THis letter of the Generall _Don Bernaldino_ sent into _Spaine_ declaring the death of _Sir Fraunces Drake_ and their supposed victorie; was altogether receiued for an vndoubted truth, and so pleasing was this newes vnto the _S_paniard, that there was present cõmandement giuen to publish the letter in Print, that all the people of S_paine_ might be partakers of this common ioy: The which letter Printed in _Cyuill_, bearing date the xv. of May, 1596. came to the hands of _Henrie Sauile_ Esquire who being employed in that seruice for the west _Indies_, and Captaine of her Maiesties good Shippe the _Aduenture_, vnder the conduct of S_ir Fraunces Drake_, and _Sir Iohn Hawkins_, Hath caused the said Printed letter to bee translated into English. And that the impudencie of the Spanish Generall may the more plainely appeare, the said _Henrie Sauile_ doth answere particularly to euerie vntruth in the same letter contained, as heereafter followeth. [Illustration: (banner, start of section)] THE ANSWERE TO The Spanish letter. _First whereas the Generall doth say, that_ Fraunces Drake _dyed at_ Nombre de Dios, _as he had intelligence by an Indian._ [Sidenote: _The Generals first newes, and his best news is in part lying newes._] [Sidenote: _The Generall seemeth to wante friendes in Courte, sending such great newes to a priuate Doctor._] THe Generall sente this newes into his Country cõfirmed with his hand and seale of Armes: It is the first newes in his letter, and it was the best newes that he could send into _Spaine_. For it did ease the stomackes of the timerous Spaniardes greatly to heare of the death of him, whose life was a scourge & continuall plague vnto them: But it was a pointe of great simplicitie, & scarcely beseeming a Generall, to tie the credite of his reporte locally to any place vppon the report of a silly _Indian_ slaue. For it had beene sufficient to haue said, that _Fraunces Drake_ was certainly dead, without publishing the lye in Print, by naming _Nombre de Dios_: for it is most certaine _Sir Fraunces Drake_ dyed twixt the Island of _Scouda_, and _Porte-bella_: But the Generall being rauished with the suddaine ioy of this report as a man that hath escaped a great daunger of the enemie, doeth breake out into an insolent kind of bragging of his valour at Sea, and heaping one lye vpon another, doth not cease vntill he hath drawne them into sequences, and so doth commende them vnto _Peter_ the Doctor, as censour of his learned worke. [Illustration: (banner, start of section)] _Secondly, The general doth write vnto the doctor, that_ Frances Drake _dyed for verie griefe that hee had lost so many Barkes and men._ [Sidenote: _Don Bernaldino doth lye impudently._] [Sidenote: _The successe of the kings fiue Frigots._] [Sidenote: _The certain cause wherof Sir Frances Drake dyed._]