1.See Grotii Hist. lib. i. p. 117. Fol.

2.Vol. I. p. 591, 592.

3.Strada, Dec. II. l. 9.

4.Strada, Dec. ii. l. 9.

5.Vol. II. p. 135.

6.Mary Queen of Scots, the Day before she suffer’d Death, did under her own Hand in the French Tongue, declare, “That her Son James should not inherit England, if he remained a Protestant, but that the Right of the Kingdom should be translated to Philip King of Spain.” Rug. Tritonii Vita Vin. Laurei Cardin.

7.This Account is according to the Lists below. But it will be proper to observe, that Authors do very much differ in their Accounts of this Armada, and the several things belonging to it. According to Thuanus, it consisted of 150 Ships of all Sorts; 140 says Grotius; 130 Camden and Strype, 135 Strada; 128 Speed; 150 Hakluyt; 160 others, &c.—Tuns 57868, Spanish Book, Hakluyt, Purchas.—Cannons 2650, Hakluyt, Thuanus (1600 of Brass, and 1050 of Iron.) 2630, Camden.—Sailor 8450 Spanish Books, 8000 Thuanus, 8350 Camden, 7449 Strada.—Soldiers, 20000 Thuanus and Stow, 19295 Spanish Book, 19290 Camden, 18857 Strada.

8.Thuanus, lib. 89.

9.Discourse of the Armada by D. Archdeacon, being a Translation of the Spanish Account, Lond. 1588. Lediard’s Naval History, p. 234, &c.

10.According to Strada there were 220 Noblemen and Gentlemen, 354 Voluntiers: Their Servants 624; Priests, Surgeons, and other Officers, and Servants 669. Decas ii. lib. 9.

11.Thuanus, lib. 89.

12.Being the chosen Vessels of all K. Philip’s Dominions, excessive monstrous, beyond all the Navies that ever had been seen in Christendom. Letter to B. Mendoza, p. 16.

13.Discourse of the Armada by D. Archdeacon, Thuanus, Lediard, Hakluyt, Purchas, &c.

14.1200,000, Thuan. 20,200 Harris, 220,000 Speed, 119,000 Spanish Book.

15.Laquei certe, & plura necis instrumenta, aut servitutis inter spolia visitata sunt. Grotii Hist. p. 118. See Letter to B. Mendoza, in the Postscript, p. 37.

16.Discourse of the Armada, &c. Thuanus, Lediard, &c.

17.A Septier is twelve Bushels.

18.Strype’s Annals, tom. iii. p. 451.

19.Hakluyt, vol. I. p. 593.

20.And, as Thuanus computes it, before it sailed from Lisbon, it had stood K. Philip in Centies vicies centena millia aureorum, lib. 89. above two Millions.

21.Strada, Dec. II. l. 9.

22.Hakluyt, Speed’s Chron.

23.Decad. l. II. p. 9.

24.Thuan. lib. 89. Hakluyt and Purchas.

25.Stow, p. 746.

26.Thuan. l. 89.

27.Welwood’s Memoirs, p. 8, 9.

28.Camden, Thuanus, l. 89.

29.Eo consilio, ut Regina, ob colloquium pacis de defensione secura, facilius opprimeretur: quam tamen illa minime neglexit. Thuan. l. 89.

30.Grotius, p. 119. Hakluyt vol. i. p. 595.

31.Cotton MSS.

32.Camden.

33.Strype’s Annals, tom. iii. p. 516.

34.Stow Chron. p. 744.

35.Stow’s Survey, Edit. 1720. B. i. p. 283.

36.Letter to B. Mendoza, p. 23, 24, &c.

37.Ibid. p. 6, 7, 8.

38.Camden.

39.Strada, Dec. ii. lib. 9.

40.Camden. Rapin, vol. ii. p. 136.

41.Letter to B. Mendoza, p. 30, 35.

42.See his Letter in Rymer’s Foedera, tom. xvi. p. 18.

43.Camden.

44.Taken from the Spanish Book printed in 1588. compar’d with Lediard.

45.From a MS. in the Royal Library, 14 B XIII.

46.Strada, Dec. ii. lib. 9.

47. Hakluyt, Camden.

48.MSS. in the Cottonian Library, Jul. F X. 17. fol. III.

49.Camden Ann. and Burchett.

50.Cotton MSS.

51.Lediard’s Naval Hist. p. 254.

52. Camden.

53.Cotton MSS.

54.Camden, Hakluyt, Purchas, Cotton MSS, &c.

55.Cotton MSS.

56.It is called the Disdain in Cotton MSS.

57.Eman. Fremosa’s Examination, printed in 1588. In the following Engagements they lost twenty five Men more. Ibid.

58.Camden.

59.Cotton MSS.

60.Camden.

61.A Spanish Officer had quarrel’d with him, and called him Traytor, imagining he had not done his Duty in the last Engagement. Strada, Dec, ii. lib. 9.

62.Cotton MSS.

63.Camden.

64.Cotton MSS.

65.Camden.

66.Cotton MSS.

67.Camden.

68.Purchas, &c.

69.Some Authors say, there was a Cessation on both Sides, Camden, &c.

70.Purchas, Speed, &c.

71.Cotton MSS.

72.Camden, Cotton MSS. Strada.

73.Cotton MSS.

74.Camden.

