The copie of a letter sent out of England to Don Bernardin Mendoza ambassadour in France for the King of Spaine, declaring the state of England, contrary to the opinion of Don Bernardin, and of all his partizans Spaniardes and others. This letter, although it was sent to Don Bernardin Mendoza, yet, by good hap, the copies therof aswell in English as in French, were found in the chamber of one Richard Leigh a seminarie priest, who was lately executed for high treason committed in the time that the Spanish Armada was on the seas. Whereunto are adioyned certaine late aduertisements, concerning the losses and distresses happened to the Spanish nauie, aswell in sight with the English nauie in the narrow seas of England, as also by tempests, and contrarie winds, vpon the west, and north coasts of Ireland, in the[ir] returne from the northerne isles beyond Scotland.

All titles

• The copie of a letter sent out of England to Don Bernardin Mendoza ambassadour in France for the King of Spaine, declaring the state of England, contrary to the opinion of Don Bernardin, and of all his partizans Spaniardes and others. This letter, although it was sent to Don Bernardin Mendoza, yet, by good hap, the copies therof aswell in English as in French, were found in the chamber of one Richard Leigh a seminarie priest, who was lately executed for high treason committed in the time that the Spanish Armada was on the seas. Whereunto are adioyned certaine late aduertisements, concerning the losses and distresses happened to the Spanish nauie, aswell in sight with the English nauie in the narrow seas of England, as also by tempests, and contrarie winds, vpon the west, and north coasts of Ireland, in the[ir] returne from the northerne isles beyond Scotland.
• Certeine advertisements out of Ireland

People / Organizations

• I. Vautrollier ("printed by")
• Richard Field ("printed for")
• William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley (Author)

Imprint

Imprinted at London: by I. Vautrollier for Richard Field, 1588.

Added name

Mendoza, Bernardino de, 1540 or 41-1604. Leigh, Richard, 1561?-1588.

Publication year

1588

ESTC No.

S2172

Grub Street ID

146570

Description

[2], 38, [20] p. ; 4⁰

Note

In two parts.

Caption title on leaf F2v: Certeine advertisements out of Ireland, concerning the losses happened to the Spanish armie ... .

Written by William Burghley, sometimes ascribed to Richard Leigh-- Cf. Brit. Mus. Cat. (photolith. ed. to 1955).

Signatures: A-G? H?.