of Don Diego Tellez Enriqucz, in spite of her injm'ie, made shift to folow us. The duke collectl his fiee, and the enemy did the ame.

"The ,luke (nh'd hosts to go Io hring away the i,l,le from the ,qt. l'.lipe and qa. Mateo; and I,y this means all the lol,le we taken out of the ,%. M. teo, but Don Diego Pimentd deelined to leave the ship, and aenlllh}n Ihslrigo de Vivero and Don Luis Van[as to the duke to beg him to send some one to s if it were not !,ssil,le Io save her; whc,uis,n the duke sent a pilot an,! a diver from this galleon, a though there was much risk in sparlug the latter; yet in consequence of the latches of the hour and of the sa liug very heavy, they cotfid not reach the .q, ta M, tto, and only saw her at a distance, drilling towards Zeeland?

"The galleon ,Wan 1,lOe got ahmgside the hulk D.n,'elbt, iuto which all her leopie had made their way, when Don Francis. o, who was on I,oa! of her, hca,xi a cry that the hulk was sinking. Ulwn llis, Captain Juan Ih,za de Santiso leapt back into the ga. Felipe, as did aim D,m Fmncia.o de Toledo, which was a great mishap, fir the hulk was n.t indeed siuking: an,I D,,n Fraucio was carvital in the ,Sa. li, towards Zeelandf while the duke nnderstot. I that he audiall his leopie were safe on 1,oard the hulk Doncella. The ea was so high that nothiug more conhi done: couhl the damage done to the flagship I,y gal sh.t be repaired, so that she ran risk being lost.;

"That day the dttke hml desired to lurn ,m the enemy with the whole of the Armada, rather titan leave the Chinreel, but tlw pilots told him that this was impossible. Icause with s and wind setting upon the coa direct from the north-west, it was abmlutely necsary either to go into the orth Sea or to let lhe enti, Atmda drive ,m to the shoals. Thus, leaving the Channel was inevitahle. Morevet, nearly all the best ships were unfit, and unal,le to resist longer, firsfly on account of the damage which they had received, s and sa.ondly becau. they ha,I n- hot fla' their gnns."

The battle off Gra'elines was really the decisive action of the campaign. The direction of the wind. which put the Spaniards on a lee shore, was most favourMle for the tactics which Howard had pursued from the beginning. His policy was to concentrate ships upon stragglers lying to lward of him, and to cripple or cut them off. Howard, however. did not at once grasp the nature of his

z ,S'an Jta;l de SgcHga. 2 The flagship Sa. Marti..

s She made a point her ween Sinis and )stend, and on July 31st she was attackol here by three men-or'war. and. steer a two hom-s' figlt, surrendered. Holland, lvi. lrlas to Walsyngham. She and the Sa. ,.1ip,. a!,lear to have been taken I,y hil,s of North Holland, under C,mnt Juslins of Nassau, assisttl by a few English small craft. Kyllygrew to Walsyngham. 4 ,, La urea Dm, edla."

Preferring, if he must die, t,, Icrih will, hi own ship. Dm, doe. 16. 
The San ;.lipe drove ashore on July 31st, Ig. tween lstend an,l Nieulrt, whither 

lhe officers eal. B.th the w-. I';.IQ,e and the Sau Mat,.o were taken into Flushing.

Vanegas says that she was struck one hundl times, but only mentions twch'e 

sohlicrs as killed and twenty as wounded. Iluro, ,h,c. 1, p. 3. s The losses in men a, put I,y Vanegas at six Imndd killed and eight Intnd,l wounded. Duro, doc. D;S, p. 263. Rich. 'i'omn, writing on Jaly 30th, says: " f t he -he hundd and twcnty-fi,m' sail that they were in {'alais Road, we cmmot now lind I,y any accotrot above eighty-six ships and pimmccs." S.P. Dom. ccxiii. 67. Th,. English losse in men, ap:trl fi'om h,s. by sickuts, k, not alqar to have cxt'ec, le, I

sixty in the whole campaign. Ft.nlwr I,, Walsyngham, S. P. Dom. ccxiv. 27.