75.Purchas, Harris.

76.Camden, Cotton MSS.

77.Cotton MSS.

78.Camden.

79.Camden, Thuanus, Letter to B. Mendoza, p. 28.

80.Cotton MSS.

81.Ibid.

82.Harris.

83.Camden.

84.Eman. Fremosa’s Examination.

85.Camden, Thuanus.

86.See Strada de Bello Belgico, Dec. ii. lib. 6.

87.Each of their Ships lost two Anchors here. Em. Fremosa’s Examinat.

88.Camden, Burchett.

89.Eman. Fremosa’s Examinat.

90.Thuanus, Lediard.

91.Cotton MSS.

92.Letter to B. Mendoza, p. 28.

93.Hakluyt, Purchas, Harris.

94.Cotton MSS.

95.Camden, Burchett.

96.Eman. Francisco’s Examinat.

97.Thuanus, Purchas, Harris.

98.Purchas and Harris call him Bauderdues.

99.Em. Fremosa’s and Em. Francisco’s Examinat.

100.Burchett.

101.This worthy Commander, for his gallant Behaviour in this Action, and afterwards at the Overthrow and Burning of the Spanish Navy in the Bay of Cadiz 1588, and Taking the Town 1596, when he was Vice-Admiral, was Knighted, and the following Motto added to his Arms, se inserit astris.

102.Letter to B. Mendoza, p. 18.

103.Em. Fremosa’s Examinat.

104.J. Antonio’s Examinat.

105.Em. Francisco’s and J de le Concedo’s Examinat.

106.Cotton MSS. Thuanus.

107.Camden, Burchett, Strada.

108.Harris, Lediard.

109.Speed, p. 862.

110.Cabala, p. 373.

111.Camden.

112.Letter to B. Mendoza, p. 22.

113.Ibid.

114.One Night, as the Queen was in the Camp, guarded by her Army, the Lord Treasurer Burleigh came thither, and delivered to the Earl of Leicester the Examination of Don Pedro, who was taken and brought in by Sir Francis Drake; the Sum of which was this: Don Pedro being asked what was the Intent of their coming, stoutly answer’d the Lords, What, but to subdue your Nation, and root it out. Good, said the Lords, and what meant you then to do with the Catholicks? He answered, We meant to send them (good Men) directly unto Heaven, as all you that are Hereticks to Hell. Yea but, said the Lords, What meant you to do with your Whips of Cord and Wyer? (whereof they had great Store in their Ships,) What, said he, we meant to whip you Hereticks to Death, that have assisted my Master’s Rebels, and done such Dishonours to our Catholick King and People. Yea, but what would you have done said they, with their young Children. They, said he, which were above seven Years old should have gone the Way their Fathers went; the rest should have lived, branded in the Forehead with the Letter L, for Lutheran, to perpetual Bondage, Cabala, p. 372. Letter to Mendoza, p. 37.——It was also published, that the Lords of Spain which were in the Navy, had made a special Division amongst themselves, of all the Noblemens Houses in England by their Names, and had in a sort quartered England among themselves, and had determined of sundry manners of cruel Death, both of the Nobility and the rest of the People. The Ladies, Women, and Maidens were also destined to all Villany; the rich Merchants Houses in London were put into a Register, by their very Names, and limited to the Companies of the Squadrons of the Navy for their Spoil. Letter to Mendoza, p. 37.

115.Camden, Thuanus.

116.Cotton MSS.

117.Camden.

118.J. Antonio’s Examinat.

119.Harris, &c.

120.Appendix to Letter to Mendoza, p. 1.

121.J. A. de Monoma’s Examinat.

122.Ibid.

123.Camden.

124.Thuanus.

125.Eman. Fremosa’s Examinat. and Re-Examinat.

126.Certain Advertisements out of Ireland, Printed in 1588.

127.Ibid.

128.Ibid.

129.Appendix to Letter to Mendoza, p. 2.

130.Camden.

131.Speed, Harris.

132.Grotius, Strada.

133.This Account is taken from the relation given above, and from certain Advertisements out of Ireland, and Depositions of Prisoners, printed in 1588, with which Strada and the Spanish Writers agree. But our Historians vary extremely in this, as well as other Particulars: Hakluyt, vol. i. p. 604. and others, say the Spaniards lost eighty one Ships out of their hundred and thirty two; and that there return’d to Spain only one of the Galleasses of Naples, one of the four Galleons of Portugal, and thirty three of the Galleons and Hulks from divers Provinces, &c. Stow affirms there return’d to Spain only threescore Sail; and others say only fifty three. See Purchas, Thuanus l. lxxxix. Harris, Speed, &c.

134.Strype’s Annals vol. iii. p. 533. Don Pedro de Valdez, who was Sir Francis Drake’s Prisoner, remained three or four Years in England, and paid three thousand five hundred Pounds for his Ransom, Ibid. p. 532.

135.Strada, Grotius.

136.Camden.

137.See Letter to Mendoza, p. 17.

138.Of a War with Spain. See his Works, Fol. vol. iii. p. 523, &c.

139.Letter to Mendoza, p. 17.

140.Strype’s Ann. vol. iii. p. 525. Stow’s Ann.

141.Letter to B. Mendoza, p. 37.

142.Camden.

143.Academia Artis PictoriÆ NorwergÆ, p. 274.