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A33346	A true and full narrative of those two never to be forgotten deliverances one from the Spanish Invasion in 88, the other from the hellish Powder Plot, November 5, 1605 : whereunto is added the like narrative of that signal judgment of God upon the papists, by the fall of the House in Black-Friers, London, upon their fifth of November, 1623 / collected for the information and benefit of each family, by Sam. Clark ...; England's remembrancer	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.; Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682. Gun-powder treason.	1671 (1671)	Wing C4559; ESTC R15231	43,495	131

Sheffield in the Bear Sir Robert Southwel in the Elizabeth Captain Baker in the Victory and Captain George Fenner in the Gallion-Leicester It was also further appoined that out of every squadron certain small vessels should give you a charge from diverse parts in the dead time of the night but the calm continuing this designe could not be effected July the twenty fifth being Saint James day the Spaniards were arrived against the Isle of Wight where was a most terrible encounter each shooting off their whole broad sides and not above sixscore yards the one from the other There the Saint Anne a Gallion of Portugal which could not hold course with the rest was set upon by certain small English Vessels to whose rescue came Leva and Don Diego Telles Enriques with three Galliasses which the Lord Admiral himself and the Lord Thomas Howard in the Golden Lion rowing their ships with their boats so great was the calm charged in such sort with their roaring Canons that they had much ado and that not without loss to save the Gallion from which time forward none of the Galliasses would undertake the fight The Spaniards reported that the English the same day beat the Spanish Admiral in the utter squadron rending her sore with their Great Ordnance and having slain many of her men shot down her main Mast and would have much endanger'd her but that Mexi● and Rechalde came in good time to her rescue That the Spanish Admiral assisted by Rechalde and others set upon the English Admiral which happily escaped by the sudden turning of the wind That thereupon the Spaniards gave over the pursuit and holding on their Course dispatched again a Messenger to the Prince of Parma to joyn his Fleet with all speed to the Kings Armado and withal to send them a supply of great shot But these things were unknown to the English who wrote that from one of the Spanish ships they had shot down their Lanthorn and from another the Beak-head and that they had done much hurt to the third that the Non-parrella and the Mary Rose had fought a while with the Spaniards and that other ships had rescued the Tryumph which was in danger The truth is they had so sorely battered those huge wooden Castles that once more they forced them for their further safety to gather themselves into a Roundel July the twenty sixth the Lord Admiral to encourage and reward the Noble Attempts of his gallant Captains bestowed the Order of Knighthood upon the Lords Howard and Sheffield Roger Townsend John Hawkings Martin Forbusher and others And yet the vain glorious and boasting Spaniards caused a report to be spread in France that England was wholly conquered by them It was resolved by our men that from thenceforth they should assail the enemy no more till they came to the British Frith or strait of Callis where the Lord Henry Seimore and Sir William Winter with the ships which they had for the guard of the narrow Seas waited their coming and so with a fair gale from the South West and by South the Spanish Fleet sailed forward the English Fleet following it close at the heels And so far was it from terrifying our English Coasts with the name of Invincible or with its huge and terrible spectacle that our brave English youth with an incredible alacrity leaving parents wives children kinsfolk and friends out of their entire love to their native country hired ships from all parts at their own proper charges and joyned with the Fleet in great numbers amongst whom were the Earls of Oxford Northumberland and Cumberland Thomas and Robert Cecil Henry Brook Charles Blunt Walter Raleigh William Hatton Robert Carey Ambrose Willoughby Thomas Gerard Arthur Gorges and many others of great note July the twenty seventh the Spanish Fleet making forward towards evening came over against Dover and anchored before Callis intending for Dunkerk there to joyn with the Prince of Parma's forces well perceiving that without their assistance they could do nothing They were also warned by the Pilots that if they proceeded any farther it was to be feared lest they should be driven by the force of the tide into the Northern Ocean The English Fleet following up hard upon them cast Anchor so neer that they lay within Culvering shot at which time the Lord Henry Seimore and Winter joyned their ships to them so that now the English Fleet consisted of one hundred and forty sail all able ships to fight sail and turn about which way soever they pleased Yet were they not above fifteen that sustained the greatest burden of the fight From hence once more the Duke of Medina sent to the Prince of Parma to hasten forth his long expected