The Spanish Armada (59 page)

2,541, f.1 – ‘Queene Elizabeth’s whole army at sea against the Spanish forces in anno 1588; list of ships, crews and names of captains’.

167, f.104 – Sir Francis Drake’s account of his raid on Cadiz in a letter to John Foxe, ‘preacher’; written in
Elizabeth Bonaventure,
7 May
1587.

– f.104
r
. Account of Drake’s raid on Cadiz by one of his crew, probably Robert Leng.

288, f.187 – Sir William Stafford to Sir Francis Walsingham; Paris, 25 April 1588.

290, f.88 – Letter from Mary Queen of Scots to the Duke of Norfolk urging him to escape from house arrest; 31 January 1571.

295, f.190 – Letter from the English spy ‘B.C.’ on the preparations of the Spanish Armada; Madrid, 28 May 1588.

296, f.44 – ‘Pompeo Pellegrini’ (alias Anthony Standen) to Jacomo Manucci, on the results of Drake’s raid on Cadiz, 3 July 1587.

360, article 38, ff.65
r
and
v
– Plan to intern English Catholics in ten castles, in Sir Francis Walsingham’s handwriting, undated but probably
before spring 1579.

6,798, f.87 – Speech by Elizabeth I to her troops at West Tilbury, Essex, 19 August 1588.

6,990, f.44 – Proclamation by the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland; Darlington, 16 November 1569.

6,991, ff.31–33. Memorandum on the 1569 Rebellion written by Lord Huntingdon to Cecil; York, 10 October 1573.

6,993, f.125 – Letter from Sir Francis Walsingham in which he dismisses reports of Spanish preparations to invade England as ‘Spanish brag’, March 1586.

6,994, f.76 – Letter from Sir Francis Walsingham to Burghley, calling for Drake to attack the Spanish bullion fleets and cautioning
Burghley to
protect the true identity of his agent Pompeo Pellegrini; 26 July 1587.

7,190, article 2, ff.125
r
–126
r
– Eighteenth-century copy of Elizabeth I’s letter to Mary I from the Tower, 17 March 1554.

43, no.3, 3ff – Letter from William Parry to Lord Burghley; Fetter Lane, London, 2 August 1584.

48, f.120 – Proclamation ordering markets to be supplied with foodstuffs ‘at reasonable prices’; Greenwich, 2 January 1587.

50, articles 19–21 – Letters from Henry Radcliffe, Fourth Earl of Sussex about a planned rebellion by Catholics ‘in the country near Portsmouth, Hampshire;
June 1586.

52, article 31 – Captain William Borough’s defence against the charges laid against him by Sir Francis Drake, May 1587.

– article 39 – Captain William Borough’s account of his ‘misunderstanding’ with Sir Francis Drake, 30 April 1587.

– article 40 –
Discourse of what courses were best taken for the resistance of the Spanish navy
, by William Borough: 26 February 1589.

53, article 3, 3ff – Speech of Mr William Parry at his execution; Great Palace Yard, Westminster, 2 March 1585.

– f.23 – Account of the fighting off Cadiz by Francisco de Benito de Maiora; St Mary’s Port, ‘nine of the clock at night’, 29 April 1587.

– article 79 – Account of Anne Burnell who claimed to be the daughter of Mary I and Philip of Spain.

56, f.175 – Agreement between Sir Francis Drake and the London Merchant Adventurers covering the supply of ships and the division of spoil for the attack on Cadiz; signed
28 March 1587.

59, f.105 – Proclamation forbidding any who served with the expedition to Spain and Portugal from approaching the royal court; 1589.

100, f.98 – Drake’s plan for his campaign in Galicia and the Caribbean in 1585.

103, f.93 – Authority to Anthony Ashley to keep a ‘true journal’ of proceedings during the expedition to Spain and Portugal; 1589.

262/62 – Diary of the English peace commissioners in Flanders.

159, f.370 – Letter from Ralph Lane describing the English landing at Peniche, Portugal, 26 May 1589.

Hh.6.10. ff.1–59 – Disputation of Puritan Ministers in London; November 1588.

