most renowmed Queene saith in one of his Homilies of the praise of S. Paul that such is the condition of falsehood that of it selfe it commeth to naught and on the contrarie that truth is knit togither with such strength that wel it may be assaulted but never cōquered and that deceit yeeldeth unto hir as having no power to resist hirs I remember to haue read in the 3. booke of Esdras being questioned before Darius king of Persia what might be the thing of greatest strength it was agreed and concluded that it was truth which not onely overcommeth those things that time goeth on consuming but triumpheth also over time it selfe false opinion for a while may beare authoritie but at length truth prevaileth whose nature is woonderfull for where most force is opposed against hir there becommeth she most strongest and the more they strive to throwe hir downe to the bottome and to bury hir in the bottomlesse pit of oblivion the more she ascendeth aloft and shewes hirselfe in the highest even as the oyle though it be put under the water yet straight commeth above it so is truth for in case men would put it under falshood yet it shal arise to the highest place for it abideth not to lie long in covert For even as a comet appeereth for a season in which it sheweth some brightnes but yet endureth not long bicause though it seeme a star yet is none even so is deceit though it may be beleeved for a time by a false apparance of light yet at length it shall vanish and consume away when as truth shal endure to the end Truth is a thing so pretious and belooved of God that al they who seeke to excell in vertue do preferre hir before treasure choosing to be behinde in wealth to go forward with truth And finallie they esteeme the hazarding of their life which soone passeth

awaie for wel imploied for the love of truth which abideth for ever David preferring truth before al worldly matters saith Take not ô Lord thy truth out of my mouth In ancient histories we read that Simandrus prince of Egypt commanded his picture to be engraved on his tombe and a jewell on his breast with his eies fixed thereon which jewell was the image of truth as recordeth Diodor. Sicul. Elianus saith that Pithagoras called truth a thing divine And of the same Pitha it is written that he said that for a man to make himselfe a God he ought to speake the truth Truth is a centre where vertues repose the north star of the vertuous the balme of the wounded and finally it is the butte whereat many shoote and the white that fewe do hitte All these I bring renowmed Queene that they who shall reade my answere may knowe that in the defense I make of the truth which hapned in both Navies that my intent is to deale in truth and not to flatter your Majesty you being an enimy to adulation and I knowing it to be as far from the princely nature of your Majestie to heare it as from mine to write it And that you have in memorie the saieng of S. Hierome that he that would be accounted woorthy of true praise should not seek it of men That which heer I meane to speake of are certaine truths so cleere and manifest that they publish themselves For who seeth not the great regard in your Majestie of divine woorship the great devocion to the sacred scripture the fulnes of Religion that shineth in your Majestie the alwaies opened large hand to the poore And who seeth not more clearely with his eies then I can utter with my words the singuler prudencie of your Majestie your sound justice your excellent fortitude your marvellous temperancie your firme truth your clemencie your benignitie your good government your royall condition and the shining of your works enterlaced with divine love Your Majestie may be said to be a coffer wherein nature hath laide up hir treasure and hir gathering togither of those perfections which were repartederst amongst manie Such finites answer well to the trunck from whence your Majestie descends even from that invincible king and most christian prince Henrie the 8. whose woorthie deeds live in the remembrance of this present age and shall never die in the times to come These and many such perfect vertues of your Majestie have wrought in me such love that I have bin verie desirous to do you some service determining to effectuat these my desires which long I have bread in my breast I purposed to offer to your Majesty this my answer but I chanced to meet with a new fear which made me doubt For perceiving it not to deserve to appeer before so excellent a Queene I stood in suspence what to do being driven into many and sundrie thoughts as having experience that boldnes without deliberation most commonly causeth repentance At length the one and the other considerations felt waied togither I found love to overcharge and waie downe respect Thorow which I determined to dedicate it to your Majestie thereby as well to shewe the desire I have to serve you as also that this short answer and poore woorke belonging to your Majestie may receive that