twenty sail with the admiral, after the first storm; and saith, that those in the ship, that he is in, do say that they will rather go into the ground themselves, than come in such a journey again for England; and saith, the best that be in the admiral's ship are scarce able to stand, and that if they tarry where they are any time, they will all perish, as h he thinketh; and for himself he would not pass into Portugal again, if he might choose, for that he would not be constrained to such another journey,

The Examination of John de le Conido, of Lekit in Biscay, Mariner, September 12, 1588.

JOHN de le Conido, of Lekit in Biscay, mariner, saith he was in the ship that the admiral is in, and that he told the navy, after the fight ended at Calais, and that there were then remaining not passing a hundred and ten, or a hundred and twelve of the whole Spanish navy; and saith, that a leak fell upon one of the galliasses about fifteen days past, which he taketh to be fallen upon the north coast of this land; he saith, he doth not remember, that there were above twenty sail left in the company of the admiral, after the first great storm, which fell on them about thirty days sithence; he saith, the duke did give them express commandment, that they should not go on land in any place, without his order; he confesseth, that the navy, that remained after the last fight, were marvellously beaten and shot through, and their tackle much cut and spoiled with the shot, and, for the rest of the matter, agreeth with the former examinant, in every point in effect, and saith, there was an English pilot with the Duke. He saith, that the Scot, that is taken, was taken in the north part, after the English fleet parted from them, in a ship of fifty tons, in which were about seven men, which the fleet hath carried with them, both the ship and people, six of which Scots were a-board the admiral, whereof one is he that is taken.

He saith, after the English fleet parted from them, the Spanish fleet cast out all the horses and mules into the sea, to save their water, which were carried in certain hulks provided for that purpose.

The Re-examination of John Anthonio, of Genoa, Mariner, September

15, 1588.

HE saith his father and himself with others came into Lisbon in a ship of Genoa, about a year sithence, where they were embarked by the King of Spain, that ship was of about four hundred tons.

He saith his father after this was appointed pilot in the ship called our Lady of the Rosary, of the burden of a thousand tons, being the King's: he saith the prince of Ascule the King's base son came in the company of the duke in the duke's ship, called the Galleon of St. Martin, of a thousand tons, but at Calais, when the English navy came neaş

them, this prince went to the shore, and, before his return, the duke was driven to cut off his anchors, and to depart, whereby the Prince could not recover that ship, but came into the said ship called our Lady of the Rosary, and with him there came in also one Don Pedro, Don Francisco, and seven other gentlemen of account, that accompanied the Prince. He saith the captain of this ship was Villa Franca, of St. Sebastians, and Matuta was captain of the infantry of that ship. There were also in her captain Suares, a Portuguese, and one Garrionero, a Castilian captain, Lopicho de la Vega, a Castilian captain, Captain Montanese, a Castilian, and one Captain Francisco, a Castilian; and Michael d'Oquendo, who was general of this ship. There was also in her one Irish captain, called John Rise, of about thirty years of age, and another Irishman called Francis Roche. The Prince was of about eight and twenty years of age. He saith, there were other gentlemen adventurers in the ship, but not of that reckoning as the former were. He saith there were in all seven-hundred men in this ship at their coming forth; he saith there were above five-hundred in this ship at such time as she sunk, the rest perished by fight and by sickness. He saith this ship was shot through four times, and one of the shot was between the wind and the water, whereof they thought she would have sunk, and the most of her tackle was spoiled with shot; this ship struck against the rocks in the sound of the Bleskies, a league and a half from the land, upon Tuesday last at noon, and all in the ship perished, saving this examinant, who saved himself upon two or three planks that were loose; the gentlemen thinking to save themselves by the boat, it was so fast tied as they could not get her loose, whereby they perished; he saith, as soon as the ship struck against the rock, one of the captains slew this examinant's father, saying he did it by treason. He saith there came in their company a Portugal ship of about four-hundred, who, coming into the same sound, cast anchor near where they found the admiral of the fleet at anchor, called St. John, in which Don Martin de Ricalde the admiral was; he saith that, about two and twenty days past, the duke departed from them, and about five and twenty ships in his company, and about forty ships were with the admiral, but this ship was not able to follow the admiral, by reason her sails were broken, and for the rest of the navy that remained, they were so dispersed, as he cannot tell what is become of them. He saith the duke, being better watered than the others were, held more westerly into the seas, and willed the admiral with his company, being in worse estate for water, to see if he could touch with any coast, to get fresh water; sithence which they have been severed by the nights and by tempest; he saith this ship nor any other of the ships touched upon any land, nor had any release of water or victuals at any place, sithence they parted, but from two Scots, which they took upon the coast of Scotland, whose fish and victuals the duke took, but paid them for it.

He saith, their ships were so beaten, and the wind so contrary, and the shoals upon the coast of Flanders so dangerous, as the pilot, that was in the duke's ship, directed them this course northward as their safest way. He saith, that, in one of the days in which the fight was between both the navies, the duke, seeing the English fleet so hardily to

pursue them, willed his fleet, seeing no other remedy, to address themselves to fight. He saith, that in that day of the fight at Calais, they lost fourthousand men in fight, one-thousand were drowned in four ships; he saith, the master of the cavalry of the Tercii of Naples and Sicily was slain in this fight, by a great piece that broke his thigh, his name he remembered not; at which time also the master of the camp of the horsemen, and the master of the camp of the footmen, were both slain, but their names he remembereth not. He saith, the four galliasses were of Naples. He saith, the four gallies left the fleet, before they came to the English, by well near forty leagues. He saith, the Florentine ship is gone with the duke. He saith, there were fourteen Venetian ships in this fleet; two of the said are drowned, what is become of the rest he knoweth not, they served the King only by arrest. He saith, there be three Englishmen pilots in the duke's ship.