GBR /H/2/1, f.1 – Privy Council letter to Lord Chandos, seeking the appointment of a provost marshal for the arrest and imprisonment of ‘idle vagabonds’,
1588.

13/77 – Mary Queen of Scots signed bond ‘to be an enemy to all those that attempt anything against Queen Elizabeth’s life’; Wingfield, 5 January
1585.

16/17 – Circumstances of the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, bearing Burghley’s holograph.

17/2 – Instructions to Dr Dale, negotiating a peace treaty with Spain.

17/23 – Depositions by two Dutch sailors who served with the Spanish Armada.

18/26 – Letter from the Privy Council to Lord Burghley seeking licences to export corn, 1589.

18/54 – Appeal by twenty-five captains who had served on the expedition to Portugal for further service.

18/82 – Letter from Robert, Earl of Essex, to Vice-Chamberlain Heneage.

162/148 – Advertisements of merchants ‘touching practises against England’, [1583].

164/17 – Account of execution of Mary Queen of Scots.

166/83 – Numbers and names of ships that served against the Spanish Armada.

186/2 – Claim for compensation, following the escape of thirty Spanish prisoners from Dublin Bay in the stolen pinnance,
Swallow
, 1588. (Misdated in HMC
Salisbury, vol. XIC (London 1923), p.813, as 1601).

Series 538, vol. 43, ff.304–14 –
An Antidote against Jesuitism’
written in Burghley’s hand; draft dated 158– but probably 1583. Final
version is in vol. 37, ff.177
et seq.

250, ff.170–15 – Proceedings at the arraignment of Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, in Westminster Hall, 14 April 1589.

647, ff.235–8 – Letter from William Fenner to Anthony Bacon; Plymouth, 1589.

3,198, f.284 – Leicester to the Earl of Shrewsbury; Tilbury Camp, 15 August 1588.

3,206, f.263 – Robert Swift the younger to the Earl of Shrewsbury, providing news from court, including the release of Princess Elizabeth from the Tower; London, 20 May
1554.

8ANC/58 – ‘Note of such information as I had of some shipmasters that came from the [Gibraltar] straits who were eye-witness to all that is underwritten’;
Peregrine Bertie, Thirteenth Baron Willoughby de Eresby; ?March 1588.

8ANC10/114 – Lord Willoughby to the Dutch States General, reminding them of their agreement to supply ships against any enterprise by Spain against England; The Hague, 5
April 1588.

DU/ Vol. 3, ff.91–102 – ‘State of the debt charged upon the deceased Earl of Leicester for exceeding his allowance in the time of his lieutenant generalship
in the Low Countries’, 1588.

AO1/1686/23 – 1588 Accounts of Treasurer of Navy.

E 30/1705 – Ratification of the Treaty of London, ending the Anglo-Spanish war, by Philip III of Spain; Valladolid, 15 June 1605.

MPF 1/134 – Richard Popinjay’s map of Hampshire, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, 1587, showing fortifications and potential landing beaches. Scale: 1 inch to the
mile.

MPF 1/318 – Drake’s chart, used in his attack on Cadiz in 1587, dated that year and signed by his vice-admiral William Borough.

SP 11/1/22 – Memoranda for Queen Mary on financial issues; early August 1553.

SP 11/4/6 – Estimate for payment of royal debts; ?April 1554.

SP 11/4/2 – Letter from Princess Elizabeth to Mary I: Westminster, ‘about noon’ 17 March 1554.

SP 12/1/7 – Elizabeth’s charge to Sir William Cecil and her Council; Hatfield, 17 (or ?20) November 1558.

SP 12/2/22 – Elizabeth I’s address to Parliament declaring her determination to remain unmarried; 10 February 1559.

SP 12/114/22 – John Aylmer, Bishop of London, to Walsingham; London, 21 June 1577.

SP 12/141/29 – Account of attempts to convert Catholics in York Cathedral, August 1580.

SP 12/168/4 – Sir George Carey, governor of the Isle of Wight, complains to Sir Francis Walsingham about his poor resources to defend the island; February 1584.