auctoritie which it cannot have in being mine and the darke mist which it hath on my part may be banished by the resplendent shining that it shall receive from your Majestie whose Royall person the Lord Almightie preserve and prosper in his blessed service Amen Your Majesties humble and loyall servant which kisseth your Royall feete and hands D F. R. de M. The Answer I Marvell good Sir to see a man of so noble a linage and no lesse indued with the gifts of nature than others should have your eares so opened to heare the rumors and lies which the scoffing gibing flatterers do write you and I woonder not so much in that you credit them as at the speede wherewith your Honor doth write them Truly I am sorie for it Looke into your selfe and you shall see that they who write you such novelties do but fill your sides with sharp darts Your Honor writeth to Spaine that it is a matter most true that the Lord high Admirall of England was come running away with 25. or 26. ships unto London and that he had lost his ship that was Admirall and that this was written for a matter most certaine by persons of credit from London I knowe not what men of credit they should be that wrote a matter of so great discredit But at leastwise this I know that if your Honor were in London we might sing unto you the song of Don Pedro More enimies than friends have compassed his person For in truth I know not so much as one in that citie that is your friend You saie farther in your letter that the Admirall was lost hardly may a ship be lost that had for hir governor so noble a captain as is that noble gentleman my L. Charles Howard who when fortune should haue bin so wholy his enimie would rather have chosen to dy than flie But both the Admiral and his ship that was Admirall entred both togither as togither they erst went forth into the river of London triūphing in the victorie that the Lord vouchsafed to give them unto whom they yeeld all praise and thanks Your Honor saith farther that Drake is prisoner I demand by whom Know you not that from the Dragon the Lion flies the Beare feares the Oliphant hides himselfe the Lybard trembles the Tygre retires the Ounce dismaieth and the rest of the beasts tremble If then this be so who should he be that should take Drake that the venome and poison of his sword bereft him not of his life It was then an unbridled boldnes in him that wrote your Honor this matter Concerning which read a short letter which I make in answer of that of Diego Perez postmaster of Logronio and therin although I deale softly with him you may see who Drake is and what he hath done in the Indies and in Spaine and chawing it in the cud you shall know some part of his valor Your honor saith that if he be not prisoner he is slaine in these words Drake is either taken or dead The Ginets in Spaine deliver themselves flieng and hurt the more so that they do more harme flieng then assaulting but on the sea it is contrary For if his enimie fled from him who tooke him or slue him If your Honor in saieng Drake is prisoner or dead had added he is prisoner to hir Majestie then would I be silent for that he is so loyall a subiect unto hir that though free yet alwaies in hir prison and sacrificed day and night to do hir service and for and in all to accomplish hir will And in saieng dead had your Honor named the disease whereof

he died we would saie that the howre were come wherein the Lord almighty had called him unto himselfe but finally he is both free and alive and as loyall a vassall to hir Majestie as ever Farther your Honor saith that the Queene commanded that there should be no talke of hir Navie giving thereby to understand that it was in regard of the great dammage hir said Navie had received She commanded no such matter but had she so commanded it had bin a thing both holie and iust for as she is an enimie to all vaine-glorie even so the spoiles of hir victorie and triumph she offered it all to God from whom it came And if for not receiving these letters so plentie as at other times you gathered that it was ordained by hir Majestie that they should not write you gathered amisse for the cause was no other but that for the generall repairing of all people to give thanks to God at the Churches from whom all their good proceeded they became unmindful of all worldly affaires Great ods between this celebration of victorie and that which was used in Spaine where in steed of singing Psalmes and praises unto God they made fire and sports and blinde men in open places pirkt up upon fishmongers stals soong songs making the people beleeve that they were victors the contrarie where of is true Your letter relates farther that hir Majestie had 30000. men betweene Dover and Margate rawe soldiers heer to I answere that this ballance runneth too fast for that hir Majesties campe was hard by Tylberrie in the province of Essex a far different place from Dover Margate And that hir Majestie was with them it was so and marke