This Account is taken from the relation given above, and from certain Advertisements out of _Ireland_, and Depositions of Prisoners, printed in 1588, with which _Strada_ and the _Spanish_ Writers agree. But our Historians vary extremely in this, as well as other Particulars: _Hakluyt_, vol. i. p. 604. and others, say the _Spaniards_ lost eighty one Ships out of their hundred and thirty two; and that there return’d to _Spain_ only one of the Galleasses of _Naples_, one of the four Galleons of _Portugal_, and thirty three of the Galleons and Hulks from divers Provinces, _&c._ _Stow_ affirms there return’d to _Spain_ only threescore Sail; and others say only fifty three. See _Purchas, Thuanus_ l. lxxxix. _Harris, Speed, &c._ Footnote 134: _Strype’s Annals_ vol. iii. p. 533. Don _Pedro de Valdez_, who was Sir _Francis Drake_’s Prisoner, remained three or four Years in _England_, and paid three thousand five hundred Pounds for his Ransom, _Ibid._ p. 532. Footnote 135: _Strada, Grotius._ Footnote 136: _Camden._ Footnote 137: See Letter to _Mendoza_, p. 17. Footnote 138: Of a War with _Spain_. See his Works, Fol. vol. iii. p. 523, _&c._ Footnote 139: Letter to _Mendoza_, p. 17. Footnote 140: _Strype’s Ann._ vol. iii. p. 525. _Stow’s Ann._ Footnote 141: Letter to _B. Mendoza_, p. 37. Footnote 142: _Camden._ Footnote 143: _Academia Artis Pictoriæ Norwergæ_, p. 274. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ● Transcriber’s Notes: ○ Missing or obscured punctuation was corrected. ○ Typographical errors were silently corrected. ○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book. ○ Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Spanish Armada, 1588, by John Pine