and much desired forces with which messengers many of the Spanish Noble men went to land having had enough of the Sea amongst whom was the Prince of Ascoli the Kings base son who returned to his ship no more and indeed well it was for him for that his Gallion was afterwards cast away upon the Irish Coast and never returned to salute Spain These messengers earnestly prayed the Prince of Parma to put forth to Sea with his Army which the Spanish Fleet should protect as it were under her wings till it was landed in England And indeed the Prince of Parma hearing the best and not the worst of this voyage made all things ready that lay in his charge whose hopes were so fixed upon Englands Conquest and the glittering Diadem upon Queen Elizabeths head did so dazel his ambitious eyes being assured by Cardinal Allen that he was the man designed to be crowned therewith that neglecting the Coronet of the Low-Country Government he transferred the charge thereof upon Count Mansfield the Elder and having made his vows to the Lady of Hall in Heinault he was already in conceit no less than a King But the date of his reign was soon expired and his swelling tide fallen into a low shallow ebb For the day following in his march to Dunkirk he heard the thundring Ordnance ringing the passing peal of his hopes and title and the same evening had news of the hard success of the Spaniards the hoped advancers of his dreamed felicity and indeed do what he could he could not be ready at the Spaniards call His flat-bottomed boats for the shallow Channels leaked his provision of victuals proved unready and his mariners having hitherto been detained against their wills had withdarwn themselves there lay also watching before the Havens of Dunkirk and Newport whence he was to put forth to Sea the men of War of the Hollanders and Zelanders so well provided with great Ordnance and Musketiers that he could not put from the shore unless he would wilfully cast himself and his men upon eminent perils and dangers of destruction and yet he being a skilful and experienced Commander omitted no means being inflamed with a desire to conquer England But Queen Elizabeths foresight prevented both his diligence and

Fleet nor were their friends of courage to succour these distressed Lords but left both ship and them in this sudden and unexpected danger But the night coming on our Lord Admiral supposing that they had left neither men nor Mariners aboard within her and fearing to lose sight of the Spaniards past by her and followed the Lanthorn which he supposed to be carried by Sir Francis Drake as it was appointed but that brave Knight was eagerly pursuing five great Hulks which he took to be of the Spaniards but when he came up and haled them they proved Easterlings and friends and so were dismissed yet by this mistake of his the greatest part of our Fleet wanting the direction of his light was forced to lye still so that he and the rest of the Fleet till towards night the next day could not recover sight of the Lord Admiral who all the night before with two other ships the Bear and the Mary-Rose followed the Spanish Lanthorn July the twenty second Sir Francis Drake espied the aforementioned lagging Gallion whereupon he sent forth a Pinnace to command them to yield otherwise his bullets without any delay should force them to it Valdes to seem valorous answered that they were four hundred and fifty strong that himself was Don Pedro and stood on his honour and thereupon propounded certain conditions But the Knight returned this reply that he had no leisure to parley if he would immediately yield so otherwise be should soon prove that Drake was no dastard Pedro hearing that it was the fiery Drake whose name was very terrible to the Spaniards that had him in chase presently yielded and with forty of his companions came on board Sir Francis his Ship where first giving him the Conge he protested that he and all his were resolved to have dyed fighting had they not fallen into his hands whose valour and felicity was so great that Mars and Neptune seemed to wait on him in all his attempts and whose noble and generous mind towards the vanquished had often been experienced even of his greatest foes Sir Francis to requite his Spanish Complements with English Courtesie placed him at his own table and lodged him in his own Cabin the residue of that company he sent to Plimouth where they remained prisoners for the space of eighteen months till by payment of their ransoms they obtained their liberty But Drakes Souldiers had well paid themselves by the plunder of the ship wherein they found 55000 Ducats of ●old which they merrily shared amongst them The same day Michael de Oquendo Admiral of the Squadron Guypusco and Vice-Admiral of the whole Fleet suffered no less a disaster whose ship being one of the greatest Gallions fell on fire and all the upper part of the ship being burnt most also of the persons therein were consumed howbeit the Gunpowder in the hold not taking fire the ship fell into the hands of the English which together with the scorched Spaniards therein was brought into Plimouth a joyful spectacle to the beholders All this day the Duke of Medina laboured securely to set his Fleet in order To Alphonso de Leva he gave in charge to joyne the