33 2 Eliz. Naval Expeditions 0 &c. of the English, Book II.

nisli Gallions _ ^aW Gallies dp^ation

burnt-

1596. longer tenable, set the* most: of themS^erÆ/Spa- on j 7 ] rCj or sonic them, with such Pre-

that tho’ the Men endeavour-ed to escape to Land, great Numbers ofthem were driven to the Necessity ofthrowing themselves over Board, andmust: have miserably perished in the Sea,had not the Englijh taken Compassion ofthem, and, upon their Crying Quarter,generously relieved them.

At the same Time, the Spanijh Ad-miral, called the St. Philip, a Ship ofFifteen Hundred Tuns, was blown up,by Means of a Moorijh Slave, who setFire to the Gun-powder, or, as someAuthors will have it, the Spaniards,themselves, blew her up, rather thanshe should be a Prey to the Englijh. Bethis as it will, she destroyed two or threeother Ships that lay near her.

Th e St. Matthew, a Galleon of twelveHundred Tuns Burden, thro’ the Careof the Admiral, and the St. Andrew, ofthe like Burden, by the Assistance of Sir‘Thomas Gerard, were, in the meanWhile, saved and taken; And the Re-mainder of the others, which the Spa-niards, themselves, had not burnt orfunk, run assioar.

The Dutch, in the mean Time,i^f* PUnta S bravel y attacked and carried the Pun-tals ; and the Earl of Effex, soon after,landed a Body of eight Hundred Men,at about a Leagues Distance from theCity, to attempt it, on the Land-side,while the Ships were doing it on the Sea-side.

Immediately afterwards Sir CornersClifford, Sir Christopher Blunt and SirThomas Gerard were sent to break down^Continent 6 tbe Bridge and the Engine, which hadsecured the Escape of the Gallies, toprevent any Access from the Island tothe Continent. This was carefull exe-cuted whilst Effex himself placed hisMen in good Order, and marched awaywith his Body of Troops.

With the Earl of Effex, were theEarl of Suffex, Lodowick of Najfau,William Herbert, Son to the Earl ofWorcester, Bourke an Irijhman, Sir Ed-ward Wingfield, Sir Christopher St. Law-rence, Sir Robert Drury, Sir ThomasGermin, Christopher Hey den, AlexanderRatcliff, and some others of the highestQuality: And they were followed bythe Lord Admiral, with the Lord Tho-mas Howard, Sir William Paget, SirWalter Raleigh, Sir Robert Southwell,Richard Levifon, Philip Woodhoufe, Ro-bert Mansel, and the Sea-men, who

The Bridgewhich sepa-rates the I-

taken .

The City ofCadiz takenhy the En-glish.

came at the Instant they entered the 1596*Town, Sir Edward Hobby, Carrying theColours before them.

Th e y met with five Hundred Spani-ards, near the Town, but instead ofmaking any Resistance, they retiredwith such Precipitation, and were soclosely pursued, that the Englifio hadvery near entered the City with them :

And lo great was the Confusion and Sur-prize, that before any Measures couldbe taken for the Defence of the Place,

Sir Francis Vere, with some of the Eng-lijh Troops had forced the Gate, andgot Entrance; While Lieutenant Evans,

Arthur Savage, Samuel Bagnal, andsome others, bravely leaped down froman Eminence of a Pike’s Length, to bethe first in theTown. They found somesmall Resistance in the Streets, and ma-ny of the Englijh were hurt from theTops of the Houses; however in lessthan half an Hour they became Mastersof the Market-place, where Sir JohnWingfield was shot in the Head, and Sa-vage and Bagnal, covered with Woundsand Blood, were knighted on the Spot.

The Garrison, upon this, with as many

of the Inhabitants as could, retired into

the Town-house and the Castle, where

they surrender’d the next Day, upon y c -jjre

Condition of paying five Hundred and an d

twenty (or, according to Stow, six Hun- the Cafl e 1

dred and twenty) Thousand Duckets ,/^rendeT

for the Ransom of their Lives, and to

give forty Hostages for the Payment of

it.

Shortly after, it was ordered byPro-clamation, that no Violence should beoffered to the Spaniards ; and the Wo-men, Churchmen and Citizens were con-veyed to Porto-Santa-Maria, in EnglijhShips. While the Ladies, who were <suffered to depart in their richest Appa-rel and Jewels, were going on Board,the General stood in Person by the Wa-ter-side, to prevent any Insult or Vio-lence being offered them by the commonSoldiers.

Sir Walter Raleigh vi as detached, inthe mean Time, by the Lord High Ad-miral, to go over with some of the light-est Frigats to Puerto Reale to destroythe Fleet of Merchant Ships, that wasretreated thither.A considerableRansommight have been taken for the sparing ofthem, and the Spaniards had actuallyoffered two Millions ('Harris and Hack-luvt fay two Millions and a Half) ofDuckets: But the Lord High Admiralrefused this large Sum, or, indeed, any

Terms,