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A06678	An ansvver to the vntruthes, published and printed in Spaine, in glorie of their supposed victorie atchieued against our English Navie, and the Right Honorable Charles Lord Howard, Lord high Admiral of England, &c. Sir Francis Drake, and the rest of the nobles and gentlemen, captaines, and soldiers of our said navie. First written and published in Spanish by a Spanish gentleman; who came hither out of the Lowe Countries from the service of the prince of Parma, with his wife and familie, since the overthrowe of the Spanish Armada, forsaking both his countrie and Romish religion; as by this treatise (against the barbarous impietie of the Spaniards; and dedicated to the Queenes most excellent Majestie) may appeere. Faithfully translated by I.L.; Respuesta y desengano contra las falsedades publicadas en España enbituperio de la armada Inglesa. English	D. F. R. de M.; Lea, James, fl. 1589.	1589 (1589)	STC 17132; ESTC S109021	42,817	64

he died we would saie that the howre were come wherein the Lord almighty had called him unto himselfe but finally he is both free and alive and as loyall a vassall to hir Majestie as ever Farther your Honor saith that the Queene commanded that there should be no talke of hir Navie giving thereby to understand that it was in regard of the great dammage hir said Navie had received She commanded no such matter but had she so commanded it had bin a thing both holie and iust for as she is an enimie to all vaine-glorie even so the spoiles of hir victorie and triumph she offered it all to God from whom it came And if for not receiving these letters so plentie as at other times you gathered that it was ordained by hir Majestie that they should not write you gathered amisse for the cause was no other but that for the generall repairing of all people to give thanks to God at the Churches from whom all their good proceeded they became unmindful of all worldly affaires Great ods between this celebration of victorie and that which was used in Spaine where in steed of singing Psalmes and praises unto God they made fire and sports and blinde men in open places pirkt up upon fishmongers stals soong songs making the people beleeve that they were victors the contrarie where of is true Your letter relates farther that hir Majestie had 30000. men betweene Dover and Margate rawe soldiers heer to I answere that this ballance runneth too fast for that hir Majesties campe was hard by Tylberrie in the province of Essex a far different place from Dover Margate And that hir Majestie was with them it was so and marke your Honor what I saie that the sight of Iulius Caesar in his hoast wrought not so great effect as did the sight of hir Majestie amongst hirs for she being a valiant Mars and shewing hir selfe a most expert warrior clad hir soldiers with the webs and fels of Hercules where there was not any that esteemed himselfe in lesse than a Hanniball or a Cevola whereunto they were invited by the sight of a tender woman being the first that put hirselfe to such a travell for Christendome the peace of hir countrie and for the quietnes of hir subiects And who so had seene hir Majestie I say not that he should have seene an angrie Mars a Iulius Caesar or Charlemaine for all this is winde in comparison of hir But he should have seene a Debora a Hester a Ruth and a Iudith and finally he should have seene a Valour second to none You said farther in your letter that hir Majestie went to and from the Campe bicause the Catholikes had made a mutinie Your Honor knowes that it is an old Proverbe that when you see your neighbours beard a shaving prepare yours to the washing basen And in this countrie they remember what the Gospell saith Everie kingdome divided against it selfe shall be desolate And the experience heereof they finde in their neighbors the french men that for not having peace amongst themselves their poore kingdome is destroyed Concerning this matter I have heard it questioned in this countrie by some persons of no base calling who say plainly that while your Honor was heer they never had any perfect quietnes amongst them and since your departure they have had no broyles nor strife and it may be that the going of matters in such sort in the kingdome of Fraunce so troubled and kindled as they are that it is by reason your Honor is there and that your absence might quench so great a fire You saie farther in your letter that there was none other ship brought hither but that of Don Pedro de Valdes Heerin is the publishing of victorie gainsaid and losse evident the which ship had your Armada bin victors they had not permitted to be brought hither neither was Don Pedro de Valdes so ill a soldier nor for so little as to suffer himselfe to be taken by a people alreadie overcome and running awaie neither the soldiers which he had with him which were fower hundreth at least of lesse valor then the rest of those of the Armada they were rather everie man to conquere a kingdome and to give a thousand victories But the thrise noble Lord high Admirall not flieng but assaulting and he the captive or slaine Drake his fetters broken and risen from death fettered the conquerers and bereaved their life who lived a little before In conclusion there were no more ships brought into England but that of Don Pedro as for the rest for a better demonstration of the truth they were contented that their friends and neighbors should participate with them and so they left a Galleasse at Callis wherein amongst others was slaine Don Hugo de Moncada and Don Georje Manrique being Veedor Generall escaped to carrie the true relation thereof unto Spaine And the Saint Matthew and S. Philip being two most strong Gallions were carried to Flushing out of one of the which escaped Don Francisco de Toledo with sixe and thirtie soldiers which were the remainder of fower or five hundreth which he had with him and in the other was taken Don Diego Pimentel with all his men save those that were slaine and many other ships by divine providence by force of wind and sea were destroied upon the coast of Ireland If I have bin large in answering your Honor the occasion excuseth me and the matter which is wider then the sea makes me thinke to be woorthy reprehension for being so short Yet notwithstanding time which gave an end to these my wearisome reasonings seemed to call upon me to passe on farther And having cast about I fell into consideration with my selfe what occasion I might have to enlarge farther sith though briefely I had answered to the letter and I perceived that the lawe of love and Christianitie in the Lord did binde me to admonish you like a true neighbor The lawe of love in Christ saith Love your enimies And this said Christ after that he had said Yee have heard that it hath bin said thou shalt love thy friend and hate thy enimie and he passeth on saieng and do good to them that hate you There is another lawe which saith Yee shall not render ill for ill but good for evill These and such other sacred words do binde me to love your Honor but not your condition proceedings for if I should have respect thereunto I should followe the lawe of old Thou shalt love thy friend and hate thy enimie and I should be more bound to hate then love you But for that the Gospel commandeth me To do good to those that hurt me and to render good for evill and to love my enimies I will do both the one and the other so that I will both love and do you good I meane not to do you good by bestowing treasures upon you bicause I have them not but I wil give you of