first and last squadron together To every ship he assigned his quarter to ride in according to the form prescribed in Spain commanding them upon pain of death not to desert their stations Glitch an Ensign-bearer he sent to the Prince of Parma to acquaint him with his condition July the twenty third early in the morning the Spaniards taking the benefit of a Northerly wind when they approached right against Portland turned about against the English but the English nimble and foreseeing all advantages soon turned aside to the VVestward each striving to get the wind of the other which at last the English got and so they prepared themselves on each side to fight and the English continued all day from morning till night to batter those wooden Castles with great and small shot The fight was very confused and variable whilst on the one side the English bravely rescued the London ships that were hemmed in by the Spaniards and on the other side the Spaniards as stoutly delivered Rechalde being in danger Never was there heard greater thundring of Ordnance on both sides the chiefest fight being performed on this day yet notwithstanding the shot from the Spanish ships for the most part flew over the English without hurting them only Cock an Englishman dyed with honour in the midst of his enemies in a little ship of his The English ships being far the lesser charged that Sea-Gyant with marvellous agility and having given them their broad sides flew off again presently and then coming up levelled their shot directly without missing those heavy an unweildy ships of the Spaniards But the Lord Admiral would not hazzard a fight by grappling with them as some unadvised persons would have perswaded him For he considered that the enemy had a strong Army in the Fleet whereas he had none that their ships were more in number of bigger burden stronger and huger built so that they could not be boarded but with extreme disadvantage He foresaw also that the overthrow would turn to a greater dammage than the victory would avail him For being vanquished he should have brought England into extreme hazzard and being conqueror he should only have gained a little glory to himself for overthrowing the Fleet and beating the enemy On this day the sorest fight was performed wherein besides other remarkable harms which the enemy sustained a great Venetian ship with some other smaller were surprized and taken by the English and the Spaniards were forced for their further safety to gather themselves close into a Roundel their best and greatest ships standing without that they might secure those that were battered and less July the twenty fourth the fight was only between the four great Galliasses and some of the English ships the Spaniards having great advantage theirs being rowed with oars and ours by reason of the calm having no use of their sails notwithstanding which they sorely galled the enemy with their great and chain shot wherewith they cut in sunder their tacklings cables and cordage to their no little prejudice But wanting powder which they had spent so freely and other provision to maintain the fight the Lord Admiral sent some of his smaller ships to the next Ports of England to fetch supply which stirred up jealousies in the heads of many that we should thus want upon our own Coasts In which Interim a Council was called wherein it was resolved that the English Fleet should be divided into four squadrons and those committed to four brave Captains and skilful Seamen whereof the Lord Admiral in the Ark-Royal was chief Sir Francis Drake in the Revenge led the second Captain Hawkins the third and Captain Forbusher the fourth Other most valiant Captains there were in others of Her Majesties Ships as the Lord Thomas Howard in the Lion the Lord

what to do but our eyes are upon thee But in the second place knowing that Prayers without endeavours and means are like Rachel beautiful but barren that She might not be taken unprovided She prepared with all diligence as strong a Fleet as She could and all things necessary for War and She that in discerning mens parts and abilities was of a most sharp judgment and ever most happy having the free choice in her self and not by the commendations of others assigned to every office by name the best and fittest men The charge of her Navy she committed to Charles Howard of Effingham Lord Admiral of England of whose skill she had had former experience and whom she knew both by his Moderation and Nobility to be wary in providence valiant industrious and of great authority among the Seamen and well beloved of them Her Vice-Admiral she made the famous Sir Francis Drake and these she sent to the West parts of England and for the Guard of the narrow Seas she appointed Henry Lord Seimore second son to the Duke of Somerset whom she commanded also to lie upon the Coasts of the Low-Countries with forty Ships to watch that the Prince of Parma might not come forth with his forces By Land She commanded the General forces of the Realm to be mustered trained and put in readiness in their special shires for the defence of the whole which accordingly was done and whereof the Lord Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester was appointed Leeutenant twenty thousand whereof were disposed along