Printed by _Iohn Windet_, dwelling by Pauls Wharfe at the signe of the Crosse Keyes, and are there to be solde. 1596. [Illustration: (An astrolabe)] [Illustration: (banner, start of section)] TO THE COVR- teous Reader. _WHereas_, DON BERNALDINO DELGADILLO de AVELLANEDA, _Generall of the Spanish fleete, hath by his Printed letters published to the worlde diuers vntruthes, concerning our fleete and the Commaunders thereof, seeking therby his owne glorie, and our disgrace; I haue taken vpon me (though of many least able) to confute the same, the rather for that the printed Coppie came first into my hands, hauing my selfe beene Captaine of one of her Maiesties shippes in the same voyage: Take this therfore (gentle Reader) as a token of my dutie and loue to my Countrie and Countrie-men, And expect onely a plaine truth, as from the pen of a Souldier, and Nauigator: Which if you take in good parte, may draw me shortly to a greater labour, by publishing vnto you our whole voyage._ Henrie Sauile. [Illustration: (banner, start of section)] THe true Coppie of a letter found at the sacking of Cales, written by _Don Bernaldino Delgadillo de Avellaneda_, Generall of the king of Spaine his Nauie in the west _Indies_, sent vnto Doctor _Peter Flores_, President of the Contraction house for the _Indies_, and by him put in Print, with priueledge: wherein is declared manye vntruthes, and false reports, tending to the disgrace of the seruice of her Maiesties Nauie, and the Commaunders thereof, lately sent to the west _Indies_, vnder the Commaund of _Sir Frances Drake_, and _Sir Iohn Hawkins_ Generals at the Sea; and S_ir Thomas Baskeruile_ Generall at land: with a confutation of diuers grosse lies and vntruthes, contayned in the same letter: together with a short relation of the fight according to the truth. [Illustration: (banner, start of section)] _COPIA DE VNA Carta, q̃ embio Don Bernaldino Delgadillo de Auellaneda, General de la Armada de su Magestad, embiada al Doctor Pedro Florez Presidente de la casa de la Contratacion de las Yndias, en que trata del sucesso de la Armada de Ynglaterra, despues que pattio de Panama, de que fue por general Francisco Draque, y de su muerte._