TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
This book is a faithful reproduction of the original book printedaround 1600, including all the printing errors of that edition, andthis etext maintains that careful reproduction.No spelling or punctuation corrections have been made, and minimalspacing adjustments have been made, in order to preserve thehistorical value of the original work.
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New original cover art included with this eBook isgranted to the public domain.
The subsequent facsimile is made from the original inthe possession of the donor.
Only five copies of it appear to be known: three ofthese are in public libraries, and two of the three aremore or less imperfect: one of them wants four pages,and of the other some of the marginal notes have beencut away, and a portion of a leaf destroyed.
The contents, besides their value in an historical point ofview, are of interest in reference to the biographies of twosuch men as Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins,both of whom perished in the course of the enterprise towhich the pamphlet relates.
J. P. C.
A LIBELL OF
Spanish Lies:
FOVND AT THE
the West Indies, twixt the English Nauie
being fourteene Ships and Pinasses, and
a fleete of twentie saile of the king
of Spaines, and of the death
of Sir Francis Drake.
With an answere briefely confuting the
Spanish lies, and a short Relation of the fight according
to truth, written by Henrie Sauile Esquire,
employed Captaine in one of her Maiesties
Shippes, in the same seruice against
the Spaniard.
And also an Approbation of this discourse, by Sir
Thomas Baskeruile, then Generall of the English fleete in that
seruice: Auowing the maintenance thereof, personally in
Armes against Don Bernaldino, if hee shall take
exceptions to that which is heere
set downe,
Touching the fight twixt both Nauies, or
iustifie that which he hath most falsely reported
in his vaine Printed letter.
Prouerb. 19. ver. 9.
A false witnes shall not bee vnpunished, and he that
speaketh lies shall perish.
LONDON
Printed by Iohn Windet, dwelling by Pauls Wharfe
at the signe of the Crosse Keyes, and
are there to be solde. 1 5 9 6.
