his charge helbre liunquerque. They all anchm'ed ab,)ut a league [r,m mir Arn,a,la. That night ('aptaiu 11cmlia retro'ned fi'um (':finis, and said that the -ver]mr .mde great -Itrs -f ervice on the part of his majesty, and showed his g,,,,dwill by offbring he same .n his wn part. That night also the duke sent the secretary An'e- to the l)ukc ff l'arma, t, ;tj,prle him of the place where he then was, and of th,. Ihct that he cmd,l n,t wait there without imlmrilling the entit Arereda.
"()n Sunday, July 2$th, at dawn, t'aptain !)on I{o,h'ig. 'l'ello arrived, c, mdng from l)unquerqne. The duke (of Me, lina Sidonia) had ent I,im away on the Itqh of the m,nth. tie rel,,rtcd that the duke (of Parma) was at Ih'uge, whither he ha,I proceeded , him: and that. alth.ugh he had sh-wn great atislt-tion ag the news -f tile a]rival ,,f the Arma, la, yet, on the evening of the 27th, when Tello had ,luitle,! Ihm, luerque, the duke hl not aplm'e,l there, and that neither men mr stm were behl embarked. "That day; in the mm'ning, the (hverm,r ,f Calais sent his nephew, with a 1,reent ,f refi'eshments, to visit the duke, and to infi,rm him that the neighhourh,,od where he had anchore, l wa very dangerou to ]'t.maill in, Iecatle t]t cttrrent8 aim culnlersct8 that channel were extremely tmng. The duke, seeing the gdwill of fla. (h,vernor ('alais, ent the purvey-r-general, Bernah6 de l'edmso, to lmy victuals. With him went the cmnptr.ller. Tlmt night likew[ the duke sent Don Jorge M:mri,lue to lle l)uke ff Parma to urge Idm to come ottt si.we, lily. ()n the Sunday niglt the ecretm'y Axceo sent a man frmn Duuquerque to report that the Duke of Parma ha, I n,t arrived there, that the atums were n.t embarked, and that in his view it was iml,,sihle that Tiffrigs cmdd all be gut ]ady in ies than a lbrtnight.
"{)n Sanday, at sun,t, nine hil,s j.ined the enemy, aml at their c,,ming a -f twenty-six hips ]novel nearer to the land. This caused u8 to sus!,crt tha they had arrived with some intentim of empl-yiug fire; whelre the duke ordered Captain Serrano to go away in a 1,irarace, taking with hint an artchin' and cahle, - tlmt, if any firehip h-uhl be directed at us, he might t,w her ashore. The duke also nT to warn all the hips to be on their guard, and, for that purpose, to have both men and boats ready. At mhlnight two fires were seen burning in the Englil fleet. These incasc, I to eight;" and uddenly eight hips with sails set, and wiml and tide hehin,l them, came dixct t.ward our flagship and the rest f mu' fleet. All were hm-nin fiercely. The duke seeing that, as they drew near, our n,en did not arrest them, and feari]lg They might he explosion veels, weighed, and -rdered the xt of the Armada t, ,1o the same, s designing, when the fire houl,l have ],:d by, to retm'n an,l take up the ame mtion. The commader of the galleasses, while keeping clear of one ship, drifted on hoard the ,%',,t Jttau de .q/cilia, and dinringed herself that she had t- ]'main cl,se the shore. The cunnt was trong, and drove onr Armada in m.h a rammer, that altl.mh the flagship and evera] of the vessels ear her anchored aln an,! fired a the rest did 11ot e them, aml were carried as flu' as off Ullquerqtle.
"On Monday, the 29th, ac dayluak, the duke, perceivin tlmt his Ileet was very ttl' (}fl alHl that the enemy was coming up tinder a plS nf il, xveighel h} (-o]le,-t hi hil, and, with them, to recover station. The wind was N.W., :m,I h'mlg, blowing nearly traight m to the coast, and the enemy's fleet .f one hundr.,l and thirty-ix
The English acconnts have n. mention of thee movements.
e Il' the fireships, which cost .B, five were: the Thorns, [lb'-'], 2( B, trk 7}tll, ot, 200 tuna; B*trk Bond, 150 t{,nl 11.pc [ !!twkytts], 180 t,ms; and 15,.,, , 140 tons. S.P. Dmn. ccxvi. 18, ii. The ret, among which wa the ,,f L. westofl, were probly smaller. s Many of the hil,s und.u)tedly cut or slipped their cable,, and were unl,rq.aml I. re-anchor later.
L,,. his ship, the .N,tlt
- Wynter atys S.S.W., and later W.N.W. S. 1'. Dom. ccxiv. 7.
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