A libell of Spanish lies : $b found at the sacke of Cales, discoursing the fight in the West Indies, twixt the English navie being fourteene ships and pinasses, and a fleete of twentie saile of the king of Spaines, and of the death of Sir Francis DrakeSavile, Henry, Captain
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A libell of Spanish lies : $b found at the sacke of Cales, discoursing the fight in the West Indies, twixt the English navie being fourteene ships and pinasses, and a fleete of twentie saile of the king of Spaines, and of the death of Sir Francis Drake
Savile, Henry, Captain
Delgadillo de Avellaneda, Bernaldino, 1544-1629; Drake, Francis, approximately 1540-1596 -- Death and burial; Isle of Pines, Battle of the, Cuba, 1596 -- Personal narratives
_Sixtly, The generall saith in his letter, that notwithstanding
their flying away so fast, the English left them one good Shippe
well manned, who told him that the_ Drake _dyed in_ Nombre de Dios,
_in which Shippe were one hundred and fourtie men, and fifteene
noble Captaines of the best sorte._
[Sidenote: _Don Bernaldino very resolute._]
[Sidenote: _The Indian slaue, is the best shadow, to the Generals
lye._]
[Sidenote: _Don Bernaldino his rare gift in coyning a new and
straunge name._]
[Sidenote: _The Generals storehouse of lyes._]
[Sidenote: _The schoolemen of modestie do vse this kinde of
reprehension, when they doe thinke the Author to erre._]
[Sidenote: _The difference twixt Quebraran and Baskeruile._]
[Sidenote: _The Generall conuicted of lying and forgery._]
[Sidenote: _The Generall maketh great brags in taking a distressed
Ship, which is supposed not to strike one blow._]
[Sidenote: _The fifteene noble Captaines according the generals lying
occupation, will proue but three._]
[Sidenote: _The Printing of the letter doth shame the Generall._]
[Sidenote: _Don Bernaldino of an excellent complexion._]
[Sidenote: _The first discouery of the Generals Printed letter._]
[Sidenote: _The Generals great skill in amplifying._]
THe Generall _Don Bernaldino_, like a resolute Spaniarde hauing
alreadye gonne ouer his shoes, maketh no dannger to wade ouer his
Boates also: and as hee hath begun so he doth conclude, I maruaile
that hee did not in writing his discourse remember this olde saying;
that is, A lyar ought to haue a good memorie: It were much better
for him in mine opinion to reuoke the testimonie which hee saith he
had from the Englishmen, concerning S_ir Fraunces Drake_ his death
at _Nombre de Dios_, and stande to the intelligence receiued from
the siely _Indian_ slaue, as it appeareth in his first lye, for
without al doubt, there is no Englishman that wil say (if he haue
his right sences) that he dyed at _Nombre de Dios_, for they all
knowe the contrarie: Neither can the Generall avouch that he receiued
intelligence from any English man, that after the death of _Sir
Fraunces Drake_ they did elect for Generall _Colonell Quebraran_,
as he doth most falsly affirme in the latter end of his vaine and
friuolous letter, being that the name was straunge, and vnknowne to
any in the English Nauie. Neither doe I imagine that any of those
which the General saith he hath taken were so forgetfull as not to
remember their generals name. But without all doubt this addition
of so new, and straunge a name to the English Generall, doth proue
that _Don Bernaldino_ is not vnfurnished of a forge & storehouse
of lyes, from whence as from an euerflowing fountaine, he sendeth
forth lyes of al sorts sufficient for his owne store, and greate
plentie to furnish his friends: The General was much beholding to
his godfathers who gaue him the name _Barnaldino_, which we in
English do take to be plaine _Barnard_, which name hath as it were
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