The copie of a letter sent out of England to Don Bernardin Mendoza ambassadour in France for the King of Spaine declaring the state of England, contrary to the opinion of Don Bernardin, and of all his partizans Spaniardes and others. This letter, although it was sent to Don Bernardin Mendoza, yet, by good hap, the copies therof aswell in English as in French, were found in the chamber of one Richard Leigh a seminarie priest, who was lately executed for high treason committed in the time that the Spanish Armada was on the seas. Whereunto are adioyned certaine late aduertisements, concerning the losses and distresses happened to the Spanish nauie, aswell in fight with the English nauie in the narrow seas of England, as also by tempests, and contrarie winds, vpon the west, and north coasts of Ireland, in their returne from the northerne isles beyond Scotland.

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The copie of a letter sent out of England to Don Bernardin Mendoza ambassadour in France for the King of Spaine declaring the state of England, contrary to the opinion of Don Bernardin, and of all his partizans Spaniardes and others. This letter, although it was sent to Don Bernardin Mendoza, yet, by good hap, the copies therof aswell in English as in French, were found in the chamber of one Richard Leigh a seminarie priest, who was lately executed for high treason committed in the time that the Spanish Armada was on the seas. Whereunto are adioyned certaine late aduertisements, concerning the losses and distresses happened to the Spanish nauie, aswell in fight with the English nauie in the narrow seas of England, as also by tempests, and contrarie winds, vpon the west, and north coasts of Ireland, in their returne from the northerne isles beyond Scotland.

Author

Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.

Publication

Imprinted at London :: By I. Vautrollier for Richard Field,

1588.

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Armada, 1588 -- Early works to 1800.

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"The copie of a letter sent out of England to Don Bernardin Mendoza ambassadour in France for the King of Spaine declaring the state of England, contrary to the opinion of Don Bernardin, and of all his partizans Spaniardes and others. This letter, although it was sent to Don Bernardin Mendoza, yet, by good hap, the copies therof aswell in English as in French, were found in the chamber of one Richard Leigh a seminarie priest, who was lately executed for high treason committed in the time that the Spanish Armada was on the seas. Whereunto are adioyned certaine late aduertisements, concerning the losses and distresses happened to the Spanish nauie, aswell in fight with the English nauie in the narrow seas of England, as also by tempests, and contrarie winds, vpon the west, and north coasts of Ireland, in their returne from the northerne isles beyond Scotland." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A05269.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 8, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• THE COPIE OF A LET∣TER SENT OVT OF ENGLAND TO DON BERNARDINE MENDOZA AM∣BASSADOVR IN FRANCE FOR THE KING OF SPAINE.
• The Printer to the Reader.
• CERTEINE ADVER∣TISEMENTS OVT OF IRELAND, CONCERNING THE LOSSES HAPPE∣ned to the Spanish armie vpon the West costes of Irelande, in their voyage intended from the Northerne Isles beyond Scotland, towardes Spaine.
  • IOHN ANTHONIO DE MONONA AN Italian, sonne to Francisco de Monona Pilot of the ship called Sancta Marie de la Rose, of a thousand tonnes cast away in the sound of Bleskey. 11. September. 1588.
  • The examination of Emanuell Fremosa a Portingall 12. September 1588.
  • The examination of Emanuell Francisco a Portingall. 12. September. 1588.
  • Iohn de le Conido of Lekit in Biskey mariner 12. September. 1588.
  • The reexamination of Iohn Anthonio of Genua mariner. 15. September. 1588.
  • The examination of Iohn Antonio de Moneke xxx. miles from Ganna. 17. September. 1588.
  • The reexamination of Emanuell Fremosa. 17. September. 1588.
  • The examination of Pierre Carrea Flemming.
• SHIPS AND MEN SONKE, DROW∣ned, killed, and taken vpon the coast of Ireland in the moneth of September 1588.
• AFORE THE LOSSE OF THE FORE-said seuenteene ships in Ireland, there perished in Iuly & August fifteene other great ships in the fight betwixt the English and Spanish Nauies in the narrowe seas of England, where no one English Vessell or person of any reputation, perished or was taken.