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Illustrator: John Pine
THE
SPANISH ARMADA,
THE TAPESTRY HANGINGS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
REPRESENTING THE SEVERAL ENGAGEMENTS BETWEEN THE
ENGLISH AND SPANISH FLEETS.
JOHN PINE, ENGRAVER.
REPRODUCED IN HELIOTYPE FROM AN ORIGINAL COPY IN THE COLLECTION OF CHARLES HERVEY TOWNSHEND.
WITH
An Appendix containing Biographical Sketches of the Principal English Commanders Knighted by the Admiral at Sea, July 26, 1588.
BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY HOUGHTON, OSGOOD AND COMPANY. The Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1878.
RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY
THE
TAPESTRY HANGINGS OF THE HOUSE of LORDS:
Representing the several
ENGAGEMENTS BETWEEN THE ENGLISH and SPANISH FLEETS,
With the
PORTRAITS of the Lord High-Admiral, and the other Noble Commanders, taken from the Life.
To which are added,
From a Book entitled, Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera Descriptio, A.D. 1588, done, as is supposed, for the said Tapestry to be work'd after,
Ten CHARTS of the SEA-COASTS of ENGLAND,
And a GENERAL ONE of
England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Holland, &c.
Shewing the Places of Action between the two FLEETS;
ORNAMENTED with
MEDALS struck upon that OCCASION,
And other suitable DEVICES.
Also
An HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of each Day's Action, Collected from the most Authentic Manuscripts and Writers.
Sold by J. Pine in Old Bond Street near Picadilly.
TO THE
K I N G.
That the same glorious Success may attend your Majesty, whenever your Fleets shall be engaged with any of your Majesty's Enemies, is the hearty Prayer of
S U B S C R I B E R S.
N A M E S O M I T T E D.
ACCOUNT
OF THE
SPANISH INVASION
Thus far we have been able to go within our own Province; but as a more particular Detail of the Circumstances of this glorious Expedition, which lye blended in our Histories with other Matters, may not be altogether unacceptable, we shall beg Leave to offer the following brief Account of it, collected from the most authentic Writers and Manuscripts.
These seem to have been the real and true Motives of this great Expedition.
Most of the Ships of this ARMADA were of an uncommon Size, Strength, and Thickness, more like floating Castles than any thing else; and they were cased above Water with thick Planks to hinder the Cannon-Balls from piercing their Sides. The Masts also were braced round with strong pitched Ropes, to save them from being soon shatter'd or broke by the Shot.
Then as to Ammunition, this Fleet had a very great Number of Cannons, double Cannons, Culverins, and Field-Pieces for Land-Service; seven thousand Muskets and Calievers; ten thousand Halberts and Partizans; one hundred and twenty thousand Cannon-Balls; one hundred Quintals of Lead for Bullets twelve thousand Quintals of Match; fifty six thousand Quintals of Gunpowder; and also, Waggons, and other Carriages; Horses, Mules, and other Instruments and Necessaries for Conveyance by Land; Torches, Lanthorns, Canvas, Hides, Lead; Chains, Whips, Butchering-Knives, Halters, and other Instruments of Death and Slavery; and Spades, Mattocks, Baskets, and every thing else requisite for Pioneers Work; as also eight hundred Mules for drawing the Ordnance and Carriages.
The whole Fleet, in general, is said to have contained thirty two thousand Persons, and cost every Day thirty thousand Ducats.
Moreover, the active Queen, in order to quicken the Zeal and Diligence of her Subjects, especially of those who lay near the Sea-Coasts, caused Letters to be sent to the chief of them: Wherein, after putting them in mind of the common and imminent Danger the whole Nation was in, she told them, that she "expected on this extraordinary Occasion, a larger Proportion of Furniture, both for Horsemen and Footmen; thereby to be in their best Strength against any Attempt whatsoever, to be employed, whether about her own Person, or otherwise. And the Number she required them to signify to her Privy-Council." She required moreover the Nobility in the several Counties, to provide themselves, and their Servants and Dependants in like manner, with Horses and Armour, to be ready to repair upon Summons to the Queen, for Defence of her Person: And to this Purpose Letters were address'd to them from the Lords of the Council, by her Command.
After this general Account, the Reader will undoubtedly be pleased to see a particular List of the Fleets on both Sides, which I have accordingly subjoined hereunto.
Number Number of of
Ships. Burden Guns. Mariners. Soldiers. Tuns.
Pataches and Zabras commanded by Don ANTONIO DE MENDOZA.
These four Galleasses had Slaves 1200.
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