shall be easier for you than to becom a Chronicler A Chronicler ought to consider what he saith and of whom to write the certaintie and to follow the truest authors and of most credit You Sen̄or Gamarra observe none of all these If thou didst consider the valor of the Queenes Majestie hir courage and greatnes thou wouldest not dare to publish such falshoods And knowe that it is such and so much that for not being able to utter it I thinke it better to keepe it silent than to come short therein for that I should need for such a purpose not one Angelicall toong but a thousand To compare hir with Hester for humilitie in compassion to an Abigail in prudencie and valor to a Debora and in courage to a Iudith Notwithstanding of that little light which I have gotten of hir valor I will make you partaker and so accept of these poore verses made with a greater love and good will than with knowledge or art Praieng you that sith you are resident in Andwerpe in the affaires of the Malvendas that you write no more such fained letters using for excuse to date them from Roan SONET GReat Elizabeth whose fame at this day From thone to thother poale is spred so and knowne By having incountred fierce Mars in his way That now not a God his Godhead is flowen The glorious deeds which the world had raised To the highest roome when viewing thy acts Start backe and gave place as things all amazed Vndoing the done and hiding their facts To say that thou doest surpasse and excell All the whole world thy battels and deeds Do say now the same thy standerds it tell To search for antiquities which proove now but weeds Is for to go warme us by smoke of wet strawe Thou winnest more glorie than yet any sawe The copie of a letter which Pedro de Alva a Spanish marchant wrote from Roan unto Spaine the first of September 1588. I Write no newes of the Spanish Armada for that they be varieng and I desirous to write nothing but truth Nowe by newes which run from many places from Callis Deepe Holland by some presupposings from England and other places it is held for a matter most certaine that they have fought with the English spoiled suncke many of them and taken others and that the rest reported to be 27. ships are retourned spoiled to the river of London being al that could escape With this post there goeth one from George Seguin of Callis who saith that Masters and mariners of Zeland have affirmed to the governor of Callis Monseur de Gordan that the Armada is in a port or river of Scotland called Triffla where they saie there may ride two thousand ships this is the common report The Answer WE would have highly esteemed you Sen̄or Pedro de Alva and I would say the dog had not bitten you had you contented your selfe with the first words of your letter where you said I write no newes of the Spanish Armada for that they be varieng and I desirous to write nothing but truth without passing any farther that it might not have bin seen how ful of blots you have your understanding you say that you are a friend to soundnes and truth and an enimie to varietie and immediately you shew proofes to the contrary written with your hand and firmed with your name Such a thing is called in good Spanish a pressed follie pardon me heerein bicause the love I beare you and the respect due to your graie haires urgeth me to speake so plainelie And though my wordes scald you yet I passe not for if you remember the saieng of Salomon Better are the wounds of him that loveth thee then the false kisses of him that abhorreth thee You would not take in ill part my maner of speech But for that I know you to be sound and a friend of truth I will briefely informe you of the certaintie and such as is devoid of doubt For though time hath sufficiently shewed thee the contrarie of that whereunto thou firmedst according as you are massie sound and waightie it shall be well to recount it you yea and with hammer and naile to beate it into your head The truth then is that assoone as it was knowne in this kingdome of the comming of the Spanish Armada the noble Lord Charles Howard Lord high Admirall went foorth with his navie who reparted the saide into sundry squadrons according as time and place afforded at times making two squadrons and then three and more or lesse as was fittest for the purpose to fight and defend themselves without cumbring one another In this order they went defending their ports wherein they not onely observed hir Majesties order but there was also seen the valor in fight of the L. high Admirall who is a man not onely sufficient to rule and governe such a Navie as this of England is but if all the Christian princes of the worlde should joine make by a loving union an Armada against the Infidels they might well trust and commit the same to his Honors government and I doubt that there shall be any found more woorthy For though it be true that there are some to be found in Christendome most fit for such a charge yet none so much nor repleat with so many vertues for what is reparted amongst others is wholie in him You have in the world soldiers ripe in giving counsell others to fight and others to governe c. But manie of these are gamestars backbiters blasphemers ill Christians But in the Lord Admirall is the feare of God Christianitie science government knowledge practise policie justice forecast agilitie assaulting perseverance courage chollor patience and suffering with many other graces These are things not found in all men So that then the English Armada to be governed as is said was by the order of hir Majestie and the performance and industrie of this Lord. Observing this order the Duke of Medina durst not assault thē dreading the hurt which might ensue notwithstāding his Armada was more puissant greater ships stronger and more in number men though I beleeve not in Artillery The Spanish Armada thē entred the mouth of the chanel and the English followed by little little and tarrieng the oportunity to worke the effect and what befell afterwards I wil not detaine my selfe in recounting it aske it of Don Pedro de Valdes when you see him there who lost his ship with 400. men yeelding to Sir Francis Drake having so fewe men that for the honor of the Spanish nation I name not the nūber You may also informe your self of Don Diego Piementel which was lost with 500. men and of Don Francisoode Toledo which was lost with so many more within the sight of Newport though it be true that he saved himselfe with thirtie soldiers in the skiffe the ship and the rest perishing where none would succour thē if this suffice not thē enquire