| Men. | |||
| In Tirconnel, | in Loughfoyle | 1 Ship | 1100 and others that escaped. |
| {in Slego-Haven | 3 great Ships | 1500 | |
| {in Tirawley | 1 Ship | 400 | |
| {in Clare-Island | 1 | 300 | |
| In Connaught, | {in Finglasse | 1 | 400 |
| {in O’sla’rtie | 1 | 200 | |
| {in Irrise | 2 Ships, | the Men escaped into other Vessels. | |
| {in Gallway-Bay | 1 Ship | 70 | |
| {in the Shannon | 2 Ships | 600 | |
| {in the same | 1 Ship burnt, | the Men embarked in another Ship. | |
| In Munster, | {in Traylie, Sept. 7. | 1 Ship | 24 |
| {in Dingle | 1 | 500 | |
| {in Desmond, Sept. 10. | 1 | 300 | |
| In all 17 Ships. | Men 5394 |
[[128]]Besides which, Our Lady of the Rosary, the Admiral Ship of the Guypuscoan Squadron, of near a thousand Tuns, and thirty Guns, that had fifty Brass Field-Pieces on board, was lost upon the Rocks in Bleskey-Sound; so that of five hundred Men, only one escap’d; and in this perished the Prince of Ascula, a natural Son of King Philip, Mighel de Oquendo the Captain, and several other considerable and eminent Persons.
According to other Accounts[[129]], nine Spanish Ships were driven ashore between the Rivers of Lough-Foile and Lough-Swilley, many whereof were broken to Pieces, and the Spaniards forced to shelter among the wild Irish.
[[130]]As for such of the Spaniards as had the ill Fortune to be drove upon the Irish Shore, they met with the most barbarous Treatment; for some of them were butcher’d by the wild Irish, and the rest put to the Sword by the Lord Deputy Sir William Fitz-Williams, who fearing they might join with the Irish Malecontents, and observing that Bingham, Governor of Connaught treated them with more Gentleness than he had several times ordered him to do; upon their Surrender, he dispatched Fowle, Deputy Marshal, to execute his Orders; who first dislodg’d them from the Places where they lay conceal’d, and then executed about two hundred of them: But this Rigour the Queen condemn’d, and complain’d of as too extreme: However, the rest being terrified by this way of proceeding, tho’ they were sick and half famish’d, yet chose to trust themselves to their shatter’d Barks, and the Mercy of the Seas; and so became many of them a Sacrifice to the Waves. The Duke of Medina, with twenty or twenty five Ships, keeping in the Ocean, return’d to Spain.
[[131]]About forty of the Spanish Ships fell in with the Irish Coast, and intended to touch at Cape Clear, in hopes of meeting there with some Refreshment; but the Wind proving contrary, and the Weather tempestuous, many of them perish’d on that Coast; [[132]]of those that got off, some were driven by a strong West Wind into the English Channel, where part of them were attack’d again and taken by the English, others by the Rochellers, and some arriv’d at Newhaven (or Havre de Grace) in Normandy.
Such were the Spaniards Losses of Men and Ships, in their return round Ireland.
The Losses they had suffered before, were thus:
| Loss of Ships. | Men. | ||
| July 21. | The Spanish Vice-Admiral Ship disabled at the first Engagement near Eddystone, | 1 | 40 |
| D. Pedro de Valdez’s Gall. taken | 1 | 422 | |
| Oquendo’s Ship, St. Anne, burnt | 1 | 289 | |
| July 23. | A great Venetian Ship, and other smaller ones,} taken | 1 | |
| The chief Galleass, taken | 1 | 686 | |
| A great Galleon, sunk | 1 | ||
| A Galleon of Biscay sunk | 1 | ||
| Two Saicks sunk | 2 | ||
| The Galleon, St. Matth. taken | 1 | 397 | |
| The Galleon St. Philip taken | 1 | 532 | |
| both by the Flushingers. | |||
| A Castilian Ship wreck’d | 1 | ||
| 30. | Two Venetian Ships sunk | 2 | 843 |
| Aug. | The St. Matthew sunk | 1 | 450 |
| A Biscayner sunk | 1 | 350 | |
| both on the Coast of Scotland. | |||
| Two lost upon the Coast of Norway, | 2 | ||
| Total of Ships 18 | Men 8000 at least. |
So that by adding their several Losses together, it plainly appears, they lost THIRTY FIVE Ships, and above THIRTEEN THOUSAND Men; besides many others of which no Estimate was or could be made[[133]]; and above two thousand Prisoners were taken in the Fight in Ireland, and the Low-Countries: Those taken in Ireland were brought to England[[134]], and confined in Bridewell ’till they were ransomed. The most eminent of the Prisoners were, Don Pedro de Valdez, Don Vasquez de Silvea, Don Alonzo de Sayes, and others taken in the Channel; in Ireland, Don Alonzo de Luzon, Roderigo de Lasso, &c. in Zealand, Don Diego Piementelli, &c. In a Word, there was hardly a noble Family in all Spain, that did not lose a Son, a Brother, or a Kinsman; upon which account the Mourning was so universal in that whole Kingdom, [[135]]that King Philip was obliged by Proclamation to shorten the usual Time; as the Romans of old, upon their great Defeat of Cannæ, found it necessary to limit the publick Mourning to thirty Days.
[[136]]The shatter’d Remains of the Spanish Fleet after having weather’d many Storms, and suffered all the Inconveniences of War and Weather, arriv’d at last, about the End of September, at St. Andero, and other Ports of Spain, laden with nothing but Shame and Dishonour. The Duke of Medina was forbid the Court, and ordered to go and live privately; Martinez de Recalde died immediately after his Return; and two of their Ships were accidentally burnt in the Harbour not long after their Arrival. Surely such a Series of ill Success was hardly ever known in any other Age or Nation.