The true and perfecte newes of the woorthy and valiaunt exploytes, performed and doone by that valiant knight Syr Frauncis Drake not onely at Sancto Domingo, and Carthagena, but also nowe at Cales, and vppon the coast of Spayne. 1587.

To the Reader.

HEere hast thou gentle Rea∣der set forth vnto thee, the most woorthy and valiant exploytes and enterpryses, lately atchiued and doone by that valiant Knight, Syr Frauncis Drake & others, not pend in lofty verse, nor curiously handled, but playnely and truely, so that it may be well vnderstood of the Reader, for there is nothing can more profitte thy posteritie heereafter, then the leauing in memory so worthy a thing, for how shoulde we know the woorthy deedes of our Elders, if those learned Poets and Historiographers had not sette them downe in wryting, as Iosephus for the state of the Iewes: Homer and Euripides for the Grecians: Titus Liuius for the Romaines: Quintus Curtius for the life of Alexander the great, and so of all others. At what time heretofore was there euer any English manne that did the like. as well for hys Nauigation and long trauell, and GOD bee praysed for hys good successe, to the greate terror and feare of the enemie, he beeing a man of meane calling, to deale with so mightie a Monarke.

But nowe may the enemie see what woulde come to passe, if our gracious Queene woulde bende her whole force against them, therfore great cause haue we to be thankfull to God for so gracious a Prin∣cesse, and so prosperous and flourishing a common welth as this is, wherein we enioy, peace, welth, and tranquillitie, more aboundantly then any other Nation vnder the Sunne at this day. The Lorde long continue it for his names sake, and thus I ende, by dding thee farewell in the Lorde.