same way a ballad, first printed in the eighteenth century, _Queen Elizabeth’s Champion or Great Britain’s Glory_, commemorates the fact that the second Earl of Essex once commanded Elizabeth’s navy by a fictitious account of the capture of the son of the Emperor of Germany by the third earl (Child, v. 145; Stone, p. 84). Probably the distinction gained by the third earl in the expedition to Cadiz in 1625 originated the ballad. The best ballad on the defeat of the Spanish Armada is Thomas Deloney’s _Joyful New Ballad declaring the happy obtaining of the great Galleazzo_, which is printed on p. 18. Deloney also wrote one on, _The strange and most cruell Whippes which the Spaniards had prepared to whippe and torment English men and women: which were found and taken at the overthrow of certain of the Spanish Shippes_; and another on _The Queene’s visiting of the Campe at Tilburie with her entertainment there_. Both may be found in _The Roxburghe Ballads_, vi. 387, 391, but since neither specially relates to the navy it was not thought necessary to reprint them. Mr. Ebsworth, in his introduction to these ballads, has brought together four or five ballads relating to the defeat of the Armada, written in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (_Roxburghe Ballads_, vi. 378-383). Three of them are also to be found in Stone’s _Sea Songs and Ballads_, pp. 80-83. The entries in the _Stationers’ Registers_ give the titles of several ballads which no longer survive, viz: _The English preparacion of the Spaniards Navigacion_; _The late wonderful Dystres which the Spanishe Navye sustayned yn the late fighte in the Sea and upon the West Coast of Ireland in this moneth of September 1588_; _A Ballad of Thanksgiving unto God for his mercy toward hir Majestie_; _England’s Joy and Delight, In the back Rebound of the Spanyardes Spyght_.