The statement. however published at the time, apparently upot authority, say :—" In July and August, ships15, men 4791 ; sunk, &c. upon the coast of Ireland, 17 ships, 5394 men ;" making a total of 8! ships and 10,185 men.
There Is a very curious work relating to the Spanish Armada pre served In the King'. Library at the British Museum—a volume o extreme rarity, which was finished at Lisbon, May 9, 1588, while th fleet was in the port of that place prepared for the expediticin, entitled, 'La Felicissima Armada, qua el Rey Don Felipe nuestro Senor inendb juntar en el puerto de la Cinded de Lisboa, en el Rayne d3 Portugal, el Afio de mil y qninientos y ()cheats y oeho ; heeha por Pedro de Pas Silas,' foL Limb. 1588; por Antonio Alvarez, Impreasor. This copy in the King's Library was the identical one which was procured at the time of its publication for Lord Burghley, to acquaint him with the true detail of all the preparations ; and he has noted in his own hand, in the margins of different pages, a variety of particulars relating to the defeat. In one Instance he has noted the change of a commander from one Spanish vessel to another different vessel. The following aro a few of Lord Burghley's notes: " Galeon S. Phelippe taken at Flushyng, 31 July.' D. Francesco (le Toledo : this man escaped into Nuport.' La Nso Capitana : 'this Shipp was taken by Sir Francis Drake.' El Gran Orden Capitana 'this mates ship was drowned, 17 September, in the lie of Furemare, Scotland.' Barca de Amburg : she was drowned over egalast San Pedro Mayor: ' wrecked in October, in Devonshire, neare Him mouths.' La Galettea Capitana nombrada S. Lorene° : 'this was drowned afor Callya.' " The following entries perhaps afford an explanation of the lord deputy's barbarous conduct in Ireland. Members of some Irish families were on board the Spanish fleet:— " Admundio Estacio : 'brother to James Eustace, Viscount Balty glass.' Dou Carlos Ocouere : of Offolly, Bonn to old Oconore ' Tristan Vinglade : 'Wyeslamd.' Ricardo Bereey, Roberto Laseo, Christoval
Lombardo : ' of Mounster.' " The copy of this work in the Royal Library, from which a few particulars in the earlier part of the preceding accouut have been taken, is accompanied by twelve charts of the coast of England, showing the different situations of the Spanish Armada and the English fleet through the whole of the contest. This also, which is a separate work, is of very rare occurrence, eutitled 'Expeditionis 'harmer= in Angliam Vera Descriptio, Ammo Do. MDLXXXVIII., published by Robert Adam, and engraved by Augustin Ryther.' The different actions and positions represented in these charts are minutely explained in a quarto tract, printed by A. Hatfield in 1590, and sold at Augustin Ryther'a shop, entitled A Discourse concerning the Spanish Fleet invading England in the yeere1583'—a copy of which is also preserved in the library of the British 31useum.
Camden, speaking of this great victory, says :—" Whereupon several monies were some in memory of the victory, with a fleet flying with full sails, and this inscription, Venit, vidit, fugit," It came, it saw, it fled ;' others in honour of the queen, with fire-ships and a fleet all in inscribed, 'Dux fcemiva facti,' that is, 'A woman was conductor of the exploit.'" The medals and jettons however, which were struck on this occasion, were entirely Dutch : none were struck in England. The most remarkable, of considerable size, is that which represents the Spanish fleet upon the obverse, with the words ' Flavit Jehovah et disaipati aunt, 1588,' 'Jehovah blew, and they were scattered.' Reverse, a church on a rock, beaten by the waves, Allidor non landor.' Those, and one or two more, will be found in the' Iliatoire Mddallique des tome i., pp. 383-386; and in Pinkerton's 'Medalho History of England,' pl. 7, 8 ; pl, ix., no. 1, 6.
Philip IL published two jettons, with the inscription, lmmensi Tremor Oceani,' 1587 and 1583.