no designs on Scotland, and were only endeavouring to make the hest of their way home nmmi Scothtnd and h'eland.

"When," says 'A Relation .f l'roeealings. TM "we were come into 35 {legftys and 13 minutes to the northward, 3o leagues east of Newcasfie, the lord admiral determined t, fight with them again on the Fri,lay, I,eing the 2n,I of .Must; but by some advice

red counsel his lonlship myed thai dclcrmination, partly because we saw their ct,trse

and meaning was only to get away that way t,, the n.rtbwar, l to save tbemselvcs,

red l,m'ly also tbr that many of our fleet were mq,rovMed of victuals; fi,r ore' SUlq,ly.

which her majesty had most cmlitlly leovialed and caused to be in readiness, knew not where to ck us. !t was thereft,re concbnlol that we slmuhl leave the Spanish fiec, and direct ore' cron'so Ihr the Frith in 'otland, as well fi,r the relcshing of our victuals as also for the lerfia'ming of some other business which the lord admiral lhought conre!liellt to be done; Iltl the wind coming contraryviz., wetcrlythe next day the lord admiral altered his course, an,I returned back again fi,r England with his whole army. 2 whereof some recoverca[ the I}owns, olne Ilarwit'b, a and Yarmmtth, about the 7th of August, 1588."

The Spanish account of what befell the Armada after Gravelines is here continued from the relation of Medina Sidonia :

On Tuesday, July goth, the eve of San Lol'olzo, at two {;clock in the morning. lite xxind fi'esbenal, so that our cramhand, though it had lmained in lt,l of returning to the Channel, was driven towards the comet of Zeelan,I, in spite of the he{ that it kel, as close a luff as possible. At break of day the N.W. wind was not so strong. The cueroy's fleet of one hundred and nine sail was visible astern, little mm than half a league distant. Our Itagshi 1, remained in the rear with Juan Martinez de Recahle and Don .[lollsO de Leyra, and the gallcreases. and the galleons ,San. Marcos and ,,t, of the squadron of Diego Flores, the rest of our fleet being thr to leeward. The enemy's ships sto,,l towards our flagshil,, which lay to: the galleasses also awaited them, as did too the other ships in the rear; whereupon the enemy l,rought to. The duke li,l two gms t. 't his Armada, and sent a pimpace with a pilot to order his ships to ktp close luff, seeing that they were very near the banks of Zeeland. For the same cause, lhe enemy remained Moo[ undemtanding that the Armada nmst be lost; Ibr the Idiots on brd the flagship, Ineu of exlrience sit that coast, told the ,luke at the time lhat it wouhl not !,e p{,ssible to save a single ship of the Armada, and that with the wind at N.XV., as it was, ere D' one nuts{ heals g,, on the banks of Zeeland, God alone teeing aide to l,reven it. The fleet being in this danger, with no kind of way of e.ale, and in six and a-half ththoms .f water, (foil was plead to change the wind to XV.S.W. and with it the tlt stood to the northwahl, withrot{ damage to any vessel, the duke having sent tinlets to every ship to fidlt,w the motions of the fiagsbilb at peril of driving on the banks of Zland.

"That evening the duke summoned on I,omq the gelerals and Don Alon, de Leyva, to consider what was hest to he done; and having explained the statt. of the

t'ott. 3IS. Julius, F. x. 111-117.

Except "certain i,iunaces" ordered "to dog the fitt tmtil they sbouhl be past the 

is! of 8cotld." a The following reached liarwith on August 8th: II'l, ite Ileaq l'ietm'y, AS,,pareil, II, pe, 8w(lsure, Pbresight, .11,,on, IVhite Lion, and Dis,bit, with twenly-six ships of Lond,m. S.P. Dom. ccxiv. 46.

Duro, doe. D;5 (ii. 22S).