E-text prepared by Louise Pryor, Irma Spehar, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) from page images generously made available by the Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (http://international.loc.gov/intldl/drakehtml/) Note: Images of the original pages are available through the Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress. See http://international.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=rbdk&fileName=d026//rbdkd026.db&recNum=0&itemLink=r?intldl/rbdkbib:@field(NUMBER+@od1(rbdk+d026))&linkText=0&presId=rbdkbib A DECLARATION OF THE CAVSES, WHICH MOOVED THE chiefe Commanders of the Nauie of her most excellent Maiestie the Queene of England, in their voyage and expedition for Portingal, to take and arrest in the mouth of the Riuer of Lisbone, certaine Shippes of corne and other prouisions of warre bound for the said Citie: Prepared for the seruices of the King of _Spaine, in the Ports and Prouinces within_ and about the Sownde, the 30. day of Iune, in _the yeere of our Lord 1589. and of her_ _Maiesties raigne the one_ _and thirtie_. [Illustration] Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, printer _to the Queenes most excellent_ _Maiestie_. 1589. [Illustration] A DECLARATION OF THE CAVSES, WHICH MOVED the chiefe Commaunders of the Nauie of _her most excellent Maiestie the Queene of England, in their voyage and expedition for Portingall, to take and arrest in the mouth of the riuer of Lisbone, certaine shippes of Corne, and other prouisions of warre bounde for the said Citie, prepared for the seruices of the King of Spaine, in the ports and Prouinces within and about the Sownde, the 30. day of Iune, in the yeere of our Lord 1589. and of her Maiesties raigne the 31._