Proportionable to these Forces was their great Store of Provisions of every Sort: [16]for, besides Raisins in great abundance, they had eight thousand Quintals of Fish; three thousand Quintals of Rice; six thousand three hundred and twenty [17]Septiers of Beans, Pease, _&c._ eleven thousand three hundred and ninety eight Pounds of Olive-Oyl; thirty three thousand eight hundred and seventy Measures of Vinegar; ninety six thousand Quintals of Biscuit; three thousand four hundred and fifty eight Quintals of Goats Cheese; six thousand five hundred Quintals of Bacon; one hundred and forty seven thousand Pipes of Wine; twelve thousand Pipes of Water, _&c._—Provisions in a word they had for six Months; and so well furnished were they, that Sir _Francis Drake_ observes, in a Letter of his, [18]they had Provisions of Bread and Wine sufficient to maintain forty thousand Men for a whole Year. The whole Fleet, in general, is said[19] to have contained thirty two thousand Persons, and cost every Day thirty thousand Ducats[20]. The General of the Land Forces, and the Commander in Chief in the whole Expedition, was Don _Alfonso Perez de Guzman_, Duke of _Medina Sidonia_; and the Admiral was Don _Juan Martinez de Recalde_. But it was not in _Spain_ only, that such great Preparations were carrying on, for the Invasion of _England_. For, _Alexander_ Duke of _Parma_ was also making on his Side prodigious and amazing Preparations, to assist in this grand Design. He gathered together out of _Spain_, _France_, _Savoy_, _Italy_, _Naples_, _Sicily_, _Germany_, and even out of _America_, a very considerable and choice Army; [21]consisting of about forty thousand Foot, and three thousand Horse; out of which he selected thirty thousand Foot, and eighteen hundred Horse, that were to be ready to pass into _England_. These Troops were quarter’d as follows: [22]Near _Nieuport_ there lay ready thirty Companies of _Italians_; ten of _Walloons_; and eight of _Scots_, and as many of _Burgundians_: At _Dixmude_ were eighty Companies of _Netherlanders_; sixty of _Spaniards_; sixty of _Germans_; and above seven hundred fugitive _English_, _Scots_, and _Irish_, under the Command of Sir _William Stanley_, and _Charles Nevil_ Earl of _Westmoreland_. There were moreover four thousand Men posted at _Corrick_, and nine hundred at _Watene_. For the Transportation of these Forces, the Duke of _Parma_ prepar’d Ships at _Nieuport_, _Dunkirk_, _Antwerp_, and other Places; and caused some new ones to be built with such Expedition, that they seem’d, as _Strada_ expresses it, [23]to be transform’d in a Moment, from Trees into Ships.