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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33346	A true and full narrative of those two never to be forgotten deliverances one from the Spanish Invasion in 88, the other from the hellish Powder Plot, November 5, 1605 : whereunto is added the like narrative of that signal judgment of God upon the papists, by the fall of the House in Black-Friers, London, upon their fifth of November, 1623 / collected for the information and benefit of each family, by Sam. Clark ...; England's remembrancer	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.; Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682. Gun-powder treason.	1671 (1671)	Wing C4559; ESTC R15231	43,495	131

Nineteen thousand two hundred and ninety five Souldiers and two thousand and eighty eight Gally-slaves And so confident were the Spaniards that England should pay the shot that they spared no cost for furnishing it forth with all things necessary For which end they provided of Bullets for great shot two hundred and twenty thousand Of Powder four thousand and two hundred Kintals every Kintal containing a hundred pound weight of Lead for Bullets a thousand Kintals of Match a thousand and two hundred Kintals Musquets seven thousand of Partisans and Halberts ten thousand with store of Murthering pieces double Canon and Field pieces for the Camp they had also store of Furniture for Carriages Mules and Horses so that they were sufficiently provided both for Sea and Land Bread and Bisket ready baked and Wine laid aboard for six months provision They had moreover six thousand and five hundred Kintals of Bacon three thousand of Cheese besides other Flesh Rise Beans Pease Oil and Venegar with twelve thousand Pipes of fresh water They had also store of Torches Lamps and Lanthorns Canvas Hides and Lead to stop Leaks Whips and Butcherly Knives to murder and torment the poor English In a word the Army was thirty two thousand strong and cost the King of Spain thirty two thousand Ducats every day In this Army were five Regiments of old Spanish Souldiers of the Tertio's of Naples Sicily and the Tercera's commanded by five Masters Del-Campo The first was Don Diego de Piementel a Knight of the Order of Saint John and Brother to the Marquess of Taveras The second Colonel was Don Francisco de Toledo brother to the Earl of Orgas The third Don Alonzo de Luzon The fourth Don Nicholas de Illa The fifth was Augustin Mexia each Colonel having in his Regiment thirty two Companies Besides the Castilian and Portugal Bands each of them having their peculiar Commanders and weapons The General of this mighty Army the Marquess of Sancta Cruce being now dead was Don Lodovicus Peres the Duke of Medina Sidonia of the Order of the Golden Fleece The Admiral was Don John Martinez de Richald The Marshal Don Francisco Bovadille Others were chief Counsellors for the War and Don Martin Alarcon was Vicar General for the holy unholy Inquisition in whose train were a hundred Monks and Jesuites and Cardinal Allen was appointed the Superintendent of Ecclesiastical matters throughout England who fearing to be unprovided translated Pope Sex●us his Bull into English that it might be the sooner published upon the arrival of the Spanish Fleet in this our Nation Of voluntary Adventurers there were a hundred and twenty four Noble men and Gentlemen of all the greatest houses in Spain hoping to be well paid with the Lands and Riches of England The Prince of Parma also in the Netherlands by the King of Spains Command built Ships and very many flat bottomed Boats each of them big enough to carry thirty Horse with Bridges fitted to them to ship and unship the Horses He hired Mariners from East-Germany set many thousands on work to dig and deepen River from Antwerp to Gaunt and to Bruges lading three hundred small Boats with Munition and Victuals Two hundred more flat-bottom'd Boats were made though not so big as the former which lay ready in the Haven of Newport besides thirty seven Ships of War at Dunkirk He prepared Piles sharpened at the nether ends headed with iron and hooked on the sides to pile up the mouths of Rivers At Graveling he provided twenty thousand empty Casks with cords and other furniture to make floating Bridges to stop up the Havens beside an infinite number of fagots He shipped likewise a great abundance of Saddles Bridles with other furniture for Horse and Horses also for Carriages with Ordnance and other provisions for War Neer unto Newport he had lying under the command of Camillo thirty Companies of Italians two of Walloons and eight of Burguignons every company containing a hundred men At Dyxmew he mustered eighty companies of Netherlanders sixty of Spaniards sixty of High Dutch among which were seven hundred fugitive English under the command of Sir William Stanley who of all others were held in greatest contempt neither was Stanley nor the Earl of Westmoorland not others which offered their service and counsel once heard but for their treachery to their Country barred from all access and as most unfortuate conductors worthily with detestation rejected At Conick also he quartered other four thousand and at Watene nine hundred horse commanded by the Marquess of Guast And to this land-service came the Duke of Pastrana supposed to be the King of Spains base son the Marquess of Buorgon one of the Duke Ferdinands sons Don Vespasian Gonsaga of the house of Mantua a great Souldier who had been Viceroy of Spain Don John de Medices bastard of Florence Don Amadeus bastard of Savoy with many others of the like quality Neither was Sixtus Quintus Pope of Rome any ways backward to shew his diligence and devotion to this intended invasion but sent abroad his Crusado as he used to do against the Turks and Infidels wherein out of the treasure of the Church he gave plenary Indulgences and pardon of all their sins to every one that contributed his assistance hereunto and for the furtherance of this enterprise himself undertook to contribute a million of Gold the one half presently down the other half when any notable Haven in our land should be won yet with this Proviso that the Crown of England should be held as Feudatory to the See of Rome in earnest whereof he bestowed upon the King of Spain his Apostolical Benediction and the Title of Defender of the Faith He sent also Cardinal Allen into the Low-Countries and renewed the Bulls of Pius the fifth and Gregory the thirteenth whereby Queen Elizabeth was excommunicated deposed from her Throne and her Subjects absolved from all allegiance to her Thus we see what preparations were made both at Sea and Land at Rome in Spain and the Netherlands for the subduing of England extirpating the Gospel and subjugating us under the yoke of Spain now let us see what provision and preparations our Queen made to dispel this black cloud that hung over our head And truly the first thing that she did was most Christian For as when Jehosophat was threatned with the like danger 2 Chro. 20.3 He sought the Lord and proclaimed a fast so did She requiring all her subjects to humble themselves by fasting and prayer knowing that these are the best weapons of the Church that they by them might seek unto the Lord and say in the words of Jehosophat O Lord God art not thou God in Heaven and rulest not thou over all the Kingdoms of the Earth and in thine hand is there not power and might so that none is able to withstand thee O our God wilt thou not judge them For we have no might against this great company that cometh against us neither know we