important discoveries. llc had 5,und hy experience that his ships were faster and hndier, and that his gunnery was much hotter, than the Spaniards'; and he had seen some of the Spanish captains disgrace themselves hy their ahandonment of Recahle. The day was, upon the whole, veLv encouraging one for England, and it was correspondingly discouraging for Spain, although neither in his report, nor in his letter to Parm, does Medim Sidni hint t anything of the kind. Others did not conceal the truth. "The desertion of the ship which had hlown up," wrote anegas, "and the loss of Don Pedro de Valdes, shook the spirits of the people. From that time forward there was no al heart in them."x "These misfortunes," wrote another Spaniard, "presaged our failure. The evil omen depressed the whole Armada."

The Spaniards continued on their course up Channel.

"The night of M,nday, July 22nd," says ' A llehtti,n of l'roceedings, ' "1 very calm, and the Ibur gallcauses * singled themselves out fi'om their fleet, whereupon ,Ioubt was had lest in the night they might have distressed some of our small ships which were short of our liee, but their courage lhllol them, ' fi,r they attempted nohiug.

"The next morning, being Tuesday, the 2&'d of July, 15s, the wiu,l l,r:mg u I, at norlhast, and then the Spaniards had the wiud of le Euglish arm3, which sto,l in to the north-westward, towards the shore. S,, did the Sl,anianl als,. Bu that course was ot goal lbr the English army t recover lhe wind ',of the Si,aniards, and they cast. ahout to the eastwards, whereupton the SI,aniards bare room, offbring hoard our ships. Upon which coming room there grew a great fight. v The English ships tood flint and alde their coming, and the cueroy sing us to abide them, aud ,livers of our ships to stay for them, as the Ark, the .X3ml,m'eil , the Elizabeth the Victory, etc., and .divers other ships, they were content to lhll astern of the .nI)areil , which was the sternmost ship.

"In the meantime, the 7Yiuntp]t, with five ships, viz., the .l[erclant ]loyal, the t%*turion, the .11trgaret a,d Jvh,f the ,11try ]h,se, � aml the Golden Li, n, were

lr to leeward and separated lom our fleet, that he galleas tnk courage aud bare 

room with them, and assaulted them sharply. But they were very well resist !,- tho ships tbr fie space ,ff an hour aml a half. At length certain of her' miesty's hips bare with them, and then the ga]]easses fiwsook them. The wind llen shifted the uth-eastward, aml so to S.S.W., at what time a tro,,p of her m:kesty's hips an,I undry merchants asailed the Spanish fleet so harply to the westward that they we

Duro, doc. 185. 2 lb., doc. 171.

Cotton 3[S. Julius, F. x. Ill-IlL

In !haro, doc. 185, is the stot 3' of this ]htlc scheme and its failure.

V:megas also says this. Duro, doc. 185, p. 382. Others attribute the lfilure to the wind.

lhbahly because of the nearne (,f the shore This actit,n was fbught otf Portland. Merchantman under Drake's command. "hips equipl,d by the City of Londou.

o Francis Burnell's victuallet, not II.M.S. of the name.