────────────────────────────────────────────────────── In all 17 Men Ships. 5394 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────── [128]Besides which, _Our Lady of the Rosary_, the Admiral Ship of the _Guypuscoan_ Squadron, of near a thousand Tuns, and thirty Guns, that had fifty Brass Field-Pieces on board, was lost upon the Rocks in _Bleskey-Sound_; so that of five hundred Men, only one escap’d; and in this perished the Prince of _Ascula_, a natural Son of King _Philip_, _Mighel de Oquendo_ the Captain, and several other considerable and eminent Persons. According to other Accounts[129], nine _Spanish_ Ships were driven ashore between the Rivers of _Lough-Foile_ and _Lough-Swilley_, many whereof were broken to Pieces, and the _Spaniards_ forced to shelter among the wild _Irish_. [130]As for such of the _Spaniards_ as had the ill Fortune to be drove upon the _Irish_ Shore, they met with the most barbarous Treatment; for some of them were butcher’d by the wild _Irish_, and the rest put to the Sword by the Lord Deputy Sir _William Fitz-Williams_, who fearing they might join with the _Irish_ Malecontents, and observing that _Bingham_, Governor of _Connaught_ treated them with more Gentleness than he had several times ordered him to do; upon their Surrender, he dispatched _Fowle_, Deputy Marshal, to execute his Orders; who first dislodg’d them from the Places where they lay conceal’d, and then executed about two hundred of them: But this Rigour the Queen condemn’d, and complain’d of as too extreme: However, the rest being terrified by this way of proceeding, tho’ they were sick and half famish’d, yet chose to trust themselves to their shatter’d Barks, and the Mercy of the Seas; and so became many of them a Sacrifice to the Waves. The Duke of _Medina_, with twenty or twenty five Ships, keeping in the Ocean, return’d to _Spain_. [131]About forty of the _Spanish_ Ships fell in with the _Irish_ Coast, and intended to touch at Cape _Clear_, in hopes of meeting there with some Refreshment; but the Wind proving contrary, and the Weather tempestuous, many of them perish’d on that Coast; [132]of those that got off, some were driven by a strong West Wind into the _English_ Channel, where part of them were attack’d again and taken by the _English_, others by the _Rochellers_, and some arriv’d at _Newhaven_ (or _Havre de Grace_) in _Normandy_. Such were the _Spaniards_ Losses of Men and Ships, in their return round _Ireland_. The Losses they had suffered before, were thus: Loss Men. of Ships.