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1588. having made a publick Thanksgiving,with great ' Solemnity, at St. Paul’s ,where the Colours and Standards, takenfrom theEnemy, were hung up, appliedherself to distribute Rewards to theLord High Admiral, and the Officersand Seamen of the Fleet, for their gal-lant Behaviour, (n)

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the Spani- to lome Authors, were taken and de-ards. stroyed, in July and August, fifteen

great Ships, and four Thousand, sevenHundred and ninety one Men, in theFight between the English and Spani/hNavies in the Channel. And on theCoast of Ireland, in September, seven-teen Ships, and five Thousand, threeHundred and ninety four Men; in alltwo and thirty Ships, and ten Thousandone Hundred and eighty five Men,Appendix to Their Loss must have been muchHarris ’5 Col- greater, if we may give Credit to Stow? slection. Account. Harris in his Appendix,and Hackluyt, fay; Of one Hundredand four and thirty Sail, that came outof Lisbon, only three and fifty return-ed to Spain. Of the four Galeassesof Naples but one; the like of thefour largest Gallions of Portugal-, Ofthe one and ninety Gallions, and greatHulks, from divers Provinces, onlythree and thirty returned. In a Wordthey lost eighty one Ships, in thisExpedition , and upwards of thir-teen Thousand, five Hundred Sol-diers.

Sir William Monson concludes theshort Account he gives of this Actionwith the following Remarks.

Sir William " Having Shown the Design of the^Remarks " Spaniards, and the Prevention of" them by Her Majesty, I will collect" the Errors committed, as well by“ the one as by the other, as I have" promised in the Beginning of my“ Discourse.

<f And it was of most Likelyhood" and Reason, after the Duke had got“ Intelligence of the State of our Navy," to surprize them in Harbour at un-" awares, knowing that if he had tak-" en away. our Strength by Sea, he" might have landed both when and" where he listed, which is the Chief-" est Advantage, in the Invader. Yet," tho’ it had took theEffecthe desired,I" fee not how he was to be commended," in breaking that Direction given by" the King; Then, on the other" Hand, what Blame did he not de-" serve, to alter his Instructions, so evil" Event following of it, as it did ?

" In was not Lack of Experience in" the Duke, or Laying it upon Valdez," that Excused him, at his return ; But<c that he had smarted bitterly for it," had it not been for his Duchess, who" obtained the King’s Favour for him.

" Before the Arrival of the Ships“ that escaped from this Expedition,

it was known that Diego Flores de“ Valdez was the only Persuader to" break the King’s Articles; where-(c upon he commanded, in all hisPorts,tf where the said Diego Flores de Valdez" ffiould arrive , to apprehend him,“ which was accordingly executed ," and he carried to the Castle of St." Andrea, where he was never seen" or heard of after, as was told me by" his Page, who was my Fellow-Pri-" soner at Lisbon.

" If the King’s Directions had been" really followed, then had his Fleet" kept the Coast ef France, and arriv-" ed in the Road of Calais, before they" had been discovered by us, which" might have endangered Her Majesty" and the Realm, our Ships being so" far off as Plymouth, where then they" lay; And tho’ the Duke of Parma," had not been presently ready, he" had gained Time sufficient, by the<f Absence of our Fleet to make him-<c self ready.

" And,

in) Upon the Disappearance of this mightyFleet, the following Writing was fastened up toPafquin at Rome: “ Pontificem mille annorum In-“ dulgentias largiturum else, de plenitudine po-“ testatis fuæ, si quis certo st hi indicaverit, quid" Jit factum de classe Hilpanicii, Quo abierit: in“ cœlumne sublata : an ad Tartara detrusa : v el“ in aere alicubi pendeat, an in aliquo mari fluc-tc tuet.

Several Medals were struck in England , inMemory of this glorious Victory. One, in Ho-

nour to the Queen, represented Firelhips, and aFleet in Hurry and Confusion, with the Inscrip-tion, Dux Foemina Fasti- Another, in Honourto the Englijh Navy, with the Device of a Fleetflying under full Sail, and the Inscription: Venit,vidit, fugit. The Zealanders likewise struckMedals in Honour to this Victory, among whichwas one representing the Spanijh Fleet in Confu-sion, with the Motto ; tmpius fugit neminequente.