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The gallys in the Tagus I believe would not have been any hindrance tothe designe.

Tlieire well useing the Portugalls, and the benefutt they had by it, bynot being persued as they retreated, is a good note to all invaders.

In the carl of Cumberland’s expedition to theTrecera, in anno 1589, as therclater has well sett forth in the person of captain Listor, (by liis rashnessin his attempt to take the suggar shipp, by landing in view and gunn shottof the fort of St. Mary’s, and bringing a famine into the fleet by sendinghome the wine, &c. to England, occasioning thereby a great mortalityand hazard of shipwreck of the fleet homeward bound, and being after-wards drowned in the rich shipp cast away at Mount’s Bay) the ill choiceis shewn that gentlemen eaptaines make of theire next assisting officers.

"When on the contrary, tarpawling eaptaines selclome faile of haveinggood assistants, otherwise Sir John llarman had been burnt in the Ilenry,the Nonsuch had been taken by the French, and the Speedwell by theTurkes, in the Straights; when on the other hand, all our gentlemen’scourage are like captain Lis tors, and Sir Richard Greenville, wittness SirWilliam Berkeley, who lost the Swiftsure, Sir John Chichelcy the RoyalKatherine, captain St. Loo the Portsmouth, by theire haveing more cou-rage than conduct.

As to Sir John Hawkins and Sir Martin Forbisher’s expedition upon thecoast of Spaine, in anno 1590, I finde the king of Spainc to have orderedhis fleete of 20 men of warr to decline fighting with but 10 of the queene’sshipps, when knowne to be under the command of experienced and tryedtarpawling eaptaines.

This fleet stayed seven months at sea, and came home without beingput to the straights for want of any thing. And though they did nothingbut stopp the Spaniards from tradeing, yet they app'eare not to have layneunder any blame.

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