Footnote 1:
See _Grotii_ Hist. lib. i. p. 117. Fol.
Footnote 2:
Vol. I. p. 591, 592.
Footnote 3:
_Strada_, Dec. II. l. 9.
Footnote 4:
_Strada_, Dec. ii. l. 9.
Footnote 5:
Vol. II. p. 135.
Footnote 6:
_Mary_ Queen of _Scots_, the Day before she suffer’d Death, did under
her own Hand in the _French_ Tongue, declare, “That her Son _James_
should not inherit _England_, if he remained a Protestant, but that
the Right of the Kingdom should be translated to _Philip_ King of
_Spain_.” _Rug. Tritonii Vita Vin. Laurei Cardin._
Footnote 7:
This Account is according to the Lists below. But it will be proper to
observe, that Authors do very much differ in their Accounts of this
ARMADA, and the several things belonging to it. According to
_Thuanus_, it consisted of 150 Ships of all Sorts; 140 says _Grotius_;
130 _Camden_ and _Strype_, 135 _Strada_; 128 _Speed_; 150 _Hakluyt_;
160 others, _&c._—Tuns 57868, _Spanish_ Book, _Hakluyt_,
_Purchas_.—Cannons 2650, _Hakluyt_, _Thuanus_ (1600 of Brass, and 1050
of Iron.) 2630, _Camden_.—Sailor 8450 _Spanish_ Books, 8000 _Thuanus_,
8350 _Camden_, 7449 _Strada_.—Soldiers, 20000 _Thuanus_ and _Stow_,
19295 _Spanish_ Book, 19290 _Camden_, 18857 _Strada_.
Footnote 8:
_Thuanus_, lib. 89.
Footnote 9:
Discourse of the ARMADA by _D. Archdeacon_, being a Translation of the
_Spanish_ Account, _Lond._ 1588. _Lediard_’s Naval History, p. 234,
_&c._
Footnote 10:
According to _Strada_ there were 220 Noblemen and Gentlemen, 354
Voluntiers: Their Servants 624; Priests, Surgeons, and other Officers,
and Servants 669. _Decas_ ii. lib. 9.
Footnote 11:
_Thuanus_, lib. 89.
Footnote 12:
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: