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lord_n	sir_n	thomas_n	walter_n	10,236	5	11.2571	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20374	[An apologie of the Earle of Essex]	Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601.; Rich, Penelope, Lady, 1562?-1607. Lady Rich to Her Maiestie in the behalfe of the Earle of Essex.	1600 (1600)	STC 6787.7; ESTC S341	26,155	38

hap yet our designement was naught for it drew the warre to no end I must confesse I neither performed what I purposed nor thought that which was done sufficient I purposed to dwell in a port of the enemies and so to make a continual diuersion of the warres witnesse my letters to the Lordes of the counsell dated from Plymouth the first of Iune 96 and deliuered by my Secretory Rainolds at Greenewitch the 6. of the same moneth And when I was possessed of Cadz I offered to stay with 3. or 4000. men if that whole fleete could haue furnished vs but with three moneths victuals witnesse the whole counsell of warre And by these means I doubted not to haue brought the warres in those partes to a shorte ende and also to haue made the king of Spaine weary of seeking to dislodg me But my letters was neyther answered nor liked here nor I at Cadz able to feede my selfe and the men of warre till a supply might haue come So that except to bee of that minde my fellowes were that were called to councel or to haue ioyned with my Lord Admirall when he offered to take an equall commission of commaundement with me both by Sea and by land to haue sought ●s we could to weaken him that by all meanes he can seeketh to destroy and conquer vs And if to haue failed in doing that which I had no warrant nor meanes to ●●e be a fault in my iourney in 96. I committed no fault For my last iourney in 97. let it be remembred howe I was brought into it with what counsell and designes I went out and what was the true causes of the want of such successe as in our owne hopes wee promised to our selues and that If I vndertooke more then dutie laid vpon me or aduised any thing that reason made not probable or failed of any thing that any possibilitie inabled m● vnto I will thinke the hardest censurer of me do● me no wrong But first it is well knowne that her Maiestie had armed and victualed 10. of her owne shippes and caused the states of the lowe countries to prepare the like number before euer I was spoken of to goe to Sea And when my Lord Thomas Howard and Syr Walter Raulegh who should haue beene sent foorth with this fo●ce thought their hopes of doing any great seruice weake and vncertaine And the newes of the Adelantadoes preparation at Farroll and the Groine were newly confi●med a new counsell was called in which her Maiestie resolued that this force prepared was to great for a discouerie and too litle for an attēpt That a fleet inferiour to that the Adelantado commaunded might light vpon some merchants o● take fishermen to learne newes but should neuer be in possibilitie to take any of the king of Spaine● treasure or should safely li● on the coastes of Spaine and Portugall being able to commaund no port nor daring to fight with the enemies fleete when it should come out And lastly that a fleete without an armie to land might ●ayle from Cape to Cape and returne when their victuals were spent without doing other seruice For the Adilantado would not come foorth if he liked not his match and the Indian fleete might be stayed at the Ilands or by the aduise●s direction so alter their course as they should hardly be intercepted then a newe consideration was had what might be done by a sufficient force by Sea and land It was resolued that not onely Farroll where the Adelantado lay but any port of Spaine might be entred and the ●orces of the king that should be found in it beaten and destroyed Or any Port or Iland of the enemie taken and fortified besides the commaunding of any fleete of warre or of treasure that should be met with at Sea if 6. ships of her Maiesties and 5000. land souldiers with 500. Sayle●s to transporte them were added to the former preparation All which conditions being agreed vnto and my Lord Admirall ●●cusing himselfe from the iourney by the indisposition of his body I had warning to prepare my selfe to take the charge When I went ●oorth my first designe was vppon Farroll both by her Maiesties commaundment and mine owne choise for when I hadde defeated that force I might go● after whether I listed and doe almost what I listed I meane vpon any places vpon that coast And of doing what I would vpon that fleete and army at Farr●● I had little cause to doubt if God had giuen me a fauo●rable passage and season to land the armie and enter the Porte their preparation to resist being all knowne and litle moouing any distrust of the possibilitie or facilitie of this kinde of enterprize I thinke I haue satisfied you i● some of my former papers especially in my discourse written as I came home from Cadz and I will satisfie ●n● reasonable man that will speake with me of it The aduan●●ges that would haue growne by it are manifest H●● Maiesties dominion for a long time from any inuasion from Spaine had beene secured The king of Spaine hi● fleete both going foorth and comming home vtterly vngarded the taking of the Spanish and Portugall Iles more easie the enterprise vpon the East and West Indies warranted from two of the greatest daungers an encounter by Sea and an inuasion by land whilst her Maiesties forces were absent To conclude her Maiestie had beene such an absolute Queene of the Ocean and her enemie so disarmed by Sea as shee might eyther enforce him to any conditions of peac● or make warre to her infinite aduantage and his vtter ruine I had also thought vppon some places which I might haue holden for the diuersion of the warres and if euer the taking of the Indian fleete were likely I know I should haue beene in a faire way for it though I confesse these hopes were so vncertaine as I reckoned them but by chaunce My first chiefest and maine designe being to assayle the Adelantado in Farroll Farroll was the Randeuous I gaue to Farroll I directly shaped my course and at Farroll I had mastered the fleet that lay there whole yeares threatning my countrey or driuen that armie into the hils or sacrificed my selfe The causes frustrating this designe were first the violent long tempest which tooke vs in the height of 46. scattered our fleete disinabled and almost drowned most of our principall shippes And when we could no longer beate it vp against the winde draue vs backe vppon our owne coast Next that vnreasonable stormie weather which kept vs a moneth after we were put backe from attempting to goe foorth againe and lastly our wantes which forced vs to discharge our whole land armie sauing 1000. men for mine owne excuse how long I dured ere I turned backe and to what desperate case I brought my shippes there bee witnesses enough Also her Maiestie and her counsell know what proffer of seruice I made her when I came vp post from Plymouth accompanied with Syr