[74]The _Spaniards_ gave a different Account of this Day’s Engagement; for they said that the _English_ did miserably batter, with their great Guns, the _Spanish_ Admiral, who lay in the rear; came so near him as to kill many of his Men; brought his Mainmast by the board; and he was in great Danger of being lost, had not _Mexia_ and _Recalde_ come timely to his Assistance; but that, after this, the _Spanish_ Admiral and his Men, seconded by _Recalde_, and others, set upon the _English_ Admiral, who by the turning of the Wind happily escaped; that the _Spaniards_ from that time gave over the Chace, and keeping on their Course, dispatch’d a Messenger to the Duke of _Parma_, to desire him to come and join the Armada with his own Squadron as soon as possible; and to send them withal some great Shot for the use of the main Fleet. [75]However it be, the _English_ had so battered the Enemy in the last Conflict, that the latter had Recourse to the Form of a Roundel for their better Security. [76]On _Friday, July 26_, the Lord High-Admiral sent for the Lord _Thomas Howard_ the Lord _Sheffield_, _Roger Townshend_, Captain _Martin Forbisher_, Captain _John Hawkins_, on board his own Ship the _Ark_; and there confer’d on them the Honour of Knighthood, as well for a Reward of their good Services in the late Engagement, as for an Encouragement to the rest of the Officers. [77]Next, a Council of War being held, it was determined, as our Ships began to want Powder and Shot, that they should not attack the _Spaniards_ again ’till they came to the Streights of _Calais_; because they would there be joined and reinforced by the Squadron under the Command of the Lord _Henry Seymour_ and Sir _William Winter_, stationed in those Parts to block up the Duke of _Parma_; and might, at the same time, receive a plentiful Store of Ammunition from our Coasts.