Produced by deaurider, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) THE SPANISH ARMADA, 1588. -------------- THE TAPESTRY HANGINGS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS. REPRESENTING THE SEVERAL ENGAGEMENTS BETWEEN THE ENGLISH AND SPANISH FLEETS. BY JOHN PINE, ENGRAVER. REPRODUCED IN HELIOTYPE FROM AN ORIGINAL COPY IN THE COLLECTION OF CHARLES HERVEY TOWNSHEND. WITH An Appendix containing Biographical Sketches of the Principal English Commanders Knighted by the Admiral at Sea, July 26, 1588. [Illustration] BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY HOUGHTON, OSGOOD AND COMPANY. The Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1878. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright, 1878, BY CHARLES HERVEY TOWNSHEND [Illustration] RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE TAPESTRY HANGINGS OF THE HOUSE of LORDS: Representing the several ENGAGEMENTS BETWEEN THE ENGLISH and SPANISH FLEETS, In the ever memorable Year MDLXXXVIII, With the PORTRAITS of the Lord High-Admiral, and the other Noble Commanders, taken from the Life. To which are added, From a Book entitled, Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera Descriptio, A.D. 1588, done, as is supposed, for the said Tapestry to be work’d after, Ten CHARTS of the SEA-COASTS of ENGLAND, And a GENERAL ONE of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Holland, &c. Shewing the Places of Action between the two FLEETS; ORNAMENTED with MEDALS struck upon that OCCASION, And other suitable DEVICES. Also