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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

songs and if he knewe how false his verses were when he published them it were to be wished that hee had his eyes restored to see his lyes and then his tongue cutte out that vttered them and his eyes cleane plucked out of his head that he should neuer see any more written lyes As for his eares it were good to haue them open to heare men call him iustly a notable blinde lyar A Condemnation of the Spanish lies From England 2 THe Gouernour of Roan is accompted a worthy noble man and therefore he shall do wel to make this report of him to bee knowen for a lie for so surely he knoweth it to be that there was neuer either a chiefe Pilote or the value of a boy of Captaine Drakes taken and brought to him as a prisoner The Gouernours of Bollen and Calleis can informe the Gouernour of Roan how false a report it was that the English Armie remained ouerthrowen afore Calleis the English armie fought with the Spanish chased the Spanish as a brace of Greyhounds would a herde of Deere the Spaniards ships were beatē spoyled burnt sunke some in the maine seas afore Dunkirke some afore Flushing and the rest chased away so as they fledde continually afore the English Nauie in their best order for strēgth without daring to abide any fight yea some one of the English shippes fought with 3. of their Galleasses the Spaniards neuer attēpting to board any English but as many of them as coulde saile away fled with all their sailes were followed by the English vntil they were chased out of all the English seas and forced then to runne a violent course about Scotland and so to Ireland where a great number of their ships are drowned their men taken and many killed by the sauage people for their spoyle and the English Nauie vpon good consideration left them when they sawe them so hastily to flie desperatly into the Northren daungerous Seas where the English Nauie did very certainely know that there would be no safety for them to folow the Spanish Why durst any report that 22. English shippes were sunke and 40. were taken when in trueth there was not any one of the English shippes sunke or taken A strange disposition to forge such great lyes whereof there was no ground nor colour If any one or two of the English had bene sunke a lyar might haue put the nomber of 20. for 2. and excused the lye by error of figuring but of none in nomber no nomber can bee made but by falshood The Gouernour of Roan being a man of great honour and vertue ought to reuenge this shamefull lye made vpon him for Lucian neuer did in all his lyes vse more impudencie then these Spanish lyars doe report of him d If Drakes shippe were taken if there was such a piece of ordinance of such a length in what Port is that shippe in whose possession is that piece Drake is returned with honour his shippe called the Reuenge is in harborow ready for a reuenge by a newe seruice no shippe lost no ordinance missing e The foolish lyar maketh mention of Abspurg in Scotland in all Scotland is no such place in Germanie is a countrey called Habspurg but any wager may be layd that none of the Spanish came euer thither Euery line or euery sentence conteineth a lye The Duke him selfe is returned let him confirme this vntrueth that he ouerthrewe the English armie it can not be imagined that hee being a person of so great honour will allow so notorious a lye to be taken for a trueth for if he had such a victorie why did hee not land to conquere England why did he neuer enter into any part of England why did hee neuer cary any Ensigne of England into Spaine to shew as very many of the Spanish were brought into Englande A condemnation of the Spanish lies From England 3 ALl this is likewise as full of lyes as lines Iohn Gamarra may be what he is but if there be such a man and that hee wrote as is mentioned except hee bee a professed member of the Deuill to forge lyes hee knoweth that he wrote falsly f Hee noteth also a Hauen in Scotlande called Luxaten none such was euer knowen there In Vtopia there may bee such a one no Spaniard can saye that they tooke any Hauē in Scotland it is altogether vaine otherwise to reproue this but al that is reported are lyes so let Gamarra repent or follow the Deuill his master the father of malicious lyes A condemnation of the Spanish lies From England 4 THis Pedro Alua coulde bee content to send lies but he is more warie in the auowing of them hee reporteth lyes as hee saith that came from other places But of all other places none coulde make a truer report then Calleis where the Gouernour and all the inhabitants saw the Spanish armie mightily beaten by the English and it was affirmed by men there of great iudgement that neuer was seene by any man liuing such a battery so great for nomber so furious and of so long continuance as the English made against the Spanish Calleis sawe the Spanish armie first driuen from their ancres with fire they sawe the greatest Galliasse of the Spanish whereof was Commander that worthy noble man Moncada spoyled himselfe slaine in the Galliasse by the English Calleis did see the next day that the English Nauie fought and did beate the Spanish Armada from viii of the clocke in the Morning vntill 4. in the afternone without any ceasing Calleis sawe the Spanish hoyse vp al their sayles flie as fast as winde could driue the English to follow and pursue them and yet Calleis saw a sufficient Nauie of England left afore Dunkirke able to master all the Shipping that the Duke of Parma had prouided g The last part of this report is a like lye to the other there is no such Port in Scotland called Trifla neither did any of the Spaniards take succour in any Hauen nor yet could haue done by reason of the contrary windes A condemnation of the Spanish lies From England 5 HEre followeth the Mountaine of lies It is reason that if there were lyars in London they should send them to Mendoza for so Mendacia are of more price with him then true reportes and so was he accustomed when he was Ambassadour in Englande to buye more lyes because hee liked them better then truethes If one should make a Section or anatomie of this Mountaine and body of lyes there is no piece nor ioynt to be found sound h The Admirall Shippe which was called the ARKE ROYALL was safely brought home by the Lord Admiral of England L. Howard he neuer changed her shee is thanked bee GOD safe with other the Queenes Royal Shippes she is able with the Lorde Admirall to match in fight with the Duke of Medina or any Prince of Christendome in any ship that the King of Spaine hath This is not spoken