[114]. One Night, as the Queen was in the Camp, guarded by her Army, the Lord Treasurer Burleigh came thither, and delivered to the Earl of Leicester the Examination of Don Pedro, who was taken and brought in by Sir Francis Drake; the Sum of which was this: Don Pedro being asked what was the Intent of their coming, stoutly answer’d the Lords, What, but to subdue your Nation, and root it out. Good, said the Lords, and what meant you then to do with the Catholicks? He answered, We meant to send them (good Men) directly unto Heaven, as all you that are Hereticks to Hell. Yea but, said the Lords, What meant you to do with your Whips of Cord and Wyer? (whereof they had great Store in their Ships,) What, said he, we meant to whip you Hereticks to Death, that have assisted my Master’s Rebels, and done such Dishonours to our Catholick King and People. Yea, but what would you have done said they, with their young Children. They, said he, which were above seven Years old should have gone the Way their Fathers went; the rest should have lived, branded in the Forehead with the Letter L, for Lutheran, to perpetual Bondage, Cabala, p. 372. Letter to Mendoza, p. 37.——It was also published, that the Lords of Spain which were in the Navy, had made a special Division amongst themselves, of all the Noblemens Houses in England by their Names, and had in a sort quartered England among themselves, and had determined of sundry manners of cruel Death, both of the Nobility and the rest of the People. The Ladies, Women, and Maidens were also destined to all Villany; the rich Merchants Houses in London were put into a Register, by their very Names, and limited to the Companies of the Squadrons of the Navy for their Spoil. Letter to Mendoza, p. 37.
[115]. Camden, Thuanus.
[116]. Cotton MSS.
[117]. Camden.
[118]. J. Antonio’s Examinat.
[119]. Harris, &c.
[120]. Appendix to Letter to Mendoza, p. 1.
[121]. J. A. de Monoma’s Examinat.
[122]. Ibid.
[123]. Camden.