1602.

She escapesunder theCafile of StVincent.

Is lest bythe Cowar-dice of oneMan.

Damage su-stained bySir William

Sails to-wards Ter-cera :

But is obli-ged by theSeason toreturn.

Eliz. Naval Expeditions

" vered under the Castle of Cape St. ““ Vincent, before he could fetch her "" up: But notwithstanding that he tf" knew the Strength of that Castle and "knew the Shoar, yet he attempt-" ed her, and had carried her, had it "te not been for the Fear and Cow- "" atdliness of the Man at the Helm, "" who bore up when he was ready to" board. The Fight was not long, but "" stiarp and dangerous; For there ne- "" ver pasted Shot from one to the o- "" ther, untill they were within Length "" of their Ships. The Castle played "" her Part, and rent his Ship so, that "" a Teem of Oxen might have crept "" through her, under the Half-Deck; £s" And one Shot killed seven Men. Be-" twixt the Ship and Castle, they stew “<( in the Admiral ten Men, and hurt "“ many more, in the View of Siriago ce“ and his Squadron to the Westward, “" and of divers Englijh Men of War ,£" to the Eastward, that durst not put "tf themselves to the Rescue of Sir Wil- "" Ham, for Fear of the Castle. Sir tf<r William being now left alone, and "cc seing what head-land soever he came "£c unto, he was to encounter a Spani/h "<£ Squadron, he stood his Course that“ Night to Sea, thinking to try if the" Island of Fercera would astord him<£ any better Fortune ; But comingtc within forty or fifty .Leagues of the" Islands, he was taken short with the" Wind, yet still bearing up what he" could for the Rock. But, at Length,

" finding his Victuals grew short, his" Mast perished, and the Dangers he<c was exposed to by keeping that,c Coast, he directed his Course for Eri-£c gland, and came into Plymouth, the" four and twentieth of November,

££ where he found the Mary Rose, an'd" Dreadnought, with most Part of their“ Men dead and sick.

“ The Adventure arrived within one" Hour after him, who, in her Ways£ homeward, fell amongst the Brazilcc Fleet, and encountering with them,

" lost divers Men; But took none.

" The Paragon was at home long be-£C fore, with a Prize of Sugar and" Spices, which countervailed the“■ Charge of the Voyage. The ijuit-“ tance, in her Return, met two Ships

&c. of the Englifli, Book II*

of Dunhrk, and in Fight with them 1602*her Captain was slain ; But she ac-quitted herself very well without fur-ther Hurt.

" This Fleet, as the Reader hasheard, was to keep the Enemy 'occu-pied at Home, that he might be di-verted from the Thoughts of Ireland,and what Plazard it endured by theEnemy, and the Fury of the Sea, byfoul Weather, is evident; And noWonder, for it was the latest Fleet inWinter, that was ever kept upon theSpanijh Coast, and the last Fleet HerMajesty employed; As Sir WilliamMonson was General of Her last Fleet,so was he a Soldier, and a Youth, atthe Beginning of theWars, and was atthe taking of the first Spanijh Prizethat ever saw the Englijh Coast, whichthey bought with the Death of fiveand twenty Men kill’d, and fiftywounded; Which Ship was after aa Man of War, and served againstthe Spaniards, and in those Days thebest Man of War that we had, Shewas called the Commander, and be-longed to Sir George Carew, then Go-vernour of the Ifte of Wight.

About this Time Frederick.Spinola, Sp an isliffAwith his Gallies which had escaped from lies destroy-Cezimbra, as the Reader has seen inthe foregoing Chapter, making the bestof his VVay for Flanders, arrived, the •three and twentieth of September, nearthe Streights of Dover, where Sir RobertMansel, with some of Her Majesty’sShips,was cruising off th sS.outh Fore-land,to intercept him; As were also someDutch Ships on the French and Flemmijh.

Coasts with the sameDefign.The Englijh, p/ Jg gpanifrfalling in with the Enemy, near the Gallies ta-Goodwin, attacked them with such Sue- ^ en marcess, that, out of all these Gallies, only vei ";that commanded by Spinola himself es-caped to Dimkirk, the Rest being; alleither sunk in the Engagement, or loston the Coast .of Flanders.

Camben says, Spinola , with fix Gal-lics he had saved, failing, in September,for Flanders, met in the Channel someEnglijh and Dutch Ships, with whomhe had a sharp Engagement. Two ofhis Gallies were funk, one taken, andwith the other three he retired .intoSluys.

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