and thanksving.: On the morning of the fl0th, the coast was seen to he studded with signal fires. a Tlntt day council of war was held, and it ws decided to make f.r the entrance of ]'lwnouth Stored, md, if circumstances Etvourcd, to endearour t attwk the English th.vt t its mchorage. s ]ht the English were m,t to be caught napping.
As soon as Flcmy'ng had reported. alth,mh the wind was ve T
Till': BEACO l KET. (From ' Lombal'd' rtz .,Imlafion qf K d.') scmt, Hward w;rped mt of lmrhour; hut on Saturday, July th, he found himself impeded by south-west hreeze. "Al.mt three of the clock in the :tftcrnool," hcwrite, [we] "descried the Spanish tlcet, and did what we couh[ to work fir the wind, which by thi morning" (July 21st) "we had recovered, dem'ying their fiee to cmist of 120 ail, ' where.f there are fiur
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2 ]b., doe. lt;5. The arran,,,elnent of dm heae,,na in Kent is shown in the map. There was a 8ilnilar arrangement in e:tt'h of the other 8Oll/herll counties.
- lb., doe. 1. It i, difficult to undertaml how the instructira,s julitled any such
S. P. Dmn. ccxii. 80. To Walynham, July 21t. With lifiy-fiur til. Colt. MS. Julms, F. x. 111-117. AI,mt forty ail did not
get out until Islet. s .l,,hn P,,l,ham, writing to Walsyngham fi'mn Wllingt,,n -n .hdy 22n,1, says imndred and sixty-two sail: 8. P. Dom. ccxiii. 1.
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