He saith, this ship that is drowned hath in her three chests full of money. He doth not know what moved the duke to command, that the whole navy that remained should repair to the Groyne, and not depart without his direction, upon pain of death,

The Examination of John Antonio de Moneko, thirty miles from Ganna, September 17, 1588.

He saith, the Prince of Ascule was a slender made man, and of a reasonable stature, of twenty-eight years of age, his hair of a brown colour stroked upwards, of a high forehead, a very little beard, marquesotted, whitely-faced with some little red on the cheeks; he was drowned in apparel of white sattin for his doublet and breeches, after the Spanish fashion cut, with russet-silk stockings. When this prince came into their ship at Calais, he was apparelled in black raised velvet, laid on with broad gold lace. He saith, that this prince's men, for the most part, were in the ship that this examinant was in, from their coming out of Spain; and, when they were at Calais, the prince passed in a little felucca with six others from ship to ship, to give orders to them, and some said he went to the shore at that time.

He saith, it was thought to be about sixty leagues west from the northwest part of Ireland, that the duke departed from the rest of the company. He saith, they parted by a tempest growing in the night, and that, about six days after, a Portugal galleon overtaking this ship told unto those of this ship, that there were twenty-five ships of the whole navy passed away with the duke, and that the rest, then remaining of the whole navy, were dispersed by this tempest, some eight in one company, and four in another; and thus dispersedly passed on the seas. But how many ships remained after their departure from the coast of Scotland, of the whole navy, this examinant cannot tell. He saith, that after this first tempest, which was about twenty-five days now past, growing of a south-west wind, they had sundry tempests, before they were lost, with variable winds, sometimes one way, and sometimes another,

The Re-examination of Emanuel Fremosa, September 17, 1588.

EMANUEL Fremosa, mariner, examined the same day, saith that the day next before the great tempest, in which the duke was severed from them, being a very calm day, himself counted the navy then remaining, which then were but seventy-eight sail in all; when they were farthest off in the north, they were at sixty-two degrees northward, and were then about four-score leagues and somewhat more from any land, and at the north-west part of Scotland, Cape Clare being then from them south and by west; and this was about four or five days before the said great tempest; and, from that time until the same tempest, they had the wind most west, and west south-west, and sometimes west north-west, but that not very long; he saith that it was known to very few of the navy that the Prince, the King's base son, was in this navy, until they came unto Calais, where this prince, about the time of the fight, was said to take himself into a little boat upon the coast of Calais; but before that he kept himself as private in the duke's own ship, as it was said, and not noted or spoken of in the navy until then. But he saith, there was a great prince, an Italian, that was a chief man in a great Argosy, very well furnished, who, before their coming to the English coast, did very often banquet the duke and the other great men of the navy. This Argosy was called the Ratte. He saith, he did not perceive if this ship were in this fleet the day before the said tempest or not, but he saith, this being a famous ship, it was often demanded, if she were in their company, and it was answered, that she was. He saith, the chiefest of the treasure, that served for the pay, was, as he heard, in the galliass that drove on the shore at Calais, and in a ship of Sevil, made in Galicia, called the Gallega, of about sevenhundred tons, in which Don Pedro de Valdez was, which was taken on the south coast,

The Examination of Pierre Carre, a Fleming.

HE saith, that in the ship that he came hither in, called St. John, a gallcon of nine-hundred tons, besides John Martin de Ricalde, there are five captains, Don John de Lune, Don Gomes de Galanezar, Don Pedro de Madri, the Count of Parades, Don Felice, and there is also an Italian Marquess of Piedmont, called the Marquess of Faruara.

He saith also, that the admiral, after such time as the fight was at Calais, came not out of his bed, until this day sen'night in the morning that they ran upon the shore. He saith, his admiral is of Biscay, either of Bilboa or Allerede, and of sixty-two years of age, and a man of service. He saith, that there were in this navy of the old soldiers of Naples, under the conduct of Don Alonso de Sono, and of the old soldiers of Sicily, under the conduct of Don Diego de Piemen, telli, whose ship was lost near Calais. There was also Don Alonso de Leva, master of the camp of the cavalry of Milan. He saith, there is a

bastard son of King Philip, of twenty-eight years of age in this flect in the ship with the duke, called the Prince of Ascule in Italy, who passed from them in a pinnace about Calais, as he took it.

By other advertisements of the fourteenth of September, it is certified to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, from the earl of Tyrone, being at his castle of Dongannon, that, upon intelligence brought to him of the landing of certain Spaniards in the north of Ireland, he sent two English captains with their bands towards them, to the number of onehundred and fifty; who found them at Sir John Odoghertie's town, called Illagh, and there, discovering their number to be above sixhundred, did that night incamp within a musket-shot of them, and, about midnight, did skirmish with them for the space of two hours, in which skirmish the Spanish lieutenant of the field and twenty more of the Spaniards were slain, besides many that were hurt.

The next day following they did offer skirmish again to the Spaniards, whereupon they all yielded, and so, as prisoners, were carried to Dongannon to the Earl, who meant to send them to the Lord Deputy, being judged to be men of good value, and one thought to be a man that hath had some great charge and conduct of men for many years, whereof the Lord Deputy will give knowledge, as soon as they shall be brought to Dublin.

There may be some errors in the Spanish names in English, because the same are written by way of interpretation, but there is no error in the numbering of the persons that are either dead or alive. Sept. 26, 1588.

Ships and men sunk, drowned, killed, and taken upon the Coast of Ireland, in the month of September, 1588.