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A12691	A packe of Spanish lyes sent abroad in the vvorld: first printed in Spaine in the Spanish tongue, and translated out of the originall. Now ripped vp, vnfolded, and by iust examination condemned, as conteyning false, corrupt, and detestable wares, worthy to be damned and burned.		1588 (1588)	STC 23011; ESTC S117693	9,398	29

without any fight although he presented the same to them howbeit they began to shoot at the Rereward but the Duke in the Galleon S. Martin set the Prow of his ship against the biggest of the enemies the which being succoured by twenty others fled away of this fight and first encounter there was sunke three Galeasses foure mighty Galeons of the Queenes there was burnt of ours by negligence of a Gunner the Admiral of Oquendo the enemies tooke the chiefe ship of Don Pedro Valdez which being entangled with others vnder his charge was left without tackle and so neere the enemies that she coulde not be succoured by others With this our fleete seeing that the enemie in euery point did flie from giuing battell they sailed with some calme weather the enemies after them shooting alwayes at the Rereward vntil the seuenth that our fleet ancored in the Roade of S. Iohn betwixt Calleis Bollin nine leagues from Dunkerke the enemies did the like the neerest they could to Englād The night being approched the enemies got vp their ankers to get the wind and not to suffer our shippes to goe out of the Roade to sea because they had trimmed viii ships of fire which with the corrent of the water should haue put them selues amongst our ships to haue burnt them But my Lord the Duke foreseeing the danger preuented them with cōmandement that the shippes that were neerest should cut their Cables to take vp the others with a readinesse vncredible and with this the enemies pretence was hindered and so got the sea most brauely and with such good fortune that if he had not done it our armie should haue ben in euil case for in the very place which we left there was shotte off by them out of those fierie ships such fires other engins that were sufficient to burne the Sea much more ships which are made of wood and pitch In this departure the Captaine of the Galeasses had a great mischance for getting vp her Anker a Cable fel foule of her Helme that she could not follow the rest which caused one of her sides to lie so hie that her ordinance could not play and so xxv Pinases came and battered her and withall this if the mariners souldiers rowers that were in her had not cast themselues into the sea it is holdē for certaine that m Don Hugo de Mōcada had defended her as he did vntil she came into Calleis where at the entrance thereof he was killed of two Caliuer shot the people on shore defended the Galeasse all that was in her and deliuered the same to our Soueraigne Lord the Kings ministers At this time the Duke had a very franke wind the like had the Queenes Fleete and so they both passed by the sight of Dūkerke insomuch as they on land knew the Gallion S. Martin and others that went fighting with the English armie and in this order they went till the twelfth Afterwards they write that there came into Calleis a ship which saith that the n xii day they did see the two Fleetes together in fight an other which came afterwardes said hee had seene some ships spoiled and torne from them they threw out o their baggage which they saued in boats which argueth they were ships of the enemies for that our men had no place to saue them selues nor there were none of them arriued into Flāders which was their place of returne A Packe of Spanish lies From Spaine 8 OVt of Englande was aduise giuen that on the xiii arriued fifteene of the Queens ships and they sayd that the Galleon Saint Martin wherin my Lorde the Duke is whome God preserue had encountered with Drake had grapled his ship captiued his Person and other Noble English mē and taken other fifteene ships beside others that were distressed the Duke with his fleete folowed his way to Scotland because the winde was not come about With these news his Maiestie resteth verie much contented and caused them to be sent to the Empresse by the hands of Francisco Ydiaquez his Secretarie of estate IMPRINTED in SEVIL in the house of Cosmo de lara Printer of Bookes by lycence of the Counte of Orgaz Assistant in SEVIL IOAN 8.44 Ye are of your father the Deuil and the lustes of your father ye will doe hee hath bene a murtherer from the beginning and aboade not in the trueth because there is no trueth in him When hee speaketh a lye then speaketh hee of his owne for hee is a lyer and the father thereof A condemnation of the SPANISH lies From England 1 IT is wel knowen to all the worlde how false all this relation is and either falsly coloured by the Letters remembred or els both the post Master of Logrono and the writers from Roan ought to be waged as Intelligencers for the deuill the father of lyes whom they haue herein truely serued and if they so continue in mayntenance thereof against the knowen trueth their damnation is certaine and hell is open for them a The Letters from the kings Ambassadour whose name is Mendoza agreeable to their Masters name being the reporter of mendacià mendacissima considering that hee hath written that Francis Drake is imprisoned and many Nobles of England if Mendoza will stand to his Letters so as he would gage and by his hande writing assure but his worst Iennet and his belles he shall be answered for the said Sir Francis Drakes person or any Nobleman gentleman or page so taken in the fight betweene the two Armies for the rāsom of euery of the said prisoners 40000. Crownes in the Royal Eschange of London But the truth is Sir Francis Drake was so farre off to be a prisoner that hee was the taker for hee tooke Pedro de Valdez and 400. moe Spanish prisoners at one time And to proue this to be true Mendoza shall haue if hee will require it Pedro de Valdez owne hand to shewe that he is prisoner to Sir Francis Drake and 400. moe taken with him and not one English man taken in that seruice b It is so false that there was any mutinie in the Q. Armie that shee her selfe was there with the greatest honour loue and applause receiued that coulde be imagined for a Lady and a Queene She rode rounde about her Armie and passed through euery part thereof to their inestimable comfort shee lodged and did eate in the Campe as quietly as euer she did in her owne chamber In the Armie was neuer any fray or discord exercise of Armes was dayly vsed and shewed before her to her great honour yea and with an vniuersall extolling of Gods Name euery day Morning and Euening in loude prayers and psalmes and the like song in her owne hearing against all tyrannie by inuasion of Gods enemies and this euery man may iudge to bee farre from any colour of mutinie c It was a meete occupation for a blinde man to put lyes into