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The copie of a letter sent ovt of England to an ambassadour in France for the King of Spaine declaring the state of England contrary to the opinion of Don Bernardin and of all his partizans Spaniards and others : wherunto are adioyned certain advertisements concerning the losses and distresses happened to the Spanish navy as well in fight with the English navie in the narrow seas of England : as also by tempests and contrary winds upon the west and north coasts of Ireland in their returne from the northerne isles beyond Scotland.; Copie of a letter sent out of England to Don Bernardin Mendoza
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Leigh, Richard, 1561?-1588.
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1641
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Wing B5729; ESTC R210031
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about London at that time above five thousand horses ready to serve the Queen besides all the horsmen that were raised in all other Countries for the Armies and the Sea coasts And besides these I heard in a very good place where I was silent that there was by account twise as many in readinesse with the Noblemen that were absent attending on their charges in their severall Lieutenancies As the Marques of Winchester one counted to be the strongest man of his own furniture for Horse and armour who is Lieutenant of Hampshire with the Earle of Sussex Captaine of Portesmouth and Lieutenant also of Dorcetshire Next to him is in account the Earle of Shrowsbury Earle Marshall of England Lieutenant of a great number of Countries and of great power of his own both for horsmen and footmen beside the power of the Lord Talbot his son The Earle of Darby also though he was in Flanders from whence he came lately yet his son the Lord Strange Lieutenant of Lancashire and Cheshire in his fathers absence is said to have raised a great power of hors-men And to shew the popular affection to this Earle in his country I heard it for certaine reported that when the Earle continued longer in Flanders then they liked and doubting of his return for that they supposed that the Duke of Parma would stay him and the other Commissioners there the people of his Country in a generality did amongst themselves determine that the Lord Strange the Earls son and all the manhood of Lancashire and Cheshire would go over the Seas and fetch the Earle home A matter for no purpose to be spoken of but to note the force of the love which the people do beare to the Earle who with his son is firmly bent against the Pope The Earle of Bath also Lieutenant of Devonshire had as is said great forces of his own ready to have impeached the landing of any strangers in Devonshire The Earle of Pembrooke also being Lieutenant of Somersetshire and Wiltshire and Lord President of all Wales was ready to have come to the Queen with three hundred horsmen and five hundred footmen all of his own retinue leaving all the Countries under his charge fully furnished I omit here to speake of the Bands of hors-men belonging to the Earls of Northumberland and Cumberland which though they were ready to have bin shewed at the same time yet the Earls hearing of the Spanish Army approaching went voluntarily to the Sea side in all hast and came to the Queens Navy before the sight afore Callice Where they being in severall ships of the Queens did with their own persons valiant services against the Kings Armado And to shew the great readines in a generality of sundry others at the same time to adventure their lives in the said service there went to the Seas at the same time divers Gentlemen of good reputation who voluntarily without any charge and without knowledge of the Queen put themselves into the Queens Navy in sundry ships wherin they served at the fight afore Callice of which number being very great I remember that the names of some of them were these M. Henry Brooke son and heir to the Lord Cobham Sir Thomas Cecil son and heir to the Lord Treasurer Sir William Hatton heir to the Lord Chancellour Sir Horatio Pallavicino a Knight of Genua Master Robert Cary son to the Lord Hunsdon Sir Charles Blunt brother to the Lord Mountjoy But much speech is of two Gentlemen of the Court that went to the Navy at the same time whose names are Thomas Gerard and William Hervy to me not known but now here about London spoken of with great same These two adventured out of ship boat to scale the great Galliasse wherin Moncada was and entred the same only with their Rapiers a matter commonly spoken that never the like was hazarded afore considering the height of the Galliasse compared to a ship boat And yet to make it more manifest how earnest all sorts of Noblemen and Gentlemen were to adventure their lives in this service it is reported that the Earle of Oxford who is one of the most ancient Earles of this land went also to the Sea to serve in the Queens Army There went also for the same purpose a second son of the Lord Treasurer called as I can remember Robert Cecil there went also about that time to the Seas the Lord Dudley an ancient Baron of the Realm and Sir Walter Rawlegh a Gentleman of the Queens privy Chamber in his company a great number of young Gentlemen amongst whom I remember the names of the heir of Sir Thomas Cecil called William Cecil of Edward Darcy Arthur Gorge and such others with the rehearsall of whom I doe not comfort my self but only to shew you how farr we have bin deceived to think that we should have had a party here for us when as you see both by land and by Sea all sorts of men were so ready of their own charges without either commandment or entertainment to adventure their lives in defence of the Queen and the Realm And for the Earle of Huntingtons forces being Lieutenant General in the North it is reported that he hath put in readines for an Army in Yorkshire and other countries commonly limited to serve against Scotland to the number of fourty thousand well armed footmen and near hand ten thousand horsmen to come to him if any occasion of Invasion should be in the North parts to whom are joyned with their forces 3 Lords in the North the Lord Scroop Lord Darcy and Lord Evers There are also divers other Lords that are Lieutenants of countries that have in readinesse of their proper charges good numbers of horsemen As the Earle of Kent Lieutenant of Bedford-shire the L. Hunsdon Lord Chamberlaine Lieutenant of Norfolke and Suffolke the L. Cobbam Lieutenant of Kent the L. Gray of Buckingham-shire the L. North of Cambridge-shire L. Chandos of Glocester-shire L.S. Iohn of Huntington-shire L. Buckhurst of Sussex And so by this particular recitall not unmeet for your knowledge it is to be noted what disposition the Nobility of the Realme had at this time to have withstood all invasion And if percase you shall peruse your ordinary Catalogue of the great Lords of the Realme you shall find that these are the substance of all the great Lords saving three young Earles within age Rutland South-hampton and Bedford all three brought up in perverse Religion And so remaineth to be spoken of the Earle of Arundell who is in the Tower for attempting to have fled out of the Realme by provocation of him that now is Cardinall Allen who howsoever he may be affected to the Catholique Religion yet I heare most certainly that he offereth his life in defence of the