our South Coast for the guard thereof besides which she had two Armies one of which consisting of a thousand Horse and twenty two thousand Foot was encamped at Tilbury neer the Thames mouth whither the enemy fully intended to come The other which was led by the Lord Hunsdon consisted of thirty four thousand Foot and two thousand Horse which were to be the Guard of the Queens person Her self in courage far surmounting her sex as another Zenobia or rather Deborah led forth the Lords Host against this great Sisera and her Souldiers valiant and skilful both for courage and quick dispatch might well be compared to those Gadites that came to aid David whose faces were like the faces of Lions and were compared to the Roes in the Mountains for swiftness Arthur Lord Grey Sir Francis Knolles Sir John Knorris Sir Richard Bingham and Sir Roger Williams all gallant men and brave Souldiers were appointed to consult about managing the Land Service These advised that all the commodious landing places for the enemy as well from Spain as from the Low-Countries should be manned and fortified as Milford Haven Falmouth Plimmouth Portland the Isle of Wight Portsmouth the open coast of Kent commonly called the Downs the Thames mouth Harwich Yarmouth Hull c. and that the Trained Bands throughout the Coast Shires should meet upon a signal given to defend the said places and do their best to prohibit the enemies landing But in case he should land that then they should leave all the Country round about wast that so they might find nothing for food but what from their Ships they should carry upon their shoulders and that they should hold the enemies busied both night and day with continual Alarms but not to hazard a Battel till more Commanders with their Companies were come together Some suggested also to the Queen that the Spaniards abroad were not so much to be feared as the Papists at home for that the Spaniards would not attempt the Invasion of England but upon confidence of aid from them She thereupon committed some of them to prison at Wisbeach in the Fenns by her Letters also she directed Sir William Fitz-Williams Lord Deputy of Ireland what he should do The King of Scots she put in mind to beware of the Papists and Spanish Factions By her frequent Letters she wrote to the States of the Vnited Provinces not to be deficient in assisting her what they could But amongst these preparations for War on both sides Philip King of Spain to cast a mist over her Majesties eyes and to rock her into a sleep of security importuned by all means the Realms unto peace imploying the Prince of Parma to be his instrument therein who dealt earnestly by Letters with the help of Sir James Crofts a privy Counsellor and a man much addicted to peace as also by Andrew Van Loey a Netherlander that a treaty of Peace might be entred upon affirming that he had Warrant thereunto from the King of Spain Our Queen measuring other Princes by her own guileless heart gave ear to this deceitful lullaby little suspecting that a deadly snake could be hid in so fair a Garden yet resolved to treat of Peace with her Sword in her hand neither was the Prince of Parma against her so doing In the month therefore of Feb. Commissioners were sent into Flandeas Henry Earl of Darby William Brook Lord Cobham Sir Jamis Crofts Valentine Dale and John Rogers Doctors of the Law who arriving there were received in the Prince of Parma's name with all courtesy who thereupon sent away Dale presently to him to know where the place of meeting should be and to see his Commission from the King of Spain the place he appointed to be neer Ostend the Town it self being then in the English hands and as for his Commission he promised it should be produced at their meeting Only he wished them to hasten the matter lest any thing should happen in the interim to interrupt the treaty and one Richardot which stood by him said more openly That he knew not what in the mean time might be done against England Which being reported to the Queen She sent Rogers to the Prince to know whether there was any design for the Invading of England as he and Richardot by their words seemed to imply The Prince answered that he had never any thought for the Invading England when he wished the Treaty to be hastened and was angry with Richardot who denied that any such words had fallen from him Commissioners for the King of Spain were Maximilian Earl of Aremberg Governor of Antwerp Richardot President of Artois with some other Civilians These stayed at Bruges and for all their pretended haste much time was cunningly spun out about the place of their meeting which should have the Precedency and what hostages should be given for security of the Commissioners yet at length the Spaniards yielded to the English Precedency both in going and sitting and the place wars in Tents near unto Ostend The demands for the Queen were that there might be a surcease of Arms with a present and undelayed Truce she mistrusting the Spanish preparations at Sea The sending away of forraign Souldiers out of the Low-Countries for Englands security A restitution of such sums of mony as the Queen had lent to the States and which the King had promised to restore That the Netherlanders might enjoy their ancient liberties and priviledges nor