FOOTNOTES.

1.SeeGrotiiHist. 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.MaryQueen ofScots, the Day before she suffer’d Death, did under her own Hand in theFrenchTongue, declare, “That her SonJamesshould not inheritEngland, if he remained a Protestant, but that the Right of the Kingdom should be translated toPhilipKing ofSpain.”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 thisArmada, and the several things belonging to it. According toThuanus, it consisted of 150 Ships of all Sorts; 140 saysGrotius; 130CamdenandStrype, 135Strada; 128Speed; 150Hakluyt; 160 others,&c.—Tuns 57868,SpanishBook,Hakluyt,Purchas.—Cannons 2650,Hakluyt,Thuanus(1600 of Brass, and 1050 of Iron.) 2630,Camden.—Sailor 8450SpanishBooks, 8000Thuanus, 8350Camden, 7449Strada.—Soldiers, 20000ThuanusandStow, 19295SpanishBook, 19290Camden, 18857Strada.

8.Thuanus, lib. 89.

9.Discourse of theArmadabyD. Archdeacon, being a Translation of theSpanishAccount,Lond.1588.Lediard’s Naval History, p. 234,&c.

10.According toStradathere were 220 Noblemen and Gentlemen, 354 Voluntiers: Their Servants 624; Priests, Surgeons, and other Officers, and Servants 669.Decasii. 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 inChristendom. Letter toB. Mendoza, p. 16.

13.Discourse of theArmadabyD. Archdeacon,Thuanus,Lediard,Hakluyt,Purchas,&c.

14.1200,000,Thuan.20,200Harris, 220,000Speed, 119,000SpanishBook.

15.Laquei certe, & plura necis instrumenta, aut servitutis inter spolia visitata sunt.GrotiiHist. p. 118. See Letter toB. Mendoza, in thePostscript, p. 37.

16.Discourse of theArmada,&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, asThuanuscomputes it, before it sailed fromLisbon, it had stood K.PhilipinCenties 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.HakluytandPurchas.

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.Hakluytvol. i. p. 595.

31.Cotton MSS.

32.Camden.

33.Strype’s Annals, tom. iii. p. 516.

34.StowChron. p. 744.

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

36.Letter toB. 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 toB. Mendoza, p. 30, 35.

42.See his Letter inRymer’sFœdera, tom. xvi. p. 18.

43.Camden.

44.Taken from theSpanishBook printed in 1588. compar’d withLediard.

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

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

47.Hakluyt, Camden.

48.MSS. in theCottonianLibrary,Jul.F X. 17. fol. III.

49.CamdenAnn. andBurchett.

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 theDisdaininCotton 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.ASpanishOfficer 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 toB. Mendoza, p. 28.

80.Cotton MSS.

81.Ibid.

82.Harris.

83.Camden.

84.Eman. Fremosa’s Examination.

85.Camden, Thuanus.

86.SeeStrada de Bello Belgico, Dec. ii. lib. 6.

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

88.Camden, Burchett.

89.Eman. Fremosa’s Examinat.

90.Thuanus, Lediard.

91.Cotton MSS.

92.Letter toB. Mendoza, p. 28.

93.Hakluyt, Purchas, Harris.

94.Cotton MSS.

95.Camden, Burchett.

96.Eman. Francisco’s Examinat.

97.Thuanus, Purchas, Harris.

98.PurchasandHarriscall himBauderdues.

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

100.Burchett.

101.This worthy Commander, for his gallant Behaviour in this Action, and afterwards at the Overthrow and Burning of theSpanishNavy in the Bay ofCadiz1588, 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 toB. Mendoza, p. 18.

103.Em. Fremosa’s Examinat.

104.J. Antonio’s Examinat.

105.Em. Francisco’s andJ 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 toB. Mendoza, p. 22.

113.Ibid.

114.One Night, as the Queen was in the Camp, guarded by her Army, the Lord TreasurerBurleighcame thither, and delivered to the Earl ofLeicesterthe Examination of DonPedro, who was taken and brought in by SirFrancis Drake; the Sum of which was this: DonPedrobeing 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 LetterL, forLutheran, to perpetual Bondage,Cabala, p. 372. Letter toMendoza, p. 37.——It was also published, that the Lords ofSpainwhich were in the Navy, had made a special Division amongst themselves, of all the Noblemens Houses inEnglandby their Names, and had in a sort quarteredEnglandamong 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 inLondonwere put into a Register, by their very Names, and limited to the Companies of the Squadrons of the Navy for their Spoil. Letter toMendoza, p. 37.

115.Camden, Thuanus.

116.Cotton MSS.

117.Camden.

118.J. Antonio’s Examinat.

119.Harris, &c.

120.Appendixto Letter toMendoza, 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 ofIreland, Printed in 1588.

127.Ibid.

128.Ibid.

129.Appendixto Letter toMendoza, 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 ofIreland, and Depositions of Prisoners, printed in 1588, with whichStradaand theSpanishWriters agree. But our Historians vary extremely in this, as well as other Particulars:Hakluyt, vol. i. p. 604. and others, say theSpaniardslost eighty one Ships out of their hundred and thirty two; and that there return’d toSpainonly one of the Galleasses ofNaples, one of the four Galleons ofPortugal, and thirty three of the Galleons and Hulks from divers Provinces,&c.Stowaffirms there return’d toSpainonly threescore Sail; and others say only fifty three. SeePurchas, Thuanusl. lxxxix.Harris, Speed, &c.

134.Strype’s Annalsvol. iii. p. 533. DonPedro de Valdez, who was SirFrancis Drake’s Prisoner, remained three or four Years inEngland, and paid three thousand five hundred Pounds for his Ransom,Ibid.p. 532.

135.Strada, Grotius.

136.Camden.

137.See Letter toMendoza, p. 17.

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

139.Letter toMendoza, p. 17.

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

141.Letter toB. Mendoza, p. 37.

142.Camden.

143.Academia Artis Pictoriæ Norwergæ, p. 274.

Transcriber’s Notes:Missing or obscured punctuation was corrected.Typographical errors were silently corrected.Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book.

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