had besieged Barwicke and had won it by assault and possessed it quietly whereof no part was true nor any cause to imagine the same though I wish it had so been but not for any good will that I now beare to that King but for the trouble to this Queen For in truth there is no good for us to be hoped for from the King of Scots howsoever the Scottish Bishops in France have sought to make you beleeve otherwise who is so rooted in the Calvinists Religion as there is never hope that he can be recovered to the Church of Rome and so I thinke you are of late duely informed and by his violent actions against divers Catholikes and against all that favour the Spaniards may certainly appeare And likewise another great untruth was lately printed as your enemies say by your direction also in Paris that now in Iuly last when the Spanish Fleet and English had met and fought betwixt France and England the Spaniards had then a great victory wherein they had sunke the Lord Admirall of England with sixteen of the Queens great ships into the bottome of the Seas and that all the rest were driven to fly with the Vice-Admirall Francis Drake Upon these two so notable untruths which the adversaries spightfully called Don Bernardin Mendozas mendacia many who honour you were right sorry that you should give so hasty credit to publish the same as your enemies say you did though I have to my power for clearing of your honour given it out that these and such like have proceeded of the lightnesse of the French who commonly print more lies then truths in such doubtfull times and not of you whose honour and wisedome I thought would not be justly touched with so great untruths and lies considering alwayes a small time will discover things that are in facts reported untruly and bringeth the Authors to discredit and infamy There hath been a speech also reported here to have proceeded from you in France that hath caused a great misliking of you in Scotland which is that you should in open assembly and in a bravery say that the young King of Scots whom you called in your language a boy had deceived the K. your master but if the Kings Navy might prosper against England the K. of Scots should lose his Crowne and of this the King of Scots hath been advertised out of France and useth very evill language of you which I will not report But now to leave this digression and to returne to let you know the truth of the state of the Queens Navy this Summer The same was in the beginning of the yeare when the brute was brought of the readines of the Kings Armado in Lisbone and of the army by land upon the Sea-coasts in Flanders with their shipping divided into three companies the greatest under the charge of Charles L. Haward high Admirall of England whose father grandfather uncles great unckles and other of his house being of the noble house of the Dukes of Norfolk had also been high Admirals afore him whereof both France and Scotland have had proof Another company were appointed to remaine with the L. Henry Seymour second son to the Duke of Somerset that was Protector in King Edwards time and brother to the Earle of Hartford and these companies for a time continued in the narrow seas betwixt England and Flanders under the charge of the said high Admirall to attend on the Duke of Parmas actions A third company were armed in the West part of England towards Spain under the conduct of Sir Francis Drake a man by name and fame known too too well to all Spam and to the Kings Indias and of great reputation in England and this was compounded partly of some of the Queens owne ships and partly of the ships of the West parts But after that it was certainly understood that the great Navy of Spaine was ready to come out from Lisbone and that the fame thereof was blowne abroad in Christendome to be invincible and so published by books in print The Queen and all her Councell I am sure whatsoever good countenance they made were not a little perplexed as looking certainly for a dangerous fight upon the Seas and after that for a landing and invasion Whereupon the Lord Admirall was commanded to saile with the greatest ships to the West of England towards Spaine to joyne with Drake whom he made Vice-Admirall and to continue in the Seas betwixt France and England to stop the landing of the Navy of Spaine And with the Lord Admirall went in certaine of the Queens ships the Lord Thomas Haward second son to the last Duke of Norfolke and the Lord Sheffeld sonne to the Admirals sister who is wife to the Queenes Embassadour in France with a great number of Knights of great livelihood And at that time the Lord Henry Seymour was left with a good number of ships in the narrow Seas upon the coast of Flanders to attend on the Duke of Parma Whilst these two Navies were thus divided I confesse to you that I and others of our part secrerly made a full account that none of all these English ships durst abide the sight of the Armado of Spaine or if they would abide any sight yet they should all be sunke at the first encounter For such constant opinion we had conceived by the reports of the world that the greatnesse and the number of the ships and the army of Spaine being the chosen vessell of all the Kings Dominions was so excessive monstrous beyond all the Navies that ever had been seen in Christendome not excepting the Armado at Lepanto that no power could abide in their way But how far deceived we were therein a very short time even the first day did manifestly to the great dishonour of Spaine discover For when the Catholique army came to the coast of England which indeed the English confesse did seeme far greater then they looked for and that they were astonied with the sight of them yet the Lord Admirall and Drake having but onely fifty of the English ships out of the haven of Plimmouth where the rest remained for a new revictualling without tarrying for the rest of the Navy that was in Plimmouth they did offer present sight and furiously pursued the whole Navy of Spaine being above 160 ships so as the same with the furious and continuall shot of the English one whole day fled without any returning And after the English Navy being increased to an hundred great and small renued their fight with terrible great shot all the whole day gaining alwayes the wind of the Spanish Navy And as I am sorry to remember the particularities which the English have largely written to their owne praise so to speake all in one word for nine dayes together they still forced them to flye and destroyed sunke and tooke in three dayes fight divers of the greatest ships out of which