Being the chosen Vessels of all K. _Philip_’s Dominions, excessive monstrous, beyond all the Navies that ever had been seen in _Christendom_. Letter to _B. Mendoza_, p. 16. Footnote 13: Discourse of the ARMADA by _D. Archdeacon_, _Thuanus_, _Lediard_, _Hakluyt_, _Purchas_, _&c._ Footnote 14: 1200,000, _Thuan._ 20,200 _Harris_, 220,000 _Speed_, 119,000 _Spanish_ Book. Footnote 15: _Laquei certe, & plura necis instrumenta, aut servitutis inter spolia visitata sunt._ _Grotii_ Hist. p. 118. See Letter to _B. Mendoza_, in the _Postscript_, p. 37. Footnote 16: Discourse of the ARMADA, _&c._ _Thuanus_, _Lediard_, _&c._ Footnote 17: A Septier is twelve Bushels. Footnote 18: _Strype_’s Annals, tom. iii. p. 451. Footnote 19: _Hakluyt_, vol. I. p. 593. Footnote 20: And, as _Thuanus_ computes it, before it sailed from _Lisbon_, it had stood K. _Philip_ in _Centies vicies centena millia aureorum_, lib. 89. above two Millions. Footnote 21: _Strada_, Dec. II. l. 9. Footnote 22: _Hakluyt_, _Speed_’s Chron. Footnote 23: _Decad._ l. II. p. 9. Footnote 24: _Thuan._ lib. 89. _Hakluyt_ and _Purchas_. Footnote 25: _Stow_, p. 746. Footnote 26: _Thuan._ l. 89. Footnote 27: _Welwood_’s Memoirs, p. 8, 9. Footnote 28: _Camden_, _Thuanus_, l. 89. Footnote 29: _Eo consilio, ut Regina, ob colloquium pacis de defensione secura, facilius opprimeretur: quam tamen illa minime neglexit._ Thuan. l. 89. Footnote 30: _Grotius_, p. 119. _Hakluyt_ vol. i. p. 595. Footnote 31: _Cotton MSS._ Footnote 32: _Camden._ Footnote 33: _Strype_’s Annals, tom. iii. p. 516. Footnote 34: _Stow_ Chron. p. 744. Footnote 35: _Stow_’s Survey, Edit. 1720. B. i. p. 283. Footnote 36: Letter to _B. Mendoza_, p. 23, 24, _&c._ Footnote 37: Ibid. p. 6, 7, 8. Footnote 38: _Camden._ Footnote 39: _Strada_, Dec. ii. lib. 9. Footnote 40: _Camden._ _Rapin_, vol. ii. p. 136. Footnote 41: Letter to _B. Mendoza_, p. 30, 35. Footnote 42: See his Letter in _Rymer_’s _Fœdera_, tom. xvi. p. 18. Footnote 43: _Camden._ Footnote 44: Taken from the _Spanish_ Book printed in 1588. compar’d with _Lediard_. Footnote 45: From a MS. in the Royal Library, 14 B XIII. Footnote 46: _Strada_, Dec. ii. lib. 9. Footnote 47: _Hakluyt, Camden._ Footnote 48: MSS. in the _Cottonian_ Library, _Jul._ F X. 17. fol. III. Footnote 49: _Camden_ Ann. and _Burchett_. Footnote 50: _Cotton MSS._ Footnote 51: _Lediard_’s Naval Hist. p. 254. Footnote 52: _Camden._ Footnote 53: _Cotton MSS._ Footnote 54: _Camden, Hakluyt, Purchas, Cotton MSS, &c._ Footnote 55: _Cotton MSS._ Footnote 56: It is called the _Disdain_ in _Cotton MSS._ Footnote 57: _Eman. Fremosa_’s Examination, printed in 1588. In the following Engagements they lost twenty five Men more. _Ibid._ Footnote 58: _Camden._ Footnote 59: _Cotton MSS._ Footnote 60: _Camden._