So that by adding their several Losses together, it plainly appears, they lost THIRTY FIVE Ships, and above THIRTEEN THOUSAND Men; besides many others of which no Estimate was or could be made[133]; and above two thousand Prisoners were taken in the Fight in _Ireland_, and the _Low-Countries_: Those taken in _Ireland_ were brought to _England_[134], and confined in _Bridewell_ ’till they were ransomed. The most eminent of the Prisoners were, Don _Pedro de Valdez_, Don _Vasquez de Silvea_, Don _Alonzo de Sayes_, and others taken in the Channel; in _Ireland_, Don _Alonzo de Luzon_, _Roderigo de Lasso_, _&c._ in _Zealand_, Don _Diego Piementelli_, _&c._ In a Word, there was hardly a noble Family in all _Spain_, that did not lose a Son, a Brother, or a Kinsman; upon which account the Mourning was so universal in that whole Kingdom, [135]that King _Philip_ was obliged by Proclamation to shorten the usual Time; as the _Romans_ of old, upon their great Defeat of _Cannæ_, found it necessary to limit the publick Mourning to thirty Days. [136]The shatter’d Remains of the _Spanish_ Fleet after having weather’d many Storms, and suffered all the Inconveniences of War and Weather, arriv’d at last, about the End of _September_, at _St. Andero_, and other Ports of _Spain_, laden with nothing but Shame and Dishonour. The Duke of _Medina_ was forbid the Court, and ordered to go and live privately; _Martinez de Recalde_ died immediately after his Return; and two of their Ships were accidentally burnt in the Harbour not long after their Arrival. Surely such a Series of ill Success was hardly ever known in any other Age or Nation. As for the _English_ they lost only Captain _Coxe_’s Ship abovementioned, and not more than one hundred Men. * * * * * Such was the End of the formidable _Spanish_ Armada, that had been three Years fitting out at a vast Expence; and which in less than three Months was shamefully beaten, and put to a most ignominious Flight, [137]without taking at the same time, in several Engagements, and in many Days Fight, any _English_ Ship or Boat, or making one Prisoner; not having so much as fired a Cottage at Land, or taken a Cock-Boat of ours at Sea, as the Lord _Bacon_ observes[138], it wandered through the Wilderness of the Northern Seas; and, according to the Curse in Scripture, _Came out against us one way, and fled before us seven ways_. Well might the _Spaniards_ marvel at this, and be heartily vexed, as one of their Friends observes they did; [139]so as some of them to say in their Anguish of Heart, “That in all these Fights, CHRIST shewed himself a _Lutheran_! Surely it is most manifest, as he goes on, That in all this Voiage, from the Armada’s coming out of _Lisbon_, even to the very last, GOD shewed no Favour to the _Spaniards_ any one Day, as he did continually to the _English_.”