Volumes 1 & 2, State Papers relating to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588
ed. Professor J.K. Laughton (1894)
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These are chiefly' State Papers' in the narrow sense of records of the English Secretary of State, but include other English government documents from the Public Record Office and the British Museum. Vol.I covers December 1587 to July 1588; Vol.II August to December 1588. In appendices Vol.II prints a list of the English fleet; letters of Captain Thomas Cely from a Spanish prison in 1579; a proposal to increase seamen's wages in 1585; a translation of Medina Sidonia's narrative as printed in Fernandez Duro's La Armada Invencible; and a list of the Spanish fleet, chiefly from Fernandez Duro. |