TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE This book is a faithful reproduction of the original book printed around 1600, including all the printing errors of that edition, and this etext maintains that careful reproduction. No spelling or punctuation corrections have been made, and minimal spacing adjustments have been made, in order to preserve the historical value of the original work. The diacritical ~ (tilde) mark is sometimes used in this book on the letters a, e, o, u and q. These will display, using the Unicode combining tilde diacritical, on this device as: ã, ẽ, õ, ũ, q̃. The long-s ſ has been replaced by s throughout the etext. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. The subsequent facsimile is made from the original in the possession of the donor. Only five copies of it appear to be known: three of these are in public libraries, and two of the three are more or less imperfect: one of them wants four pages, and of the other some of the marginal notes have been cut away, and a portion of a leaf destroyed. The contents, besides their value in an historical point of view, are of interest in reference to the biographies of two such men as Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins, both of whom perished in the course of the enterprise to which the pamphlet relates. J. P. C. A LIBELL OF Spanish Lies: FOVND AT THE Sacke of Cales, discoursing the fight in the West INDIES, twixt the English Nauie being fourteene Ships and Pinasses, and a fleete of twentie saile of the king of Spaines, and of the death of _Sir Francis Drake_. With an answere briefely confuting the Spanish lies, and a short Relation of the fight according to truth, written by _Henrie Sauile_ Esquire, employed Captaine in one of her Maiesties Shippes, in the same seruice against the Spaniard. And also an Approbation of this discourse, by Sir _Thomas Baskeruile_, then Generall of the English fleete in that seruice: Auowing the maintenance thereof, personally in Armes against _Don Bernaldino_, if hee shall take exceptions to that which is heere set downe, Touching the fight twixt both Nauies, or iustifie that which he hath most falsely reported in his vaine Printed letter. Prouerb. 19. ver. 9. _A false witnes shall not bee vnpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish._ LONDON