Relacion verdadera del Armada Inglesa que [?] sobre la baya de Cadiz en Domingo 30 de Junio de 1596 [?] desastre [...] Recopilada de verdaderas cartas buenas originales y authores presentes

Folger bibliographic ID: 346017
Folger holdings ID: 496806

A contemporary Spanish manuscript account - apparently derived from eyewitness sources - concerning the famous 1596 victory of the Tudor navy over the Spanish Armada at Cadiz, one of the heaviest losses sustained by the Spanish during the Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604). The event was most notably memorialized by Richard Hakluyt (1553-1616) in the so-called 'Cadiz leaves' of The Principall Navigations (the 1598 edition), an account which is now rare due to its quickly having been suppressed for lionizing Robert Devereaux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565-1601) just before his fall from grace, trial for treason, and execution in the years 1599-1601. The present account mentions by name dozens of the Spanish actors in the conflict, but also takes an interest in their English counterparts (see f. 8v): The document refers to the generals Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham (1536-1624; “Carlos Havarth,” “grandson of the Duke of Norfolk”) and Sir Francis Vere (c. 1560-1609; “marischal llamado Fr.co Vere”). An oblique reference to an English “Jeneral de la Artilleria” is glossed by a contemporary hand as “a relative of the queen” and “this is the grandson of Ma[ry] Bolena, sister of Ana Bolena”: This is Devereaux himself, whose lineage through Anne Boleyn (c. 1501-36) seems to have been well known on the Spanish side of the conflict. Reference to Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1554-1618) might still be found among the various mentions of this or that capitana inglesa

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Extended title: Relacion verdadera del Armada Inglesa que [?] sobre la baya de Cadiz en Domingo 30 de Junio de 1596 [?] desastre [...] Recopilada de verdaderas cartas buenas originales y authores presentes, año de 1596

Cádiz Expedition, 1596