[371]. Letters and Papers, xx, part i, No. 543.
[372]. Du Bellay says the English had only sixty ships on July 18.
[373]. Brit. Mus. Maps, 3, Tab. 24, No. 2. The original painting was at Cowdray House, Midhurst, and was burnt with that building at the end of the eighteenth century.
[374]. Froude, iv. 425–6; Van der Delft to Charles V, Spanish Cal. viii, No. 101; Du Bellay, p. 554. Froude’s account is based mainly on Du Bellay; Van der Delft’s letter was unknown at the time he wrote.
[375]. A. P. C., i. 212.
[376]. Ibid., p. 215.
[377]. Du Bellay, pp. 555–6.
[378]. Letters and Papers, xx, part i, No. 1237.
[379]. Letters and Papers, xx, App. No. 27.
[380]. See J. S. Corbett, Drake and the Tudor Navy, for tactical formations employed in the sixteenth century.