In twelve instances I find that Mr. Sedgwick has apparently mistaken the initials V.m. (a capital V followed by a small m), which stand for _Vuestra merced_--the usual form in which untitled persons addressed each other--for V.M. (where both letters are capitals), meaning _Vuestra Majestad_ (Your Majesty). Once (on page 12) he gives a similar rendering of the letters S.M., which stand for _Su Majestad_ (His Majesty), although on page 104 he translates the same initials correctly. On page 98 he uses the same formula (Your Majesty) to represent the expression _La Majestad_ (The Majesty), and on page 102 he makes it do duty for the whole expression "_La Majestad del rey nuestro Señor_" (the majesty of the King, our Lord). ROBERT CRAWFORD. STONEWOLD, BALLYSHANNON, _March_ 29_th_, 1897. _Translation of_ CAPTAIN CUELLAR'S _Narrative of the Spanish Armada_. _Letter of One who was with the Armada of [for] England, and an Account of the Expedition._ I believe that you[12](1) will be astonished at seeing this letter on account of the slight certainty that could have existed as as to my being alive. That you(12)(2) may be quite sure of this I write it [the letter], and at some length, for which there is sufficient reason in the great hardships and misfortunes I have passed through since the Armada sailed from Lisbon for England, from which our Lord, in His infinite good pleasure, delivered me. As I have not had an opportunity to write to you(12)(3) for more than a year, I have not done so until now that God has brought me to these States of Flanders, where I arrived twelve days ago with the Spaniards who escaped from the ships that were lost in Ireland, Scotland, and Shetland, which were more than twenty of the largest in the Armada. In them came a great force of picked infantry, many captains, ensigns,[13] camp-masters,[14] and other war officials, besides several gentlemen and scions[15] of nobility, out of all of whom, being more than two hundred, not five survived; because some of them were drowned, and those who reached the shore by swimming were cut in pieces by the English, whom the Queen keeps quartered in the Kingdom of Ireland. I escaped from the sea and from these enemies by having commended myself very earnestly to our Lord, and to the Most Holy Virgin, His Mother; and with me three hundred and odd soldiers, who also knew how to save themselves and to swim to shore. With them I experienced great misfortunes: naked and shoe-less all the winter: passing more than seven months among mountains and woods with savages, which they all are in those parts of Ireland where we were shipwrecked.