a kind of priueledge from being sharply reprehended when the party is thought to erre: for it is a common saying amongst the Schoolemen that _Barnardus non videt omnia_, viz. _Barnard_ seeth not all thinges, (when he doth dissent from their opinions) the which fauour wee coulde bee content to yeelde to _Bernaldino_ for the name sake, if he were not taken with so many manifest and impudent lies, neither doe I thinke that _Signior Bernaldino_ will say that he saw all that he hath written, be it spoken in councell for shaming the General, for is there any man so voide of reason as to thinke? That any Englishman being demaunded of his Generals name, would write or speake _Quebraran_ for _Baskeruile_, so much difference there is in the sound of the sillables, as there is no affinitie at all, or likelihoode of truth: But such are the Generals rare gifts, (be it spoken to his small praise) that we Englishmen must of force confesse that the Generall hath giuen a proude onset to carrie the whetstone from _Signior Barnardino de Mendozza_: Neither will the 140. men & 15. noble Captaines (which hee saith hee did take, of whome he might haue beene rightly informed of their generals name) acquit him of lying forgerie, for giuing the name of _Quebraran_ to the English Generall: as for the good Shippe well manned, which he saith the English left them after the fight, I am perswaded hee hath no man to witnesse that lye, for the ship was seperated by weather from the English fleete in the night thirteene daies before the fight, with the Spanish Nauie, & neuer to anye mans knowledge came more in sight of the English fleete, if the Spanish Shippes by chaunce did take the said wel manned Shippe (as they cal her) I doubt not but they haue the Shippe, the 140. men, and the 15. noble Captaines to shew: But euermore I gesse the Spanish reckoning will fall short when it is examined, for the fifteene noble Captaines will proue (as I take it) but three, whose losse I grieue to thinke on: Neither did the _S_paniards gaine them by valour, or we loose or leaue them for cowardise, as most vntruely this bragging lyer hath certified. But the Generall like a prouident man, to make his fame and credite the greater with his Prince and country, doth take vpon him (amongst other his miracles perfourmed before the English fleet) by way of amplification to make small matters seeme great, as a little shoe to serue a great foote, and finding that it can hardly be brought to passe, he doth stretch the Leather with his teeth that it is ready to breake, and notwithstanding, all this will not serue his purpose, for the Printing of the letter doth marr the play, and bringeth such matter in question, as the Generall doth wish might be concealed, and were he not of so dry and cholericke complexion, as commonly Spaniards are, he would blush for very shame in publishing so impudently such manifest vntruthes. For sithence his meeting with