The Spanish Armada, 1588 / The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords Representing the Several Engagements Between the English and Spanish Fleets.

by John Pine

[124]. Thuanus.

[125]. Eman. Fremosa’s Examinat. and Re-Examinat.

[126]. Certain Advertisements out of Ireland, Printed in 1588.

[127]. Ibid.

[128]. Ibid.

[129]. Appendix to Letter to Mendoza, p. 2.

[130]. Camden.

[131]. Speed, Harris.

[132]. Grotius, Strada.

[133]. This Account is taken from the relation given above, and from certain Advertisements out of Ireland, and Depositions of Prisoners, printed in 1588, with which Strada and the Spanish Writers agree. But our Historians vary extremely in this, as well as other Particulars: Hakluyt, vol. i. p. 604. and others, say the Spaniards lost eighty one Ships out of their hundred and thirty two; and that there return’d to Spain only one of the Galleasses of Naples, one of the four Galleons of Portugal, and thirty three of the Galleons and Hulks from divers Provinces, &c. Stow affirms there return’d to Spain only threescore Sail; and others say only fifty three. See Purchas, Thuanus l. lxxxix. Harris, Speed, &c.