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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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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