SP 12/168/9; SP 12/181/26; SP 12/187/3 – Reports on the fortifications of Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.

SP 12/176/22 – Lord Burghley’s proposals for a ‘Grand Council’ to govern England in the event of the queen’s assassination, 1584–5.

SP 12/197/13 – Hampshire people requested to lend labourers to dig trenches.

SP 12/198/64 – Instructions to Justices of the Peace on the maintenance and operation of warning beacons, 1587.

SP 12/199/93 – Lord Burghley to the deputy lieutenants of the maritime counties with directions for a new review of horse and foot within the realm; March 1587.

SP 12/208/79, f.181
–
Letter from Lord High Admiral Howard to Lord Burghley, reporting on the condition of the queen’s ships; 12 February 1588.

SP 12/208/87, f.201
v
– Letter from Lord High Admiral Howard to Lord Burghley reporting on the
Ark Royal
; 28 February 1588.

SP 12/209/40 f.77
–
Letter from Sir Francis Drake to the Privy Council,
urging a pre-emptive strike on the Armada before it
sailed; Plymouth, 30 March 1588.

SP 12/210/33 –
Such means as are considered to put the forces of the Realm in order to Withstand any Invasion.

SP 12/211/47 – Sir Francis Godolphin’s report of a Mousehole barque sighting Armada ships on 23 June 1588.

SP 12/211/56 – Proclamation ordering martial law against possessors of papal bulls, books, pamphlets; Greenwich, 1 July 1588.

SP 12/212/66 f.139 – Lord Burghley to Sir Francis Walsingham on financial problems, 19 July 1588.

SP 12/212/80 f.167 – Lord Howard, Lord High Admiral to Sir Francis Walsingham,
Ark Royal,
Plymouth, 31 July 1588.

SP 12/212/95 – Proclamation against ‘wicked and traitorous lies’.

SP 12/213/14 – Names of the ships presently in [Sir Henry Seymour’s] fleet; 23 July 1588.

SP 12/213/34 – Report by Lord Henry Seymour listing his ships and their supplies, June 1588.

SP 12/213/40, f.97 – Sir George Carey to Earl of Sussex, reporting fighting off the southern coast of the Isle of Wight; Carisbrooke Castle, 4 August 1588.

SP 12/213/64, f.148 – Lord Howard, Lord High Admiral, to Sir Francis Walsingham, reporting on the battle of Gravelines, in
Ark Royal
, 8 August 1588.

SP 12/213/65 f.150 – Sir Francis Drake to Sir Francis Walsingham reporting on the battle of Gravelines, in
Revenge,
8 August 1588.

SP 12/213/71, ff.164–5 – Sir John Hawkins to Sir Francis Walsingham, reporting on the battle of Gravelines, in
Victory
, 8 August 1588.

SP 94/2 f.212 – Estimate of men and ships under the command of Santa Cruz, ?1587.

SP 94/3 f.227
r
– Spanish Armada reported ready to sail, 7 May 1588. f.229 – Estimates of the numbers of men and ships gathered at Lisbon.

SP 63/137 no. 1, ii, f.4 – Medina Sidonia’s sailing instructions for Spain.

–17, Partial list of Spanish prisoners remaining at Drogheda, 13 October 1588.

SP 63/139/25 no.1 f.83 – Testimony of James Machary of ‘the Cross within the County of Tipperary’, 29 December 1588.

SP 63/149, f.30 – Report of Luke Plunkett on the
Swallow
; Dublin, 1589.

SP 52/35/18 – Letter from Lord Hunsdon to William Davison describing the execution of Francis Throckmorton; Berwick, 23 July 1584.

PROB 11/92 ff.229–30 – Will of William Borough, dated 26 July 1598.

LM/13/29/370 – Examination of ‘Tristram Winslade, a Catholic, accused of involvement in a Spanish invasion’; 1588.

LM/1945 – Paper entitled ‘A certain and direct way to perceive in the night season or in a misty weather in the daytime whether the beacon the which we have regard
unto be on fire or not’.