your Honor what I saie that the sight of Iulius Caesar in his hoast wrought not so great effect as did the sight of hir Majestie amongst hirs for she being a valiant Mars and shewing hir selfe a most expert warrior clad hir soldiers with the webs and fels of Hercules where there was not any that esteemed himselfe in lesse than a Hanniball or a Cevola whereunto they were invited by the sight of a tender woman being the first that put hirselfe to such a travell for Christendome the peace of hir countrie and for the quietnes of hir subiects And who so had seene hir Majestie I say not that he should have seene an angrie Mars a Iulius Caesar or Charlemaine for all this is winde in comparison of hir But he should have seene a Debora a Hester a Ruth and a Iudith and finally he should have seene a Valour second to none You said farther in your letter that hir Majestie went to and from the Campe bicause the Catholikes had made a mutinie Your Honor knowes that it is an old Proverbe that when you see your neighbours beard a shaving prepare yours to the washing basen And in this countrie they remember what the Gospell saith Everie kingdome divided against it selfe shall be desolate And the experience heereof they finde in their neighbors the french men that for not having peace amongst themselves their poore kingdome is destroyed Concerning this matter I have heard it questioned in this countrie by some persons of no base calling who say plainly that while your Honor was heer they never had any perfect quietnes amongst them and since your departure they have had no broyles nor strife and it may be that the going of matters in such sort in the kingdome of Fraunce so troubled and kindled as they are that it is by reason your Honor is there and that your absence might quench so great a fire You saie farther in your letter that there was none other ship brought hither but that of Don Pedro de Valdes Heerin is the publishing of victorie gainsaid and losse evident the which ship had your Armada bin victors they had not permitted to be brought hither neither was Don Pedro de Valdes so ill a soldier nor for so little as to suffer himselfe to be taken by a people alreadie overcome and running awaie neither the soldiers which he had with him which were fower hundreth at least of lesse valor then the rest of those of the Armada they were rather everie man to conquere a kingdome and to give a thousand victories But the thrise noble Lord high Admirall not flieng but assaulting and he the captive or slaine Drake his fetters broken and risen from death fettered the conquerers and bereaved their life who lived a little before In conclusion there were no more ships brought into England but that of Don Pedro as for the rest for a better demonstration of the truth they were contented that their friends and neighbors should participate with them and so they left a Galleasse at Callis wherein amongst others was slaine Don Hugo de Moncada and Don Georje Manrique being Veedor Generall escaped to carrie the true relation thereof unto Spaine And the Saint Matthew and S. Philip being two most strong Gallions were carried to Flushing out of one of the which escaped Don Francisco de Toledo with sixe and thirtie soldiers which were the remainder of fower or five hundreth which he had with him and in the other was taken Don Diego Pimentel with all his men save those that were slaine and many other ships by divine providence by force of wind and sea were destroied upon the coast of Ireland If I have bin large in answering your Honor the occasion excuseth me and the matter which is wider then the sea makes me thinke to be woorthy reprehension for being so short Yet notwithstanding time which gave an end to these my wearisome reasonings seemed to call upon me to passe on farther And having cast about I fell into consideration with my selfe what occasion I might have to enlarge farther sith though briefely I had answered to the letter and I perceived that the lawe of love and Christianitie in the Lord did binde me to admonish you like a true neighbor The lawe of love in Christ saith Love your enimies And this said Christ after that he had said Yee have heard that it hath bin said thou shalt love thy friend and hate thy enimie and he passeth on saieng and do good to them that hate you There is another lawe which saith Yee shall not render ill for ill but good for evill These and such other sacred words do binde me to love your Honor but not your condition proceedings for if I should have respect thereunto I should followe the lawe of old Thou shalt love thy friend and hate thy enimie and I should be more bound to hate then love you But for that the Gospel commandeth me To do good to those that hurt me and to render good for evill and to love my enimies I will do both the one and the other so that I will both love and do you good I meane not to do you good by bestowing treasures upon you bicause I have them not but I wil give you of